Games and psychology

I like computer games. Not that I play them a lot but they're good if played when in a good mood. And I'll tell you why.

When my mood is good, Angry Birds appear cute and joyful. Temple Run appears a heroic affair and Subway Surfers feels like playing a naughty prank.

But when my mood isn't all that great, all I see in Angry Birds is poor birds getting themselves killed. All I get from Temple Run and Subway Surfers is that you are destined to die - one way or the other. No matter how many coins you collect, no matter how many heroic deeds you pull through, it's only a matter of time before you die a merciless cold death.

Isn't that strange - the exact same game feels vastly different based on your internal state of affairs. The real world is probably similar too. Keep your thoughts clean and joyful and you'll find the world a wonderful place to be in. Keep hatred and sadness inside you and you'll find the whole world conspiring against you.

Well, maybe that's so. God knows.

Fun with DuckDuckGo's RoboDuck

If you haven't heard it yet, duckduckgo is a search engine with an emphasis on privacy. If you're interested, read more of their views here, here, and here.

And today I came across this little chat bot called RoboDuck that they've put up on their community site https://dukgo.com/roboduck. Although there doesn't seem to be any practical use of this RoboDuck thing, one can nevertheless have some some fun with it :-)

(Read it in reverse order. Oldest chat at the bottom, newest on top.)