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Stephen Downes

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The idea here is that the users in a Twitch channel are allowed to take control of an online game; any commend entered into the channel is executed by the game, whatever it is. You'd think it would be a disaster, but ever since Twitch Plays Pokemon the concept - called 'crowdplay' - has been played out numerous times. In this particular sequence the crowd successfully does a barrel roll with a 747 on Microsoft's newest edition of flight simulator. To be fair, they almost crashed the airplane. That they didn't, though, is to me an interesting outcome.

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