Once Upon a Time In Hollywood

Chapter 31 Resentment from previous lives

"What?"

"Mike?"

"What did you say your name was? Mike Morhaime?"

When Roland heard the other party's self-introduction, surprise came to his heart.

Squinting his eyes and scanning the other person, Roland tried to find the afterimage of the person with the same name in his head.

"Yes, what's the problem?" Mo Huaimi didn't know where Roland's surprise was, and while letting Roland look at him, he asked back, "Is it because my name is the same as your friend's? I'm used to this kind of thing, after all, in America, there are too many people named Mike, for example, Mike Tyson?"

Duplicate name?

of course not!

The light-hearted response made Roland shake off the depression in his heart. At this moment, how can he care about the family education series?

I looked at the other party very impolitely, and the hard gaze seemed to want to dig a piece of meat from the other party, "You said you are from UCLA? The Department of Electronic Engineering? Then do you still have a friend? Is it Adham?"

"Yeah..."

The questioning like a cannonball made Mo Huaimi a little surprised.

This is his first time as a tutor. He doesn't know whether Roland's reaction is normal or not.

However, after hearing the name Adhan, Mo Huaimi's eyes looked a little strange, "If I remember correctly, this should be the first time we met, right? Or maybe we knew each other before? "

Met before?

no no no no...

How could Roland know him?

Although Mo Huaimi didn't answer Roland's question directly, Roland's pupils shrank instantly as he asked back.

My heart was also completely occupied by the sudden emotions.

Who is this man in front of you?

If you just look at the appearance, it is impossible for Roland, who has no photographic memory, to directly report the identity of the protagonist in Dianniang's novel.

but-

He had heard the name Mike Morhaime.

This is indeed a common name, so common that only Mike, not Michael.

But if you add a series of suffixes such as UCLA, Department of Electronic Engineering, and Adham to this common name—

He will become one of the three founders of Blizzard.

The world-renowned "StarCraft", "Warcraft", "Diablo" and the online game "World of Warcraft" in the future were developed by the team led by this guy dressed like a programmer.

Of course, none of the above is the point.

The point is that a few days ago, Roland typed out the other party's name on his newly owned computer.

Although Roland has decided to make a good filming, the treasures in his head should not be wasted, right?

Even if he doesn't have a complete idea of ​​treasure digging, he can never make a mistake by transcribing it according to his general memory.

And the company Blizzard, or the game "World of Warcraft", is actually the big head in his memory.

Since he entered the pit at the end of Ninetowns, he has been playing for more than ten years, and there is nothing that he can remember more vividly than this game.

When he was a student, he played "Warcraft" in Internet cafes. When he changed his career to become a grandma, he also narrated the movie of the same name.

Although "Warcraft" filmed by Duncan Jones was edited in a mess due to funding and refugees, this is not the reason why they condensed the entire film into a trailer!

The 124-minute foreshadowing makes the whole movie more like the leading trailer of the sequel. The kind of world view set up for the foreshadowing is really powerless to complain.

But even so, Roland still shared the movie with others.

He amwayed the movie to those Warcraft players.

because-

He didn't want to be alone.

Even so, the sequel of "Warcraft" is something he has been looking forward to for a long time.

It's a pity that until he crossed over, "Warcraft 2" was still silent.

This made him very uncomfortable.

When Roland sat in front of the computer, wrote the treasure list, and knocked on the company Blizzard, his heart was a little complicated.

Since the company is located in Los Angeles, Roland has even thought about it, and when he has the opportunity, he must come and have a look.

Although there is no way to spoof this company that likes to make CG with its heart and make games with its feet like sending a car of potatoes to Ubisoft, but I will come to the door in person to see what the company that has cheated me of a lot of time, money, and emotions is like. Still no problem.

However-

Before Roland put his ideas into action, before the future game kingdom appeared, he had already had close contact with Blizzard founder Mike Morwaimi because of his tutor relationship?

It's just—

Roland couldn't describe his mood at the moment in words.

Happy?

fart!

He wished he could clench his fists and jump up to hit Mohamy on the knee!

"World of Warcraft" is indeed a good game, but what kind of movie are you making! What kind of character design did you make up!

Let’s take Jaina as an example, it’s full of slots!

It’s right to leave your boyfriend, but it’s wrong to take your filial son and go your own way?

It is right to betray the father, but the wrong thing is that the father destroyed the peace of Kalimdor?

What else is killing the father for the overall situation, disturbing the undead of the parents, and being furious in the face of the undead brother...

When Roland thought of these behaviors that had nowhere to go, Roland wanted to stab someone with a knife.

Of course, since the other party had left as early as 2018, in "Battle for Azeroth", Queen Xi just shouted "For the Horde", before the end of a version, it became "The Horde is trash" 'The blame will not be held on Mohamy's head.

But even so, after confirming the other party's identity, Roland's eyes were still unfriendly.

However, just when Roland was thinking about how to vent out the troubles in his heart, David, who had already parked the car, got into the living room. When he saw Roland and Mohamy standing there staring at each other At the door, a suspicious voice suddenly appeared, "Roland, why don't you take Mohamy in? What's there to talk about standing at the door?"

"He is the tutor I found for you with great difficulty. Don't drive him away."

"Just like you, he is also a young man with a dream."

“Although he got an offer from Western Digital, he still wants to start his own business.”

“It’s a pity that there is no start-up capital in hand, so things have been delayed.”

“He is willing to come here to teach you, and a large part of the reason is to prepare for future entrepreneurship.”

"If you don't know something, just ask him directly. I talked to him and he is very good at communicating."

Following David's words, Mohamy, who was blocked by Roland at the door, nodded with a smile.

Although he still had doubts, Roland caught the goodwill that came out of the corner of his eyes clearly.

That’s right, the current Mohamy is not the billionaire he will be in the future. He is poor and white, but he will still be trapped by money.

Even with the offer from Western Digital, he is still a poor student with lofty ideals.

Although he can imitate Hewlett-Packard, Apple, and Google and start a garage business, he also needs to make a living!

He doesn’t have a knife in his hand, and he lives entirely on credit cards. How can he start a company?

Because of this, he would take the initiative to sign up after seeing the job advertisement sent by David.

After all, the conditions David gave were really generous.

About 100 days of tutoring period, 20,000 US dollars in remuneration.

This was a huge sum of money in 1990 when the average salary was only more than 20,000.

Mohamy, who wants to start a business, must get this money.

So, even if Roland is acting strange, he will not take the initiative to provoke trouble, but will greet him with a smile.

However, after hearing David's words and seeing Mohamy's performance, Roland, who was still 'malicious', suddenly frowned.

etc-

Even if you fight with him, you can't change the things in your previous life!

Even if he drove Mohamy away, wouldn't the character design full of slots and the random screenwriting team not appear?

In this case—

Then you can be my teacher, okay?

From now on, you can just play the game well, and don’t worry about other things.

Thinking of this, Roland, who was still thinking about how to give the opponent a kidney shot, suddenly showed a sweet smile.

"Mike, I'm sorry, I'm a little distracted."

"Because in my imagination, programmers should be the same as Steve (Jobs)."

"He likes to wear black sweaters, but you are wearing white today..."

David and Mohamy were taken aback by the weird remark.

Although Roland felt that Roland's brain circuit was a bit strange, the two of them didn't struggle too much with it.

Especially Mohamy, when Roland mentioned Jobs, the big boy who was about to graduate immediately forgot Roland's eyes that wanted to dig meat, and shook his head directly: "He is the founder of Apple, how can I compare with him? "

"However, our dressing style is actually the same, both casual."

"Of course, I actually don't like today's outfit either, it's too plain."

"I actually like black clothes too, it doesn't look dirty like that..."

Note: ① In 2008, when the number of paid users of "World of Warcraft" exceeded 10 million, IGN made a special report for Blizzard. Before the establishment of Blizzard, the three founders had no money. offer, and want to go to work, he did the silicon and synapse studio under the repeated persuasion of Arun Adham, and the start-up capital at that time was still "asked" by Mohamy from his grandmother Fifteen thousand dollars. At the beginning of their establishment, they didn't even have money to pay salaries. They did a lot of things to raise money. In the end, they had no choice but to set up more than a dozen credit cards and cash them out to pay employees. If they hadn't received an order from Nintendo, they might have to close down immediately. ② It is a fact that "Warcraft" hit the street. As for the 40 minutes of being cut, who made them unlucky and have to skip the ticket? There was nothing wrong with the release in 15 years, and the ticket was delayed until it was released in 2016, which coincided with the European refugee crisis. Of course, the issue of "Warcraft" funding is different from the refugee crisis. There is no real hammer for this. There have been media reports that after "Warcraft" ran out of budget, no one is willing to continue to inject capital, and then they can only skip tickets. The last money was invested by the company that bought Legendary Films, which was President Wang's father's Hollywood project. (Unlike the refugee crisis film editing, no party has directly responded to the funding issue.) ③In 1990, the per capita income of the United States was 20,000 knives, which was the statistics of the World Bank, and their own data could not be found.