Chapter . What It Is, Part One: Mario, The Sims and World of Warcraft
The avatar landscape is rocky and full of strange flowers. Here’s a page now. I am looking at a small image of a man punching himself in the head. Next to him is Che Guevera. The other images are of lightning striking; a woman with large breasts; a 1950s cartoon of a dancing pig; bouncing breasts (no woman is attached to them this time); a sombrero; Adolph Hitler eating a watermelon; a Pokemon rabbit playing Dance Dance Revolution; someone’s butt.
These are all avatars.
But what are they?
An avatar is an interactive, social representation of a user.
Avatars are interactive, come in different dimensions, and—like people—they view the world from different perspectives. Sometimes an ...
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