Introduction to Advanced Mathematics

Hearing this, do you think this is a cliche inspirational story about giving up your dream for bread, and bravely giving up bread to pursue your dream?

(He sips the water in the glass, puts it down and continues.)

Then you are wrong.The real story happened when I checked the server of "A" and found that there was actually another person online.Not only on that day, but in the past 30 days, there was only this account, and every day I logged in to the game, there was only this account.

I was stunned, and continued to search, and found that this person was none other than Z, who gave up on the game early on.

I don't know why Z said he left but didn't leave, let alone why he could play alone for so long, I was full of curiosity.That night, I registered a small account to log in to the game, and it took me 15 minutes to upgrade to a level where I could speak on the World Channel. I just said hello, and Z flew over to find me.

Z told me that he is the only player left in this game, and there have been no newcomers for a long, long time. Even the developer seems to have given up, and there has been no update for nearly a year.

Only then did I realize that I had been away from "A" for so long, and I couldn't remember the plots I wrote and the tasks I designed.

how about you?I asked, why are you still playing?

He said that in fact, he also left for a while and played three games of the same type. After playing around, he found that "A" was more fun, so he came back.He was playing that day and found an easter egg. He was very pleasantly surprised. He didn't expect that there were easter eggs in this kind of game. Later, finding easter eggs became the biggest purpose and fun of his game.

I remember this easter egg very clearly. It was a private item I stuffed when I secretly hid things in it, but I am embarrassed to tell Z that there were more than [-] similar easter eggs designed at the beginning, and only three were successfully added in the end. .

How many have you found so far?

two.He said.

Well, there is one more.I feel relieved.

Z obviously wanted me to stay. He took me to do quests all night, browsed the map, fought the boss, gave me a lot of equipment and babies, and excitedly took me to see the easter egg I buried.Before I left, he repeatedly asked me if I would be online the next day, and promised to take me to more interesting places. In fact, based on my understanding of this barren game, he will take me to play all the fun places tonight Yes, but I still gave him an affirmative answer.

The next day, I told my team about it, and everyone was amazed. Z should be regarded as our first diehard player. The suspension of the server should be a big bad news for him, just like when we heard the news that Party A’s father went bankrupt. Even if we want to stop the server, we Give Z a good game memory too.After discussing, everyone decided to join the game and build a trumpet together, and spend the last days with Z.

Just like that, there were more than a dozen newcomers in the game that night. I told Z that these people were all netizens from the same guild that I played the game with before, and that the game between me and them was very fun, and everyone wanted to try it. Z was so happy, like a happy baby, he took the initiative to add us to his guild, but the guild was full after adding half of it.

Except for him, the entire guild is a zombie, and the longest one has not been online for eight months.I asked Z to clean up the people, but Z didn't do it, saying that if someone went online one day and found out how sad he was kicked.I wanted to tell him that once a mobile game is AFK, it is almost permanent, and no one will come back for nostalgia, but I didn't say it.

That night, everyone scanned the daily tasks, and I knew from their chat content that more than [-]% of them had never played our own game, and it was not pretending.Later, we brushed the world boss together again, a large account took a group of trumpets, and we never fought.

But Z is still very excited, he said that he hasn't fought the world boss for a long time, as long as we don't leave, we can dance on its corpse sooner or later.

That night we said good night to each other and went offline, and the next day we collectively went to work with a smile on our face. On that day, the game that hadn’t been updated for eleven months was updated, and the only content of the update was to increase the maximum number of guild members by ten.

In this way, the studio members began to storm "A2" during the day and enjoy the life of "A" at night-except for the programmers who worked overtime.

We were sure that Z would not delete the game, so we removed the game from the platform without saying a word, and "A" has officially become a private server. Did not see.Later, everyone went too far. Program A felt that the game lacked an on-hook function, so he wrote one when he was working overtime; Artist B thought the baby was not beautiful enough, so he drew one when he was fishing... A game that is not updated once a year, suddenly three It is updated every day, I am afraid that Z will see something, but fortunately he doesn't think about it at all, and even asks the art girl where she caught it.

Z is very kind to everyone, especially me, because he feels that these people are all drawn by me, and he must try his best to win me over, and he can be said to be responsive to me.In fact, I don't have any needs. After all, they are things that can be changed with just a few fingers, but he doesn't think so, and tries every means to give me expensive and rare gifts every now and then.

He can no longer continue to recharge at the moment, and his exclusive customer service is also very good. I don't know what reason to reject his money.There was no way to recharge, so he swiped by himself, the top product with a drop rate of 7%, he didn't get it after five hours of swiping with a black face, and it was very late when I found out.I hurriedly called my overtime colleague and asked him to change the drop rate and kick Z offline again. After reconnecting Z, I swiped it once, and happily brought it to me as a gift.

I was so sorry that I took Z to find the last easter egg at the bottom of the box. While he was excitedly swiping the happy expression on the screen, he opened the mailbox and wrote [-] easter eggs and sent them to the program team. For this reason, three meals of Haidilao were blackmailed, and that was later.

In addition to giving gifts, he also binds me to do daily routines every day.Daily tasks, I really feel very boring, the unchanging content, repeated every day, how is it that the first product designed by the brain-twitching product manager is still used by so many games, if I can see this If you are a colleague, you must have a good discussion with him.

But Z thinks that the daily rewards are very useful to me, and they can also increase the favorability of each other. Every day, I must wait for me to go online to accompany me in daily life, and the purpose of my online is to accompany him in daily life, so I don’t know who is accompanying whom.Anyway, the favorability of the two accounts was quickly filled. At this time, I discovered something more mentally retarded, that is, the favorability degree is useless in this game, so why was this parameter designed in the first place?

Of course Z doesn't care about these at all, he is very happy when he sees five hearts, as I said earlier, he is a happy baby, and he can be very happy if he has a little thing.

The launch time of "A2" is getting closer and closer, and I am getting more and more busy. Sometimes I am so busy that I have no time to play games all day, so I give the number to Z. He double-opens every day to help me do a good job in my daily life. I can spare When you go up to take a look, you don't have to do anything, just chat with Z.But no matter how busy I am every day, I will definitely log in for half a minute to explain, just because I am afraid that Z will keep waiting for me.He was very afraid that one day we would stop playing and he would be left alone.

I want to add a word here. In fact, "A2" has never finalized a suitable name. We used code names in the early stage, and the name we decided later was not particularly satisfactory.The day before submitting the review, I had a whim and wanted to name it "A2", even though these are two games that have nothing to do with each other.Unexpectedly, this proposal was unanimously approved by everyone addicted to "A", we changed the LOGO overnight, and "A2" was born.

The popularity of "A2" is also within my expectation. After all, we are the only one of the same kind of game. After the game was launched, the word-of-mouth continued to ferment. After the new tour period, the number of online users did not decrease but increased. A small industry award.I also tried to recommend new games to Z, but he was very nervous, thinking that we were going to leave collectively and go to "A2" to develop, and he was reluctant to part with "A", so I didn't mention it again.

Anyway, I played "A" very well in the later stage. Although the daily life is a bit boring, I can chat with Z about different topics every day, so it can't be regarded as static.The point is that the people in my team have transformed "A" into a... I don't know what type of game it is, it contains almost all the functions of games on the market, such as cultivation, dress-up, MOBA, chicken eating, freecell , Fighting the Landlords... In short, whatever they want to play, they can tinker with something. As long as you are online in this game, you will never be bored.

Because we are very familiar with Z, we are all curious about what kind of person he is in real life.One year before Christmas, a girl suddenly proposed to hold an offline party on the guild channel, and everyone knew it immediately.In the end, when we asked, it so happened that Z and we are both from City H, so the meeting place was naturally set in City H. Z said that there is no need to choose a place, he has a holiday villa, and invited us to play.In this way, on Christmas Eve, we pretended to start from various places and gathered at his villa. Two girls deliberately carried suitcases, pretending to fly from other places. When I walked in, I helped them carry them, but they were all empty.

Z is really beyond our expectations. In our original imagination, he was a middle-aged bald coal boss. We didn’t expect him to be a young rich second generation who drives a Maserati. The first impression is quite different.But he said that he doesn't have many friends, and he usually plays with us the most. Combined with his online time, I believe what he said is true.

We hit it off offline, he is younger than most people in our studio, and we all regard him as a younger brother.We also collectively went online to fight the world boss, and danced happily on the boss corpse.In the evening, he entertained us with foreign wine. The wine had too much stamina, and I underestimated the enemy. I was not drunk, but very uncomfortable. Although Z's villa is big, there are many people we go there, and we need to share the room. I have the best relationship with Z, so naturally we share one room. Z has been telling me to rest early when I feel uncomfortable, but when I drink too much, I dare to say anything, and if I don’t pay attention, I will tell the truth about the whole thing, including our real identity, and "A" has long since ceased operation this matter.

Strange to say, a drunk person should have a fuzzy memory, but there was a picture that night, I remember it very clearly, that is, Z lying opposite me, listening to me narrate all this upside down, the picture of his eyes getting bigger and bigger, even in the night, They all look so bright.Facing those eyes, I am full of guilt. We have deceived him for so long, and I even thought that we were going to lose this only loyal user, and then I fell asleep in a daze.

The next day when I woke up, I was very annoyed. I knew I should have kept the secret until he lost interest in the game.

However, when he saw that I was awake, he said to me, thank you.

(I waited for a long time, but did not see the text, and asked: "That's it?")

That's it, thank you, three words, and then this matter is like a turnaround, and others don't know anything.When I was leaving that day, the two girls carrying suitcases pretended to catch a plane to avoid being late, and I didn't have the nerve to expose it.

("What about later?")

Then we still play games together every day like before.He also downloaded "A2" and played this perfect game that I put a lot of effort into for a few days, saying that "A" is still more fun.Since then, I have also confused the standards of good games. I no longer dare to say that "A2" is unparalleled, and I dare not say that "A" is a garbage game. I don't even dare to say that I understand games, or maybe I understand games. , I'm just someone who doesn't know how to play games.

Thanks to the success of "A2", our studio has become a blockbuster. We have recruited many industry elites who came here for the name, established a new company, and successively acquired several potential studios. There are more and more games under our banner, and the outstanding ones are even better. Majority.But everyone in the company knows that a small group of veteran employees headed by the boss have been obsessed with a 99-level low-end mobile game for local tyrants for so many years. This game has only one server, which is set up in the boss's office.

This local tyrant mobile game has recently launched a home system, where you can buy houses and land, grow vegetables and steal vegetables. Z especially likes to decorate luxury houses, and especially loves to collect furniture. We have produced one collection and one collection, so we had to expand the upper limit of residential area twice.Oh, by the way, we also let the completely meaningless friend intimacy value play a role. After the intimacy value is full, you can become sworn brothers, you can get married, and both the opposite sex and the same sex are fine. Anyway, our game does not need to be reviewed.

I, who never played games, was a little tempted by what he said: "Then is it possible for me to download this game?"

"How big is your phone?"

"32G."

He declined with a smile: "I'm afraid you won't be able to pretend."

I hurriedly asked again: "Then Mr. Y, which game do you like more, "A" or "A2?"

"I used to regard "A" as the stain in my career, and "A2" was the work I was most satisfied with. Now I play "A" every day, and "A2" only goes up occasionally. "A2" is I think the game should be what it is, and "A" should be the original intention of playing games that I have neglected."

I nodded and jotted it down quickly.

"So what about you?" He asked me back, ""A" and "A2", which one do you think is the more fun game?"

"Uh..." I was stuck, "the one who... wants to play with him...?"

Mr. Y smiled, neither agreeing nor denying my statement.

The interview will stop here because the time we agreed on has passed.

He glanced out of the window: "It's a pleasure to accept your interview, my friend is here to pick me up."

I stood up and shook hands with him: "I also thank Mr. Y for accepting my interview."

"This is a very unique interview. If it can be published, I will buy a few more copies to support it."

"Thank you."

After he left, I glanced out the window inadvertently, and there was a very conspicuous Maserati parked on the side of the road. A young man was leaning against the side of the car, holding his mobile phone with both hands, and operating it intently.

I slapped my head belatedly, what exactly did I interview, and can these contents really be published?

I anxiously handed in the finished manuscript, and the editor-in-chief was really furious.

"We are a financial magazine. Do you have a word related to finance or economics throughout the article? Why don't you find the email address of the HR friend next door and send your resume together with this interview?"

"Then this column..."

"Don't think about it," the editor-in-chief threw my manuscript into the trash can, "I will find other content to top it."

I looked at the pile of waste paper and felt distressed for a while.

And the editor-in-chief already acted as if I didn't exist, grabbed his phone, played "A2", and played for a long time before realizing that I was still there.

"Still leaving?" she asked.

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