Game Culture Reading Response

We live in a world in which everyone and everybody is trying to make a name for them self in some way. Their "reputation" is based on the way they act or how they go about things in their everyday life. One problem, there is no reset button. However what if we could press the reset button? What would you change? This is when Avatars in games became huge. When our technology hit the level to the point we can create a character that represented us or something we visualized being. Taking out different flaws such as being weak, small, or to tall, fat or to skinny. Every character in a game has a little bit of us in it as we play that character. It is the character we want to be, the character we idealized. I guess this is truly where egos hit. People comparing each other's characters with another's. Who is stronger, who looks better, who has more knowledge of the game, and so on. As technology continues to grow certain games are making it interactive enough to change even the most detailed parts of the character. For example in The Sims 2, you can change the facial structure, the height, weight and so on. There will be a point in which we can in fact add our personal selves through the game, may through a picture of some sort who knows. At least it is safe to say that our Avatars have a reset button.