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Gold.

Its color is magnificent and lustrous.

It often defines victory in the form of medals and trophies.

Although, I have always perceived its color in such a way, that I experience repulsion when coming in contact with it.

It’s the truth beyond such a color, the idiosyncrasies of it that no one thought to notice.

Perhaps, I haven’t made it evident yet, maybe you’ll understand better with an example.

Imagine you were playing Flood Escape 2 and chose to finally live out your dream to beat the Dark Sci Facility Map. You practiced for days or even weeks to finally beat it and you finally did. The thrill, the spectacular thrill of such a monumental victory incited delight for you and so did the badge proving you beat it.

Now, you should imagine the color brown.

It is repulsive isn’t it?

The murky color and the images that appear in your mind when thinking about it, that are certainly not appealing.

Imagine when the glorious color, gold, is recognized as brown.

When its color darkened so much, it could no longer be gold.

The perfect person getting hit by a bus and resigned to the name of John or Jane Doe.

The ‘evil’ parasite that controlled its host and caused so much destruction that it was impossible to save the host.

Imagine Flood Escape 2 once again, but the second you reach the safe zone, an exploiter teleports to you and receives the reward too. Delight reduced to mere irritation in a matter of seconds. It’s painful to watch someone else win the same position of glory without performing all the same hard work, right?

Gold, as majestic a color it may be, it has incredible faults, it defines victory through all means.

It defines victory through the course of hard work but also through the course of cheating and corruption.

That brings us to where we are now.