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Now for this, I am using a real life example.
Imagine yourself walking home with two big bags from shopping. You just bought a lot of food for your family or you came from your vacation at granny's, who gave you loads of stuff (food, socks) to take home in addition to your stuff. It's the end of winter, so it's quite warm, but slippery and puddles everywhere. Imagine yourself not far from home already, when you slip and fall on your knees into a puddle with both of your bags. There's a person of the opposite sex coming towards you from a distance, but you don't notice her/him yet. You swear loudly and just as you want to get up a car drives past you, splashing another puddle all over you. You're dripping and your bags are now flooded, so become really angry, take the dirt and thow it on the road in the car direction. You swear more and hate everything. The other person is now really close to you and you understand how stupid and pathetic you look. You have never felt so embarassed in your life. Who knows maybe there are even more people behind you, or even someone you know. The person looks at you with a comforting look and nods, but keeps on walking. You really want to die. You pick yourself up and walk home.
Question: do you remember the girls/guys face, who nodded at you? No you don't.
Imagine you made plans for tonight and want to go out with your friends/girl-/boyfriend. You agree to meet at the bus station. You made yourself all fresh and clean. On your way there, you see a person falling in the distance. You're not sure about age/sex of the person or details of the fall, but she/he seems to be wearing heavy bags. As you come closer, you see that a car splashes a puddle on the same person. Now you can see that it's a person of opposite sex, kneeling in a puddle, swearing and thowing dirt everywhere. You laugh hard inside or just feel really sorry for her/him. Either way, you've had those days too, so you nod to the girl/boy. You keep on walking because you're not interested in getting acquainted or helping or you're just in a hurrry beacause you're being late. After a few moments you reach the bus station and tell your friends/friend what you just saw and you both laugh.
Question: do you remember the face of the fallen? No you don't.
You wouldn't recognize that person in a bar or on the street. In the first case you will remember this insident and feel embarassed forever because of what happened. The bypasser most probably told all of his/her friends that story too.
The point of it is that humans are selfish. We only think about how we look and what other people think about us. We don't understand that those 'other people' don't think about us, although they might remember 'something that happened to somebody'. We don't realise the fact that for others, we're just 'somebodys'.
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Answer to the previous riddle:
Two brothers were watching a horror film on video late one night. One brother dozed off and dreamed that he was being chased by the crazy man from the movie, who was trying to kill him. In the dream, he hid in a cupboard. There was no sound except his heart pounding, and he had no idea where his crazed captor was. He was terrified! At that moment, the video finished, and his brother put his hand on the shoulder of his sleeping sibling to wake him. The shock at that tense moment was enough that the sleeping brother suffered a massive heart attack and died instantly. True or false?
False - if he had instantly died, how would anybody know his dream?
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USA as a world power? In E-Sim it is possible!
In E-Sim we have a huge, living world, which is a mirror copy of the Earth. Well, maybe not completely mirrored, because the balance of power in this virtual world looks a bit different than in real life. In E-Sim, USA does not have to be a world superpower, It can be efficiently managed as a much smaller country that has entrepreneurial citizens that support it's foundation. Everything depends on the players themselves and how they decide to shape the political map of the game.
Work for the good of your country and see it rise to an empire.
Activities in this game are divided into several modules. First is the economy as a citizen in a country of your choice you must work to earn money, which you will get to spend for example, on food or purchase of weapons which are critical for your progress as a fighter. You will work in either private companies which are owned by players or government companies which are owned by the state. After progressing in the game you will finally get the opportunity to set up your own business and hire other players. If it prospers, we can even change it into a joint-stock company and enter the stock market and get even more money in this way.
In E-Sim, international wars are nothing out of the ordinary.
Become an influential politician.
The second module is a politics. Just like in real life politics in E-Sim are an extremely powerful tool that can be used for your own purposes. From time to time there are elections in the game in which you will not only vote, but also have the ability to run for the head of the party you're in. You can also apply for congress, where once elected you will be given the right to vote on laws proposed by your fellow congress members or your president and propose laws yourself. Voting on laws is important for your country as it can shape the lives of those around you. You can also try to become the head of a given party, and even take part in presidential elections and decide on the shape of the foreign policy of a given state (for example, who to declare war on). Career in politics is obviously not easy and in order to succeed in it, you have to have a good plan and compete for the votes of voters.
You can go bankrupt or become a rich man while playing the stock market.
The international war.
The last and probably the most important module is military. In E-Sim, countries are constantly fighting each other for control over territories which in return grant them access to more valuable raw materials. For this purpose, they form alliances, they fight international wars, but they also have to deal with, for example, uprisings in conquered countries or civil wars, which may explode on their territory. You can also take part in these clashes, although you are also given the opportunity to lead a life as a pacifist who focuses on other activities in the game (for example, running a successful newspaper or selling products).
At the auction you can sell or buy your dream inventory.
E-Sim is a unique browser game. It's creators ensured realistic representation of the mechanisms present in the real world and gave all power to the players who shape the image of the virtual Earth according to their own. So come and join them and help your country achieve its full potential.
Invest, produce and sell - be an entrepreneur in E-Sim.
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