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That’s the best part! We’re all NPCs in other people’s stories _and_ the main character in ours. You can do and be absolutely anything or anyone you want. Just
by Swizec 24d ago
That’s the best part! We’re all NPCs in other people’s stories _and_ the main character in ours.
You can do and be absolutely anything or anyone you want. Just gotta bear the consequences and that’s it.
Wanna live a homely life surrounded by loved ones? Go do it! Nobody is stopping you. Wanna galivant around the world having adventures with no roots? You can!
And when you meet a local npc bartender on your adventures, you’re just another rando tourist npc. It’s great
- fundad 24d agoYes, while I was reading piece I thought "This is parenting"
- TacticalCoder 24d agoCommented elsewhere in the thread before reading the comment (a terrible habit of mine) and I fully agree. The way I explained it to my daughter is this: "We're all someone else's NPC".
- BoingBoomTschak 24d agoWhat a rosy view of life! There are no NPCs, everyone is a unique and wonderful snowflake!
- Swizec 24d agoEvery snowflake is unique but snow is still just snow. Life’s funny that way. You can’t predict what an individual will do and yet predicting what a crowd will do is so easy we have entire engineering and social disciplines based on manipulating crowd behavior.
- GMoromisato 24d agoI disagree. We're in a multiplayer game, so we're all player characters. I certainly try not to treat others as NPCs in my story.