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Re: I wanna live an NPC life

#152
post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the gist of the post is "do something because you feel like doing it, not because you feel like you have to." and "the goal is to just do your own thing.". So basically, a main character life, the life of a player. A player can even choose not to play the game, and it isn't their whole world. The reason this post is incendiary is due to their overwrought metaphor which ultimately works quite poorly, if at all. Plus…

while it's not how i would have written it, i am struggling to understand many of the interpretations being posted in the comments. it's like people skipped over all the lines that say (or imply) "just do your own thing", and got immediately hung up by the use of "npc". > Plus, it reads like a 15 year old's diary entry. okay?

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Re: I wanna live an NPC life

#153
"Let us cultivate our own garden." - Candide

The key is consciously making that choice. What people don't want is to be forced into a way of living by others. People can accept what they have a hand in discovering and choosing.

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

#154
post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the gist of the post is "do something because you feel like doing it, not because you feel like you have to." and "the goal is to just do your own thing.". So basically, a main character life, the life of a player. A player can even choose not to play the game, and it isn't their whole world. The reason this post is incendiary is due to their overwrought metaphor which ultimately works quite poorly, if at all. Plus…

while it's not how i would have written it, i am struggling to understand many of the interpretations being posted in the comments. it's like people skipped over all the lines that say (or imply) "just do your own thing", and got immediately hung up by the use of "npc". > Plus, it reads like a 15 year old's diary entry. okay?

I'm just trying to explain why people are posting what they are posting. E.g. "likely from a stress tolerance so shallow and under-developed that the slightest inconvenience or expectation feels like a crisis" stems partly from the immature writing style.

But given that you are posting passive-aggressive "okay?"s to my explanation while purporting that you don't understand the comments while alluding to the notion that you do understand exactly why...makes me think you are just a troll, or worse.

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

#155

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…

It also ignores the real stresses imposed by society on ordinary people. The point of an NPC is stasis. The walking signpost gives you the same information, or the weapon shop sells you the same broad sword, whether you take 3 hours or 203 hours to get to that point in the game. The NPC has no inner life; it’s code that only exists when it is doing a job.

In the real world, stasis gets you killed. Someone is paid hundreds of thousands of dollars (maybe millions) to find out if you can be made to pay more in rent, accept higher air fares or hotel fees, work longer hours, or accept lower wages. You can’t choose not to be part of the war. You either fight and accept intolerable stress, or you don’t fight and you still accept intolerable stress.

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

#157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The people reading this thread are not in your orbit. Yet you seem invested in convincing them of something. To care about the world and the people in it is human. To numb yourself to that is self-deception, and to advocate for that is harmful.

> Yet you seem invested in convincing them of something Justify that

I'll admit I'm assuming that you are writing with the intent for your words to be read, understood, and integrated in some capacity into other minds. That is, you are engaging in communication. The contents of your communication are an argument, advice to think about and participate in the world in a certain way. Perhaps this was a total accident, though, and you didn't mean to convince anyone of anything, and were merely pressing keys at random, in which case I apologize for reading intent into your actions.

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

#158
post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

while it's not how i would have written it, i am struggling to understand many of the interpretations being posted in the comments. it's like people skipped over all the lines that say (or imply) "just do your own thing", and got immediately hung up by the use of "npc". > Plus, it reads like a 15 year old's diary entry. okay?

I'm just trying to explain why people are posting what they are posting. E.g. "likely from a stress tolerance so shallow and under-developed that the slightest inconvenience or expectation feels like a crisis" stems partly from the immature writing style. But given that you are posting passive-aggressive "okay?"s to my explanation while purporting that you don't understand the comments while alluding to the notion th…

>makes me think you are just a troll, or worse.

not trolling, just found it to be an odd thing to add on. none of the other comments that i read at the time of my comment, except yours, brought up the age of the author.

i typically try to avoid using age as an insult. i find it rude. you don't, apparently.

(out of curiosity, what is the "worse" thing you think i am?)

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

#159

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…

Bro, this ain’t LinkedIn you don’t have to signal your virtue as a worker so hard

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

#160

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…

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