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TIL In 2023, a Japanese YouTuber set up a system that allowed his fish to play Pokemon games on stream. At one point, the game crashed but continued responding to the fish's input. The fish navigated to the Nintendo store and successfully charged 500 yen ($3.85) to his credit card.

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