Chapter 705: Chapter 702: Public Attitude
Card gas in this era had evolved into a kind of probability mathematics. Because everyone generally had good mory, even without a card counter, it was quite easy to rember exactly what cards were played and how many remained.
If you couldn’t calculate probabilities, the chances of losing were obviously higher.
The frequency of clapping in the room wasn’t very high. Facing the Human Gambling King, these Half-sphere people were temporarily at a disadvantage, each one looking as if they were wracking their brains.
However, facing a strong opponent, they clapped even harder with every victory they won.
“Damn! This civilization really knows how to cheer themselves on!”
“But they’re not exactly ugly-looking.”
“According to my incomplete statistics, in the past hour, the Half-sphere Civilization clapped more than 30 tis in total, averaging once every two minutes, with each round of applause lasting about 13 seconds. Sotis they even clap when they lose, with a clapping rate of over 700 tis per minute, and the faster the clapping, the more excited they are…”
“There’s nothing wrong with cheering for oneself. If the opponent performs well, they also applaud for them. I think this culture is pretty cool.”
“There’s also a trending culture of rotating their heads around their cervical spine—so weird.”
“Clap!”
There was also a clapping trend in Human society, but wrapping heads around necks was sothing they just couldn’t learn.
In hallways, elevators, restaurants, and supermarkets, the “pitter-patter” of applause could be heard everywhere.
The Half-sphere Civilization also brought a new ga called “Kunka Card,” a card ga where players build a deck and use cards from different factions to battle on a board representing the battlefield. Many of the characters are historical figures from Half-sphere Civilization.
The new humans were very interested in this new type of card ga, and many were addicted to live streaming, with high levels of discussion. For them, it was not yet possible to get hands-on, but watching was good enough.
In fact, the Half-sphere Civilization was even more adept at creating imrsive VR gas, which involved stimulating the brain with micro-currents to create illusions for entertainnt. This type of ga felt sowhat similar to Human virtual world gas.
Their entire civilization model was a “Brain in a Vat” model, with perception abilities provided by biomitic devices, making such gas almost effortless to produce. Just by changing the perception stimulation mode, one could receive a completely different world.
However, the Human brain differed sowhat from theirs, requiring different micro-current stimuli. Therefore, these types of gas were temporarily unable to spread here, and everyone could only play Kunka Card for now.
“One person writes a petition, programrs work hard, and hurry to make the Kunka Card program! Now we can only watch it on TV, it’s too hard to bear.”
“Human teams playing Kunka Card have already fallen way behind, so stupid! What kind of playing is that?”
“What are they doing? So many mistakes!”
“I’m so angry! It’s like a bunch of pigs are in the competition!”
“U Can U Up, *****!”
“Count in upstairs, two-person petition, programrs hurry up!”
“But you can’t say the competing teams are stupid, they’re just not familiar with the rules yet.”
The critic rushed to the scene: “A bunch of freeloaders, if you want to play, beco a programr yourself! I have the least respect for those who are incompetent and keep asking for handouts! Do you think being a programr is easy? If there are a bunch of BUGs and you get criticized for them, and have to get up at three in the morning to fix them, do you think that’s enjoyable?”
“Or maybe we can crowdfund, and just use a 3D printer to make a set of physical cards. What’s the point of coding? I’m in for a hundred!”
“I’m in too!”
“Weakly saying here, but what about copyrights? This kind of illegal printing is infringent.”
“…”
Then, a bunch of opportunists saw a business opportunity and applied for 3D printers, replicating a whole set of the ga and started selling it. Related forums began discussing issues like copyrights again. Although the copyright for this ga belonged to the Half-sphere Civilization, theoretically, the Half-sphere Civilization wouldn’t care to enforce it. But this was definitely piracy, right?
“Piracy is shaful!”
“Boycott piracy!”
“Boycott my ass! A bunch of lip service – when you get your hands on it, isn’t it just delightful?”
Where there were people, there were rivers and lakes, and coincidentally, it was the weekend. Having nothing better to do, the audience was arguing so fiercely over this matter that it was getting out of hand…
“Everyone stop arguing, listen to for a second. The Half-sphere people are also very good at making imrsive VR gas. It’s just that because of different brainwaves, we can’t experience it directly. Besides VR gas, there are so regular video gas that are currently being adapted. I estimate in another week, everyone will be able to experience them.”
It seed that the one making the comnt was a governnt worker, trying to divert the netizens’ attention to prevent them from stirring things up everywhere.
However, he was soon schooled, “You’re thinking too much. These kinds of imrsive gas are all regulated! Even if they co over to our side, they will still be under strict control. Don’t expect too much, and don’t think about running off to otherworldly realms all day. The real world is already pretty good. Those who really want to go to other worlds, go apply for so history experience classes!”
“Beep!” The guy was caught by the big data system for sending out a security violation ssage, and his ssage was blocked, with his account also being suspended for an hour.
“I also heard that the Half-sphere people sleep sitting on chairs, falling asleep all of a sudden…”
“Yes, they can sleep in any environnt. Don’t we also have a Hypnosis chip? It can force sleep.”
“Force sleep? You think your flesh and bones can take the tossing and turning? Wake up and find yourself lying on the floor, almost breaking your bones…”
“Umm…”
Zhang Yuan was watching the live stream, scrolling through throwaway posts, and snacking on so junk food. The internet was always full of all sorts of bizarre netizens, their wild and brilliant ideas were simply his source of joy.
Before he knew it, half a day of loafing around had passed…
Faced with a sowhat strange civilization visiting, the majority of the populace still seed optimistic and friendly, mostly curious, and polite upon occasional encounters. Furthermore, intercivilizational competitions garnered much higher viewership than Human internal wars and were also more entertaining.
Internal Human competitions weren’t that appealing. So what if you’re good at card gas? Can you earn any AmiBa Points? Can you make any contribution? Even the appearance of a Gambling King was pointless…
It was rely entertainnt, and that much was clear to everyone.
However, competitions with outsiders were different; they signified the technological prowess and intelligence of a race, and the public paid more attention to the wins and losses. The audience was naturally supporters of their own civilization; perhaps this was an inherent nationalist tendency…
“If in the future more civilizations join the competitions, how crowded that arena would be… Our gene bank must have many Aliens’ genes stored, right? Glizerians, Badit people, Riley people, Taipu people…”
“Could we form an interesting Alliance?”
Zhang Yuan shook his head, dismissing those wild thoughts.
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