Building a Gaming Empire From Scratch

Chapter 698: Chapter 663: Hardcore Players are Awesome!

The joke about “bar fried rice” was also brought by Lincoln.

There was a time when Cheryl nagged him, saying that she was out of ideas and insisting that he appear on her show to help save the company’s “new media business”.

The questions she prepared were outrageous, and she dug up all sorts of dirt on Lincoln, seemingly trying to make a “viral hit.”

Even Lincoln’s past trip to a bar and making the hot searches were brought up by her.

Seeing her being so unreliable, Lincoln also became unreliable and started to talk nonsense.

When asked about his visit to the bar, he said “I went there for a test.”

After further questioning, he told the classic joke of “bar fried rice.”

This joke was a classic example of a software tester’s experience in testing a piece of bar software, with the basic format going like this:

A software tester walks into a bar and orders a beer;

A software tester walks into a bar and orders 0.7 beers;

…

After that, he also orders 1 coffee, 12232 beers, a foot bath, a lizard, a bar, a AsdfQwer@24dg!&*(, a NaN cups of Null, 500T of beer-coffee-footbath-wildcat-iron club-milk tea…

Following this, there are various examples that illustrate the testing process, such as entering and leaving the bar, impersonating the boss, beating up the boss, etc. Anyway, after a good amount of turmoil, the testers finally complete the test and leave the bar satisfied.

Then a customer orders fried rice, and the bar explodes.

This joke has a certain threshold, and you need to have a basic understanding of software testing to get the punchline. The more you know, the more you’ll get the punchlines.

So when Cheryl’s video was released, the comment section soon saw a bunch of programmers laughing non-stop and explaining the punchlines to netizens who couldn’t understand them.

Later, this joke went viral beyond the video itself.

So, in Stanley’s live broadcast room, many people who knew this joke came out quickly to tell him the joke.

It took Stanley quite a while to figure out the meaning of the achievement’s name.

“So it means I blew up the bar, right?”

As for the achievement’s special effect—

[Fried Rice Immortal]: The player can summon egg fried rice in any environment, but only up to two servings at a time. If the third serving is summoned, the first one disappears.

“This effect… Isn’t Lincoln a little unhappy about this…” Stanley couldn’t help but comment.

The audience also couldn’t stop laughing:

“Hahaha, of course he’s not happy!”

“The game has collapsed; I guess the loss wasn’t small.”

“Keep some heart! I’m worried about your explosive rate in the next games.”

“Don’t worry, don’t worry, no matter what the game’s attitude, it won’t hurt your awesomeness!”

…

Stanley quickly explained, “No, no, I don’t have any awesomeness.”

“Collapsing the game was accidental. I didn’t expect it to happen. Besides, the key technology of the device was designed by circuit master Vincent. I couldn’t do it myself.”

“If anyone is awesome, it’s Vincent.”

Stanley didn’t think he was that great. He always thought it was an accident, purely by chance.

If he had known it would crash the game, he wouldn’t have dared to do it.

But the players in the live broadcast room didn’t think so.

“No, you’re underestimating yourself!”

“That’s right! Technology is important, but ideas and physical fitness are even more important! There are many tech masters, but there’s only one [Hero]!”

“You probably don’t know how exaggerated your influence is among the players! The way the game is played has changed.”

“Now even speedrun masters don’t play Master or Legendary difficulty anymore. They are all just messing around with the game!”

…

“Huh?” Stanley was stunned, “What do you mean messing with the game?”

“It means looking for bugs! The ultimate goal is to crash the game like you did!”

“Damn!” Stanley never expected this, “What are they doing?”

He couldn’t wait for the comments to answer, and started searching for related content himself.

Soon he saw several videos.

Some people had perfectly replicated their “accelerator” and tested it themselves.

However, out of 6 replicated players, 5 were kicked off the line halfway by Mirage’s security mechanism—their mental state couldn’t handle the stimulation, and they became a mess vomiting throughout the acceleration process, even getting their faces covered in vomit due to the teleporting…

The scene was unbearable, and the video had to be blurred with mosaic to pass the review.

Only one person persisted until the end, but his speed didn’t reach Stanley’s level. Instead, he reached his limit at 3000m/s and couldn’t go any faster.

And this was just one percent of Stanley’s maximum speed!

Everyone had come to the conclusion: after Stanley, Lincoln had added an upper limit to speed in “Terraria,” making it impossible for anyone else to reach Stanley’s speed in the same way.

Stanley’s feat was not only unprecedented but also very likely unsurpassed in the future.

At the same time, players who kept getting kicked out of the game also confirmed: even in the virtual world, not everyone can move at such an astonishing speed.

Stanley must have some extraordinary qualities!

Of course, as successors, these people did make some breakthroughs.

They applied this setup to BOSS battles!

The first step was to shorten the distance since they couldn’t reach the maximum speed anyway. They shortened it to just 10 meters, about the height of a three-story building.

Using the teleporter, they could still accelerate continuously, although their maximum speed was much lower. It was more than enough to increase the spear-riding damage, easily achieving thousands of DPS!

Moreover, the constant operation of the teleporter allowed players to keep moving. The BOSS’s skills couldn’t catch up, ensuring safety.

With this setup, they could defeat many melee bosses.

If they endured the scraping, they could even scrape long-range bosses to death by tolerating high-speed movement and teleportation for extended periods.

In other words, this setup had become a universal means of playing truant.

The biggest limitation was the players’ physical fitness and whether they could tolerate this speed.

But this was also the last highlight of this setup – it was no longer possible to crash the game again using this method.

Nevertheless, these heavy-duty players didn’t give up and started looking for new ideas.

Some people tried to use the mechanism that a monster statue spawns corresponding monsters continuously after being electrified, in order to trigger the “limit.”

However, they quickly found out that this upper limit was also restricted – a single-player game could only handle 300 monsters at most.

Even if they entered a team mode, the maximum was only 1,000. No matter how many more players they pulled into the server, the number wouldn’t increase again.

Stanley, watching the video of the surging waves of monsters approaching like waves, couldn’t help but feel goosebumps. He asked in astonishment and confusion:

“How on earth did they count how many monsters there were with so many of them?”

Soon, he found out in the video: they used the most traditional method – counting with the naked eye.

They downloaded the video, imported it into a video editing software, and counted frame by frame.

And for more reliable results, they had three people count separately and then compared the numbers together.

At the end of the video, all of them had bloodshot eyes.

The video creator also mentioned that they wanted to find eight people to count, but they couldn’t find that many volunteers. So they asked two friends for help and apologized to everyone.

Stanley was shocked: are you looking for volunteers? You are looking for consumables, aren’t you?!

And you’re so harsh on yourself and your friends!

It’s worth mentioning that even though their experiment failed, the video was successful – it was still trending online.

Stanley gave it a heartily thumbs up and then went to watch another team of players making an attempt.

This time it was a live stream, and it had been going on for a while now. According to the comments, they started the server last night and had been streaming live non-stop since.

Their idea was straightforward: the cannon cult.

In Terraria, after defeating the Pirate Invasion, a pirate NPC will appear, and players can buy cannons from him. When connected to electricity, the cannon will automatically fire.

Before this, the item was unpopular because the cannon’s launching mechanism felt clunky and hard to use.

But last night, inspired by Stanley, these guys came up with an idea:

What if they bought 10,000 cannons and connected them all to electricity, using the highest frequency 1/4 second trigger to shoot four rounds per second, resulting 40,000 shots a second?!

Could the server handle it?

If it held up, they would set up 100,000 cannons!

That’s 400,000 shots per second!

Let’s see if the server can handle it!

If that doesn’t work, they’d hollow out the whole world and stuff cannon into every corner, refusing to believe they couldn’t crash the game!

However, this plan had one significant limitation: not enough money.

Cannons weren’t expensive, costing only 30 silver coins per piece, making it easy for single players to buy a few dozen.

But if the unit is converted to tens of thousands, it becomes a big number!

This team spent all day frantically making money to buy cannons, calling on everyone to help purchase cannons.

Wires were another problem, setting up such a massive “cannon array” would also be costly for wiring.

Luckily, many players responded, and many of them queued to enter their world, eagerly contributing their efforts to crash the game.

By the time Stanley saw it, the 10,000 cannons had been installed. They were connecting the circuits, and the test would start soon!

“Hardcore players are amazing!” Stanley admired.