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      <![CDATA[@24: It appears to be halfsies--some games only toss the avatars in as replacements for your gamerpic, where they stand around the screen and animate while you deal cards and crap. But Kingdom of Keflings is exactly what avatars-in-games should be like, where your little dude becomes a Godzilla-like giant, picking people up and stuff.<br />
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      <![CDATA[There are some games that use avatars -- look in the Games Marketplace for the Avatar Games channel. NinjaBee's Kingdom for Keflings is probably the best example.
        
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      <![CDATA[Also, fnarf @5.  You clearly are not familiar with the theory of the <a href="http://kotaku.com/384789/the-uncanny-valley-explained-in-terms-of-porn-and-star-wars">Uncanny Valley</a>.
        
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      <![CDATA[<i>Way to go, friends in Redmond; the whole of Xbox Live will soon look like Capitol Hill.</i><br />
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This is funny because most Seattle-residing Microsoft employees live in Capitol Hill, see.
        
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      <![CDATA[Everyone I know made an avatar that looked like them.  Since I have to look at it all the time, I made one that looked like someone I'd like to bone - or as close as you can get to a burly lumberjack with the hipster templates they offer.  I do it for all build-your-own-character games.  My Mass Effect dude was hot!  Is that creepy?
        
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      <![CDATA[@7 - Not for everybody. They're doing a phased rollout of Mac support for Instant Watching, they say everybody will have it by the end of the year.
        
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      <![CDATA[One of the first things we did was make a Mii for Mr Poe and then let it wander off in search of a drink.
        
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      <![CDATA["Way to go, friends in Redmond; the whole of Xbox Live will soon look like Capitol Hill."<br />
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      <![CDATA[The person who makes the first really believable customized avatars for virtual video-game porn is going to make more money than Bill Gates.
        
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      <![CDATA[The only thing that gets my blood boiling about this is that you reminded me how pissed off I am that I can't watch Netflix Instant movies on my fucking mac.
        
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