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14Jul
Computer Games and Real-World Strategy

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Computer Games and Real-World Strategy

A video games console is any computer system that allows a user to play games. Typically, these games are played in a player’s personal computer. A computer game is the same basic type of entertainment, but refers specifically to those games played either on a computer, or on an arcade machine or other computer-operated device. These games have been used to teach people skills that could help them in life, such as driving, military tactics, or even arts and crafts.

As technology has advanced over time, the complexity of games has increased as well. For example, one of the earliest games to be developed was chess. Chess has a long history, going back at least as far as the third millennium B.C. The earliest game that resembles a computer game in today’s terms was a strategy game called Stratego. This game required players to develop strategies in order to win. It was eventually developed into chess, a game that many consider to be one of the greatest games ever devised.

One similarity between the early strategy games and today’s versions is the use of virtual currency known as “tokens.” These currencies would be equivalent to real money on the real world market. Players would acquire these tokens by doing certain actions. However, in the case of Stratego, the action that counted was the placement of chess pieces on the chessboard. The idea being that by placing your pieces in strategic locations, you would be able to protect them from being attacked, and thus gain a tactical advantage.
14Jul
Psoriasis and Beauty

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Psoriasis and Beauty

Beauty is frequently defined as a subjective quality of things which makes these things aesthetically pleasing to perceive. These things include sunsets, landscapes, humans and beautiful works of art. Beauty, along with beauty and aesthetics, is the most significant part of aesthetics, among the major branches of art history. The word “beauty” is also the subject matter of many of the greatest philosophical works, with Christopher Columbus’s claim that beauty is the first good coming out of the earth being the most seminal and influential of all time.

Defined by Sigmund Freud as the desire of the total unconscious in its relations to the bodily organism, beauty, according to other philosophers, relates to a certain external quality. This quality may be merely an aesthetic quality such as beauty in paintings or architecture. It may be a quality of internal experience such as calmness or love. In recent years, however, it has been used to refer to the subjective experiences and sentiments that a person holds toward certain objects, especially when these objects have a relationship to beauty.

Beauty has always been linked to the emotional as well as the psychological senses; when we look at a face, there are both mental and physical responses that come into play. In fact, the way we feel about beauty can lead to many types of diseases, from skin disease to psoriasis, and depending on the perception of beauty we have, these diseases can begin to manifest. While beauty may not be the root cause of any given disease, beauty does often exacerbate the condition of a sufferer.