Quote of the Day: That NPC Meme

 

“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.” – George S. Patton

A new meme has appeared on the Internet mocking the lockstep thinking of leftists and social justice warriors: the NPC meme. It casts these people as non-player characters (NPCs), analogizing them to computer AI characters which appear in role-playing games.

In RPGs NPCs have very limited actions, sometimes repeating one phrase over and over as programmed in the game. Kind of like leftists in a social media mob. Which is what makes the meme so painful to leftists and SJWs. It exposes the vacuity of their thoughts.

In graphic form, the face is replaced by a blank oval (generally light gray) with a text emoticon superimposed in the oval, thus:

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Or rather:

I think it is brilliant. So do leftists, who are sputtering like wet cats over this. They have been writing denunciations of it (claiming, as in the cartoon above, that it is dehumanizing). Twitter has suspended 1,500 accounts using the meme as the avatar. (Proving yet again, you know you are over the target when you start taking flak.)

What will be the leftist response? (Besides banning Facebook and Twitter users posting the meme.) I suspect very soon we will start hearing that anyone using this meme is a racist and a white supremacist. I will further predict we will see someone denounce the meme on Ricochet because they have been reliably informed (by the humorless scolds upset by being revealed as the unthinking automatons they are by the meme) that it is a racist meme, and that it violates the first three points of the Code of Conduct.

But you know — George Patton is correct:  If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

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  1. DrewInWisconsin Member
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    I suspect very soon we will start hearing that anyone using this meme is a racist and a white supremacist.

    I’ve already been told that it’s “alt-right.”

    Twitter has suspended 1500 accounts using the meme as the avatar.

    Twitter is run by a bunch of thin-skinned morons, apparently.

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  2. Juliana Member
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    I don’t pay too much attention to Twitter, but 1500 accounts sounds like a lot to suspend in a short amount of time. Are we really starting to wake up?

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  3. DrewInWisconsin Member
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    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DprBq-AVsAA1hs3.jpg

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  4. Muleskinner Member
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    Seawriter: If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking. – George S. Patton

    I’ve kept a card with that quote on my wall for years. I want to encourage my staff to tell me where I’m wrong and what I missed. It’s the only way to get reasonable forecasts or policy analysis. If we can’t disagree, nothing is going to work very well.

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  5. Arahant Member
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    Thanks, Seawriter.

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  6. Michael Brehm Lincoln
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    DrewInWisconsin (View Comment):

    https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DprBq-AVsAA1hs3.jpg

    The funny thing is Mob is also analogous to NPC in video games. It stands for “Mobile (object)”. Basically, the distinction is “Mob” refers to the giant spiders that roam around that try to kill you, while “NPC” is the blacksmith in town who stands in one place all the time and sells you gear.

    (Hat tip to Tim Pool who mentioned this in a video the other day.)

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  7. Vectorman Inactive
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    Seawriter: It casts these people as non-player characters (NPCs), analogizing them to computer AI characters which appear in role-playing games.

    As a Ricochet non role-playing gamer, thank you for enlightening us.


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  8. Matt Bartle Member
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  9. DrewInWisconsin Member
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    Chanting morons repeating what they’re told to repeat.

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  10. CarolJoy Coolidge
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    Unfortunately, due to how often the NPC’s street marches are covered, and how it is their letters to the editor that are replicated in newspapers and other forms of M$ M, the NPC’s now offer up the appearance that their side is larger than ours. And that makes it easier for various election districts here in Calif to have their ballots altered. (Which happens on E & S, and Diebold equipment with a flick of a switch.)

    If you complain, you will be told that it is obvious the vote count is legit – the public is more supportive of the Dems. However, the fact that Gavin Newsome is now running ads about his love for law and order and for the police and the prisons indicate that the Dems are truly worried. (I don’t think I have seen such a RW ad from any Dem here in California ever before.)

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  11. Seawriter Contributor
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    CarolJoy (View Comment):
    . . . the NPC’s now offer up the appearance that their side is larger than ours.

    That is another factor as to why this is such a brilliant meme. In role-playing games the NPCs always outnumber the players.

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  12. CarolJoy Coolidge
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    decent video on NPC theme:

    https://youtu.be/M0aienuCBdg

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  13. RightAngles Member
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    I love this meme for the way it’s contributing to the outing of the Left.

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  14. genferei Member
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    Seawriter: I will further predict we will see someone start an OP on Ricochet, denouncing the meme because they have been reliably informed (by the humorless scolds upset by being revealed as the unthinking automatons they are by the meme) that it is a racist meme, and that it violates the first three points of the Ricochet Code 0f Conduct. 

    So true. Sadly.

    Perhaps it’s just where I look, but the right (or, at least, non-left) is just owning the ludic memosphere at the moment. I can only conclude it is because we realise that words and images are NOT everything. There really is a reality.

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  15. Bryan G. Stephens Thatcher
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    Seawriter (View Comment):

    CarolJoy (View Comment):
    . . . the NPC’s now offer up the appearance that their side is larger than ours.

    That is another factor as to why this is such a brilliant meme. In role-playing games the NPCs always outnumber the players.

    And are losers. 

    We like to joke the Player Characters have a badge they can flash. “PC” 

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  16. :thinking: Member
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    I could just copy-paste what I said in the PIT, but the really funny thing is that the Left is so thin-skinned these days, they seem to be unable to turn this one back around. They never got so butthurt about terms like “sheeple” or “cattle,” which are essentially synonymous with “NPC,” as used here. As we all know, leftists have and do use those other words to describe those they don’t agree with. (In fact, early in the days of the NPC meme, a few weeks ago before normalfags got a hold of it, the leftys on 4chan were using it in just that fashion.) The below picture illustrates the term’s more universal nature (indeed, if one were being silly, you could say that “women” fall under the NPC meme…)

    Seawriter: I suspect very soon we will start hearing that anyone using this meme is a racist and a white supremacist.

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  17. drlorentz Member
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    DrewInWisconsin (View Comment):
    Chanting morons repeating what they’re told to repeat.

    They sound like zombies. Is this the start of the coming zombie apocalypse I’ve been hearing about?

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  18. Rodin Member
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    Finally an “anti-talking points” strategy. Journolist was successful until the coordination was revealed. It persisted nonetheless because of the Big Lie strategy that calls for constant repetition. Now, maybe, with the NPC meme people can see that hearing something over and over again should make you ask “Really?” rather than infesting your brain.

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  19. DrewInWisconsin Member
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    drlorentz (View Comment):

    DrewInWisconsin (View Comment):
    Chanting morons repeating what they’re told to repeat.

    They sound like zombies. Is this the start of the coming zombie apocalypse I’ve been hearing about?

    I saw two or three similar vids last week. Same deal. The protest leader says something, they all repeat it, he says another sentence, they all repeat it. And on and on. It was creepily cult-like.

     

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  20. DrewInWisconsin Member
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    Rodin (View Comment):

    Finally an “anti-talking points” strategy. Journolist was successful until the coordination was revealed. It persisted nonetheless because of the Big Lie strategy that calls for constant repetition. Now, maybe, with the NPC meme people can see that hearing something over and over again should make you ask “Really?” rather than infesting your brain.

    I’ve been describing the left as a mind-control cult for quite awhile. I’m glad to find hard video evidence of the mind-control happening.

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  21. Keith SF Inactive
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    :thinking: (View Comment):

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    So the NPC meme can get you suspended from Twitter for being “dehumanizing” and “fascist”, but it’s ok to refer to Jews as termites:

    https://thehill.com/policy/technology/411950-twitter-says-it-wont-suspend-louis-farrakhan-over-tweet-comparing-jews-to

     

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  22. Seawriter Contributor
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    Keith SF (View Comment):

    So the NPC meme can get you suspended from Twitter for being “dehumanizing” and “fascist”, but it’s ok to refer to Jews as termites:

    https://thehill.com/policy/technology/411950-twitter-says-it-wont-suspend-louis-farrakhan-over-tweet-comparing-jews-to

    And your point is? It is Twitter, after all.

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  23. Keith SF Inactive
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    Seawriter (View Comment):

    Keith SF (View Comment):

    So the NPC meme can get you suspended from Twitter for being “dehumanizing” and “fascist”, but it’s ok to refer to Jews as termites:

    https://thehill.com/policy/technology/411950-twitter-says-it-wont-suspend-louis-farrakhan-over-tweet-comparing-jews-to

    And your point is? It is Twitter, after all.

    Eh, no real point, I’m just continually frustrated with Twitter’s shamelessness. I know I shouldn’t be by now….

     

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