Chapter 34: The Autobots, the Steamers, and the Steamers
"You still see this?" Chiba Yuki asked when he saw the comic in Hayashi Yan's hand.
"Just look at it, it's quite interesting. However, it is still a little naΓ―ve, but the author is a teenager, and it is also rare. Lin Yan put down the comics in his hand, stared at Chiba Yuki who broke into his office and asked, "What's wrong with Senior Sister today?" What's coming to my office? β
Chiba Yuki listened to Lin Yan's slightly frivolous words, and she said with a smile, "People miss you, can't you come to see Yanjun?" β
"Senior sister, you are amazing, I will serve you. Don't talk like that, okay? Lin Yan said with a black line on his face.
Through the huge floor-to-ceiling glass windows, Chiba Yuki penetrated many employees of the fifth department who were busy at work, saw Mayou by the river, and sighed slightly and said, "Mayou is a good boy, chasing you all here, you don't reply to anything, just hang her like this, it's not good." β
Lin Yan observed Chiba Yuki's lonely look and knew that she was talking about Mayu by the river, but she was actually talking about herself.
Lin Yan also sighed and said, "I don't know what to do, I'm very confused, I really don't understand emotional things." If you are far away, you will be resentful, and if you are near, you will be cowardly. Senior sister, you have also seen that there are not many people close to me. β
"You, if only you could break it off like you do in a video game. Oh yes, you just said that the kid was a teenager and drew that cartoon very well, how old do you think you are. Chiba Yuki said.
"I'm in my twenties. In front of a teenage boy, he is a very big brother. Lin Yan said.
"You're still a big brother. As far as I know, this toy that can also be used for rowing is Chinese-made, and the little boy in the name of the comic book author is not only himself. I have exact information. I heard that the painting was actually a little girl of his age.
The two are childhood sweethearts, and the two have no guesses, and it is said that they are already engaged. Now you still dare to say that you are his big brother? β
Chiba Yuki said as if he knew a lot of insiders.
Don't look at her being in the office of Chiba Games almost all day, however, she knows this world. Most of the information that would be useful to her.
Chiba Games' "minions" are located all over the world. In all kinds of places, there are business investigators of Chiba Games.
The basic responsibility of these investigators is to count the sales of their own products in the market, the sales of their opponents, and the emerging hot spots in the market.
And these sudden hot spots will be filtered through the think tank, and finally fed back to Chiba Yuki here.
Although these investigators need to pay a lot of salaries, they still exist. But it makes sense.
Because, those retail stores actually don't like to report their sales numbers to Chiba Games truthfully. The reason for this has been explained before.
Therefore, these investigators have to conduct sample surveys to find out the basic sales situation of each store. Then, according to the relevant algorithm of statistics. Estimate an approximate sales figure.
In this way, production can be better regulated and avoided, on the one hand, the factory capacity is insufficient. On the one hand, the undesirable consequences of sluggish sales in the market.
After so many years of continuous investigation, the previous sample is sufficient, so the estimated sales figures are becoming more and more accurate.
To outsiders, the Chiba game seems to have a kind of magic. Each store, every day Chiba game-related game disc remains. There will be no more than a hundred plates.
This is true even in large shopping malls and places with a large amount of stock.
Actually, there is nothing magical about this, it is just an application of mathematics. It's just an application of Bayes' theorem.
This kind of algorithm for estimating the amount of sales can never be as accurate as it really is. However, it will depend on the accumulated experience. Gradually approaching this fact.
To put it simply, it is to draw two points A and B on the paper, connect the two points A and B, and draw a line segment.
At this time, one person randomly draws a dot C on the line A and B, and another person who has been blindfolded earlier will judge where the dot is based on the information provided by one person.
One person draws another point on the line A and B and tells the other person that C is there. Another said he knew.
Throw away the part that doesn't have C, and continue to draw a point on the line that has C, telling the other person where they are.
After repeating this repeatedly, eventually the other person's mind will become clearer and clearer about where point C is. However, he will never know where point C is, because no matter how short the line segment is, it can still be subdivided infinitely.
In fact, the way people live in this world is almost like this. No one knows where the truth of the world is, but some people can get closer to this truth, infinitely closer.
They rely on nothing more than a priori information that they know before, and use the known to speculate on the unknown.
The more known and the less unknown, the more accurate the guess.
Chiba Games' control over the sales of its own games is also because it knows enough prior information, so it is becoming more and more accurate.
This is completely different from the kind of analysis of why it is the way it is after experiencing an event.
For example, historical research scholars talk about history as if the general trend of the world is under control. However, when it comes to life decisions, even if it is a small choice, he will not be able to judge clearly.
The head of history he can say is the Tao, and it is nothing more than because of all the information, he knows that he is looking at things from the perspective of a God.
As for what he was experiencing, what he saw was only a little bit of what he knew, and the rest was all fog.
Even what information he knows is not necessarily correct. So, why are those who can always judge things so admirable?
Of course, Lin Yan can't be considered a seer. Because he knows what is happening in video games right now, like a historian who knows the history he knows.
The real test for him is yet to come.
"Then I really can't compare." Lin Yan said with a bitter smile. "I'm just an ordinary person, let me study through those unknown things, I really have a headache."
"Okay, I already knew that Lin Yan was an emotional red deer. Okay, you can continue reading the comics. I'm leaving. Chiba Yuki turned around after speaking. is leaving.
"Are you really okay?" Lin Yan asked.
"It's really fine. So why are you suspicious? Chiba Yuki turned around and said, opened the door and walked out.
The two employees who were talking to each other and didn't do anything good at first glance, saw Yuki Chiba, and immediately pretended that they were working hard.
People who don't have to work hard will have it in any unit. In fact, Chiba Games is already a very efficient company.
Of course, one of the costs of high efficiency is overtime.
Ordinary people are always finishing yesterday's things, if you treat normal working hours as yesterday, then overtime is doing yesterday's things today.
This is human nature, and there is no fundamental solution. Fix this.
A company that wants to avoid people being overloaded. Employees have a pot of tea. A box of cigarettes, a newspaper can get through the situation of the day. It can only allow the company to continue to develop.
Constantly eliminate backward people, so that capable people have room for promotion and channels for self-realization.
Lin Yan looked at the employees of the fifth department, shook his head and sighed.
From the perspective of the length of a part, it is actually hoped that all those who are not good at work will be disposed of.
But. But there was no chance for him to do so.
This is because Japan is such a system. Those who don't work well. Got expelled. It is a tax paid by a worker and is regarded as a welfare. Or let them just die.
None of them, the former violates the principle of not working, if you don't work, you can't starve, and you can still be fed and clothed, so who wants to work.
In fact. Even in Europe of the era, there is already such a taste. A person who works hard will then hand over his average income as tax money, and those who do not work can work at nothing.
In this way, the whole society slowly lost its momentum. Becoming rotten and stale is like a person in his twilight years, and after an enterprise has passed the peak of its life, it will die of silence little by little.
The reason why so many countries are wary of Japan is that Japan's threat and coercion have also been clamoring for several years. It's because the Japanese are too willing to work and work too hard. It's not because of how good they are.
Of course, with the recent bursting of Japan's economic bubble, as Japan is harvested, there are also those soldiers stationed in Japan across the ocean.
The Japanese-threatening-threatening theory has naturally collapsed, and at this time, another larger, more independent place is frightening.
As a result, a very interesting threat theory has been preached for decades.
There are really people in this very large place who believe it, thinking that if the people here want to achieve the standard of living in Europe and the United States, they need to be an earth to provide so many resources.
So, they support having fewer children and support self-castration. Support for non-development, support for all sorts of Western narratives.
In fact, all kinds of Western sayings are not a new thing, and that place with a large country has experienced thousands of years of dynastic changes.
Confucianism, as a tool of dynastic rule, has been propagating for an unknown number of years.
What the West says is nothing more than this, trying to bring down this big place through ******** means. Let this big place, like many countries in Latin America, become the little brother of European and American countries willingly, without resistance at all, and work hard for their food and drink.
Lin Yan himself has not studied any philosophy, nor does he have the idea of learning this thing. He felt that human existence must always have a meaning of existence and always create some value.
In the same way that video games can bring joy to people and bring spiritual pleasure, anyone has to do something useful for other people.
Of course, it is debatable to say that throwing garbage on the ground is to work for sanitation workers and prevent them from losing their jobs.
After reading the cartoon of Yike Boat Racing, Lin Yan felt that the author of this cartoon, whether it was a man or a woman, was one person or two people.
I think he still has some ability, although the knowledge is still weak, the plot is not so tense, and the details are not full. However, he has mastered the most core things.
What should a comic like Boat Racing look like?
It's like all kinds of Ultramans that have been popular for decades, all kinds of masks, in the eyes of some people, it's nothing more than repeating a pattern in each episode.
A big monster appears, and Ultraman fights with this big monster in order to save humanity. In the battle, Ultraman was defeated and was at a disadvantage, and when he was about to run out of power, he fought back in a desperate situation, released his own tricks, and finally defeated the monster.
The whole story routine is monotonous, and it is easy to understand. Speaking of this core, it still looks quite boring.
However, the little ones will still look forward to Ultraman's victory over the monster in the next episode.
The main idea of propaganda is nothing more than the victory of evil over good.
Good will eventually triumph over evil, representing the moon to destroy evil.
Of course, if you look closely, in fact, who is good and who is evil, in fact, is not certain.
For example, monsters are born by natural destruction, and how destruction is destroyed is because of human activities.
From this point of view, humanity seems to be on the evil side.
However, because there is this theorem about human beings themselves, after all, justice. So, those monsters, you must be defeated by Ultraman.
After all, there are not many people in this world who sacrifice themselves for the betterment of others.
It cannot be said that there are no people who want all mankind to hang themselves and then save the earth, but they are very few.
Because, for human beings, only living is meaningful, and only surviving can the things they do be useful.
Otherwise, no matter how blue the sky is and how green the mountains are, what is the use?
This teenage author has mastered such a simple core. I drew a page after page of cartoons on the rowing boat.
Actually, the drawing skills are very good. At least Lin Yan can't reach it.
After all, what he is better at is not hand-drawing, but three-dimensional drawing. Or just pixel.
Although he has a certain amount of art skills, it is still too difficult for him to draw comics.
The manga fire is popular, but it is said that the manufacturer of the rowing boat has disappeared. The copyright was taken by Hasbro and supposedly incorporated into the Autobots' worldview.
It's just that I don't know what the boat race will be called, is it called a steamer?
On a planet that is all oceans, there is a living group of steamers, all of whom are made of metal. One day, an evil steamer stole the energy crystal and left it on Earth in the process of escaping.
As a result, countless steamers, both good and bad, came to Earth to compete for energy crystals.
It seems that this kind of integration of the worldview is a bit too hard, and Lin Yan originally wanted to make some robot games, but it seems that he can only open up new routes by himself. (To be continued.) )