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[Danté <dante.ashton@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello folks;

I've seen you've put some avatars up on the wiki; this is good, for a
start ;)

Now, last time I wanted to cut it a bit short (I had a bit of a problem
with my heart about half an hour we were due to start) as I needed to
lie down, but now I have an interesting problem for all of you; I want
the user to think Wintermute = Computer. not Wintermute = Program on my
computer.

In order for this to happen, we have to think of what is required for
Winty to say and do in order to complete this illusion; the first thing
that comes to mind is for WIntermute to refer to itself in the 'I'. "I
think my hard-drive is failing" or 'I am too hot.' etc etc.

On another note: JChapman and I met up in the flesh yesterday, and he
explained his idea of making the avatar slightly comical in nature: for
instance, if Wintermute can use emotion as a tool of communication
through language, the avatar could (if Wintermute was 'very happy')
bounce up and down with a happy expression. Or, if it found something
'insanely funny', it could roll across the screen with another happy
expression.

Another example would be if the computer had been left alone for a long
period of time, the avatar would turn over and 'sleep' (Wintermute would
spin down the hard-drive, etc).

So, tell me, what do you think?
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