I was invited to a Halloween party in a few weeks and I had no idea what to be. Now I think I know.

You can find videos on youtube of these automatons chanting in unison. Just freakin' bizarre behavior.

Saw a funny photoshop of the MSNBC logo: MSNPC

^^^ You will also see it on page 1 of this thread!

It's in the first post of this thread.

How the hell did I miss that? Reducing my alcohol intake has made my blood too thick. Sheesh....

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:

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Originally posted by Ripley:

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
The PC is what the game is played on, by the player.

...non-player characters (NPCs)

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you're not a gamer. I've never heard the avatar the person playing as described as anything other than a character or "my guy." It felt weird to describe it as an avatar, because that's funtionally a whole other thing. Look, let's let the meme creators create the memes, we don't need to shoehorn definitions to create a pantheon.

Have you played many MMO (massively-multiplayer online) roleplaying games or their antecedents, MUDs (multi-user dungeons)?

Because in many of those, people talk about PC vs NPC.

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Originally posted by 1967Goat:
I was invited to a Halloween party in a few weeks and I had no idea what to be. Now I think I know.

My son just made his NPC face for Halloween. :^|

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Originally posted by maladat:

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:

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Originally posted by Ripley:

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
The PC is what the game is played on, by the player.

...non-player characters (NPCs)

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you're not a gamer. I've never heard the avatar the person playing as described as anything other than a character or "my guy." It felt weird to describe it as an avatar, because that's funtionally a whole other thing. Look, let's let the meme creators create the memes, we don't need to shoehorn definitions to create a pantheon.

Have you played many MMO (massively-multiplayer online) roleplaying games or their antecedents, MUDs (multi-user dungeons)?

Because in many of those, people talk about PC vs NPC.

That’s not really my realm, no. I believe you. You talking console gaming?

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:

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Originally posted by maladat:

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:

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Originally posted by Ripley:

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
The PC is what the game is played on, by the player.

...non-player characters (NPCs)

I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess you're not a gamer. I've never heard the avatar the person playing as described as anything other than a character or "my guy." It felt weird to describe it as an avatar, because that's funtionally a whole other thing. Look, let's let the meme creators create the memes, we don't need to shoehorn definitions to create a pantheon.

Have you played many MMO (massively-multiplayer online) roleplaying games or their antecedents, MUDs (multi-user dungeons)?

Because in many of those, people talk about PC vs NPC.

That’s not really my realm, no. I believe you. You talking console gaming?

I haven't played those games in years. I think some of them are on consoles now but in the past, they were pretty exclusively on computers.

That type of game tends to be narrative-driven and tries to put everything in the context of some imaginary world. A lot of background color and necessary mechanics are provided by NPCs - banks, shops, guild leaders, etc. To me, what makes that type of game enjoyable is a combination of an interesting, detailed world and interacting with the other players in the world (which, depending on the game, can number in the thousands or more).

Basically, the PC/NPC thing is more visible because a player interacts with more other players and NPCs, and the NPCs serve more important roles, than in many other types of games.

Maybe this will help those having trouble understanding.

The intro is good too.

https://youtu.be/pEpUUU0e-Q0 (phoneposting, not sure how to embed from here, sorry).

"ambiguously ethnic host" Perfect

Here's my contribution. Someone can caption.

Infowars is having a $10k contest for best NPC meme

Yep. Gonna piss off the Collective somethin' awful.

I prefer zombie....but this works....

Anything that shows their crazy is good....

I'm old, but the shop where I work has an internet sales section staff by the "juniors." They explained it and have been sharing memes with me. I find it refresher that so many 20ish folks appreciate freedom, more so than the 30ish folks.

I don't know if any of you guys follow the meme crowd but there is a common saying "the left can't meme". It's proven true over and over. The recent example is they are trying to say that conservatives are NPCs, are using the character and are failing miserably. It's kind of sad how they prove they have no original thought and actually are NPC.