{"id":500,"date":"2007-06-24T19:13:42","date_gmt":"2007-06-25T02:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/?p=500"},"modified":"2007-06-24T19:13:42","modified_gmt":"2007-06-25T02:13:42","slug":"games-making-your-avatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/2007\/06\/games-making-your-avatar\/","title":{"rendered":"GAMES: Making your Avatar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">R<\/span>elative to <a href=\"http:\/\/smgct.typepad.com\/spinning\/2007\/06\/education-no-ca.html\">this post in Spinning<\/a>, I kept thinking about what sort of character I would create as a persona in an online game.<\/p>\n<p>Being a pretty honest and realistic person in reality&#8211;saving my fantasies for my own personal enjoyment, allowing them to leak into story characters at the most&#8211;I wouldn&#8217;t be likely to create a Barbie image.&nbsp; Nor would I depict myself as an exact image of my self lest I scare folk off.<\/p>\n<p>I have for various unshared projects come up with an &quot;image&quot; and while I didn&#8217;t go so far as to mix the blonde with some grey strands (and darker roots!), I do include the glasses, get as close as possible to accuracy with what options are available, and can&#8217;t help coming up with an extremely flattering projection.<\/p>\n<p>But is it necessary to depict yourself?&nbsp; Can&#8217;t we, since it&#8217;s a fantasy world, create a character to represent us that is more towards what we&#8217;d like to be than what we are?&nbsp; Somehow, to me, it&#8217;d be like lying on a resume. <\/p>\n<p>However, I&#8217;m going to find one of these create your avatar sites and see if I can be a bit less truthful, a bit more wishful, a bit more fun.&nbsp; If it&#8217;s a knockout, and if I can make myself do it, I&#8217;ll post it later. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop\">R<\/span>elative to this post in Spinning, I kept thinking about what sort of character I would create as a persona in an online game. Being a pretty honest and realistic person in reality&#8211;saving my fantasies for my own personal enjoyment, allowing them to leak into story characters at the most&#8211;I wouldn&#8217;t be likely to create [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/susangibb.net\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}