Chapter 1162: Live Streaming Weight Loss, Earning a Million a Month
"Hey? Little fatty, what's wrong with you? I just sent you a gift and you're sitting down already?!"
"No way, you can't even stay cool for three seconds. Get up and keep fighting!"
"Your physical fitness is really something else. But come to think of it, this game has you moving your hands the whole time, so why are your legs tired..."
"Little fatty, is this the 'go-with-the-flow' cutting method? 2333"
At the start, Zou Zhuo was sitting on the ground casually swinging the controllers to cut the blocks. Later, he couldn't even be bothered to look, just lowering his head and waving his arms like an attack helicopter...
Eventually, the attack helicopter turned into a windshield wiper, and the windshield wiper turned into two antennas...
At first, Zou Zhuo still tried to move his hands, but later he simply raised the two lightsabers in the direction the blocks were coming from and silently waited for the game to end.
"Hahaha, little fatty, are you giving up on treatment?"
"A Genji has lost his dreams!"
"Serent is lying. This game clearly has a 'couch potato mode'—you just sit down to activate it!"
"Little fatty is a true Zen streamer, fishing like Jiang Taigong—completely hands-off, just waiting for the blocks to hit the lightsabers on their own..."
"Little fatty, stand up! Didn't you say you bought this to lose weight?!"
Zou Zhuo held the two lightsabers upright like antennas for a long time and said in despair, "When is this game going to end..."
What he didn't know was that in Beat Saber's Exhaustion Mode, you can't die; it just deducts points based on the number of misses.
Because Exhaustion Mode is designed to increase players' physical exertion, the blocks appear very densely. It's nearly impossible for players to hit all of them. If missing too many caused an instant game over, it would be very discouraging.
So in this mode, missing doesn't mean failure—it just affects your score.
This left Zou Zhuo suffering, feeling like those two-plus minutes were unbearably long...
Zou Zhuo had watched videos online before, seeing others play Exhaustion Mode. It looked visually thrilling and didn't seem that tiring. But when he tried it himself, he realized, "Damn, this really is Exhaustion Mode—no lies!"
The game's biggest feature is using high-decibel, fast-paced, exciting BGM and clearly targeted blocks to make you forget physical fatigue, forget time, and focus entirely on the task at hand.
This principle is the same as many rhythm games. While playing, players focus all their attention on where the next block will come from and how to hit it. Even if they're already exhausted, that feeling gets temporarily ignored.
Plus, the flashy BGM, dynamic light effects, and excellent hit feedback make every action rewarding.
As long as the player lightly swings and cuts a block, they hear a cool, beat-synced sound effect, see the dazzling visual effects of the lightsaber slicing through the block, and feel the perfectly timed vibration from the controller. The positive feedback from this operation is explosive.
Even if they miss, they just feel regret and want to nail the next block to make up for it.
In this situation, every simple action gets excellent feedback. Players become like Pavlov's dogs, forming conditioned reflexes. Over time, all they see are blocks, and they completely forget about panting, sweating, or weak legs.
So, it wasn't that Zou Zhuo was too lazy—he was just too tired...
"Mom, I never thought playing a game could be this exhausting. This feels more hopeless than going to the gym!"
When the song finally ended, Zou Zhuo struggled to stand up from the ground, sat down at the computer, and kept panting.
"Look at my hands, still shaking... Look at the sweat on my head, it's practically forming a little stream..."
"Thanks for the rocket from 'Give Little Fatty Some Kidney Supplements'... Let me tell you, I accept the rocket, but I need to clarify—this really isn't kidney deficiency, I'm just physically weak!"
"What? Do another round of Exhaustion Mode? No way, no way, no way. You have to let me rest first. I feel like playing this game could easily give me a heart attack on the spot."
"Thanks for the rocket from 'Do Another Round of Exhaustion Mode.' Fine, since you guys want to see it so badly, let me drink some water and I'll continue..."
Zou Zhuo was speechless. What kind of people were these big spenders?!
Do they really want to see me play Exhaustion Mode that badly? Even willing to send rockets for it?
But for the rockets, Zou Zhuo chose to give in. After drinking some water and catching his breath, he silently picked up the two controllers again...
The chat was going wild. In one second, he'd caved!
"Let me tell you, little fatty, you've got it good. Other people pay to lose weight, and you're getting paid to lose weight—what more could you want?"
"Exactly! Others spend their own money to lose weight; you get money from others. Look at your treatment!"
"Streamer live-streams weight loss, earns a million a month!"
"After all, he's a famous streamer. Millions of viewers are supervising your weight loss. Aren't you scared?"
"Heh, little fatty, don't be ungrateful. Let me tell you, it's Beat Saber or Silent Hill—you choose!"
"Little fatty, keep it up! Stick to playing this game every day. I'll come back in a month. If you've really lost weight, I'll buy it and play too..."
Many viewers said that spending money on gifts to watch Zou Zhuo test the game's weight-loss effects was totally worth it!
And after watching the stream, many viewers felt their resolve waver, thinking about whether to buy a set of equipment and play.
What made this game so amazing? It combined the addictive nature of rhythm games with VR, creating a very wonderful chemical reaction.
The rhythm games on phones before were also highly addictive, but all they trained were your fingers. For most people, training that was useless!
But exercising and losing weight were urgent matters for many people.
Buying this game was almost like having a spinning bike at the gym. Not only did it serve as aerobic exercise for weight loss, but it also trained your reflexes, hand-eye coordination, and speed—killing multiple birds with one stone.
And most importantly, this game could be used to show off!
There were already many videos of experts online, all made with mixed reality, and the visuals were stunning.
Expert Mode was for showing off moves. Many experts cut blocks from all directions while pulling off cool poses, looking incredibly stylish. Exhaustion Mode was pure satisfaction—watching massive waves of blocks shatter under the lightsaber, perfectly synced with the fast-paced BGM, was a beautiful sight.