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Calling someone an "NPC" is a pretty weak insult. You look like a moron when you use it.
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StormCell
Member
My opinion on this is as such. If the person you are arguing with is using a bunch of templated or canned arguments that you see everywhere else, and they dismiss or debunk everything you present as counter-argument with more canned facts and so-called "mainstream news" as support then I think that just maybe I AM dealing with an NPC. If I can't get them to agree on even the most basic and simplistic common ground argument, then they deserve to be treated like an NPC.
How to not end up being an NPC? Show some original thought and rationale. I don't require you to agree with me, but I do require that you show me your thought process to arrive at your conclusions (ie. show your work).
How to not end up being an NPC? Show some original thought and rationale. I don't require you to agree with me, but I do require that you show me your thought process to arrive at your conclusions (ie. show your work).
MMaRsu
Member
I just call idiots idiots, not NPC's
How much of a tool do you have to be to call someone an NPC lmao
Such a good point
008
Banned
Same, where on the internets are you hanging out OP?
Starlight Lotice
Member
It's funny when people call NPCs are NPCs themselves for copying the exact same thing as everyone else.
Just call them whatever you want as an insult. I know North of the UK call them Wankers, clean and simple.
Just call them whatever you want as an insult. I know North of the UK call them Wankers, clean and simple.
V4skunk
Banned
lol you are 100% an npc.
You had a cold or flu.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
Do you believe the earth is flat?
DrAspirino
Banned
Specially when you work on retail. Heck, I assumed my NPC nature the moment I graduated from Pharmacy school and became a Pharmacist. Just like a f*cking NPC on a (j)RPG: not a single miligram of adventure.
ChanerRedone
Banned
When do you ever see a real debate on the internet though? NPC is just thrown around just like anything else. Then again so is chud and the like. I think people just use these insults to feel better about themselves
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ArtemisClydeFrog
Banned
Don't bring politics into off-topic
He'll believe whatever his orange daddy says. Fuckin NPCs man.
Peggies
Gold Member
Reality Czar
Banned
A male feminist doesn't like "NPC"? Shocking.
Ionian
Member
Conspiracy theory is banned and this dude isn't.
He's been aggressive for quite a while.
The Virus is real, end of story. There's no deflecting this it's a pandemic for a reason.
LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You
For all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than to Google it for themselves.
StormCell
Member
This isn't politics. Plus he makes for an example of what we're discussing, don't you think?Conspiracy theory is banned and this dude isn't.
He's been aggressive for quite a while.
The Virus is real, end of story. There's no deflecting this it's a pandemic for a reason.
LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You
For all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than to Google it for themselves.bfy.tw
Richard Packer
Member
I've been calling people LDB's for the past decade. I'm not giving that up.
manfestival
Member
I definitely prefer to call the people bots over calling them npcs. Just hits different. Ya feel me?
StormCell
Member
They're hard to come by and pretty rare to see, but I've participated in a few. For example, I find it nearly impossible to believe that an intelligent white person would wholesale agree with everything in CRT. I presented a number of documents and reports on CRT in the workplace and in the classroom to some of my left-leaning acquaintances who know me as more of a left-leaning libertarian as opposed to a right wing person. I did this because they were fully on board the Joe Biden express and would label anything sympathetic to Donald Trump as racist and fascist (in true NPC fashion). So, when approaching them on calling conservatives racists and whatnot, it was a long way down the rabbit hole to get to the bottom of why they so readily parrot such rhetoric about conservatives. I'm still not sure there is a bottom root or if the logic is just recursive somehow.
Anyway, I brought the CRT to them along with multiple stories, and naturally I expected their remarks to be along the lines of: "What's so bad about this if ultimately it reduces systemic racism?" "Any racism we will face as whites will pale in comparison to all the racism we've inflicted on these people for centuries..." etc. And so there it was, the types of comments I expected. Having spent some years as a teacher and a group discussion facilitator, though, I do have some experience at getting groups to converse where I want them to. The so-called basic common ground is where I wanted these guys. Each of them is fully convinced of systemic racism. Each had seen or heard with their own ears racism somewhere in some distant past having worked as executives somewhere or maybe it was just as managers. One is a school teacher in a poor urban area. All of them are so convinced of the magnitude of racism that they will go along with whatever plan is coming from the left. However, none of them believes in the wholesale destruction of our society to do it ( <-- common ground belief right there). They simply don't see the destination I see. They simply don't believe CRT is as racist as it is even when staring at the same lines of text. They think white fragility is all that stands in the way of reciting some apologies and doing some ground kissing to make it all better. Or something.
I do consider these guys to be NPCs, mind you. Just because I found an inch of common ground in our beliefs isn't proof that these guys are even people. No, they're not bots. They're just cheap algorithms that parrot democratic news and use circular logic to keep well-meaning people running in a circle to try and understand a POV that already doesn't make much sense to the common intelligent person. Still, it was an argument that for a brief few moments became real.
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Soodanim
Gold Member
This started off as the most thoughtful post in the thread, inspiring people to abandon their posts on the right and left in favour of meeting in the middle to discuss ideas and understand each other with the goal of moving forward as people who all share the end goal of wanting happiness for themselves and others. Then it ended by saying "Fuck that, too much effort for NPCs lol"
V4skunk
Banned
That's big coming from some one that thinks there are 70 genders and that c02 plant food is killing the planet.
And you wonder why people don't "follow the science" lol
You mad bro?Conspiracy theory is banned and this dude isn't.
He's been aggressive for quite a while.
The Virus is real, end of story. There's no deflecting this it's a pandemic for a reason.
LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You
For all those people who find it more convenient to bother you with their question rather than to Google it for themselves.
And not one of you can even explain how the vaccine works and what makes it unique.
You are 100% npc's.
Have fun with the the vaccine idiots. And if the tv programming told you to drink acid from a car battery to cure corona virus we all know what would happen.
Maiden Voyage
Gold™ Member
I don’t recall ever sharing my opinions on gender or global warming here. I think you’re talking to a straw man.
StormCell
Member
There's a story behind that. I'm still quite pissed at them over their agreeing with some key media people being ousted over contextual use of certain words. Basically, the "fuck you" was from them to me in the form of an assertion that there is never any excuse for a white person to say the N-word. Like, ever. Not even in explaining to your kid what word not to use. Never. And using it even once, if anybody ever knew you said it is reason enough for you to be fired, kicked out of your house, bank accounts closed, bounty hunters hired to search for you, etc. and you had it coming to you, etc.
So you see... NPCs, all of them. They started from a script. They ended with a script. Hopefully none of them are critical to important quests should they get a bloody war on their hands.
Soodanim
Gold Member
Fucking NPCs
There's a story behind that. I'm still quite pissed at them over their agreeing with some key media people being ousted over contextual use of certain words. Basically, the "fuck you" was from them to me in the form of an assertion that there is never any excuse for a white person to say the N-word. Like, ever. Not even in explaining to your kid what word not to use. Never. And using it even once, if anybody ever knew you said it is reason enough for you to be fired, kicked out of your house, bank accounts closed, bounty hunters hired to search for you, etc. and you had it coming to you, etc.
So you see... NPCs, all of them. They started from a script. They ended with a script. Hopefully none of them are critical to important quests should they get a bloody war on their hands.
ArtemisClydeFrog
Banned
Ionian
Member
Arrests amid major Garda presence as anti-lockdown events take place in Dublin
16 arrests had been made as of 3pm this afternoon, gardaí said.
www.thejournal.ie
Not one of those people are even old enough to get vaccinated yet.
Now those are NPCs.
Gotta love the last sign "True agenda, depopulation and Chinese takeover!".
Why not get the vaccine then? haha. The vaccine here isn't even Chinese.
EDIT: The comments at the end of the article are pretty funny, worth a read.
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Animagic
Banned
I’m not saying you’re an NPC... but what I am saying is that this sounds just like a thread an NPC would make, OP.
belmarduk
Member
What an embarrassing couple of posts.
Wow.
How do you even reply to shit like that? All you can do is shrug and laugh it off.
I'm embarrassed for antivaxxers. Also, I don't remember you ever saying there were 70 genders.
notseqi
Member
Well said.
Many are turning into chatbots, why not call them that.
he's a massive drive-by asshole and can and should be ignored
Soodanim
Gold Member
The thing about this NPC thing from the “Mainstream acceptance” perspective is that could easily apply the other way round. There are people who will blindly accept contrarian points of view, ignoring the irony of thinking what they’ve read is right. It doesn’t make them any less of an NPC, and we see the so often when the same old tired stock responses.
strange headache
Banned
God forbid you have a nuanced view on things that doesn't neatly fit on the political spectrum. Agree with the conservatives and you get lauded for your analysis, but as soon as you disagree with a right-leaning talking point, you get called an NPC, a fedora-wearing neckbeard, a marxist, a communist or a REEtard.
The right likes to complain a lot about the obtuse lingo of the far-left, but their buzzwords aren't any less dull-witted. They are gratuitously applied with plump pathos as a mere sign of allegiance to the in-group. It's all so tiresome and increasingly futile to get through the thick shielding. It's nothing more but exclusionary language to keep people who think otherwise out of the tree-house.
There's nothing smart about posting wojaks and other flavor of the month memes, all it does is facilitate the emergence of yet another echo chamber.
The right likes to complain a lot about the obtuse lingo of the far-left, but their buzzwords aren't any less dull-witted. They are gratuitously applied with plump pathos as a mere sign of allegiance to the in-group. It's all so tiresome and increasingly futile to get through the thick shielding. It's nothing more but exclusionary language to keep people who think otherwise out of the tree-house.
There's nothing smart about posting wojaks and other flavor of the month memes, all it does is facilitate the emergence of yet another echo chamber.
QuantumZebra
Member
Soodanim
Gold Member
Case in point: the Politics section. It’s full of people taking shots at whoever they don’t like, and a genuine exchange of ideas is uncommon. I’ve given up even going there, because it’s boring seeing the overly emotional reactions to things. No nuance, just reacting to headlines and a few scattered tweets from nobodies as they’re seen with no thought. That’s as NPC as anything else.
MMaRsu
Member
Why?
Whats your definition of an "NPC" if we are talking about a human being with feelings, emotions and just in general is a person just like you and me.
You might disagree with their opinions in all cases. Why would it make anyone an "NPC"?????????
I think its just dumbass buzzword to shut down discussions so you dont have to engage with people who have different opinions than you.
"OH YOU ARE REPUBLICAN/DEMOCRAT/ATHEIST/INSERT GENERALIZATION HERE SO YOU MUST BE AN NPC LOLOLOL"
Peggies
Gold Member
As usual I'm kind of late to such things, so I only learned of the insult "NPC" recently but find it quite funny and appropriate for a certain type.
There are people who tend to discuss a topic using stupidly bland statements like "We are talking about HUMAN BEINGS" trying to shut down a conversation.
You can call them "emotional vampires" as well but "NPC" is funnier.
There are people who tend to discuss a topic using stupidly bland statements like "We are talking about HUMAN BEINGS" trying to shut down a conversation.
You can call them "emotional vampires" as well but "NPC" is funnier.
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Ionian
Member
Oh it's hilarious as it makes no sense. Took off from 4Chan and then grown men nearly a decade later started using it as an insult.
Impossible not to laugh at. Actual adults using it (or being offended by it) is hilarious.
Every video game they play has NPCs, it was a troll meme picked up by the media when it was only a joke to start with.
NPC (meme) - Wikipedia
I'd compare it to this;
DonJorginho
Banned
Seems like this NPC got a little buggy
IntentionalPun
Ask me about my wife's perfect butthole
It's usually dripping with irony.
QuantumZebra
Member
You seem a lot more invested in this than me.
And if I do use it (which again, if you read my post, is pretty much never) is when someone is mindlessly parroting an opinion or statement direct from another source without any attempt at analysis or understanding.