It's a Game, and You are the NPC (Non-Player Character) - this thread originally started by David-pies in Feb of 2023

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https://twitter.com/TeiT3nga/status/1629380447607336960?cxt=HHwWgMDR-cu43JwtAAAA

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The topic of NPCs should be an important one. Why? I have thought for some time that that the notion of the NPC is indispensable to any understanding of the majority of the behavior, certainly the majority of behavior we have witnessed both during and after “our most recent unpleasantness” (2020-2022).

A nice summary from Google:

“An NPC (Non-Player Character) is any character in a video game or tabletop game not controlled by a player, typically governed by computer AI or a gamemaster. They populate game worlds (I would change this to “Game Environments” for the reasons below), providing quests, dialogue, and interaction, often following pre-programmed behaviors. The term has also evolved into an internet meme describing people who lack independent thought.”

In several places in his writing Walker Percy makes the distinction between living in an “Environment” and living in a “World”. The crucial difference between where one experiences one’s existence (possibly an argument for a dimensionality of some kind might be had with this distinction) has to do with whether one is a “sign-user” ( in other places in his writing he refers to human beings as “symbol-mongers”[Homo symbolificus] ). For Percy what makes human beings unique is their capacity to create, use, influence, and be influenced by symbols, language, and signs (in the C.S. Peirce sense of Sign). To oversimplify … for Percy those who are “symbol-mongers” and are able to use and manipulate Signs experience their existence in a “World” those who are unable, for various and sundry reasons to use and manipulate Signs, inhabit an “Environment”. Admittedly an oversimplification but this is to say that those who live in “Environments” experience their existence in S-R (stimulus-response) systems.

That the video game “environment” runs on dyadic logic it is by definition an S-R environment.
Might, at the end of the day, “Virtual Environments” (this is not to single out video games, there are much larger non-game bound “Virtual Environments”) serve only to condition the “players” and by doing so lure human beings out of their “Worlds” and to unknowingly live out the experience of their existence as NPCs? David’s headline should be of concern to all of us.

Hopefully, this will generate a little thought on the subject. Much, much more can be said in the context of the consideration of NPCs.

Apologies David. I meant to reply to your thread much earlier. This topic needs much more consideration that it gets.

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#3

I had quite forgotten…there are so many of them now- and perhaps there always were…

#4

I remember reading Gurdjieff in my teens and being a bit disturbed at his assertion that one doesn’t necessarily ‘have’ a soul but can, with diligent effort, acquire one… It worried me because I believed myself lazy, and still do… Time being our only currency, it’s hard to know how to spend it… I imagine so called ‘NPC’s’ are, to be charitable,- Newbies to life here on the farm…

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#5

Now that I am retired and out of the “game” I spend most of time doing nothing. It’s hard work.

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#6

… even though “retired” one should still Prepare Accordingly!

#7

I’m slowly stocking up on toilet paper now. One extra package each grocery shopping trip so as not to alarm or scare anyone. It was the currency last time.

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#8

Probably not a bad idea. We are VERY close to an EBS/EAS and some kind of “scare” that gets everyone inside so they can finally round up these BLEEPS that have been preying on us.

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… Instead of toilet paper I was thinking more in terms of 100 rounds every other day or so.

#10

… even if you “round them up” you will still need to “dispose of them properly” … why not just skip a step and be done with it.

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I have a few boxes. Hope I don’t have an encounter requiring that many.

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#12

… you probably wil need much, much morel. They were no where near telling us the real number of criminal illegal Lebensunwertes Leben currently in the USSA. Remember this “immigration” has been occurring for well over 40 years. The real number is well above double the fought over, oft cited number of 30 million. The real number is much closer to 75 million. They finally told Trump and Homan the real number. THAT is why they gave up on the mass deportations.

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There’s a gun range a few blocks from my house that is kept pretty busy. Hope it’s the good guys practicing.

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