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#670: Non-Player Characters (Clip) · Macroaggressions

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  But there's a new version of this, and perhaps it's always been there, but we haven't been
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  as attuned to it, and this is NPCs, right, the non-player characters, and this is what
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  I want to focus on today because, you know, it's funny.
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  Let's admit that, right?
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  And we'll talk about this, and in my own sort of unique way, I will.
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  I'll try to make it as funny as I can, but the underlying theme most definitely is
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  frustration, right?
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  Because, well, I'm not in a video game.
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  Maybe I am, I don't know.
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  At least, as far as I'm concerned, I don't think that I'm in a video game.
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  So, because I don't think that I'm in a video game, all of these NPCs, these
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  people who are set on their predetermined routes that are walking in the same
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  pattern, tomorrow when I play the video game, they'll be in the same place doing
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  the same thing.
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  It feels very real to me, you know, unfortunately, and I don't know if that
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  was a thing in the past, but in the video games, you are, you know, it's populated
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  with NPCs because, as a player, you need to know that there's a lot, there's
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  action going on, and these characters give you the impression that there's other
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  people in this world.
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  Well, I'm in this world right now, this real world, not non-video game world,
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  though, everything's got an asterisk because after smoking enough DMT and
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  seeing the grid, it is possible to me that we are in a simulation.
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  And in fact, if that were the case, then the NPCs would make sense.
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  It's really the one answer that I am willing to accept when someone asks
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  the question, why are there so many NPCs out there sort of aimlessly wandering
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  around like Pac-Man ghosts out there on their predetermined routes?
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  And if the answer, if the air quotes God, whoever creator of the universe,
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  were to pull me aside and say, it's because you're in a massive video
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  game and we need some people who aren't taking up computing power,
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  they're just there, but they're not really there, you know, they're
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  there in space, but they're not doing much of anything.
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  That would make sense to me.
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  I would go, oh, that fills in a lot of the gaps for why we are in where we are.
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  But let's just say that we're not in a video game.
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  Then all of these know nothing people out there who are NPCs,
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  they're they're they're now just getting in our way.
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  And and and I don't need them to be there for the video game,
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  you know, for this this game I'm living, I'm going through.
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  I would like for them to be gone, frankly.
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  I'd like for them to get out of the way.
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  Do you know how much easier traffic would move if all of these people
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  were vanished, disappeared?
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  I envision that this is kind of this might have been the conversation
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  that was happening something along this line in the 1800s,
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  when these old timey British eugenicists were out sailing the seven seas,
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  colonizing the faraway lands and coming across people who were
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  four standard deviations below them in IQ.
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  They're probably going, this is a different species.
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  And in fact, you know, frankly, a case can be made that it is different species.
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  We have a variety of different species of birds, right?
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  I don't know why it's offensive to say that bird over there is a cardinal.
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  And you go, oh my God, how dare you call that bird a cardinal?
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  That bird is clearly an orial.
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  And it's like, oh, are you judging by the color of its feathers?
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  It's like, well, yeah, it's actually a different species.
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  So it does different things.
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  Yeah, it's a bird in general, but is it are all birds the same?
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  No, they're not.
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  Are all people the same?
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  No, they're not.
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  And the idea that we haven't classified people in the different species
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  is kind of crazy when you look at we've done it with all the other animals.
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  Why haven't we done it with people?
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  Because that would be offensive, right?
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  And that's what the guys at the British Roundtable were talking about, right?
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  They were interacting with people from far away land
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  who might as well have not been human as far as they were concerned, right?
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  So they were dealing with NPCs a long time ago.
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  You know how they dealt with them?
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  They murdered as many of them as they could.
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  I mean, they really just said, oh, here we go, India.
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  Yeah, see, let's just kill all these people, right?
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  So that's sort of what happens when you when you get on the wrong side
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  of a certain group of people.
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  So the NPCs who are out there populating our world right now,
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  if they existed during a different time and space,
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  they might have been dragged up to the top of a pyramid
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  and sacrificed over a long weekend
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  and had their hearts pulled out by the guy from Indiana Jones.
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  Hey, thanks for watching that clip.
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  Thanks a lot.