It's so obnoxiously narcissistic. "Oh, I am so above the unwashed normal people. I am not stupid, like a commoner. I'm the special superior chosen one. The main character. Me me me!"

No you aren't, nerd. You're an egotistical asshole.

  • Comp4 [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    While NPC is definitely a bit yikes. Normie might just refer to average every day people (you know people who just want to grill or exist somewhere between liberal/centrist/conservatism). Normies are functioning members of society who might get their news from msnbc or foxnews but are very often much happier and healthier than the person that uses the word normie. If you unironically use the word normie you are to be pitied because its very likely that your existence is a sad one.

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Normie = emotionally well-adjusted person who has found success in life and is generally content about their identity and lot in life

      and they make me sick :bern-disgust:

      • nohaybanda [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        The phrase "Well adjusted to injustice" comes to mind.

        Also, why don't we have any Cornel West emotes?

    • fifthedition [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      You can substitute "muggle" and it's pretty much the same word. People who aren't aware of what's going on and don't care.

  • panopticon [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    People show their whole ass when they use NPC like that imo. It's like "alpha" in that regard.

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    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      So much of it feels like the "are we living in a simulation?" navel gazing pontification terminally online nerds routinely fall into.

      Just the folks at the bottom of Plato's cave, coming to blows over what the shadows on the wall mean.

        • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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          2 years ago

          Is this a "You criticize people on the computer and yet you are on the computer..." :very-intelligent: thing?

            • anaesidemus [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              It's an allegory about the nature of being a philosopher and trying to see how the world truly is.

              Your paradox is good though, a lot of philosophy deals with the uselessness of philosophy.

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                  I know what the allegory of the cave is, you don’t even need to go to Phil 101 to be familiar.

                  just making sure, no offense intended. I'd argue that Phil 101 is the best place for it actually.

            • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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              2 years ago

              you accuse people of having bizarre and extravagant fancies

              I hardly have to accuse anyone. These are both well established.

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I didn't make the rules, so it's not for me to decide

      NPC talk tbh :chad:

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  • amber2 [she/her,they/them]
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    2 years ago

    Calling people "normies" made sense when the internet was small, but now it basically just means "democrats"

  • MiraculousMM [he/him, any]M
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    2 years ago

    I take "normie" to mean "person who isn't terminally online". Being a normie is a good thing

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I often use 'normie' as a stand-in for either 'neurotypical' or 'person who doesn't follow politics obsessively,' both of which I think are accurate and both of which distinguish them from me. I've always thought NPC was a weird thing to call people; it seems like people who use it are telling on themselves.

    • crime [she/her, any]
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      2 years ago

      usually normie == neurotypical for me too, sometimes it means cishet

  • bigtimecringe [any]
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    2 years ago

    the sooner normies realize that they are bottomless, nihilist receptacles of consumption and not the main character of a movie the better off we will all be. its too bad that between the margins neoliberalism does not provide any experience that suggests u could be anything BUT the main character

  • StellarTabi [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    The NPC meme is basically "If everyone around you is an asshole, then you're probably actually the asshole." but told from the perspective of an asshole.

  • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I think they both have a value in discussion. Normie indicates you place in society society in a way we don't have tradional roles for.

    NPC for example is when you want everyone to know you are insufferable

  • PZK [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    NPC is a fucking cringe :gamer-gulag: term because they don't know how to relate to people in real life so they use a term they are familiar with.

    It's on the same level of saying they are going to get a sandwich to restore their "healthpoints".

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Even the idea of "grindsets" I presume come from :freeze-gamer: ideas of grinding.