>You are a programmer.
>You adore cute animals, especially fluffies, but you also suffer from heavy allergies.
>What do.
>Decide that if you can't have one IRL, you'll just have to simulate one.
>You begin coding a program that will render a fluffy pony in a virtual environment.
>It will be the perfect facsimile of a fluffy, down to its A.I.
>Spend weeks programming things like speech patterns, textures, and realistic fluff rendering
>After a great deal of work, fluffypony.exe is ready to be launched.
>Briefly consider the lucrative opportunities in selling this software to abusers so they can torture infinite virtual fluffies.
>Guess that wouldn't be too bad; after all, they're not real.
>Put the thought out of your mind for now. It's time to test this baby out!
>Initialize fluffypony.exe
>Virtual fluffy pony renders
>Stands there in front of a whole lot of blank space, looking confused.
>Environment renders
>Toys render.
>Virtual fluffy pony is now happily bouncing around the virtual safe room, playing with a virtual ball.
>All is going well.
>A minor bug in the coding causes a buffer overflow.
>Virtual fluffy pony drowns.