Game Streaming and China's Copyright Tug-of-War

Many years later, when I opened this moldy CD book from more than ten years ago, I remembered those sultry afternoons in middle school, when I squeezed into the small cubicle on the second floor of the computer city to select pirated game CDs. At that time, China was in an era when game consoles had not yet been banned, digital copyrights were not popularized, and physical channels were extremely scarce. At that time, poor students could only rely on pirated discs on the street and cracked game forums to access and play the latest stand-alone games. I am no exception. ...

2020-06-28 · Mason

The Criticized 'The Last of Us Part 2': The Contradiction between Self-Expression and Public Demand

On June 19, Sony PlayStation’s first-party masterpiece “The Last of Us”, once regarded as a masterpiece by many players, finally unlocked its sequel. However, despite the fact that many game media had previously given “The Last of Us 2” very high praise,** only the second day after the game was released, its score on Metacritic was brushed to a low score of 3.8 by players**. The polarizing evaluations of “The Last of Us 2” by the media and players have pushed this AAA masterpiece, which was supposed to be a strong contender for the 2020 Game of the Year, to the forefront. ...

2020-06-22 · Mason

Miao Kexin’s tragedy is our common tragedy

Recently, the incident of a primary school student falling from a building in Jintan District, Changzhou, Jiangsu Province spread throughout the Chinese Internet. In fact, I didn’t really want to devote a special episode to discussing this matter. After all, the little girl just left not long ago, so it is really not good to bring this matter out to make it a hot topic and attract traffic. But then I thought about it, the dead are gone, but the living are working hard. It is time for those of us who have experienced Miao Kexin’s feelings to some extent to stand up and discuss how to prevent similar tragedies from happening again. ...

2020-06-17 · Mason

Understanding the Political Spectrum in Ten Minutes

Many people born in the new era may not understand that just a few decades ago, our country would still divide people into “left” and “right” people. The “left and right” mentioned here is a political indicator, which is widely used to divide everyone’s political tendency. During the French Revolution, the National Assembly included royal nobles, religious figures, emerging capitalists and urban craftsmen. The former sits on the right side of the parliament hall and supports the monarchy and the Catholic Church; while the latter sits on the left side of the hall and supports the republic and opposes the dictatorship of the church. From then on, in politics, those who advocated maintaining the current system and opposed radical reforms or revolutions were called “rightists”; while those who advocated breaking the current system and supporting radical reforms or even revolutions were called “leftists”. ...

2020-06-16 · Mason

The Floyd Incident and America’s Tradition of Racial Discrimination

#The causes and consequences of the Floyd incident On May 25, 2020, in Minnesota, the United States, an African American named George Floyd was negligently killed by a local white police officer during his arrest. This incident became the trigger for a nationwide riot, with large and small protests breaking out in various states across the United States. These protests have developed from initially peaceful demonstrations to violent incidents of smashing, looting, and burning. There have been vicious incidents in various places where shops were smashed and looted by thugs. ...

2020-06-13 · Mason