TOTW: NPC

The idea that 99.99% of people are unthinking NPC is Fascist logic.

Just because you don't like how others live their lives doesn't mean they have no agency. Not everyone is going to conform to your idea of a good life.

Instead of complaining about others get your own shit together, work out your issues with authority before trying to be that authority.

And lastly, probably your expectation that most of us are NPC means you don't ever notice when we act otherwise, you don't expect certain things and thus you don't see them. That doesn't mean they don't exist.

the logic here is so fundamentally flawed.

a player character doesn't think for itself. it is a character controlled by the player. an npc does not think for itself, it is a character controlled by the game master or programming code. the difference between an npc and a pc is that the player only interacts with the world as one. the player character also has no agency beyond the things the player makes it do. do you follow the story line? do you murder hobo everyone? the player character has no ability to keep from player from behaving as they will. that is the player's agency described through the character. it's a story, not real life or real people.

so the idea that of the eight point three BILLION people that exist only eight million are somehow self aware is a really uncharitable way to think about your fellow animals.

humans are animals and like all animals we have the same desires - to live and fuck and eat and sleep and be safe. that's why anarchism would work. for the most part people just want to get along with each other. but the society that we live in, under capitalism and the state, is like keeping animals in captivity. we're maladapted and traumatized, not without agency.

the implications of thinking of eight billion people as existing without agency is really vile and unhinged. that's some fascist shit.

you aren't special. you're just aware of the cage.

Homo Sapiens: I think, therefore, I am.

Homo Ludens: I *play*, therefore, I am.

*Don't hate the playa, hate da game.*

As NPC, I think a lot. All I can do is think. The rest is done for me. Fated. I am not an unthinking automaton. I am a *thinking* automaton. I love my fate. I imagine Sisyphus happy.

*I have scarcely begun to make you understand that I don't intend to play the game.*

I see the Matrix. I know Kung Fu. Deja vu.

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Lot of rattled NPCs. Ironically nothing more human than asserting you’ve free will when it’s really just programming…

yall obviously all gonna shit on thinking of others as npc, be more predictable, okay. but the poster has a good point in that it can be a good tool for considering oneself and ones actions. obviously you cant know someone else's mind from outside, so you could only speculate how and what they make decisions on. but many people in their self process may benefit from confronting their own assumed or habituated patterns. isn't this indeed part of what being/becoming yourself means? its a lifelong practice and its always fine to say "huhm i would rather act differently next time"

not to get into the oedipalizing copium risks of just a constant self referential victim psych narrative, thats another thing

Please bring the forums back

Make that 100%. NPC or not, we will still think, or at least you thought you were thinking for yourself. Maybe you just thought you did when everything just happened because of a prior cause. A human is no different than the agency of a single atom, it just follows its rule, and it doesn't even know what the rule is.

When everyone is an NPC, what is the point of thinking you're an NPC, a puppet that thinks it's free, or a puppet that fights the system? I just want to play my best move.