It’s amazing what disturbs the Left. Even more here.
Several months ago, users on 4chan and Reddit, the online message forums, started using the term NPC to refer to liberals. These people, they said, join the anti-Trump crowd not because they are led by independent thought or conscience to oppose President Trump’s policies, but because they’re brainwashed sheep who have been conditioned to parrot left-wing orthodoxy, in the manner of a scripted character.
Yes, and? Watch just a few #WalkAway videos and this belief will be confirmed in a resounding fashion.
They are angry because non player character is an accurate description. If it was not accurate, if it did not cut to the bone, they would not care.
mostly because conservatives have a sense of humor…and they don’t
That actually is very true. That may be a big source of the problem on the left.
Aren’t most on anti-psychotics?
The leftist anti-Trump meme is that Trump supporters are all … low-tech, low-IQ, humorless, luddites, clutching bibles and guns. Busting that meme by out-snarking the dull-witted leftist automatons… cannot be tolerated. So Twitter calls back all their executives from the Bath houses of San Francisco, causing them to open up their poop-apps to navigate their way back through the homeless encampments on their way to Twitter HQ … all to shut-down the devastating mockery. How inconvenient…
For some reason I am reminded of the words of Curtis McManus in his book “Clio’s Bastards”. His comment was on the last page of his book.
“We come to our world expecting to see light and so we see light. But it is not light at all. It is, rather, twilight. If we look closer, we see that the shadows have already begun growing longer.
And there, off in the distance, we dimly apprehend a darkness, gathering, and it is coming our way.”
Curtis R. McManus, Clio’s Bastards
The NPC meme actually started based on a study that found that a certain percentage of the population has no inner voice and essentially rarely thinks. The speculation is that these “NPC”s are probably leftists and it’s hard to disagree with that really. If you have no inner voice and don’t think the easiest thing in the world is to regurgitate leftist talking points because it’s everywhere.
They have an inner voice, but they ignore it or silence it.
Its not until they have that moment of awareness, where one realizes that the left, despite all its noise, faux promises and endless “know it all” memes, realizes that the left is full of shit, and starts an honest inventory of the world around them. Thats if one ever acheives that moment.
It all falls back to that phrase attributed to Churchill, ” If you’re a conservative at 20, you have no heart, if you are a socialist at 40, you have no brain”
How about that.
Canada has an NPC for PM.
Like
Angry, frothing at the mouth progressives all shouting anti trump propaganda and nodding furiously.
This is CNN.
No, NPCNN…………………..ha!
precisely SDA, they are trolls by definition. but, BUT *so what* ???? THAT is cause to be BANNED?
therein is the deadly serious issue, banning a political view by taking offense at a humorous depiction.
and thus PROVE the comedians to be correct.
the debate starts at that point.
Watch the opening scenes of The Matrix again and you will see what the puppet master of the Left are so scared of. They are scared beyond belief that more & more of their dependable sheeple will have a Red Pill moment and wake up. Once such an individual does, they might not vote Republican but they’ll never, ever vote Democrat again, having been lied to all of their life.
I take offence to calling the left NPCs. My reason is as follows; as someone who has been role-play (D&D mostly but other RPGs as well) since the early 80’s I have never had an NPC as empty headed as follower on the left. In fact some of the NPCs I’ve run have been more lifelike and realistic compared to the Player Characters or the left-wing nut jobs out there in the real world. 😉
The most iconic imagery of our modern world is the original Apple commercial of a vibrantly-colored image of a strong woman smashing the dismal-gray world of big brother and automaton humans …
The commercial opens with a dystopic, industrial setting in blue and grayish tones, showing a line of people (of ambiguous gender) marching in unison through a long tunnel monitored by a string of telescreens. This is in sharp contrast to the full-color shots of the nameless runner (Anya Major). She looks like a competitive track and field athlete, wearing an athletic “uniform” (red athletic shorts, running shoes, a white tank top with a cubist picture of Apple’s Macintosh computer, a white sweat band on her left wrist, and a red one on her right), and is carrying a large brass-headed hammer. Rows of marching minions evoke the opening scenes of Metropolis.
Big Brother (David Graham) speaking to his audience
As she is chased by four police officers (presumably agents of the Thought Police) wearing black uniforms, protected by riot gear, helmets with visors covering their faces, and armed with large night sticks, she races towards a large screen with the image of a Big Brother-like figure (David Graham, also seen on the telescreens earlier) giving a speech:
Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology—where each worker may bloom, secure from the pests purveying contradictory truths. Our Unification of Thoughts is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death, and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
The runner, now close to the screen, hurls the hammer towards it, right at the moment Big Brother announces, “we shall prevail!” In a flurry of light and smoke, the screen is destroyed, shocking the people watching the screen
Trump voters didn’t NEED Ridley Scott to film our hammer throw on 11-8-2016. Although the narrative and imagery of Trump’s election was/is IDENTICAL to his seminal work. And in the latest twist of irony … it is Apple, Twitter, Fackebook and other Big Brothers of Tech … who have transformed from “rebellious individual” to a bleak, dystopian Big Brother.
Yes little sister has become big brother.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtvjbmoDx-I
I personally think this should be nominateed the advertisement of all time. Remember it appeared on Superbowel and everyone thought WTF?
Agreed. At that snapshot in time … APPLE had about 1.5% of the PC market. They WERE the “rebels”. Now they’re the “establishment” whose singular Mission Statement is retention of power (via government control).
I meant THEIR control of our government to obtain favorable tax exemptions. Apple thrives on Democrap politicians doing their bidding. Trump is immune to their offers of $$$$
Robert W’s and Kenji’s comment help to clear some of the muddy water from my eyes, but I am still not totally getting it. Must be my age or age related lack of comprehension. What is NPC and what does it mean for me and us here?
It is a description of leftoids and libtards who can only respond to the real world with stock phrases with no actual thought behind them. (According to Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh)
Ken, NPCs are the non-human characters of a Dungeons and Dragons (originally) or other role playing gaming story. They are the non-playing imaginary characters our avatars interact with in the game that dungeon masters (originally) or game-masters (sort of a referee today) direct to help flesh out the gaming experience.
They are the perfect characterization of the radical left mob member – fake, soulless, mindless automaton following a program determined by either a game-master or arbiter. That is why the uniformly same face is used superimposed on their real faces, or ours in mockery on Twitter. And when you think of a “games master” on the left, who do you suppose comes to mind?
That’s the origin of the term, but it’s the wrong context.
Adventure video games borrowed the term from tabletop adventure games along with a bunch of other tropes. In a video game, there’s limited programming resources dedicated to social interaction with people you encounter; often limited to a short list of phrases that the NPC repeats in random order when you try to interact with them. The result is that if you stand in front of a video game NPC and keep trying to interact with them, they’ll cycle through the list pretty quickly and start repeating themselves, often nonsensically. Worse, many game use the same list for all NPCs, or all NPC of a similar type, leading to the rather surreal experience of completely different people in different places – often vastly different continents – repeating the same stock phrases as each other.
It’s this behaviour that the NPC Meme is referencing: leftist drones that don’t think for themselves and cannot respond to a thoughtful challenge to their beliefs respond by repeating the same nonsensical talking points in random order, like a video game NPC or poorly programmed chatbot intended to give the semblance of real conversation.
No , I believe I have the right context, you have, however, helpfully expanded on it. Thank you.
Oh, and another interesting bit of coincidence – the letters in “NPC” are one letter removed from the letters “MOB”. In fact, “mobs” are what players often call the non-playing, non-human NPCs found in a role playing gaming world.
Isn’t that so Ironic? Just FASCINATING (seriously)
MOB+1=NPC. That’s good math!
Which NPC pic was UnMe?
This is the perfect representation of UnMe: https://tenor.com/view/brain-gif-9793003
Though likely with a Hammer & Sickle tattoo!
“These people, they said, join the anti-Trump crowd not because they are led by independent thought or conscience to oppose President Trump’s policies, but because they’re brainwashed sheep who have been conditioned to parrot left-wing orthodoxy, in the manner of a scripted character.”
Both true and a case of the pot calling the kettle black.
OMG you used “black” in a derogatory context, you RACIST!!!
In which province do you live in your mother’s basement?! I want to report you to the Human Rights Commission there for using triggering speech.
I used to be a troll like you. And then I took an arrow to the knee.
Thanks to all for the explanation of NPC.
“…have spent the past several years mocking anti-Trump people as whiny, easily triggered snowflakes …”
… and this triggered the snowflakes so now they are whining about it.