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‘Twitch Plays Pokemon’ catches fire among students Allison Rubenak The Battalion

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n the 1990s, a video game phenomenon with Japanese roots sprung out of a red-and-white ball and into the homes of many children and adolescents.

Twenty years later, it’s still going strong.

The operators of Twitch.tv, an online video game platform and community, created on Feb. 13 an emulated game of Pokémon Red/Blue that, for the past two weeks, has invaded thousands of computer screens, instilling not only nostalgia, but also a widespread Internet sensation that tests people’s ability to collaborate on completing a task.

According to Twitch, the game had nearly 74,000 online players, 29 million total views and nearly 49,000 people who were watching as of Tuesday.

Kaitlin Forks, sophomore wildlife and fisheries sciences major, said she has been playing Pokémon “religiously” since she was a child and said this game “wins nostalgia points.” She said she’s played live games before, but never with such a large magnitude of people.

“I’m sure if they picked any other game it probably wouldn’t be as popular,” Forks said. “I think it’s a combination of simple gameplay, especially the originality of it — the idea of having a single game where so many people play at once.”

Parker Allen, senior technology management major, said there were many more people watching the game and waiting to see what happens than actually playing it.

“I think [it’s been] more for entertainment because there’s already so many

people playing it that more people feel like they couldn’t really effect the game at all,” Allen said. “Half the people really want to get the game finished and complete and do it well, and the other half just want to mess it up for everybody else.”

The game operates as a series of inputs on a live chat to effectively move the main character.

He said the game currently relies on a voting system that sends the game into two different modes.

“It can either be in democracy or anarchy,” Allen said. “And when people collectively vote for democracy the game will take a vote for each move that the character makes as opposed to anarchy, where it takes every input and more or less selects them at random,” Allen said.

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he Fish Drill Team will compete against 30 other military schools Friday at the annual Mardi Gras Drill Meet at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Fish Drill Team has been dedicated to practically seven days a week for the past two months in preparation for the competition.

“We have won four years in a row and we’re hoping for the Class of 2017 to be the fifth year in a row to win,” said Jacob Brown, sophomore advisor for Fish Drill Team. “For the past month we’ve been practicing seven days a week: Monday, Wednesday, Friday afternoons and Tuesday, Thursday mornings.

On Saturdays we usually have a mock drill meet to get freshmen ready for what it’s like to be in a competition and Sunday the freshmen have an unofficial practice on their own.”

Brown said he has confidence in the freshmen’s ability to take home their the fifthconsecutive victory this year.

Brown said that the decision to not cut any members from the team sets the Texas A&M freshman drill team apart.

“One thing that’s special about Fish Drill Team is that we don’t cut anybody from the team, so if you want to join, you just keep coming out practicing and the advisors will work with you no matter what,” Brown said.

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Yearbook rakes in 13 Gold Circle Awards Aggieland recognized for reflecting evolving campus

apply for awards in categories such as design, writing and photography.

Bumguardner said the Aggieland has historically done well in this award competition and that it was great Lindsey Gawlik to see the staff ’s hard work The Battalion continue to get recognized. taff members for Texas Part of this hard work A&M’s 2013 Aggieland entailed experimentation. yearbook received 13 Gold Bumguardner said she was Circle Awards from the Co- excited to try something lumbia Scholastic Press As- new and modern for the sociation’s national yearbook Aggieland 2013 and said the competition. cover, rather than being traKalee Bumguardner, ditional leather, was made in 2013 Aggieland editor-in- a more stylistic fashion. chief, said many universities “The award that I was

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proudest of was our second place in the cover because we did something new with our cover this year, and I was just really glad the Press Association liked it as well,” Bumguardner said.

Bumguardner said the sports pages of Aggieland 2013 also got recognized overall for their design.

Bumguardner said although Aggieland didn’t get to the finals in the overall book category, she is proud of the categories in which Aggieland did receive awards.

“We did much better in

the individual awards than a lot of the books that won the overall award did,” Bumguardner said. “It’s different judging so you never know how you’re going to do, but I was just really glad that we were able to get recognized in some of the individual categories.”

Bumguardner said it was definitely a team effort in getting these awards and said she couldn’t have done it without her assistant editor, now editor-in-chief, Ashley Hildebrandt.

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Stubblefield paces Aggies to victory, 5-1 curveball, ending the inning and Stubblefield’s final line. Stubblefield gave up three hits, two walks and one yler Stubblefield’s career high unearned run on 89 pitches.

6.1 innings pitched led the No. “It all started on the mound for us 18 Texas A&M baseball team past the tonight,” said A&M head coach Rob Houston Baptist Huskies on a foggy Childress. “He has been fantastic in Tuesday night with a final score of relief and both starts. He has an out5-1. standing fastball that really gets on Stubblefield (1-0, 0.74), who was you.” making just his second career start, Junior designated hitter Logan also posted a career high in strikeNottebrok put the Aggies on the outs with nine. Stubblefield left the board in the first inning before HBU game with men on first and second starting pitcher Ross Hennell could base in the top of the seventh, being record an out, roping a single to relieved by junior right-hander Jason right-center and scoring Blake AlFreeman. After an errant throw from lemand.

Aggie sophomore shortstop Logan A&M would break the game open Taylor allowed HBU junior center in the second inning, scoring four fielder Zach Nehrir to score, Freeruns on three hits, two hit batters and man was relieved in favor of righty a walk.The inning started with freshAndrew Vinson. man Ronnie Gideon being hit by a Vinson struck out the next batpitch, eventually crossing the plate after looking on a 78 mile per hour

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Senior outfielder Jace Statum connects with a pitch Tuesday in the 5-1 A&M win. ter a bases-loaded single through the left side of the infield from sophomore J.B. Moss. The inning marked the sixth time the Aggies scored four or more runs in a frame.

In both of Stubblefield’s starts this year, he has been greeted with early run support from his teammates, including five runs in the first two innings on Tuesday.

“I always know they are going to give it to me, so I just go out there with one thing on my mind — just pitch,” Stubblefield said.

A&M (7-1) hits the road for the first time this season as it travels to California to play a three-game series against Fresno State (6-2) this weekend.

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Students attend a screening of the film “12 Years a Slave” put on by the Woodson Black Awareness Committee and MSC Aggie Cinema Tuesday night in Rudder Theatre.

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‘12 Years a Slave’ panel to scrutinize slavery portrayals Katie Canales The Battalion

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panel discussion surrounding the topic of Hollywood’s treatment of the history of slavery will be held Wednesday in Rudder Theatre, following a screening Tuesday of the Oscar-nominated film “12 Years a Slave.”

Jimmie Green, Woodson Black Awareness Committee member and Black History Month director, said the panel will consist of four professors from various departments. “[Panelists] will delve deep into the issues that come along with the continued production of slavery films as well as the dynamics that made up the issue of slavery,” Green said.

“12 Years a Slave” is based on Solomon Northup’s memoir written in 1853. Candace

Morris, committee member and junior management major, said this may just be yet another movie that inaccurately depicts slavery.

“I just think the movies that are produced only scratch the surface of the multi-layered history of the people, places and events in regards to slavery,” Morris said. “There is no possible way to capture the true mind-sets, beliefs, sorrows and pains experienced over hundreds of years by all the people actively involved.”

Morris said, in addition to being inaccurately portrayed, slavery is also highly glamorized in the world of Hollywood.

“When I think of the glamorization and romanticization of slavery, the movies that come to mind are ‘Django Unchained,’ ‘Gone with the Wind’ and ‘Song of the South,’” Mor-

ris said. “All of those have instances where you question the depiction of the characters because there is a strong sense of falseness. There is no way a slave can go on a successful rampage of revenge of that grand of a scale in ‘Django Unchained,’ and it’s hard to believe that the characters in ‘Gone with the Wind’ and ‘Song of the South’ are that satisfied with their role of being treated and seen as inferior by the people they interact with every day. And yet these movies were produced

by Hollywood and watched by many.”

Jharen Rosborough, freshman economics major, said though Hollywood has an obligation to entertain, ‘12 Years a Slave’ still does a fair job at reflecting reality.

“What is being presented may be somewhat dramatized

in order to still promote that entertainment aspect of movies, but what’s reflected is still the real life occurrences of slavery during that time period,” Rosborough said.

Green said Hollywood finally came forward with an adequate account of slavery with “12 Years a Slave.”

“Up until this point I believe that ‘12 Years a Slave’ comes as close as possible to painting a full picture to what slavery was truly like,” Green said.

“Past movies such as ‘Django Unchained’ and others have added somewhat of a softer, almost comedic, side to slavery.

There should never be dampening down of the true effect that slavery had nor of what occurred during the period that it took place in.”

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Taylor Scott, senior microbiology major, said the game did not originally have the different modes of anarchy and democracy, but because of the difficulty of the game it was changed. He said a lot of people didn’t like that new aspect of the game and even organized a kind of “filibuster” against it at one point.

“That was so amazing,” Scott said. “The people who were against it all unified and voted for ‘start’ so that command kept winning and the game could not progress, because they were always in the start menu.”

Scott said he thought one of the most interesting aspects of the game was seeing the “social experiment” aspect that has manifested.

“Whenever you have that many people doing something together it’s kind of cool to see how

Aggieland Continued from page 1

“We put in a lot of hard hours over the summer, and it’s just nice that we get to be recognized, for the whole staff in general,” Hildebrandt said. “It’s just a reinforcement that we are on the right track and doing the right things, so it’s nice to see that from outside.”

Hildebrandt said Bumguardner was a great leader who tried to take Aggieland 2013 in a different direction, getting different angles on stories, different styles for designs and for photo layouts.

“Her whole idea going into this book was to just make it different than what we had done before, and she succeeded in doing that,” Hildebrant said.

“As far as the award goes, I think it proves that she

behaviors just kind of pick up,” Scott said. “There has been a Google doc that has been constantly updated by players who are trying to beat the game. There’s a mission and goal and strategies on how to best input commands and conversation going on [about] how to best stick out the game.”

Scott said the game has created spinoff elements, like Internet memes and trending phrases.

“At one point in the game, three or four days [in], people just kept repeatedly kept checking this item called the ‘helix fossil,’” Scott said. “People started putting in the comments, ‘Helix is our god.’

They made a joke, ‘Helix is the one god,’ ‘We are looking for guidance,’ and that kind of stuff blew up on Reddit. There’s angelic paintings of like angels and demons and pictures of stuff in the game, and that’s what’s been making the game so popular — because it’s really funny.”

had the right thing in mind with moving the book forward.”

Shelby Olive, current Aggieland assistant editor, said she looks forward to Aggieland’s continuing progress and that she thinks the best way for forward momentum is for Aggieland to continue to do its best to reflect the evolving A&M campus.

Olive said that as the University moves forward, so too does the Aggieland and said recent changes on campus — namely the move to the SEC and reopening of the MSC — have brought attention to Aggieland.

“It really captures the movements this University has made in general, which was something that was really in our minds with these new renovations and we specifically mention that in our theme,” Olive said.

Shawn Kerr (foreground), sophomore landscape architecture major, critiques the Fish Drill Team on its performance.

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Fish Drill Continued from page 1

“It’s open to all freshmen at the beginning of the year and on the first day we had about 90-plus fish come out, and now we’re down to 30.”

To maintain being a member on Fish Drill Team, Brown said members must display attention to detail, military bearing, physical fitness, and have a positive attitude. Brown said brushing off negativity is vital characteristic that gets freshmen through the seven practices a week.

The competition lasts for about eight hours as the judges analyze each drill team according to its precision and punctuality. The advisors warn the freshmen not to make drastic movements to reconcile mistakes as it draws more attention to the mistake and could potentially be costly for the team. “[The judges are] looking for sharpness and attention to detail,” said Stephen Meissner, senior advisor. “One thing we really drill into the freshmen is not to secondary adjust, so if they’re wrong, stay wrong, because if they move to correct themselves they’re just going to get another point off.”

While seeking to keep one of Texas A&M’s core values — tradition — in their routine, Brown said cadets have tried to maintain classic moves while adding a variety of changes into their routine.

“We’ve added a little different things to the step off this year, we’ve added a kneeling over heads to part of the step off,” Brown said. “One of our most famous parts of the step off is the ripple line and we still have that in there.”

Michael Willis, the forerunner of Fish Drill Team, said that through his leadership and motivation, he has kept his team focused on the idea of unity, which is paramount for the team if it expects to win.

“There are currently 29 of us, including myself, and I have to ensure where they are, what they’re doing and if they’re not at practice I need to know why,” Willis said. “For competition purposes, which we’re doing this weekend, I command a block of 16 cadets and we compete in three phases called regulation, inspection and exhibition. This weekend we’ve got to win first, I want our team to be national champions.”

Willis said excellence is what sets Texas A&M above the rest on competition day.

“Drill is an art and a science,” Willis said. “The science is every move is the same, everyone knows how to put a rifle up to their arm and then put it to their shoulder. All the other teams from other schools know what they’re doing. What sets us above the rest of them is the intensity and the sharpness that we have, which has made us national champions for years and years.”

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Alexander Nelowet, city reporter, sits down with Andre Thomas, visualization lecturer and former graphics director of Electronic Arts.

THE BATTALION: What did you do at Electronic Arts while you worked there?

THOMAS: I supervised the graphics for the football games, so all of the football games at EA during the last seven years. I started off as a computer graphics supervisor and finished as the head of graphics overseeing a team of software developers, artists, technical artists and project managers.

NCAA College Football — and we got Reveille into the game a few years ago and we got yell leaders into the last-ever college football game — NFL Head Coach, NFL Blitz on all platforms ‌ and I was responsible for supervising all graphics development.

THE BATTALION: How did these games develop while you worked at EA? THOMAS: Our customers want to see a realistic Reveille in the game and feel like they’re at Kyle Field when playing the game. It was all about authentic, engaging experiences.

THE BATTALION: Which games did you work on at EA?

THE BATTALION: What research projects are you working on?

THOMAS: Madden NFL,

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Head coach Billy Kennedy said he likes where his team’s mindset is and said the players are playing a lot better, especially against talented clubs like LSU and Tennessee.

“We played really well on the road against Georgia and Vanderbilt,” Kennedy said.

“We just have to finish the last five minutes. You have to be in the game and make plays down the stretch. Hopefully we’ll be in a position to finish the game off and give ourselves the win.”

The Aggies (16-11, 7-7 SEC) are coming off of a 68-65 overtime win against Tennessee on Saturday, where sophomore forward Antwan Space hit a game winner with 2.4 seconds left.

Junior Jamal Jones and sophomore Alex Caruso each had 14-point performances. Jones averages 15.8 points per game in league play, while Caruso remains the SEC leader in assists (125) and assists per game (4.6) for the season.

In the previous matchup between A&M and LSU (1610, 7-7 SEC), the Aggies took

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Senior Kourtney Roberson, pictured against South Carolina, notched a double-double in an earlier win over LSU.

the win 83-73 on Feb. 12 in Reed Arena. Despite having four players scoring in double figures and Shavon Coleman having a game-high 21 points, the Tigers couldn’t pull out in front. Junior forward Kourtney Roberson had a doubledouble, scoring 12 points and grabbing 10 rebounds, while Jamal Jones scored a teamhigh 19 points, 15 of which came from three-point shots.

LSU lost Saturday to Kentucky in overtime, 77-76, due to a put-back layup by freshman Julius Randle with four seconds left. Johnny O’Bryant III, the LSU leading scorer, posted a 20-point and 12-rebound performance for the Tigers.

On offense, LSU ranks third in scoring and second in rebounds, while the Aggies are in last in both statistics. On defense, the Tigers rank second in the SEC in both steals and blocks per game.

Texas A&M is on a twogame winning streak but is 1-6 on the road in conference

play. LSU leads the all-time series with A&M 15-12. “[The game film] will help out a lot because we already know their personnel,” Roberson said. “We just have to do what we did when we played them at home a few weeks ago.”

The Aggies enter the final two weeks of conference play in a seven-way tie for fourth place in the SEC with LSU, Vanderbilt, Tennessee, Arkansas, Ole Miss and Missouri.

“It’s very important [to get the fourth seed],” Space said.

“I think seven teams are tied for .500 in conference, so we can either end the season tenth or fourth. We’re trying to do whatever we can to be fourth, so we can have a bye in the tournament and have an easier route to the NCAA tournament.”

The Aggies return home for a matchup against the Ole Miss Rebels at 5 p.m. Saturday in Reed Arena.

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