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Playing Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

 Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead is an open source singleplayer rogue-like role playing game, and one could google it easily. It is purely my opinion that the game combines great game design with one of the most inaccessible UI/UX in game history. I remember my first time playing the game; I dropped an active grenade by my foot by pressing a wrong key. I like the game very much whatsoever. Not many game allows you two build your own realistic character. And of course, my postings are delayed infinitely by the game. Please wait until I get bored of it.

Seeking Fame

Today I saw a few Facebook posts written by tech entrepreneurs. They consisted of deliberate words and glorified image of the future. However, in summary, they tried to argue ‘the world is changing fast and our company/team/etc has made this much of progress and you should try to catch up otherwise you are basically locking yourself in some antique museum’ kind of thing with very little information about what they are actually doing contained. And this is not only the Facebook thing. These days basically everyone are arguing that they should be cared because their job/idea/research/etc. (potentially) improves others life. I strongly think that these promises are hallow or thoughtless. None of the series of serious historical debates discussing ‘what is a better life/society’ were conclusive, and some have even suggested that the question was pointless from the start. And everyone is aware of this. However, the same people keep promoting the idea of ‘better life’ and ‘better world’,...