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Hacker Evolution Duality demo always segfaults even when you hit ESC and press `yes' to exit! I had to start the game with strace to find out what the hell is wrong! The game is totally inconsistent. Once it can not find the text file that should be displayed as your first message. Another time it does find it.  In addition, the game throws lots of error messages claiming that it can not run certain MP3 files. I do a $ gnome-open /path/to/mentioned/file.mp3 and it works like a charm. The game also looks for many device files like:  ... /dev/js13 /dev/js14 /dev/js15 /dev/js16 ...   Honestly, I found the demo  not worthy of debugging a hell of segfaults. If you intend to build a good game for Linux, please consider those guys / girls who rely on x86_64 systems! Enjoy the map and the grid, I didn't even bother to make a score.

If you have never been to Egypt in the last 10 years, please do not judge it from behind your PC and please do not generalize your views. If you have never been to Tahrir Square, again please do not judge it from your TV screen nor generalize your views. This said, now let's get to the core. 80+ million people concentrated in around 3% of their country with poor majority, a relatively small number of well educated people and the elites whom you can easily classify with the tags: power, money, corruption. Now the elites to keep and grow their power and money have to work in a few directions (First Person): - keep the poor as they are or drive them poorer so that they have no opportunity (mind / health / time) to find out our crimes, - shut the educated up by any means in order not to enlighten the poor about how bad, evil and corrupted we are, - make allies with whomever supports, protects, grows / can support, protect, grow our interests, - hide our crimes, if not pos