Why is the assumption I didn't read the article?
What's even more curious is that not only do you start with the assumption that I did not read the article, you also go ahead and question yourself wether or not you fully understood me.
Which is funny, because you STARTED with questioning if I had read the article.
Regardless - you get all the starters in Yellow + Pikachu.
And assuming things aren't fully random, I wanted to see what the hive mind wanted to go with.
He made that assumption under the (incorrect) belief that you didn't fully understand that it was only a single game of pokemon being played.
He had this incorrect belief because he inferred from your statement, "it would be cool to see which starting Pokemon got used most", that you thought multiple games were being played.
He made this inferral because in the Pokemon games that he has played(recall he hasn't played yellow), you cannot get all of the starting Pokemon in a single game.
His own anecdotal experience resulted in a differing interpretation of your statement than was intended, and I would be remiss to not mention that fact that I 'mis'-interpreted your original comment in exactly the same manner as he did.
What a retarded and unfortunate happenstance this has been.
Not to mention the 50000 people watching the stream, an extremely active chat, and 20+seconds of latency; how exactly do you think that any qualitative findings in a post-mortem of this social experiment would be in any way indicative of the communities preferred starting Pokemon.
Furthermore, are they really "starting Pokemon" in yellow if you only really 'start' with Pikachu?
I actually was blackout drunk for the first time in awhile and woke up to a bunch of extremely in depth comments about trivial stuff I had made here and on Reddit. Riddled with the standard grammatical errors.
Wish I had done something more productive really, come on drunk me.
But that's not how it works, thousands of people just enter button presses so which pokemon gets chosen won't be any indication of what the majority of those players wanted to choose
Which is funny, because you STARTED with questioning if I had read the article.
Regardless - you get all the starters in Yellow + Pikachu. And assuming things aren't fully random, I wanted to see what the hive mind wanted to go with.