Posted on 10/17/2018 6:51:59 AM PDT by EdnaMode
Because it's funny, effective and mostly true.
The new “NPC” meme mocks leftists by depicting them as unthinking and reflexive automatons. The meme has upset the left so much that Twitter is now banning people posting it for “dehumanizing speech,” but its humble origins are the computer-controlled characters of limited intelligence found in most video games.The popular NPC meme trend frames its targets as non-player characters (NPCs) who reflexively spout neo-Marxist axioms in response to real-world events. Actual NPCs are computer-controlled characters in video games with limited scripted responses given the parameters of the games in which they appear. For example, NPCs may assign quests to the player in games like Skyrim, or join the player as a companion in Fallout.
Built on the long-running Wojak meme, the NPC meme mocks leftists as expressionless in appearance and bot-like in behavior. The universal standard appearance illustrates the left’s political homogeneity.
—Breitbart
This is a scream!
Reddit is having a field day
https://www.reddit.com/r/The_Donald/comments/9n812o/the_npc_meme_may_be_the_first_crack_in_the_sjw/
“For those who are wondering”
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I think he explains it at the beginning of the vid. But still, with people not into gaming - such as myself, there can never be enough explainin’. I think a lot of people will stumble just at “meme”.
Reminds me of the hypnotized folks saying, in monotone, “It was better than Cats. I’d see it again and again”.
Because leftists read from a script. They have no original thoughts.
This could explain why Ann Coulter titled her most recent book, “Resistance is Futile”. The Borg, whose battle cry she co-opted, are more or less prototypes for the NPC meme, having no individual personalities, just a collective intelligence.
Great thread. Thanks.
One of my old taglines was "Liberals think in propaganda."
What is NPC?
For those who aren’t familiar with gamer terms: NPC is “Non-player character” —essentially a puppet of either the computer or in ol’ fashioned role-playing games controlled by the game master to cause trouble/spew out info to the player characters.
Non Player Character like the ones used in video games. They’re being used now to describe leftists as nonthinking conformists who regurgitate the same talking points and don’t have an original thought of their own.
Here is a good article about it:
https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2018/10/16/what-is-the-npc-meme-liberals-rage-at-cartoons-mocking-their-scripted-thoughts/
What is NPC?
non-player characters (NPCs)
Thanks, Steely.
This one is funny!
https://media.breitbart.com/media/2018/10/NPC-4-che.jpg
Thanks. Since I have not played a video game in a dozen years or more...since the original Mario stuff, I think...the terminology is a foreign language to me!
Pepe, “SJW” don’t hold a candle to what NPC is doing. It’s damn near bulletproof rhetoric.
Yep. Kinda like the little mushrooms in the Mario and Luigi games.
Classic Streisand effect. I had no idea what they were until the Levo-nazis tried to ban them.
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