What's New - Vol. 5

The information here is probably useless, as it is created to help me orgnaize my ideas. However, I would be very glad if it helps someone.

Stray

I finished Stray this week. It is a very good game. Honestly, I think the gameplay design is boring and terrible. It is not funny at all. However, I had to admit, the scene design is great. And most importantly, the simulation of acting as a cat in the game is implemented greatly. I can get a good cat-like view and move like a cat. During my play time, I can fully understand why cats like pushing stuffs off the top. The feeling of doing that is quite great.

Monster Hunter: Wilds

A showcase is posted this week, and it is announced that open beta test will be conducted next week. According to videos posted during TGS, the gameplay of bows changes a lot. As a bow main, I cannot wait to check the change myself.

However, as the information in steam shows, the recommended equipment is Ryzen 5 5500 and RTX 4060. My PC cannot meet that requirements. I may upgrade my equipments after the test next week.

Look Back

I watched Look Back this week. I am the fan of its manga. It is unbelievable for me to watch its anime. In the beginning, I think the painting style is hard to be converted in anime. However, the director made it successfully. The watching experience is quite good, despite I had known the whole story before the movie.

I would recommend every one to watch it, either manga or the movie.

The Great Reversal: How America Gave Up on Free Markets

It is an interesting book. The most impressive section for me is the one about tech companies. From the perspective of the author, tech companies is not that impactful in the scope of economy, as these companies are self-contained. A company which is dependent on other companies have more impact on the society.

For example, a car company relies on products (e.g. gears or equipments) from other companies to product cars. If the company gets more efficient, the effect of those dependent products scales with the final products. If car companies sell more cars, those companies selling tyres get benefit together. And when it comes to Facebook, no companies can get benefit directly from its improvement.

However, from my perspective, Facebook has its dependency, those advertisement providers. A better advertisement algorithm can help those providers sell more products. However, other improvement of Facebook products, such as more fancy websites, don't have direct impact on its dependencies. In that way, it is self-contained.

I don't like companies eager to users data. Those companies may help the society more efficient, but they become evil after becoming monopoly. They want to get more profit by making best use of users data. I don't like it so I host my own website and avoid using their products as much as possible. However, it may be a good choice to purchase their stocks as monopoly gain more profit. Taking the capital gain of investing them as compensation of their evil behavior.