It only takes 2 years to become a god: Pokemon Platinum scientist achieves omniscience by beating 4 billion versions of the RPG at the same time with the power of math
Step aside, Arceus
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Somehow, it’s possible to beat all 4,294,967,296 permutations of Pokemon Platinum simultaneously using the same button presses, as long as you can simulate a full multiverse of timelines and account for their worst-case scenarios at all times.
If you’re already confused, that’s understandable. The thing is,Pokemon’s random number generation isn’ttrulyrandom. When you load up a game of Platinum, it’s assigned a ‘seed’ – one out of over four billion possible options – and ‘random’ events like Pokemon encounters andShiny findswill play out differently depending on what seed you’re playing on, in a pre-determined way. Since 2022, content creator MartSnack has been working out what actions you’d have to take to beatallof these seeds using the same button presses at the exact same …
