The Psychology of NPCs | Video

In video games, an NPC, or non-player character, is a background figure who is governed by the programming of the game and capable only of performing assigned actions and repeating pre-written lines. An NPC is also a metaphor for the real-life individual whose thoughts, opinions, and behaviours are programmed by the forces that shape the cultural zeitgeist

The lights are on, but nobody is home.
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NPCs is that they do not acknowledge their inability to think for themselves.

Instead, they live under the illusion that their opinions are the product of research and independent reasoning, when in reality they simply parrot – sometimes word for word – the ideas promoted by the mainstream media, social media influencers, and the other news sources they consume