Word: avatars
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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After downloading the software to your PlayStation, you log in and create an avatar, which you pilot using your PlayStation controller. Much like the Wii system, your avatar's features are customizable--within limits. Want your character to be 8 ft. (2.4 m) tall? Forget it. Humans are sized like the real deal. No really enormous noses either. Your character can't even be as fat as your average tech-gossip blogger, since only the slightest of beer guts is permitted in Home. And if you want to create a female avatar, she's got to look like something from...
...Your avatar can fluidly walk or run from place to place. A drop-down menu lets you dance everything from the robot to sorta salsa. You can text other Homies or talk via any USB microphone...
...tall? Forget it. Humans are sized like the real deal. No really enormous noses, either. You want your character to be as obese as a tech-gossip blogger? Sorry, only the slightest of beer guts is permitted in Home. And if you want to create a female avatar, she's got to look like something from Playboy, circa 1968. No Kate Moss here...
...Your avatar can walk or run. You can go to a bowling alley and bowl too. A drop-down menu even lets you dance, everything from the robot to salsa-style. You can chat via text (clicking out messages SMS-style with the controller or using any USB keyboard) or attach a USB microphone and talk. But beyond that, it's pretty much like a day at the mall...
...terrorist attacks in Mumbai were not the most recent avatar of some insidious force of radical Islam sweeping across continents and cities throughout the world, using terrorist means to bring down democracy, kill the infidels, and raise the crescent banner over the rooftops of the world. Lashkar-e-Taiba is indeed an Islamic terror group, and may even form part of a larger network of groups located in the NWFP and along the border with Afghanistan...