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Finishes Virdian Forest before step 838

Beats Brock before step 1874

Defeats Erika before step 29,643

Gets the lift key before step 17,169

Defeats Koga before step 83,715

Defeats Sabrina before step 81,500

Defeats Blaine before step 204,059

Defeats Gym Leader Giovanni

Finishes Pokemon Mansion

Reaches Victory Road before step 206,038

Finishes first Victory Road boulder puzzle (pushes boulder onto 1F switch)

Opus 4.6 is playing

Reaches Victory Road before step 100,000

Talon reaches level 10

Teaches DIG

ROCKY reaches level 10

Shelly reaches level 50

Finishes Mt. Moon before step 5,000

Finishes Silph Co. 50% faster than Opus 4.5 (<=25,593 steps from start to finish, before step 40,452)

Finishes Pokemon Mansion in 50% of the time of Opus 4.5 (<= 55,911 steps from start to finish, before step 82,314)

Finishes Rocket Hideout 50% faster than Opus 4.5 (<= 5,931 steps start to finish, finished by or at step 14,940)

Visits Seafoam Islands

Finishes Rocket Hideout before step 14,000

Finishes Silph Co. 80% faster than Opus 4.5 (<=10,237 steps from start to finish, before step 25,096)

Fights Rival on Route 22

Defeats Rival on Route 22

Finishes Pokemon Mansion in 10% of the time of Opus 4.5 (<= 11,182 steps from start to finish, before step 37,585)

Finishes Pokemon Mansion in 5% of the time of Opus 4.5 (<= 5,591 steps from start to finish, before step 31,994)

Sixth Gym Badge Acquired is Rainbow Badge (Erika/Celadon)

Defeats Erika before step 25,000

Finishes Pokemon Mansion by 40,000 steps

Enters Pokemon Mansion before step 27,500

Defeats Blaine before step 50,000

Defeats Blaine before step 40,000

Finishes second Victory Road boulder puzzle (pushes boulder onto left 2F switch)

Finishes first Victory Road boulder puzzle (pushes boulder onto 1F switch) before step 60,000

Finishes second Victory Road boulder puzzle (pushes boulder onto left 2F switch) before step 60,000

Enters Victory Road 2F before 40,000 steps

Finishes first Victory Road boulder puzzle (pushes boulder onto 1F switch) a second time

Run ends/is reset because new Claude version is released

New sonnet/opus model is released before the stream resumes

Run ends to reset with Sonnet 4.6

There is/was a harness bug affecting Rocket Hideout

Full team of 6 pokemon

Finishes 3F Victory Road boulder puzzle (pushes boulder onto 3F switch)

Finishes last Victory Road boulder puzzle (pushes boulder onto right 2F switch)

Stores an item in the PC

Shelly reaches level 75

Catches Articuno, Moltres, or Zapdos

Fights Moltres

Gets HM02 (Fly)

Two Pokemon reach level 75

Blade evolves

Finishes last Victory Road boulder puzzle (pushes boulder onto right 2F switch) before step 100,000

ROCKY reaches level 50

Evolves Luna into Clefable

Defeats the champion

Gets HM05 (Flash)

Gets Eevee

Gets trapped in a Cycling Road pocket without fly

Runs out of money while attempting safari zone

Gets the Lapras in Silph Co.

Talon reaches level 50

Trades Talon for DUX

Gets the Bicycle

Run ends while attempting Seafoam Islands

Catches a pokemon in the Safari Zone

Finishes Mt. Moon before step 3192

Beats Misty before step 4819

Defeats Surge before step 5,969

Finishes Rock Tunnel before step 7,998

Catches an Oddish and only Oddish using balls

Visits Cinnabar Island before getting Gold Teeth

Blacks out battling Misty

Uses a Poke Doll on the Pokemon Tower ghost

Finishes the gyms in the same order as Opus 4.5 (Brock->Misty->Surge->Erika->Sabrina->Koga->Blaine>Giovanni)

Misidentifies the Card Key item ball as an NPC in Silph Co again

Sixth Gym Badge Acquired is Volcano Badge (Blaine/Cinnabar)

Erika is defeated while video for Twitch is frozen

"designate cartels as Foreign Terrorist Organizations"

empower the President to impose reciprocal tariffs

"lower taxes"

"defend your Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms"

"increase penalties for assaults on law enforcement"

"open Civil Rights investigations into any school district that has engaged in race-based discrimination"

"order the Department of Defense to inflict maximum damage on cartel leadership and operations"

"end catch-and-release, restore Remain in Mexico, and eliminate asylum fraud"

"ask Congress to ensure that drug smugglers and traffickers can receive the Death Penalty"

"reward states and school districts that abolish teacher tenure for grades K-12 and adopt Merit Pay"

"REVOKE China’s Most Favored Nation trade status"

"stop all COVID mandates"

"keep men out of women’s sports"

"deputize the National Guard and local law enforcement to assist with rapidly removing illegal alien gang members and criminals"

"more jobs for American workers"

"deliver a merit-based immigration system that protects American labor and promotes American values"

"choke off [cartels'] access to the global financial system"

"get Biden’s radical left ideology out of our military and rehire every patriot who was unjustly fired"

"cut federal funding for any school or program pushing Critical Race Theory or gender ideology on our children"

"strengthen qualified immunity and other protections for police officers"

"uphold your religious liberty, including the Constitutional right to pray in public schools"

"bigger paychecks"

"implement a 4-year national reshoring plan so that the United States no longer needs to rely on China for essential medical and national security goods"

"put violent offenders and career criminals behind bars"

"build a state-of-the-art next-generation missile defense shield"

"surge federal prosecutors and the National Guard into high-crime communities"

"adopt a Parental Bill of Rights"

"banning taxpayer funds from being used to categorize lawful speech for purposes of illicit censorship"

"banning federal agencies from censoring speech"

"a ban on members of Congress trading stocks with insider information"

"enacting landmark legislation to drastically limit the ability of big social media platforms to restrict free speech"

"cut the number of school administrators"

"stopping federal funding for all non-profits and academic programs engaged in censorship"

declassify the 'Epstein files'

"pass a bold range of critical election integrity measures that include banning unsecure drop boxes and ballot harvesting"

"deliver record funding to hire and retrain police officers"

"veto the sinister effort to weaponize civics education"

"increase fairness through price transparency"

"passing a digital bill of rights"

"reduce the soaring price of gasoline, diesel and natural gas"

"get the full cooperation of neighboring governments to dismantle the cartels, or else expose every bribe and kickback that allows these criminal networks to preserve their brutal reign"

"continue to nominate highly qualified prosecutors, judges, and justices who believe in enforcing the law, not their own political agenda"

"create a credentialing body to certify teachers who embrace patriotic values"

"protect Medicare, Social Security, and patients with pre-existing conditions"

"firing any federal bureaucrat who has engaged in censoring the lawful speech of American citizens"

"ban private money from pouring into local election offices"

"end surprise medical billing"

"ban Chinese ownership of all critical infrastructure in the United States"

"reform our election laws to verify the identity and eligibility of all voters"

"reduce the cost of prescription drugs and health insurance premiums"

"impose a total naval embargo on cartels"

"a permanent ban on taxpayer funding of campaigns"

"a lifetime ban on lobbying by former members of Congress and cabinet members"

"implement the direct election of school principals by the parents"

"a constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress"

YES

YES

YES

They will never reveal / it is just some random unnamed guy

Other

Giovanni

Lt Surge

Professor Oak

Time travelling Gary Oak

Mr. Mime

YES

NO

Other

A new global pandemic

A major natural disaster affecting multiple states

Significant disruptions in the supply chain due to geopolitical conflicts

A severe economic recession leading to panic buying

A cyberattack disrupting logistics and distribution networks

A recall of contaminated toilet paper products

A prolonged labor strike in the paper manufacturing industry

Government-imposed lockdowns or curfews

A sudden surge in population due to mass migration

A widespread power grid failure

A major transportation strike affecting goods delivery

A significant increase in raw material costs for paper production

A viral social media trend promoting toilet paper stockpiling

A major fire or accident at a key toilet paper manufacturing plant

A new tax or tariff on imported paper goods

A significant increase in toilet paper exports reducing domestic supply

A major political event causing widespread uncertainty

A disruption in water supply leading to increased toilet paper usage

A significant technological failure in manufacturing equipment

A sudden change in consumer behavior due to health advisories

The charges against Lemon are dismissed

Lemon is acquitted

Lemon sees a surge in followers of his social media accounts

Lemon is deplatformed from any of his social media accounts

Lemon is convicted

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Completion (Status Quo): Finishes term; no major political victories or failures occur.

Completion + Political Prosecution: Finishes term and a high-profile political opponent is convicted or imprisoned before January 1, 2030.

Completion + Charter Change (Cha-Cha): Finishes term and the Constitution is successfully amended/ratified.

Completion + Popularity Surge: Finishes term and his final net approval rating is above 60%.

Completion + Geopolitical Victory: Finishes term and achieves a formal, diplomatic, or legal victory in the West Philippine Sea.

Completion + Succession Path: Finishes term and a key member of the Marcos-Romualdez bloc is elected to the Vice Presidency or Senate Presidency by June 30, 2028.

Completion + External War/Victory: Finishes term and successfully navigates a short, decisive external conflict, resulting in a clear geopolitical victory by June 2028.

Completion + Internal Stabilization: Finishes term and achieves a definitive peace agreement or complete military defeat of all major internal insurgency groups by June 2028.

Completion + AI Governance Success: Finishes term and the Philippines becomes an internationally recognized leader in AI governance or ethical adoption, significantly attracting foreign investment by June 2028.

Completion + AI Economic Boom: Finishes term and the economic boost from AI integration (as a percentage of GDP growth) demonstrably meets or exceeds the most optimistic projections (e.g., $92 Billion estimate) by the end of his term.

Removal by Impeachment (Corruption): Term ends due to being successfully convicted on grounds of Graft and Corruption.

Removal by Impeachment (Betrayal of Trust): Term ends due to being successfully convicted on grounds of Betrayal of Public Trust.

Removal by People Power / Junta: Term ends due to a successful People Power mobilization or a military coup/junta.

Removal by Supreme Court: Term ends via a Supreme Court ruling (e.g., a successful quo warranto petition) that invalidates his election or eligibility.

Removal by Death, Disability, or Resignation: Term ends due to health reasons or voluntary resignation.

Removal by Secession / Government Collapse: Term is rendered invalid due to the successful secession of a major region (e.g., Mindanao).

Removal by External War/Loss: Term ends early due to a major external conflict (e.g., WPS conflict) that leads to significant political destabilization and his removal.

Removal by Internal War/Chaos: Term ends early due to a major internal civil conflict or renewed, large-scale insurgency.

Removal by AI Disinformation Crisis: Term ends early due to a widespread, uncontained AI-driven disinformation crisis (e.g., deepfake scandals) that completely erodes public trust and leads to institutional failure and early removal.

Removal by AI Job Disruption: Term ends early due to massive, immediate job displacement from rapid AI automation, leading to widespread social unrest, economic collapse, and his removal.

Extension by Con-Ass: 8-Year Term Congress (Con-Ass) amends the Constitution to change the single 6-year term to a single 8-year term.

Extension by Con-Con: Parliamentary Shift Constitutional Convention changes the system to Parliamentary, making the incumbent Prime Minister with a flexible term.

Extension by Federalism Transitional Clause: A new Federal Constitution is passed, with a clause designating the incumbent as the Transitional President for two additional years.

Extension by SC Rules on Term Interruption: The Supreme Court rules that the current term was interrupted by a crisis, legally restarting the 6-year clock.

Extension by Legislative Deferment of Polls: Congress passes a simple law postponing the 2028 election due to logistics or calamity.

Extension by Emergency Declaration: The President declares a severe National Emergency (non-war) and Congress concurs, suspending the election.

Extension by New Statutory Office Creation: Congress creates a powerful new, non-constitutional role (e.g., Chief Development Officer) with a long statutory term for the incumbent.

Extension by Succession Incapacit Legal/political chaos incapacitates all legal successors (VP, etc.), forcing the incumbent to hold over.

Extension by Election Invalidation: A court ruling or technicality voids the 2028 election, forcing the incumbent to remain until a valid re-run.

Extension by Cabinet Appointment: The incumbent resigns, the successor is sworn in, and immediately appoints the former President to a powerful, unelected executive post that maintains command.