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Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by Sohcahtoa82 »

marssaxman wrote: post #93
kulahan wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

Your body is, maybe, but we're not all the same. Making my body sit still and do nothing requires sustained, focused attention; action is the comfort state, and idleness the burden.

Meanwhile, my idleness is so ingrained that sometimes I can't even make myself do the things I WANT to do, like load up a game that I've been wanting to play.

And I'm just tired...all the time. I do nothing and still I'm exhausted.

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by jonaustin »

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 all of us live for The Hustle...

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by AgentOrange1234 »

crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #18

Live an NPC life, die by the ecocide/genocides of NPC life. One day, NPCs will wake up and give a fuck about other people and the environments that allow for the NPC life to begin with. Until then, they're just here to keep feeding the oppression machines.

"One day, NPCs will wake up and give a fuck about other people and the environments that allow for the NPC life to begin with."

Optimistic take. The PCs are very good at convincing the NPCs that nothing they do can matter. Keep 'em poor, keep 'em sick, keep 'em stupid, control the women and all that.

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by chaostheory »

ikesau wrote: post #2

To make the most facile counterpoint - the reason the Skyrim blacksmith doesn't care if the main character slays dragons is because they weren't programmed to. There aren't consequences either way. To the extent that this post is meant to be inspiring, it only works if you're an NPC in a static world that has no real consequences - where you actually can live your life in a static loop because nothing will change. Wh…

That and the author hasn’t played Dwarf Fortress

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by chr15m »

"I do what is mine to do; the rest doesn't disturb me."

"No matter what anyone says or does, my task is to be good."

"It is not the [hu]man who has too little, but the [hu]man who craves more, that is poor."

"If you would be a good reader, read; if a writer, write."

"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by qgin »

Maybe another angle would be:

Not living your life through the lens of third-party audience. I think lots of people (including myself) sometimes view their life not through their own eyes, but through the imagined gaze of some third-party audience. Maybe it's not about being the main character or NPC, but just realizing that there is no movie, no audience. There's just you and the people you interact with.

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Post by cindyllm »

Henchman21 wrote: post #159
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…

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

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Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by crawfordcomeaux »

AgentOrange1234 wrote: post #173
crawfordcomeaux wrote: post #18

Live an NPC life, die by the ecocide/genocides of NPC life. One day, NPCs will wake up and give a fuck about other people and the environments that allow for the NPC life to begin with. Until then, they're just here to keep feeding the oppression machines.

"One day, NPCs will wake up and give a fuck about other people and the environments that allow for the NPC life to begin with." Optimistic take. The PCs are very good at convincing the NPCs that nothing they do can matter. Keep 'em poor, keep 'em sick, keep 'em stupid, control the women and all that.

Surely we can find a gang of plucky PCs to outwit the ones convincing the NPCs?

Wtf have we been playing TTRPGs for if not to prepare for exactly this?

Re: I wanna live an NPC life

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Post by computably »

kulahan wrote: post #115
BeetleB wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Escapism. You SHOULD feel like you have to do some stuff. This word keeps coming up, coupled with things unrelated. The OP isn't saying "do nothing". He's saying "do what you want to do". If he wants to study mathematics, that's neither escapism nor "doing nothing".

The extreme majority of people don’t have some secret massive project they want to do and are weirdly choosing not to. There’s only one way to interpret this.

> There’s only one way to interpret this.

In any context, this is about as trivially false as any non-tautological statement can be.

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