Assignment #6 Create Your Own Adventure- Karl Werner

1) If you could go back and change one thing in your past, what would it be? How would it affect your life today?

2) The future of humanity: extinction, space colonization, alien enslavement....what do you think will happen? Why?

3) What video game character would you switch places with and why? What would you do after the switch? Would the character take over your life, and how would he/she handle that?

Chosen prompt: #3

I would switch places with any of the characters from the new Grand Theft Auto (GTA 5). They live in an immense sandbox world, where the only thing shorter than the cops' memory is the load time. You can go anywhere and do anything. Steal a car. Buy some milk. Fly a jet. Rob a bank. Parachute. Drive a tank. Drive the backwards on the sidewalk. People will yell, but consequences are minimal and easily escaped. It is a world where you can literally do anything you want without thinking twice. Plus, the dialogue is hilarious. i would love to interact with all the brilliant NPCs (non-playable characters). Oh, and you get to perform elaborate heists. With immense payouts. And, let me reiterate, ZERO CONSEQUENCES.  The statue of limitations in this world is about one minute.

If one of the main characters took my place in this world, he would be in prison in under a day. In the real world, laws are laws, rules are rules, and murders aren't forgotten because you had your car repainted. Unused to laws being enforced, the character would commit some heinous crime (or crimes) and immediately be slapped with 25 to life. His new existence would be brief and unhappy. No re-spawns and semi-respectable law enforcement = the end for a criminal from a world with no limits.