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Fate Sunday

Erika has been running her “Sims Sunday” postings for a while, for many generations of Sims, in fact, and—although the game itself holds absolutely no interest for me—I’ve been a big fan of these blog entries ever since they first saw daylight. Erika has a way of making the mundane—the interior design of the houses, things that are arbitrarily left lying around, the Sims’ day-to-day activities—seem important (and very funny), and making the important—births, adoptions, birthdays, marriages, illness, deaths, resurrections, hauntings—seem mundane (and very funny). You can’t wait to see what happens next, and happen it does, and quickly, since there’s a rapidly revolving door of generation after generation in the game. And Erika amuses her readers by taking screen shots of Sims “moments in time” and posting them on her blog with clever commentary.

So, taking a page from Erika’s book, I share this snapshot from an RPG I’ve been playing called “Fate.” (The usual: Work your way through 50 levels of a dungeon, acquire money, armor, skills, sidekicks and magic, then die, get resurrected, acquire more money, armor, skills, sidekicks, magic, and die again because the monsters have gotten commensurately stronger, acquire more money, armor, skills, magic, and die again, ad nauseum.) Getting good armor is hard which is why I was so excited when I found (actually, fished out of a pond because that's one of the whacky ways you find things in the game) a helmet that came with a lot of defense points. Score! Except, unlike all the other helmets, which were made of manly things like steel and titanium, and were the perfect combination of macho-looking yet
girly shiny, this helmet was…

…pink bunny ears. So this is what “I” currently look like: