I think this is the most perfect time to do the :zizek-preference: "PURE SCHNIFF IDEALISM" bit as it seems like that the closer you get to becoming a high prophet of Capitalism, the further you detach yourself from the material world into the ephemeral world of idealism
Simulation theory is creationism for tech bros.
Calling people "NPCs" is a cop-out to not have to engage with why the opposition might be believing the things they believe. It's intellectual laziness at best, "narcissism but as an ideology" at worst.
You can’t even call it theory because theory involves hard evidence at a scientific level to support something to be called theory. But the worst part is that this is just an orientalist understanding of “Hindu” and Buddhist concepts.
Complete with christian hell in the form of rocko's basilisk
To be honest even if I somehow had some form of schizophrenic episode where I genuinely believed I was the only person or handful of people who were 'real' and everyone else was some sort of simulated NPC I'd still treat people decently because I'm not a fucking monster.
I'm seeing this NPC shit pop up so much. First with zoomers on Tiktok
This has to be due to alienation right? No way countries like Colombia, Cuba, DPRK have this same NPC shit going on
It's been a popular term among the fascist :heated-gamer-moment: crowd for at least a decade.
:stupidpol: "hm i wonder if there's some reason, or perhaps a number of overlapping reasons why the internal complexity of people can seem more or less obvious to me, reasons which might have as much to do with how i relate to others as with their actual personalities? no, i think it's far more likely that there are two types, real people and fake people, and luckily i'm a real person, since i get my opinions from an anime imageboard."
Anyone who unironically calls other people "NPC" is a narcissist
If you don't think there's at least a tiny chance you're an NPC
wtf how does someone write this outside of a disassociative episode?
Everyone knows they're not an NPC because they experience shit, I think therefore I am.
I get how someone with no human connection might question whether other people actually have souls, but yourself?
Did Musk secretly replace his brain with a chatbot?
nah im the player character, everyone else sucks, yes, how did you know that im a completely deranged narcissist?
Simulation theory is a favorite among people who consider themselves intellectual giants
It works great with effective altruism as well. As nothing is real, but also it’s fine to be a dick because you are going to leave the Matrix. As doing bad to fake people is Fine.
Thank you, I think that makes sense. I have a really hard time understanding the way he seems to view the world.
actually my cat is the only thing in the universe that actually exists, we all exist only as her awareness needs us. I exist at this instant so the rest of you exist at this instant. As soon as she falls asleep we all stop existing.
Thank you cat for letting me exist, I'll make the most of it
Am I at least a cool NPC with a quest and that can become a follower? Or one of the lame ones with a single, repeating line of dialogue and the camera doesn't even bother to zoom in on me?
I’m actually a quest giver.
I give people the quest of logging the fuck off for a later reward (not being so online)
