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't truly random. 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 and Shiny finds will 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 beat all of these seeds using the same button presses at the exact same time – something only possible because each seed's random events are essentially being mapped out in advance. Using the power of simulation, this Pokemon professor could become omniscient – with knowledge of everything that'd happen at any moment across the Platinum multiverse.
