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Buzz!

There are three different T-shirts users can win for their avatars; a Single Win T-shirt, a 25 Correct Questions T-shirt, and a 100 Correct Questions T-shirt.

Cartoon pornography

Virtual child pornography can be punished with up to 5 years in prison in Germany, German prosecutors investigated the video game Second Life because of some people role playing as underage characters with virtual underage avatars.

Elemental Masters

While psychics, wizards and elemental masters are portrayed as the more common magic users in the western world, the series also focuses on other forms of power such as the Hindu sorcerers of India and the various spirits of the world (such as the fey of England and avatars of the Hindu gods).

Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters

The game is played from an isometric perspective, and players control their avatars using Hall effect joysticks on the arcade version.

Ghanta

The top of the bell handle is usually adorned with a brass figure - bells intended for use in the worship of Lord Shiva will have a figure of Lord Nandi, while those used in the worship of Lord Vishnu or his avatars as Rama, Narasimha or Krishna will have a figure of Garuda or Panchajanya shanka or Sudarshana Chakra.

Minal Hajratwala

For World AIDS Day in 1999, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco commissioned her one-woman show, “Avatars: Gods for a New Millennium.”

Ocimum tenuiflorum

Tulasi leaves is an essential part in the worship of God Vishnu (Narayana) and his Avatars including God Krishna, God Rama and other male Vaishnava deities like Hanuman, Balarama, Garuda and many others.

Parrafaire

Parrafaire lives in the realm of Trickster's Delight on the plane of Carceri, but he may move through the planes and manifest avatars as a greater deity (because of his mother's aid).

Primal Rage

Toys, comics, a novel (Primal Rage: The Avatars by John Vornholt) and other merchandise tie-ins were also produced.

Robots and Avatars

The project includes contributions by a diverse range of experts, professionals and specialists working with robots and avatars including Professor Noel Sharkey (Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics and Professor of Public Engagement University of Sheffield), Pear Urishima (Apple), Ghislaine Boddington from body>data>space and Derek Richards from Hi8us South.

Togglethis

Founded in 1996 by Paul Maya and Marc Singer, togglethis merged the concepts of MOO/MUD and Choose Your Own Adventure to create some of the earliest, consumer-facing graphic avatars on the internet.

Tom Preston-Werner

In 2004, Preston-Werner founded Gravatar, a service for providing globally unique avatars that follow users from site to site.

Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar

The concept of virtues was inspired by a TV show about the Avatars of Hindu mythology, which described the avatars as having to master sixteen different virtues.

ViOS

ViOS (Visual Internet Operating System) was a client-server software system designed by Julian Lombardi in the mid-1990s and built by a team he led at ViOS Inc. from 1999-2001 as a way of spatially organizing all Internet-deliverable resources (including web pages) into a massively scaled multiuser 3D environment with users of the system represented as customizable avatars.

Whirled

Because developing content for Whirled requires knowledge of ActionScript and Flash, there are plans for an online way to create simple content for Whirled.Whirled also gives away many different avatars for money or called on Whirled "Bars"

Z Corporation

Recently, ZPrinters have been used to manufacture custom avatars and figurines from video games such as World of Warcraft in full color.

Zeeboids

Zeeboids is compatible with Zeebo Football Club (F.C.) games such as Zeebo F.C. Foot Camp, enabling players to create custom characters ("avatars") and participate in online rankings.


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