Holy shit lads we did it. I didn't expect people to get so angry over dumb shit like this

>meme is born
>begins as a legitimate concern arising from P-zombie theories and an internal dialogue study
>It's entirely possible the majority of the population doesn't think on the same level as others
>Jow Forums coopts it to mean "anyone with political views I disagree with"
>/leftypol/ starts making memes to combat them, pointing out obvious flaws in their reasoning and NPC-esque groupthink
>Jow Forums begins screaming how the left can't meme and acts like they invented it
>Before you know it the meme is devoid of both humor and it's previous depth, now only serving to annoy those originally intrigued by it's premise
Huh... So this is how NPCs work to destroy a meme....

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I'm glad I'm not the only one pointing this out, it's literally just the same shit we've always done.
>but muh internal monologue
whatever, an excuse

Let's dispel with this fiction that Barack Obama doesnt know what hes doing. He knows exactly what he's doing, okay?

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Something like how video games are more culturally resonant than sheepherding, maybe. Practically, they are the same, but there's some reason people are disturbed by it.

>Implying the "sheeple" theory was ever proven wrong
>Implying it didn't just become a joke to make it easy for the sheeple to disregard
You're an idiot if you don't think there are people out there who exist solely to follow the herd with little independent thought.

>common sense is NPC tier
t. NPC trying to force a le epik troll meme

Of course I think a lot of people go with the flow and don't think for themselves. Up until NPCs became a meme no-one called them out

>Venezuela
>Gun violence in Chicago
>What about black on black crime?

Yeah, but you didn't address or refute any of those, and they're extremely relevant and topical issues? You may as well may fun of Newton by saying "lol what about that gravity though" It doesn't diminish the problem.

I agree
The problem is Jow Forums has to always make great memes political
politics are fucking gay

>the sample size was 30
and just like that, the credibility of a meme pic is thrown out the window
also aphantasia is extremely rare

It's le Jow Forums boogeyman maymay buzzword that scares everyone on the other side of reddit

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Checked. Also, if the sample size was inappropriate then the study wouldn't have been approved or published. The size of N changes depending on lots of factors.

I cant tell if your npc memeing or legitimately serious

>typical neo-stasi thinks that repeating a claim with a retarded voice refutes and dispels it

>if the sample size was inappropriate then the study wouldn't have been approved or published
anything can be publish or approved, including half of mein kampf

>Mein Kampf
>88

Nice.

I mean in peer-reviewed journals though.

>that pic
Is there a difference between closing one's eyes to visualize things vs not?

Honestly, closing my eyes KEEPS OUT the inner dialogue and mental images.

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Youre just confusing me even more now

I haven't seen anyone actually get mad at this. In fact I haven't seen this outside of Jow Forums at all. Isn't is a bit too soon to be shoveling out articles about this, or is this how it actually gets spread to places beyond this dump?

A few youtubers have been using the meme and it's on twitter now with parody accounts.

>youtube.com/watch?v=M0aienuCBdg&t=0s

yes, yes. PJW, cringe, yikes etc.

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When did this become about liberals? Both sides of the aisle are NPC as fuck.

>Breitbart copies content from Jow Forums
Really makes you think, sheeple

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>no inner speech
Sometimes I will "make arguments" to help sort out my thoughts in my head. And, when reading or writing, I "hear" it in my head.

>visually images
This one made me feel nervous. I spent many hours day dreaming and listening to music, but I struggle with conjuring images. If I had to do it right now, I would really have to try to escape the blackness of my closed eyes. Often when I daydream, I sometimes look at references in my head to make sure I "get" it right. Certain visual stimuli lowers the quality of my daydreams. If I watch the Simpsons or some very simple cartoon before daydreaming, I need to look at high quality art or do a couple of quick doodles to "undo" it and have better, more aesthetically pleasing daydreams.

.....Am I an NPC? Is this normal?

also the stuff about women being less likely distresses me because I'm a womanalthough it is sort of funny because I am halfway through watching Camelot and that lyrics, "Never be too disturbed if you don't understand what a woman is thinking/They don't do it often" seem apt.

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The imagery problem is more of a range, you should only be afraid if you can't or barely can visualize things in your mind.

imagine unironically caring about this shit

>afraid
It still makes me nervous. I tried doing the exercise in the picture (visualising my home) and I could count windowed areas, but more particular things (like whether the window was subdivided into threes or four alluded me and I'm only now parsing them out.

My anxious hypochondria aside, is visualizing really an indicator of anything? I assume people blind from birth have limited visualizing ability, likewise for the deaf and internal "voice", and yet none of the blind or deaf people (including my own father) exhibit and serious cognitive deficits.

>liberal media indulges in their eternal victim complex
>this is somehow Jow Forums's fault

>/leftypol/ starts making memes to combat them, pointing out obvious flaws in their reasoning and NPC-esque groupthink
Things that never happened. /leftypol/ is no better than regular Jow Forums and screech just as hard when people disagree with them.

>spams content
>gets called out for it
>the LIBRUALS REEE
This is just sad.

This most likely isn't entirely Jow Forums's fault, but you'd be delusional to think they didn't make it into a "right wing good, left wing bad" thing.

Join the resistance now, user. The NPC meme is threatening national security

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The weirdest thing is Jow Forums didn't make it political. The left did.

Jow Forums found the paper and was like lol dude we live in the matrix, niggers and women can't think lol. Then the media on the left freaked out defending themselves against a meme that wasn't really being applied to them

The kike fears the individual thought

I think my first wank might have been about the breeding sow women in the book.

You can tell it really hit a sore point for them, the amount of attention this meme is getting is crazy disproportionate.

Shitlibs foaming at the idea that just because they parrot the talking points pumped to them by every form of media they're the sheep and not those evil drumpf incels

Whether or not you are an NPC really shouldn't be about an internal monologue or ability to visualize things. It's about the ability to make plans and execute then despite the world and your sporadic feelings changing. It's about the ability to understand yourself and the world well enough to predict the results of your actions, then using that knowledge to make your life and the world around you the way you want it to be.

An NPC is someone who falls into predictable cycles and patterns that don't move their life forward or help them in any way.

An animal succumbs to addiction, only thinks in the short term, etc. If you can't do any better even with an internal voice and visualization you're still an NPC.

I never said they didn't do that. They most certainly did. What I meant was why is it Jow Forums's fault if some people got mad enough from their shit that they had to make actual news articles about how mad and offended they are?

You are female so you statisticly have a lower visual spatial iq and a better verbal scire. Remembering how many panes is similar to rotating 3d shapes in your head. It's easier if you are a dude.

>Jow Forums didn't make it political
They made it about politics day 1. You can check the archive.

I remember seeing someone here on r9k use the NPC term over a year ago and I thought it was great. That was before it became political.

I still like it though. I tend to have a lot of social anxiety, but I find that if I just think of the people I'm interacting with as NPCs in a videogame it makes it easier for me to deal with them. It's like a switch I can flip in my head where when I start to feel uncomfortable I can just 'unperson' whoever I don't like or who is making me feel bad and then I'm alone again and they're just a sack of meat with legal rights and nothing else about them even matters.

Im sure someone made it political just as sure as I am that someone on 8 chan was talking about archons and lizard men. But no it wasnt in the begining for the most part. Jow Forums was mostly squabling with itself trying to understand the study.

>spam it for half a year
>it gets attention
>HA, REKT

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>lower spatial reasoning
I've heard this - also read the papers that argued it found their methodology lacking - nonetheless, yeah, I rotated my house in my head and I fared a lot better. I pictured myself on the inside of the window thinking about how many blinds my mother had me clean and it became easy to count. Not sure if that counts as purely visual, although I did see the curtain.

>having antithetical contempt for others soothed my social anxiety
Yeah, you probably shouldn't encourage yourself to view people as objects.

On the anxiety front, I think it's good to be empathetic and project your thought process onto others. Do you really care if someone did X? Did you remember ever poor presentation from high school? Are you agonizing over what some stranger's hands at the bus stop are doing? If not, you can presume the same for others.

I do the same thing, but it gives me some bad derealization. I haven't felt like this since I was addicted to benzos, it's getting hard to think of others as people.

I never said it was Jow Forums's fault, the leftist media started this as another way of saying "le ebil nazis are out to get us", but you're delusional if you think Jow Forums didn't cum in their pants and jumped on this opportunity the moment it got mainstream momentum. Jow Forums at this point is just an offshoot of /reddit/ and everything that gets associated with them is irreparably ruined.

> you're delusional if you think Jow Forums didn't cum in their pants and jumped on this opportunity the moment it got mainstream momentum.
Anyone would be delusional to think they didn't. Of course they took the opportunity that so conveniently presented itself to them.

Those who dabble in drugs often have the most perverse lives. Their lives are vastly different from the norm and, depending on how much they've suffered, utter the most jaded and novel responses. I'm not talking about DUDE 420 LMAO npc's, but some "druggies" are quite possibly the least NPC-esque. Taking drugs has a positive correlation with the openness to experience trait. This trait has correlations with intelligence, appreciation for art and sensation seeking. They want to pervade through all aspects of life, experiencing it all.

If you still control your life, use all the drugs you want. I smoke weed, but I moderate myself and still control my life. But even still I can feel the pull off habit that makes you want to take the day off and sit around stoned. Falling into addiction, always succumbing to the urge, and losing control of your life makes you a predictable NPC. It might have some particularly sad or dramatic dialogue options, about all the things it used to have in it's life, but it's an NPC if the patterns control you instead of you controlling the patterns in your life.

The fact that the msm picked up a fucking mspaint, half-assed wojak meme at all is fucking incredible. And this meme hasn't even existed for a more than a few months, what the fuck are you talking about?

It's not amazing at all, they write articles about celebrity Twitter posts, and no matter what anyone wants to believe, there's huge crossover between, Jow Forums, reddit, Twitter, Tumblr, etc. They have written cringy articles and made out-of
-touch videos about memes for two decades.

Jow Forums memes are just much more mainstream now, so they're included in the stuff that gets written about.

It makes me angry that people still post wojak edits.

As if Conservatives can't also be NPC's? Look at how normies think child nudity is exactly equivalent to CP. That's some right-wing NPC shit right there.

Also anything Christian/family values is basically NPC shit. Conservatards need to stop acting like they're the rebels here.

Even the player is non entirely free. They are free to interpret, enjoy or dislike the story as much as they want. Players progress through the story differently, it might even make the story different. But to some degree, the story will always be the same. The spawn point is set and the end credits don't change, no matter what avenue you pursue throughout the story. I have heard of some people glitching and breaking the game though; going out of bounds and seeing things the devs didn't intend them to see.

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In the next thousand years, and perhaps even in the next hundred, I strongly suspect we'll have invented biological immortality for at least newly born humans. After that, the bounds of human experience will radically shift.

>president tweets pepe memes
>HAHA, the DUMB MSM, MEME MAGIC, REKT
Like clockwork.

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Everyone on Jow Forums is a massive fucking hypocrite. They'll happily call everyone who doesn't agree with them an NPC but when someone starts doing something like that to THEM then suddenly Jow Forums has a problem with it.

I thought it was an anti-normie meme. why do right wingers have to make everything about ''muh trump muh politics muh race''

This. I love how PJW tries to claim conservatism is "punk" before doing nothing but desperately appealing to tradition. Right wingers who don't understand that they literally represent regressive or stagnant values need to eat a bullet.

Can you even comprehend how mainstream Jow Forums is? I know you kids think this place is some sort of secret club but it hasn't been for years.

It was but now it's anti-anyone with different opinions from the person using the meme. It's basically just another buzzword.

Just like the term normie, then

psychology fag here, I am the same way.

People just have affinities for certain styles of thinking, although I can see text/hearing words in your mind to be the most common because of how much media we interact with now being in text (texting, twitter, etc). If you really wanted to I'm sure you could work at thinking visually and it would become easier and more vivid, maybe never at the level of those who did it naturally from a young age though.

Not her but how would I go about doing this?

this. Every politicol alignment has nps, from anarchists to nazis. i'd argue that most people who think of themselves as "player characters" are pretty big npcs themselves.

>news outlets writing political articles on wojak edits

Agreed. Jow Forums always has to ruin everything.

>need to his close eyes to conjure up mental images
Normies are wierd.

I'd rather join the other side

Pretty much this. Can we just keep Jow Forums in Jow Forums I dont want them ruining my memes.

> insulting the person instead of arguing against the point

It literally started as a Pol meme you spastic.

/leftypol/ just has a hammer and sickle instead of a swastika.

sheeple was not a fucking theory there's nothing to be proven or disproven the fuck are you on about

There's a condition called aphantasia, it hasn't been studied a lot though

> There wont be anymore welfare checks
Walks away lol

Why don't you offer your opinions on these topics?

Why the fuck would you use the Breitbart article as evidence of your claim and not the literal New York Times article about it?

nytimes.com/2018/10/16/us/politics/npc-twitter-ban.html

The biggest, most respected liberal news source in the world is getting mad over this shit and you chose a gloating Breitbart article as evidence that liberals are mad.

Npc meme used by fucking TRUMP SUPPORTERS, literally 0 IQ people who don't know anything about politics

the only argument to vote for trump was to destabilize the US enough so a third party candidate is elected next

This. The stock market is crashing, the economy is going to shit, jobs are being exported to other countries at a rapid rate and nuclear war with North Korea looms on the horizon but Trump supporters are like "lol but it triggers the liberals so it's okay".

and no skill at making a meme at all, its amusing.

Archive? Not giving NPC times any clicks

The NYT is unbiased and if anything leans slightly right, so I'm not sure why a Jow Forumstard like yourself would be so offended by them.

>implying /leftypol/ memes have either thought or originality put into them
lmao, all /leftypol/ ever does is shit out copies of any semi successful Jow Forums meme and change "left wing" to "right wing" or replace swastikas with hammers and sickles. The same goes for their shitty NPC memes.
They are the literal representation of the middle man inside a human centipede.

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I don't get why people become so enraged at the npc meme, I mean truthfully we're all just pre-programmed entities in a world were free will is impossible.

No big media gets anything from me

I still maintain my statement.

>Half a year
Didn't this shit appear in September first?

There you go
archive.is/fdU4K

>try to spoiler female identity
>fuck up
>ends up ridiculously prominent like every woman announcing her identity on the internet
Not trying to insult you, just found it really funny.
About the visual images, it's proven that men are naturally better at visualizing and handling space, which is why more men are designers of mechanisms or work with maps. Nothing scary about that. I would put more emphasis on verbal thought, since it requires more abstraction and is more recent in human history.