Tags: #dough Worked on a Shift Nudge homework today. It's to create a contact card for yourself. Think of it as a digital business card of sorts, featuring your name, an avatar, email, personal site, links to other social media, etc, etc. As per usual I got carried away searching for (or creating) the perfect avatar of myself. It's a common phenomenon, when playing a video game, to spend an inordinate amount of time on character creation...flipping through hair, body parts, apparel, searching for the perfect elements to breathe life into the character you've created in your head. In this case, the character is myself...or different versions of myself which are all myself. Why do we get so hung up on avatar creation? There's something about the call to tell a story about who you are. That's the point of creating an avatar, right? When you get dropped in-game, on tutorial island or wherever newcomers are welcomed or wherever the story begins, you have few items and no XP. But you're not necessarily a blank slate. Because (and ofc this depends on the game, the choices available to you at the beginning of an MMORPG will be much more limited when compared to a single player RPG) you chose your hairstyle, your hair color, your eyes, your clothes... Given no reputation (or XP), your appearance is the starting point for your story. Despite our best efforts, books are judged by their covers. Created: September 06, 2021 Last Modified: September 06, 2021