Online Class Notes (Tibo)

everything became well I think -> I feel I am starting to recover / I am starting to get better 

I have nothing in my brain after work -> my brain feels empty after work / at the end of the work day my brain goes blank

You can grow some plants to make some food or grow vegetables and decorate your house and your farm. / manage a farm
It is like a countryside way of living game. / you are like a farmer in the countryside
When I was playing sometimes I felt very relaxed so I became a bit addicted to it.
It is a mobile game, the characters and the scenes have an ancient.

the characters are carrots and they work for you.
Sometimes I feel like I am the boss of them –> I feel like I am their boss 

Before I go to bed I plan their work for the night and then I check in the morning.
When you give some work to them they have a reaction and some characters will be angry or want to sleep and show different emotions.

You can find something new every time you play it  / it doesn’t look like it at first glance but the game is actually quite deep.
We have some groups and if you need help, if you use soil for example and if you don’t have enough you can find help in friends groups.

Once I played WangZhe, it is a competitive game and I didn’t have a skilled performance on that and I always lost games. / I didn’t play very well that day and went on a losing streak

One game takes 30 mins or more. I spent more than 3h on that, it is a big waste of time.
If you lose one game you want to begin another until you win.
And if you win you keep going.

Now I prefer idle games more, I feel my time is limited after work -> I like idle games more / I prefer idle games now
Do some face protection ->  use a face mask / take care of my skin 

I can’t stop thinking about what they are doing now and it pushes me to open a game. 5-6 times
I want to know how much money I have earned
If you want to have more beautiful buildings and decorate your farm you can buy the in game currency.
Some people want to collect everything.
If you are a free player you cannot collect everything.
If she has a nice building you may want it too.

The game is hard to be popular -> it is hard for games to become popular. / not many games actually become popular 
Maybe they will propose more than 10 or 2o games a year but actually only 1 or 2 will earn an audience.
A lot of games will die.

some game have a competition like a sport and become a career -> some games are based on competition and e-sport 

some other games become popular because of their style or IP but people may get tired of them and lose interest
In my college, there was a game people played, it was a website game / browser game

As people grew up they chose to shut down the website and a company took this chance to turn it into a mobile game. At first a lot of peoplewere playing but after some time we found it was too simple and it was not deep enough.

some companies still pay more efforts on the metaverse. But it is hard for technical reasons, it is more like an idea / the tech is not mature yet.

Somes brands had some trials with the metaverse and NFTs. They sold some for their brands and collaborated with some artists.
In Korea they spend a lot on that.
It is more popular than in China.

The virtual shoes were more expensive than the real ones. The same shoes in the metaverse sold at a very high price, I can’t understand that.
Now we are more focused on AI.

do you have ever seen a livestream on the network -> Have you ever watched a livestream?
We have built AI hosts for the livestream so that if we don’t have the budget for a real person we can use an AI model.

Vocabulary

e-sport : game competitions / sport with virtual elements
China won the e-sport tournament

recommendation algorithm (n)
The algorithm recommended some funny videos with cats to me

idle game (n) a very relaxed game you can play and do other things at the same time
idle games are quite popular

losing/winning streak (n) series of loses or wins / when you keep losing without any win or loss
I went on a 10 game losing streak before finally winning one

in game currency (n) special currency in a game (diamonds , gems …)
he decided to spend some real money to buy some in game currency

exponential (adj) not linear
It showed an exponential growth