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Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by orphereus »

phoghed wrote: post #60
savolai wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not sure at all you actually read the piece. Your responses about having a job or inconvenience or expectation seem entirely unrelated. The text does not, for instance, encourage not having a job. It also does not encourage being nothing at all. Being nothing special is quite different. Recommended movie: perfect days https://youtu.be/wqUT9hQd1XM?is=v1x85FdKOK_zfu60

> Not sure at all you actually read the piece. On my HN!? Surprised pikachu

Don't be patronising. I am pretty sure he has read the article because I agree with him, and I have read the article as well.

Surprised pikachu :OOOO

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by fundad »

Swizec wrote: post #19

That’s the best part! We’re all NPCs in other people’s stories _and_ the main character in ours. You can do and be absolutely anything or anyone you want. Just gotta bear the consequences and that’s it. Wanna live a homely life surrounded by loved ones? Go do it! Nobody is stopping you. Wanna galivant around the world having adventures with no roots? You can! And when you meet a local npc bartender on your adventures…

Yes, while I was reading piece I thought "This is parenting"

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by phoghed »

ayanmali wrote: post #55

In The Republic, Plato tells a story of a man who briefly died, visited the afterlife, and came back to life. According to the man, people would be reborn after dying, but they got to choose what they would be reincarnated as. Some people chose to be rich kings, some chose to be fierce animals. Odysseus, a legendary king known for his wisdom, chose to be reborn as an ordinary man.

Sounds like something you’d write as propaganda lol

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by TacticalCoder »

We are all someone else's NPC. Even the worldwide famous movie stars. Even the billionaires.

My 11 y/o daughter loves the concept: there's this guy, he always walk his dog at the same hours. We always see him in the neighborhood: same route, same hours, same dog (obviously). And we just call him "the NPC". And seeing the NPC is something for us: if one of us sees it, we mention it to the others. But we always keep in mind that every single one of us are someone else's NPC.

Just to be clear: we're not making fun of the NPC. And we're totally okay with others calling us NPCs.

> be an npc. drive a boring car—who gives a fuck?

Or, you know, don't give a fuck and drive the car you want to drive: a boring car, or an old wreck (which can be either boring or not), a 2CV [1] (a friend drives one --and the same one-- daily since... 35 years), a Toyota Corolla, a Porsche 911... Whatever the heck you feel like owning. For you, not for what the others think.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citro%C3%ABn_2CV

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by hungryhobbit »

ayanmali wrote: post #55

In The Republic, Plato tells a story of a man who briefly died, visited the afterlife, and came back to life. According to the man, people would be reborn after dying, but they got to choose what they would be reincarnated as. Some people chose to be rich kings, some chose to be fierce animals. Odysseus, a legendary king known for his wisdom, chose to be reborn as an ordinary man.

>Odysseus, a legendary king known for his wisdom

I know our society is ignorant of the classics, but given recent cinema, I'm not sure you need to explain who Odysseus is ;)

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by lotsofpulp »

robomc wrote: post #62
bluGill wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, and there is very good reason you need to care about a lot of things. That Dragon will burn your village and kill you. You better be concerned about that - you will die. Your life isn't scripted. If have the option to not ignore the dragon. You can work with your town to setup a watch and places to flee to when the dragon is coming (even if only 50% make it that is an improvement). You can as a town fund adven…

This sort of a anxious hyper-vigilance is exactly the sort of main character bs you should let go of though. Spend some time with your kids or whatever. You actually can't plan and prepare for a hypothetical war with russia.

Not even with a weekly boardgame night of Axis and Allies, or at least Risk?

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by kulahan »

savolai wrote: post #36
oilkillsbirds wrote: post #27

This is pure escapism. Numbing yourself to the burden of being. Likely from a stress tolerance so shallow and under-developed that the slightest inconvenience or expectation feels like a crisis. The truth is that after the brief initial relief of excusing yourself from being anything at all, you'll end up in a deep depression. It's a naive and immature fantasy. Remove all electronics from your life, they are a consta…

Not sure at all you actually read the piece. Your responses about having a job or inconvenience or expectation seem entirely unrelated. The text does not, for instance, encourage not having a job. It also does not encourage being nothing at all. Being nothing special is quite different. Recommended movie: perfect days https://youtu.be/wqUT9hQd1XM?is=v1x85FdKOK_zfu60

> do nothing after work. why do you have to do something after work? do something because you feel like doing it, not because you feel like you have to.

Escapism. You SHOULD feel like you have to do some stuff. Our bodies are always aiming to relax, because conserving calories is an extremely effective survival method. We are hardwired to do nothing, in order to escape the burden of instead doing something.

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by TacticalCoder »

Swizec wrote: post #19

That’s the best part! We’re all NPCs in other people’s stories _and_ the main character in ours. You can do and be absolutely anything or anyone you want. Just gotta bear the consequences and that’s it. Wanna live a homely life surrounded by loved ones? Go do it! Nobody is stopping you. Wanna galivant around the world having adventures with no roots? You can! And when you meet a local npc bartender on your adventures…

Commented elsewhere in the thread before reading the comment (a terrible habit of mine) and I fully agree. The way I explained it to my daughter is this:

"We're all someone else's NPC".

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