Volume 62 The Noisy Internet Cafe (I)
After all, we are already sophomores, and the college has completely ignored our personal computer problems, which is exactly the case, and the men's dormitory is basically one per person. Lao Zhao finally got a laptop and started his official online career. Anti-Terrorism Online is a game he must install, and games such as "Kart Run" and "FIFA-online" are also wet with rain and dew. And because everyone has a computer, we run to the Internet café a lot less often. In addition, Lin Ye also returned to the dormitory because his girlfriend went to study, and our small Internet café began to officially open.
Online versus was an essential activity, but at the time, we all had different computer configurations and interests, and it was difficult to find common ground in a game. This also caused Lao Zhao, Da Biao's squad leader and me to fight anti-terrorism and refresh the gun; Either they play FIFA with Lin Ye to refresh the players. Later, seeing that we were having a good time, Eric also got involved, and together with Lao Zhao, the four of them also formed a FIFA-online team.
If you have a team, you naturally have to find an opponent to play.,It's a pity that there aren't many people playing FIFA on the server in the Northeast.,Even fewer who have formed a team.,So at the suggestion of the big biao squad leader,Zhao led everyone to the North China service area.,Even changed the name of the team to:Northeast people in North China.。 At that time, the bandwidth in our dormitory was only 2M, and it was a cross-server operation, so the network latency was particularly serious. In addition to this, the players and the ball are also various "teleportations" on the field. However, this network latency has both advantages and disadvantages for both parties, and a good use of it is an advantage. Some people even deliberately turn on Thunderbolt to increase network latency, so as to gain a special advantage. Therefore, "cut", "stuck", and "thunderbolt" have become the exclusive shielding words of this online game.
Of course, this delay phenomenon does not stop at such an online game, and it is even more fatal for FPS games, so I am always scolded for being bloody. Every time I see my ID in the chat area followed by a string of asterisks, I only know that my teammates must be scolding me, I know that I didn't play well, and I feel very self-blaming, even if I am often scolded and blush, I will not refute it. However, changing to Lao Zhao is a different matter. Only Lao Zhao scolds others, and he will never allow others to scold him. If he heard Lao Zhao tapping the keyboard quickly and hitting enter very hard, then he must be greeting the other party's family. Sometimes, he is not addicted to it, and directly turns on the voice scolding. The rest of us stopped what we were doing and began to enjoy Lao Zhao's performance. I have to say that in the technique of scolding, Lao Zhao has reached the point of perfection and peaking, and has not met an opponent.
This kind of college life in a small Internet café is not unique to our dorm, I think every college male dormitory has had this experience in the Internet age, the difference is just from "Counter-Strike" to "World of Warcraft", to "League of Legends" and "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds", and the game terminals have also changed from big back computers to laptops. We all seem to have forgotten how positive and healthy it was to ask our parents for money to buy a computer in the first place.
In the exchange in the dormitory, Lin Ye learned that the game that he never forgot was called "The Road to Survival", and immediately itched his hands, and wanted to install and try it on his computer, at that time, the only computers in the dormitory that could install this burning graphics card game were Lin Ye and Lao Zhao, and when they finally installed it, it took us half a day to figure out how to connect to the Internet, click, the uncle pinched the electricity, and the dormitory lights went out. Two people can only experience it separately, two people are immersed in the game world, often frightened by sudden zombies, the dark bedroom and the flickering voice-activated sensor lights in the corridor make the horror atmosphere of the game even stronger.
Although the feeling of hand-bladed zombies is really cool, it is almost boring to play alone and three computers in a team. Da Biao's squad leader and I were also itching to watch it from the sidelines, and I couldn't help it, so I could only use our respective computers to play the game of "dots and dots" to relieve it.
The battery of the laptop couldn't bear the graphics card so much, and Lao Zhao and Lin Ye had to end the game early, and climbed into bed with a full mind. During the conversation, the four of us reached a unanimous decision: to go to the Internet café the next night to play online all night. By this time, Eric had already finished talking to Wawa on the phone, and had even slept for a while. Hearing that we talked about the topic of private accommodation, he suddenly came to his senses, and it is estimated that the network in the dormitory has seriously affected his watching TVB.
But then again, there is always a reason for things to exist. Internet cafes have been popular in China for so many years, and there must be their charm. At the earliest, because the penetration rate of personal computers was not high, the low consumption of Internet cafes met everyone's demand for entertainment in the virtual world. Later, it was the bandwidth and configuration constraints that made Internet cafes the main battlefield of major popular games. Nowadays, even though our own computer configuration is able to handle all the games, and the 100 Gigabit fiber minimizes latency, we still love the fun of connecting to Internet cafes.
In order to meet this "battle", Lin Ye reported to their respective objects in advance to ask for leave, and Da Biao's squad leader also gave up the opportunity to go home directly after class on Friday night. Because we were going to the private accommodation, we didn't rush to the Internet café after eating, but studied seriously in the dormitory, and it was really studying.
Although we are all in the same class, there are still some differences in the choice of elective courses. I chose a calligraphy course, purchased a complete set of equipment according to the teacher's requirements, although I had completed all the homework in class, but the excitement arose, and the semester atmosphere in the dormitory was rare to be so high, so I simply spread out the felt and practiced calligraphy. Because I was forced by my dad to practice red painting for a few days when I was a child, I was a bit basic, so I could always get praise from the teacher during class, and I was naturally more interested in this class. Da Biao's squad leader is diligently gnawing on the sixth-level dictionary to prepare for CET6. Lin Ye is also actively preparing for the Korean Chinese Language Proficiency Test, although Korean and Korean Chinese are the languages of one nation, but there are always some differences, and there is no harm in preparing more. Eric listened to the lecture while flipping through the professional course textbook, and with the advantage of high scores in English, he is currently the highest GPA among us (Jiangsu candidates who have gone through the hellish college entrance examination do have outstanding points). Lao Zhao is busy completing the homework assigned by the teacher in class as soon as possible, so that he can have more time to swim in the world of the Internet.
The surprisingly quiet dormitory also surprised Huazi, who came to the door, and wanted to find Lin Ye and Eric to smoke together, but he was instead overwhelmed by the strong learning atmosphere emanating from our dormitory, and had to go back to their dormitory to continue swimming on the continent of Azeroth. Fortunately, he did not know about our plans, otherwise he would have called us hypocritical.
On Friday and Saturday nights, the dormitory closes half an hour late, and we set the time to go out at 9:50, which happens to be the time when there are more people, in fact, we also understand that this practice is completely self-defeating, but at least it can smooth out the guilt in our hearts.
When it was finally time, we turned off the lights and power, and then went downstairs, out of the dormitory gate, and walked briskly across the campus, towards the Internet café.