Real-life NPCs are causing havoc. Avatars have become increasingly lifelike in recent years, with the likes of EA spinning your face through software and plonking it on a FIFA Pro-clubs character next to Messi and Ronaldo.
In a bid to catch a young man who was part of a hit-and-run assault in the United Kingdom, the police have released a digital sketch of the assailant on social media. Instead of the public coming to their aid, they've been ridiculing the Grand Theft Auto-like mugshot.
The Avon and Somerset constabulary in the UK opened up its hunt to the public by quizzing, "Can you help us find the man in this E-fit?" He's accused of punching another man multiple times in the face, leading to medical care for a swollen jaw and a nosebleed.
However, the attached image was a pixellated mugshot, rather than a CCTV clip, and it's being blasted as something from an old-school GTA game or a Nintendo Mii character. "Have you looked for him in GTA 3," joked one member of the public on Twitter.
The extremely low-quality picture was compared to something out of the 2001 Liberty City setting, as you could imagine the pixellated flat-top character walking down an alley murmuring, "Ah s**t, here we go again."
Other people compared the mugshot to the animated Officer Lister from Monster House and even Will Smith's look in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
"He is described as black, of slim build, thought to be in his late-20s to early 30s, with short, black hair which is shaved at the sides," wrote the Avon and Somerset police, and he was also "wearing a white coat with grey tracksuit bottoms."
