The beautiful daily life of Black Light Salted Fish

“When did you learn how to install a computer?”

"I can learn it just by watching the computer store employees operate it a few times."

Michelle looked at the new computer running the game in the bedroom and Jessica with a piece of electrical tape on her forehead. She picked up the CD box on the table and said, "Windows 98 operating system...what is this? What does Half-Life mean? What a weird name."

"This is a video game, just released in November." Jessica stretched out her tentacles and picked up several other CD boxes that had fallen from the carpet. They were basically all kinds of games. "I plan to invest some money in game developers. This industry is not like the film industry, which costs nearly 11 million yuan at every turn."

"Video games?"

Michelle frowned. "I don't quite understand this. Isn't this something for children to play with? You are obviously not the cow, why do you like these? And why did you bring the crowbar in? Do you need this thing to install the computer? Can't you just put in the CD?"

"Obviously, Ms. Drew is tired of playing with us."

A voice sounded from the bed behind her, and the vampire princess turned over lazily: "So she would rather play the children's game console now... Can you untie me, my dear little wildcat?"

"No."

You have no idea how popular games will be in the future.

Jessica rolled her eyes and ignored the two bickering women, continuing to manipulate the protagonist of the game through the plot. In terms of basic operating logic, there is not much difference between computers in the 90s and those more than a decade later, especially for Microsoft's Windows series.

But even so, setting up the optical drive, inserting the disc, and installing the system and programs step by step according to the operating instructions still gave Jessica an extremely retro feeling. You know, when I was working, I would reinstall seven or eight computers a day. How long would it take to install the USB flash drives one by one?

It is much faster to just click Reset Windows.

Considering that I have a legal net worth of more than 5 million US dollars, it is indeed a more convenient way to invest in several game manufacturers. Firstly, I am familiar with them and have a general idea of ​​what themes and gameplay will be popular; secondly, this era is relatively less complicated, and the more games you sell, the more you earn, unlike the stock market, which I don't understand at all.

As for why there are only over 5 million left in the account...

A considerable part of the money had long been used by Jessica to buy gold, which she had no intention of revealing, and simply kept for a safety net. On the other hand, precious items such as diamonds looted from various black merchants and enemies were also sold and laundered separately, which became Nisha's daily work, continuously injecting considerable funds into the legal account.

There is more money, but it is all piled up in bank accounts and other places in various memory fragments. Extracting this money is another important task for Nisha. But the vampire princess is not from this industry after all. She was able to call the shots with her family business because she had a professional team under her.

Now that I am doing it alone, I can only recruit people and find a service provider if I want to be quick.

Cultivating a team with high trust and loyalty is time-consuming and labor-intensive, and requires special selection of people, and there is also the risk of a defector one day. Even after such a long period of work, even Nisha herself would not dare to hand over a large account to this temporary team under her.

In this regard alone, Hydra's tactics of extreme force plus brainwashing are simple, direct, crude and effective, but a little bit unethical.

Even if this is the case, won't there still be people within Hydra who defect?

Back to the game...

After Thor killed Thanos, he stayed at home with nothing to do. What was the name of the game he played every day?

Oh, Fortnite.

Epic MegaGames will be officially renamed Epic Games next year. They are quite successful in business now, and they don't need their own investment... There is also Electronic Arts, the infamous EA company in the future, forget it, it has a longer history, I don't deserve it. Oh, and Blizzard... Well, they have made "Diablo" and "Warcraft" and they are really at the stage of being a big daddy who can teach players how to play games. They are the hottest commodity in the capital world, and I can't be ranked with my wealth.

Why didn’t I wake up a few years earlier!

After much thought, it seems that the best chance at the moment is Valve. Although they also launched the famous game "Half-Life", judging from the time, a nuclear-level product attached to this game will not be born until mid-1999 - the Counter-Strike (CS) mode.

Moreover, this thing was not officially produced by Valve. It was a game module tinkered with by several civilian programmers based on the "Half-Life" game code. Unexpectedly, it became a hit once it was launched, so popular that Valve came in to negotiate the acquisition of the copyright, and eventually hired the main creators of this game module, completely turning CS into an official product.

"...So you want me to find a lawyer to buy this company..."

Looking at the protagonist waving a crowbar on the computer screen, Nisha, holding the CD box with two leather straps hanging on her arms, was interrupted by Jessica before she finished speaking: "I don't want to acquire them. How can we do it with such a small amount of money? Besides, who can start a company without some skills? What if the forced acquisition makes those creators angry and run away?"

"It's not like I haven't done this before..."

Nisha gestured to her neck: "If you want, I also have a way..."

"Stop, honey."

Jessica held up a finger. "We are a legal business, okay? A legal business!"

"Okay, then go on."

The vampire princess looked at her with her signature warm smile on her face. Michelle couldn't stand this expression, so she simply took over the mouse and keyboard. She tried to operate it a few times, but soon revealed an expression as if she saw something childish: "This character is really ugly, and the details are not clear. I said that only children and you would like it..."

Jessica didn't have time to pay attention to her mumbling: "The first step is to find a few professional lawyers. I will give you a plan later. Evaluate the copyright issues with them, especially since Valve is in the Federation. Do we need to transfer the development project to the Federation to obtain the most appropriate copyright protection?

The second step is that I need you to find a few programmers and ask them to complete the task as quickly as possible based on my plan. The remuneration can be based on industry standards or even doubled.

The third step is to ensure that the intellectual property rights of the finished product are completely transferred to us at the legal level. In addition, in order to prevent someone from thinking that the project has the potential to withdraw from it and work on their own, you know, a confidentiality agreement... well, similar binding documents must also be drawn up. "

"sound......"

Nesa glanced at Michela's computer screen: "Maybe we should set up a company in the Federation. I'll consult a consultant later."

"of course."

Ms. Drew came over to the computer table and asked, "Is it fun? Do you know how to operate it?"

"I'll learn it after watching you do it a few times."

Miss Butterfly Knife fought back without hesitation. She actually had little interest in the game. She just didn't want to be teased by her girlfriend as a computer illiterate. Moreover, there was a vampire next to her: "What are those things on their heads? Their movements are like zombies. And why can't I take a gun from my guard teammate? How can I fight aliens with only a crowbar?"

"You can kill your teammate and take his gun." Jessica came up with a bad idea. Michelle shook the ball mouse, and the protagonist of the game swung the crowbar at the NPC a few times, and the crowbar in his hand turned into a pistol: "Ah, so that's how it is. I understand."

"Um... Although you can do this, I'm not suggesting that you kill every NPC you meet in the future..."

"What is an NPC?"

"Non-Player Character is an abbreviation for all characters in video games that are not controlled by you as a player, such as the guard teammate just now." Jessica thought about it and decided not to explain: "Okay, this is a bit complicated to explain in detail, just understand it this way for now."

"But we have plenty of time."

"The main thing is that if I say too much, I might get criticized for using too many words..."

"what?"

Michela turned to look at her in confusion.

"Nothing. I mean, hey, I got an ad offer, do you think I should earn myself some legal income? It's not a lot, but it's tens of thousands of pounds."

Jessica picked up the CD box and flipped through it. "And there's another thing. The songs I sang publicly a while ago were very popular. Hot Wave Records is considering picking the three most popular songs to make a mini album, or just taking one song to release as a single. They can't wait, and to be honest, I can't wait either."

Nisha became interested: "You said before that there are several songs in your album?"

"14 songs."

“How many songs have you sung publicly now?”

"6 songs."

"Then they should be anxious." Nisha shook her head. "I don't know much about the music industry, but many new singers can't get album contracts at the beginning. They have the opportunity to go further only by relying on singles that receive good market response. But this may also mean that the quality of your remaining songs is also very good, so your record company is willing to choose this method. If you change your mind and want to release one or two songs first, they will definitely be happy to do so."

"You make sense, otherwise I would have to shoot a commercial." Jessica sighed, trying to dispel the guilt of "plagiarizing" in her heart: "At least if I release the single first, I can still... still make money from my own work, and it is indeed much higher than the pay for the stockings commercial."

"What ad?"

The two women turned their heads at the same time. On the computer screen, the protagonist of the game who had lost control was besieged by monsters and finally fell to the ground and died unwillingly.

"...stockings commercial."

Ms. Drew deadpanned, "Yes, yes, it's a stockings commercial, you can start laughing, I don't mind if you laugh a little louder."

A moment later, laughter rang out in the apartment.

I knew it would be like this.

Jessica rolled her eyes and pretended not to hear Michelle and Nisha's questions. She sat back at the computer desk, moved the mouse and clicked to load the save file, and then controlled the game's protagonist Gordon Freeman to continue his adventure. The little black cat Wowo was awakened by the laughter, sneaked in to take a look, and finally jumped onto Ms. Drew's lap.

You are still cute.