關於 game of our lives ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

The fancy recording of the interview with @thepeakmalaysia is now out too! Love the production value from the team there 🤩
(As well as the longer online article in my bio, if you’re old school, and like to read, not watch)
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As I said when the magazine article came out, I really enjoyed this chat 😃 It’s a funny one because this is probably the last time you’ll hear me talking about @joompa in the guise it’s been in for the past 4 years.
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💻 This week our big, new dev team commenced work on the evolution of Joompa, taking us much deeper into the world of fitness technology and creating an incredibly intelligent solution 🧠 that will make personalised fitness accessible to WAY more people.
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In this video you’ll hear about how Joompa came about, but honestly we’re yet to solve the problem I set out to back then 🤔
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I thought that the issue with people getting good quality personalised fitness was just that they couldn’t find it 🤷🏻‍♂️ We were the first serious local players in a now well populated space, but it turns out that was a small part of the equation 👌🏽 Actually they needed convincing it was worth it; which involves introducing them slowly into what a profound effect it can have on their lives 🏃‍♀️ and it being provided at a price point that they can afford 💰
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More on this in the months to come, but we’re about to change the game, one crazy idea at a time.

#NFTsummer A few weeks ago, we interviewed Xixi Huang (AW#17) in Mandarin and as the AppWorks Fellow who helps us out on the blockchain side, Xixi has a lot of ideas that are worth sharing to a bigger audience. Here's his interview in English:

西西 (Xixi) 黃士晉 is an AppWorks #17 alumni and co-founder of Rydeit. His mission is to bring the applications of blockchain to everyday life because he believes that blockchain can make the world a more fair and better place. As an AppWorks Fellow, he is responsible for guiding founders to think about blockchain and providing insights on blockchain-related investment deals. Before AppWorks, he led his previous team to build more than 10 dapps, including famous games in Taiwan such as 柚子打魚 and Shrimp.Finance. Within a month of launching these games, they had amassed over NT$ 100M (~US$ 3.5M) in transactions. His favorite pastime is traveling with his grandma, and his ultimate goal is to persuade her to buy Bitcoin!

Check out what Xixi has to say about blockchain and NFTs.

#NFTevolution

I started to learn how to write smart contracts in 2016, and learned the entire logic of ERC-20 for tokens and ERC-721 for NFTs. While I was learning about NFTs, I realized that the combination of NFTs with video games was very fitting. In video games, the treasure and equipment you collect becomes virtual assets as NFTs. And the process of using smart contracts to exchange items was very efficient on the blockchain.

At the end of 2018, I designed and created a zombie video game, integrating the concept of playing and drawing cards and packs. Within a pack were 3 NFTs with zombies on them. As a player, the more cards with zombies you collect, the higher your score, and the more tokens you can ultimately earn. From this game, I got connected to other game manufacturers and publishers who were also interested in creating virtual game assets through NFTs. We all had the same idea -- NFTs can bring more meaning and value to the players.

However at the time, many people in the market still believed that tokens and games were riddled with fraud. Since the lifecycle of video games can be short, many traditional gaming companies in the end didn’t find it worthwhile to learn how to integrate NFTs or blockchain into their games.

While the nature of NFTs hasn’t changed, the market has evolved. People’s curiosities are growing, more applications are being developed, and more creators are cropping up. I think now is the right time to start talking to companies about how to integrate NFTs or blockchain into their businesses or games.

#NFTplayground

I think there are many opportunities to start a business these days, and people who want to start one should think about coming to blockchain. Not only is there a huge opportunity but the possibilities are endless. And within blockchain, NFTs currently offer the biggest opportunity. However, it can also pose a new challenge to the team’s endurance, because while easy to obtain traction and users with NFTs, the challenge lies in retaining them.

Similar to other blockchain applications in the past few years, when a new concept is invented, it’ll be flushed with many early users. However, because the surrounding infrastructure wasn’t in place, it was difficult for founders to make valuable extensions or applications. And many of these users don’t actually care about these blockchain products and they are only trying to leverage the ecosystem to make a quick buck. Once they earn all that they can, they will move on to another project.

Right now working on NFTs, you can collect a lot of data in a short amount of time and also make some income to keep you afloat. Founders should seize this opportunity to understand these users, then modify and optimize both their products and mentality to retain them.

Since there’s no geographical restriction on blockchain, I would encourage founders to look beyond your country and region in expanding your NFT products. Also, since blockchain is closely related to finance, if you don’t have a good pricing strategy (or token economics) for your NFT products, the prices might fluctuate greatly. You need to be prepared and remind your users of the risks, otherwise you’ll ultimately get scolded!!

#NFTera

This year, I finally consider myself an official NFT collector. I pay special attention to NFTs with contemporary significance, such as Hashmasks. It signals to the public that NFTs are not just for collecting but that game mechanics can also be applied to interact with users. If we look back ten years from now I’m confident to say that the project that really brought the NFT wave in 2021 would be Hashmasks.

In addition to veteran projects like Hashmasks, other collections I care a lot about are related to Metaverse, such as The Sandbox. I believe that the world will become more and more decentralized and virtual. It is very likely that the next generation will be immersed in a virtual world like Ready Player One, so I am also very optimistic about NFTs in digital worlds like The Sandbox.

The possibilities are endless when it comes to NFTs. Right now, few NFTs are connected with our daily lives. For example, I bought a Hashmask. If I want to show it in my apartment, I might still need to print it out. In the future, how will we connect NFTs to the physical world? I believe they can be applied in many ways, including frames, wallets, cars, house deeds, leases, etc. These products in daily life can be combined with NFTs. We just haven’t opened our imagination yet. It’s hard to imagine that only 20 years ago we were having a hard time believing in the power of the internet.

The development of science and technology not only relies on infrastructure, but also the user's learning curve. The world needs to talk about blockchain more, so that everyone will gradually become familiar with it and it’ll continue to evolve.

If you're a founder working in blockchain or NFTs, welcome to apply to AppWorks >> https://bit.ly/3w0WyIl

【國立臺灣大學109學年度畢業典禮 致詞代表 心理學系林世峰】
Student Address, National Taiwan University Commencement 2021
Shih-Feng Lin from the Department of Psychology

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校長、各位貴賓、師長，親愛的家長、同學、畢業生，還有所有螢幕前的觀眾朋友，大家好！我是臺大畢業生代表，心理學系四年級的林世峰。

四年來，真的很難忘，我們同學一起在新生書院互加好友，在醉月湖找校鵝，還到舟山路上觀察大笨鳥的慢動作，又騎腳踏車到溫州街裝文青，到118巷當吃貨。多希望一切歲月靜好，但新冠肺炎疫情揮之不去，年輕生命殞落的悲劇突然到來，讓我們成為最迷惘的一屆，也是最獨特的一屆。

學校的活動臨時停辦，線上課程堆積如山，畢業舞會、椰林辦桌又被忍痛取消，最後甚至連實體畢業典禮和謝師宴也成為永遠的遺憾。我有朋友被迫放棄出國交換的機會，而我夢寐以求的芬蘭教育見習也無法成行。計畫被打亂、不安變常態，我們卻又將面臨更多挑戰。

一天，我在溫州街二手書店翻到詹姆斯．卡斯的一句話，震撼了我。這位哲學家將人類活動分為兩種遊戲，他說：「有限遊戲以取勝為目的，無限遊戲以延續遊戲為目的。」當下我驚覺，或許求學路上感到煎熬，就是因為我們被困在有限的遊戲中。有限的學習是一場短跑，只是一種手段，是為了勝過別人來證明自己，而拼命地刷新履歷、獲得標籤。

我回想起大三的一晚，我陪高三的學弟妹們為大考奮戰，原本想說幫忙解題而已，但最後他們卻對我說 :「學長，我讀書感覺好空、好累、好悶……」、「學長，我學這些到底為了什麼……」

是啊！為了考試而讀書、為了標籤而學習，不問意義與價值，讓我們陷入空虛、疲憊與痛苦。於是，我和一群來自超過二十個不同科系的夥伴創立了「臺大青鳥教育社」，有來自超過五所大學甚至香港、加拿大的大學生，一起走進的社區、偏鄉引導國高中生探索學習意義和自我價值，我們一起描繪活用所學、開展生涯的美好未來。

驀然回首，當初那麼想到芬蘭，不就是為了回台灣實現讓學習更有意義的理想嗎？疫情是一位無形的嚴師，教導我們在變動中珍惜彼此，在家園築夢踏實，更讓我們重新發現，學習是一場無限的壯遊，本身就是一種目的，是為了提升自己來造福他人，而自在地探索未知、創造價值。

經過師生共同努力，今天的臺大更重視心輔資源，「防疫一號」、「線上杜鵑花節」、「未來大學」，都讓我們這最迷惘的一屆，不僅成為了最獨特的一屆，更將蛻變為最堅韌、最覺醒的一屆。無論如何我們堅信，來到生命的必有意義，即使畢業了、即使停課了，臺大人都將繼續沉思、繼續學習，在人生的無限遊戲，繼續締造壯舉，讓傅鐘在心裡迴響起，永不止息！

一路上感謝師長、同學，感謝親友、爸爸媽媽及阿公阿嬤。感謝臺大砥礪我們脫胎換骨。期許自己並祝福各位同學，艱難時刻盡己所能，抱持無限思維活學活用，超越自我、同理他人，我們一起創造共好的故事、貢獻宇宙的精神！我是林世峰，畢業後我們一起勇敢！謝謝大家！

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President Kuan, distinguished guests, professors, parents, graduates, and friends on the screen, Hi! I am the valedictorian on behalf of graduates. I am Lin, Shih-Feng from the Department of Psychology.

The past transient four years brought me lasting remembrance. We made friends with classmates at Orientation Camp, searched for geese at Drunken Moon Lake, watched languid birds, Malayan Night Heron, on Zhoushan Road, biked to Wenzhou Street like a hipster and took a bite at the Lane 118. Although I dream that serene days live on, Covid-19 pandemic and the tragic loss of young lives suddenly happened. Hence, we have become the most puzzled and unique graduating class of 2021.

The events on campus were abruptly suspended. Online courses were augmented. The graduation prom and the feast at Palm Boulevard were cancelled. Even the onsite graduation ceremony and the banquet for thanking professors have become impossible but eternal regrets. One of my friends was forced to relinquish the opportunity to exchange abroad. And I could not fulfill my internship program of which I dream in Finland. Facing the disruption of planning and uncertainty as normalcy, we meet myriad challenges.

One day, I read a sentence written by James Carse in a second-hand bookstore on Wenzhou Street. To my astonishment, the philosopher categorizes human activities as two kinds of games. He said that "a finite game is played for the purpose of winning, an infinite game for the purpose of continuing the play.” All of a sudden, I realized that my struggling study arises from the trap of finite game. The limited learning like a sprint aims to prove superiority as means that we spare no effort to renew resume and acquire labels.

Reflecting back on one evening in my junior year, I accompanied third graders of high school who strived to prepare university entrance exam. I thought I could help answer their questions but eventually they said to me that “I felt aimless, exhausted, and suffocated…＂“What is the purpose for learning indeed…?”

Right. Studying for exams and labels without inquiring into meaning and value could ensnare us within emptiness, exhaustion and pains. Therefore, I found NTU Avizure Education Club in partnership with peers from more than 20 departments. Students from over five universities including those from Hong Kong and Canada enter the community and guide middle and high schoolers to explore the meaning of learning and the value of self through application of what we have learned, leading to promising careers in the future.

While viewing the past and thinking of Finland, wasn’t it the ideal that I wish to accomplish after return to make learning more meaningful? The pandemic is an invisible stern teacher who teaches us to cherish each other in times of turmoil, to pursue dreams step by step in homeland, and to discover again. Learning is infinite grand journey embodied in a purpose, improving oneself to benefit others, exploring unknown, and creating value.

With joint endeavors of faculty and students, National Taiwan University today draws more attention to counseling resources. The Device of Epidemic Prevention No. 1, Azalea Festival online, and the University of Future project allow us as the most puzzled class to transform into the most unique and perseverant class with self-awareness. We firmly believe that anything that brings to the life gives meaning. Regardless of gradation and end of class, members of NTU would continue to consider and learn as well as proceed to accomplish in the infinite game of life. And the resonance of ringing the Full Bell in our mind never ceases.

I would like to extend my gratitude to professors, fellow classmates, family, friends, parents and grandparents in my path. Thank National Taiwan University for urging us to change. I expect each student and myself to transcend ourselves and to be compassionate toward others as active learners during trying times. We together create stories of common good and embrace the spirit to contribute to the universe. I am Lin, Shih-Feng. We are brave upon graduation. Thank you all.

詳見：
https://www.facebook.com/NTUCommencement/posts/2718183551805402

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#臺灣大學 #畢業典禮 #NTUCommencement2021 #學生致詞代表 #臺大心理學系 #林世峰

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“HOPELESS ROMANTIC” available now!
https://asab.lnk.to/50rh8shAID

New EP "CIY" available now!
https://asab.lnk.to/Zhlat_ciy_alltracks

HOPELESS ROMANTIC -Lyrics (Japanese + English)
https://sirup.online/wp/en/hopeless-romantic-lyric/


SIRUP - HOPELESS ROMANTIC (English Ver.)

Starring :
SIRUP
starRo (Key)
Shin Sakiura (Guitar / Manipulator)

Lyrics: SIRUP
Music: SIRUP / starRo
Sound Produced by starRo & Shin Sakiura
Guitar: Shin Sakiura

Mixing Engineer: Hiraku Someno
Recording Engineer: Kohei Nakatake
Recording Studio: monogram sounds
English Lyrics and Pronunciation : Daniel Takeda


Director: Leo Youlagi
Director of Photography: Tsubasa Matsumoto
First AC: Flavio Gusmao
2nd AC: negistag
Steadicam Operator: Yasutomo “Kevin” Yoshida

Lighting : Yuki Maeshima (YAR)
Moving Light : Nami Kawabata (AKARICENTER)
Lighting Assistant: Yuki Ogawa

Hair: TAKAI
VFX Artist: Ben Middlekauff
Typography: Hikari Onuki
BTS footage(Teaser): negistag
Special Thanks: audio-technica, H.Yoshinari, Kosuke Nakajima



SIRUP
HOPELESS ROMANTICの英語版MVが公開になりました
もともと海外の出来事から着想を得て作ったこの曲。
込めた想いを改めて世界と共有し、一緒に作った仲間との間で生まれるエネルギーを目に見える形で表現したく、この映像を作りました！
新たな一面を体感してみてください！

The HOPELESS ROMANTIC English ver. MV is out now!!
Made in one take and with English lyrics, I wanted to be able to convey the message that this song holds, capture the energy that the creators of the song possess - and share it with you and the world


Leo Youlagi
初めまして。ビデオの監督をしたLeo Youlagiです。
HOPELESS ROMANTICはいつもライブの写真を撮っているSIRUPくんやShinくん、そして以前アートワークを担当させていただいたstarRoさんの共作ということで、このメンバーと一緒に作品を作れたことをとても嬉しく思っています。
「一方通行のコミュニケーション」をテーマに、真っ暗闇に向けて誰が見ているとも知らず、光を投げかけ続ける灯台のようなイメージを映像に落としこんでみました。今はなかなか会えない好きな人や友達を想う夜に寄り添える作品になりますように。
4Kで作ったので、なるべく大きな画面で楽しんでください！

Hi all, this is Leo Youlagi, the director for this music video.
HOPELESS ROMANTIC was created as a collaboration by a team who I’ve worked closely with; SIRUP and Shin who I always take live photos for, and starRo who I’ve created artwork for in the past. I am extremely happy to have been able to create this piece of work with all three of them.
With the main theme being "one-way communication", I imagined an existence, almost like a lighthouse, that keeps shining light into pitch black darkness without knowing if there is anyone watching. I hope that this piece will be something that will always be by your side in these times when you may not be able to see your loved ones and close friends, but will think of them dearly during nights when you feel a little lonely.
I created the video 4K, so please enjoy it on the biggest screen possible!


starRo
人生ゲームから始まった僕らの仲。お互いの人生から見える景色が交差して曲にできたことを感謝してるし、そんなエネルギーが詰まったこの英語版MVに感謝！！！

We first got to know each other through a round of “Game of Life”. I'm grateful that each of our viewpoints from our own lives were able to intersect to make this song, and grateful for this English version music video that captures that same energy!!!


Shin Sakiura
リアルに感じていることをそのまま落とし込めて、最高のチームで作ることができたMV。素晴らしい作品に関わることができて感謝しています！

This music video was created with the most amazing team, and we were able to put our most raw feelings into the video itself. I am so honored to be able to be a part of such an incredible piece of work!




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The official SIRUP English website has been launched.
English translations of lyrics are also being added to the “Discography” page, so be sure to check it out!
You can also see subtitles in English on music videos on YouTube channel.

-The official SIRUP English website-
https://sirup.online/wp/en/
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#SIRUP #HOPELESSROMANTIC #HR