Social Justice Warriors Now Outraged Over the “NPC” Meme
16th October 2018
Ace of Spades is in tune with the zeitgeist.
NPCs have no agency; NPCs don’t think for themselves; NPCs don’t perceive, process, or understand; NPCs arrive at the same worldview not because it’s authentic to their experiences, but automatically. As a descriptor, it suggests that those to whom it applies aren’t even human, but are rather, functionally, robots, or clusters of computer code. That this has resonated as widely as it has is funny, but also a little scary.
I was unfamiliar with this term but I welcome it as another tool in the ongoing endeavor to capture the unique combination of simple-mindedness and inflexibility of the modern proglodyte.