As an Irishman I’m proud to say my country was once a PVP zone before the server got shut down by English moderators

@JayVal90

11 ай бұрын

As someone who is 1/20th or so Irish, it’s no surprise to me that you’re proud of that fact but for the love of all that is peaceful and holy DO NOT resurrect that near me please!

@POHT8OH

11 ай бұрын

@@JayVal90 we’re everywhere so no promises

@GAMER123GAMING

11 ай бұрын

Because all the fucking ulster-scots players kept whinging that the Irish players were farming NPCs. I mean come on the ulster-scots were doing the same!!! the admins are corrupt

@parkerwatt2583

11 ай бұрын

I’m fuckin deadd😂😂😂

@literaldoorknob

11 ай бұрын

And then you guys revolted against the moderators and made it back into a PVP zone

"I want to be different, just like everyone else." This is how my father describes modern American folk and culture.

@Mcfunface

11 ай бұрын

You can't expect more from midwits.

@Stryker98

11 ай бұрын

NPCs are so materialistic that they are oblivious to the fact diverse consciousness and thought is what make humans unique.

@tuckerbugeater

11 ай бұрын

Being an NPC is just coping with certain death and nihilism

@JayVal90

11 ай бұрын

@@tuckerbugeaterSo stop being a Nihilist then.

@royale7620

11 ай бұрын

But they all end up being the same lol. All the kids got the same shitty Logan Paul haircut and tight nut jeans.

"I am not a gamer" "I've only sunk thousands of hours into strategy games." "I haven't played games with NPCs" "I've played tons of Skyrim" Dude, you ARE A GAMER.

@sharky9075

10 ай бұрын

I have prepared thousands of meals in my lifetime, yet im not a cook

@user-su5uf5yv1w

4 ай бұрын

Wait for their move first.

@realityvanguard2052

3 ай бұрын

Some of the stuff this dude says, he is very dismissive, as if there is a black-hole of meaning that he refuses to acknowledge or think about... For instance "I haven't seen any evidence that the election was stolen" Kind of stupid to say that you haven't seen any evidence of election tampering. You may not have seen any "proof", sure. But there is evidence all around you, you have to be an NPC to discount it out of hand. How many "historic firsts" were involved in the 2020 election? From the number of people to vote, to the fact that the person they were voting for was/is visibly and obviously brain-damaged. To the covid crisis causing people to use mail-in ballots en masse, employing a literal ballot stuffing strategy, which is seen on camera many times over. To the fact that google literally stole the election, on its own, in a 100% objectively undeniable way via algorithmic manipulations. Just because that wasn't technically "illegal", or associated directly with a political party, you "don't see it as evidence"? So it is irrelevant? Why do you think it is that the entire process is so opaque? The idea that we have free and fair elections is an NPC delusion. Why would the bureaucracy leave itself open to evisceration at any moment? When we know, that if it had the power to prevent that from happening, it would, at all costs?

@Ghalion666

2 ай бұрын

The definition for gamer is often pushed to be looser than other hobbies due to the disdain gamers have from the media. They want to make actual gamers irrelevant. Non gamers who dont understand gaming culture assume gamers want the definition to be more strict and narrow out of snobbery or elitism, but its really due to just a shared culture and underatanding of many things. Nobody thinks someone is an athlete because they played 100s of games of football, basketball, and tennis durinf highschool. Nobody calls everyone who watched a couple hundred movies in their life a film enthusiest. Nobody calls someone who prefers cooking themself dinner instead of eating out a chef. Think about that when you think gamers may not neccesarily think someone who played a handful of games a gamer. They arent being intolerant, the people who accuse them of being so ARE. A gamer is someone who knows what hitboxes, s, rotations, quickscoping, input lag, etc is. They know what it means to have no romance in their youth because they preferred games over dates. They think about how to change their strategy or their builds WHILE they are at work or school. They can probably tell what game someone is talking about in public even if they never mentioned a character name, game name, or whatever, even if they never even played the game themselves. To clarify Im not saying you arent a gamer if you didnt play at least x games for y hours. But if you dont think you are a gamer, then you arent. As for the people who say they are a gamer that arent. Generally its the people who care more about social media clout that dunks on gamers and thinks gamers suck. They arent gamers either because an actual gamer knows how ostracizes they are, how ACTUALLY inclusive they are, and wouldnt want to be yet another of the millions that dogpile on them.

@Shadowz227

Ай бұрын

@@sharky9075 I freestyle every now and then, but I ain't a rapper

One thing I noticed when I went to Papua New Guinea, one of the most undeveloped places left, is that the people who lived in isolated villages and straw huts surviving off the land were happy and cheerful to one another. Then you go to the big cities and notice it’s the opposite. That made me think for a while now that the pursuit of capital as a pathway for life satisfaction is an illusion set up by the system we live in. Sure you want to live comfortably, but past that material possessions mean nothing.

@seaneustace9838

9 ай бұрын

Yes that’s because missionaries help them with agriculture so they could grow enough sweet potatoes to live before that they were eating each other as late as the 1950s and 60s. Just an interesting historical fact.

@mrdave5232

7 ай бұрын

I heard they had no heart disease?

@adamnielson42

6 ай бұрын

Ah yes, without the white man they'd be screwed, and we have to go help them! Of course that is the white mans burde.n​@@seaneustace9838

@NB-yu4lj

5 ай бұрын

They don’t have feminism to destroy family

@Ariannaishun

5 ай бұрын

​@@seaneustace9838 that was an astonishing fact I was exposed to just yesterday from a recent Scott Mys podcast with a Suzanne Alexander. She was visiting tribes in PNG and the islands studying diet. The sweet potato consumers were mentioned but absolutely no context was given. In light of your comment this is now a slightly puzzling oversight (ignorance?) given she restored her health via ruminant meat and the overall theme of the channel is carnivore.

I think life as a peasant was a lot less boring than you think. Summers spent outdoors working with friends, winters spent indoors making handicrafts with family. Socialization is one of the greatest time-passers because it is extremely complex, being the literal reason that we have such large brains.

@gregsmith7949

11 ай бұрын

I've read that peasants had more "time off" than time working in the fields over the year.

@greeneggsandhamsamiam6154

11 ай бұрын

​@@gregsmith7949probably depends on where they were. That's probably the case for European peasants, but I'd imagine the work would've been close to year-round in the rice-growing areas of the world

@gregsmith7949

11 ай бұрын

@@greeneggsandhamsamiam6154 True. I speak of European peasants, not Asian, which I gather from the rice reference.

@MattSloanVMMP

11 ай бұрын

I agree and wish I had more socialization in my life, but to be fair, there was a lot more murder and sexual assault/incest then, too.

@grugnotice7746

11 ай бұрын

@@MattSloanVMMP I really wonder about that. Seems like the sort of thing a postmodernist would say to justify their destruction of their host society.

My favorite NPCs are from California They keep complaining how paroling the Mojave desert makes them wish for a Nuclear Winter.

@normanclatcher

11 ай бұрын

Fallout so good, yes yes yes

@giovannifitzgerald113

11 ай бұрын

@@normanclatcher🤣🍻

@TaskForce-th5sl

11 ай бұрын

When I got this assignment I thought there’d be more gambling.

@j-roc3339

11 ай бұрын

@@TaskForce-th5sl our guys put the monorail back to work

@Wolfdorf

11 ай бұрын

Long live to the NCR

"Every layer of modern society treats you like a cog you go to a bureaucratic school, you work in a giant company you date through an app, you die in a retirement home."

@LaVonSherman

3 ай бұрын

The movie Brazil was prophecy

As someone who managed a company with 300 odd staff… i can say around 3/4 are npc’s. And the ones that are not often tend to keep their head down so that the npc hoard doesn’t turn on them.

@RlsIII-uz1kl

7 ай бұрын

Those numbers have vastly changed and continues to do so which is a great thing.

@LEONSKENNEDY91

7 ай бұрын

@@RlsIII-uz1kl in which way?

@RlsIII-uz1kl

7 ай бұрын

@@LEONSKENNEDY91 many have awakened to the fact that the fake news/legacy media/MSM is nothing more than a tool of the permanent political class that exists within yesteryears now irrelevant modern "mass society". We're in the new postmodern "network society". They've lost the ability to control the flow of information and in turn lost the ability to manipulate and lie to me masses.

@heysiritellmeacoolprofilen7296

3 ай бұрын

But maybe around people they know they aren’t npcs and act normal but just act quiet or whatever in certain situations

@LaVonSherman

3 ай бұрын

If you kill them and still get arrested and go to jail, then they are not a real an NPC.

there was this KZreadr (I forget the name and I'm still searching for it), who did a video on primitive society and anti-Natalism. He apparently found he wasn't happy with society in general. and marked it up to modern civilization being a problem for him. After talking with therapists he wasn't given much help in feeling any better, the best help he got came from a few who said he should try to live in a primitive society. He traveled across the country to join some kind of primitive commune thing in a national park. He hated it because the same problems were still present there, no connections, no identity, no autonomy. all this pooled with the fact he slept in the dirt and was exposed to the cold nights with minimal shelter. After returning home he'd made a bit of a realization about himself. He hated living primitive but enjoyed traveling from town to town working part-time for a little bit and then moving on. He had more joy in the autonomy he had living in a car and working a job he could walk away from if he didn't like Than he ever did living primitive. He also talked about other stuff in the video, I've been searching for it for months now and can't find it. Edit: someone found it. It was: Talkin'bouts - civilized to death.

@bobSeigar

11 ай бұрын

The commune part doesn't fit, but was the video titled: 'the answer is NOT a hut in the Woods' - by Exurb1a?

@fishsticklord5147

11 ай бұрын

I like him too 🙂

@kevinhixson1586

11 ай бұрын

@@bobSeigar no that's not it. But it's crazy how well it fits to the description I gave.

@bobSeigar

11 ай бұрын

@@kevinhixson1586 I feel as if it may be a universal feeling. I discovered that video, because I did the 'isolationist' thing and had an epiphany as well. I hope you find the one you seek, it sounds interesting.

@kevinhixson1586

11 ай бұрын

@@bobSeigar thank you, good luck in any of your future searches.

I'm 40, one of the biggest disappointments in my life was realising that openness was a trait and not very common. Openness combined with intelligence is a curse. It means not only are you unhappy, but you know why, and that you have almost no agency to truly fix it. edit: I guess I should qualify that I didn't mean I'm constantly miserable day to day and don't have friends. Just that you're aware of some of the fundamental issues with the world, but feel like it's too far gone to put right. I live quite well and can be happy, but it's in spite of reality rather than being ignorant to it.

@boogiemcsploogie

11 ай бұрын

Feels bad man

@SuperCulverin

11 ай бұрын

It's hell.

@gabrielvincentelli1254

11 ай бұрын

it takes a long time, and meeting lots of people, before you stumble on a few people that share those traits. Usually they are just as eager to find deeper friends as you are.

@weaksause6878

11 ай бұрын

Are you me? I often catch myself analyzing if an activity or possession will bring me any happiness. The normies seem to enjoy the thing, why can't I? -I didn't enjoy the thing

@emilylongo4137

11 ай бұрын

You could look into Stoic philosophy if you feel a lack of agency. Bringing your locus of control back to yourself can help.

“I literally can’t understand how the population can be this stupid. Only an era as safe and wealthy as ours can think that we control reality.”

@liarwithagun

10 ай бұрын

It's very simple: most people don't like to think. It's part of why society at large hates talking about politics; it challenges them to think about the world. These people like to go through life riding the wave and getting soothed by material comforts and following the first thing that pops into their head which is usually purposefully put their by society or companies. To actually think about things is uncomfortable and takes effort. Most people are, in fact, NPCs.

@seaneustace9838

9 ай бұрын

But doesn’t really we had a fake pandemic that shut everyone down took kids out of school and destroyed businesses. Can such people that were affected by such things really think they’re in control? His point is factual regarding the boomers in the area. They grew up in, but in light of everything that has happened over the last five years I think we have passed out of that world, and as for the boomers old dogs, new tricks as they say.

@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman

9 ай бұрын

​@@liarwithaguni see

@dominiquesmith5734

4 ай бұрын

@@liarwithaguni couldnt have said it better. Ive noticed that it seems almost no one can think for themselves these day. Most people dont even know why they do the things they do or think the way they think. They never qustion what is popular and why its popular. Everything down to their music taste, way of dressing, and daily activities. They never seem to have their own moral compass either.Thats a testement to how much they dont think for themself.

@The_Red_Off_Road

3 ай бұрын

It’s like the rapper chick Suki told an interviewer: “I don’t do magic or whatever it is you said I do. I do music.” “I don’t think. I know. I don’t need to think, because I know.” “I’m not a magician, I do music.”

Most of my coworkers are NPCs. As intelligent as many of them are, I question a divine spark in their minds and souls. It’s a lonely 12 hours a day.

@sunchaser424

10 ай бұрын

Yep

@sgtjerry2001

10 ай бұрын

The tree of souls is empty

@horstnietzsche1923

10 ай бұрын

I understand the feeling.

@RedEverything

10 ай бұрын

Being a wagie in 2023 is dire

@alleygh0st

10 ай бұрын

I feel your pain.

When my family lived in an apartment, we had the cops called on us for our kids playing outside. When we moved into a house in the burbs, the same exact thing happened again. Now we live in the middle of nowhere with only two nearby neighbors and it's perfect

@anarhistul7257

11 ай бұрын

OMFG bro

@mam0lechinookclan607

11 ай бұрын

Yeah thats a weird american problem, The phenomenon of stranger danger, was really bad for society. In modt European places, or the rest of the world, nobody would care.

@Wilhelm4131

11 ай бұрын

I feel so bad for kids growing up in most of this country. I grew up in Northern Michigan and we all played outside all day with no problems. Also, the population was 99% white and crime was almost non existent.

@RADIOACTIVEBUNY

11 ай бұрын

@@Wilhelm4131yeah, “also.” Totally unrelated lol

@Gogolade

11 ай бұрын

I grew up in a very rural pace in Switzerland, now I live in a city and I prefer the city.

The Boomers went through all of this in the 60s.They just couldn't articulate it as well. The sad thing is, eventually they chose the materialism in the end. The very thing they lamented against.

@matthewmizrachi1877

11 ай бұрын

And now we know the error of their ways, there’s still time, let’s make the better decision.

@Lonovavir

11 ай бұрын

The 60s hippie to 80s yuppie pipeline.

@TheGreenKnight500

11 ай бұрын

They still had a lot more going for them back then. It was easier to get a job, get educated, buy a house, meet new people, the list goes on. You have to put in about 10 times the effort to accomplish any of those things these days. They lived in a society held up by a bunch of WWII veterans. We live in a society held up by boomers.

@normanclatcher

11 ай бұрын

It's still hip to be square.

@tau-5794

11 ай бұрын

Strong men make easy times, easy times make weak men.

Sometimes I think people expect too much from life. I spend most days grateful that the whole thing doesn’t fall apart and explode into a million pieces. The fact that there’s civilization at all blows my mind.

@seaneustace9838

9 ай бұрын

I’m too negative for that, but I’m sure gratefulness 24 seven is the best way to live. I’m not denying that it’s a true and real perspective. Just one that I find hard.

@zun15

6 ай бұрын

Definitely a good way to look at it but it’s hard to accept because we’re brought up expecting the that we’ll be great and have it all so we’re underwhelmed when we do actually grow up.

@mariosanders1861

6 ай бұрын

The fact we have phones freaks me out

@mariosanders1861

6 ай бұрын

Or free thought lol

@skyguyflyinghigh

5 ай бұрын

and sometimes i think people expect too little from life.

"January 6th never happened"!? I haven't heard of this. I have heard and believe that January 6th was not a coup attempt, just a protest and not historically significant. The only person killed was a protester shot by police. If the Right ever decides to make a coup attempt in the United States, you can bet your bottom dollar that they will be armed. These bozos who invaded the capitol building were unarmed. Trans and Palestinian protesters storm capitols all the time and we barely even hear about it on the news. So this has been blown way, way out of proportion.

@Torgo1969

11 күн бұрын

Well stated. It was mostly peaceful. If it had been a coup attempt, everyone there would have been armed and it would have been a massacre.

@tomdoall

Күн бұрын

As for the "storming the capital". I watched a live stream as it happened. Where the capitol police opened a door for the "invaders" and asked them to come in. As the group was walking past the entrance. One of the voices in the video said "I think this is a bad idea". I ask. Whose idea it was, Pelosi? In any case. The narrative is bullshit.

You showed a slide of a hospital where the administrators make millions, while a doctor starting out would make in the low to mid 100,000’s with a tremendous student loan burden. My hospital was taken over by a larger hospital and they decided to kick all the physicians in my department out. You were then invited to apply for your own job, but I never got the courtesy of any response to my re-application. So I looked for another job and when I found it I was told I had to stay until the end of the year so as not to “burn any bridges”. I had a family to feed and did not want to risk being unemployed in the new year. I had worked in that place for 15 years and this was how they treated doctors. Like disposable commodities.

@TheJeremyKentBGross

11 ай бұрын

Open your own practice. I'm a software engineer with about 20 years experience, and over time I've learned that working for big companies pays well but it tends to be boring and tedious and will treat you as disposable, and they are even worse to deal with as a customer, as they produce bureaucratic buggy crap. The most enjoyable software projects I've ever worked on was building stuff from relative scratch as a small team. The best products seem to be from such as well, and I can tell you with very few exceptions that the AAA high profile games are usually trash, and the real gyms are made by small highly dedicated teams. Given how my big hospital doctor lied to my face and was rude and pushy during covid, and many other factors, I'd rather have a doctor or two in a small business practice that I can know, and who I know will have more autonomy in their lives. As far as I can tell, small businesses and proprietors seem to be what I want to deal with now in almost all aspects of life. Big organizations are to Kafkaesque and untrustworthy. And try getting somebody from one on the phone, navigating mazes of menu's to prevent you from talking to an actual person.

@Walkdplankfrank

11 ай бұрын

Damn fuck the system. I'd hate to live in America, Australia is nicer

@Perrirodan1

11 ай бұрын

Australia, country that bans crossbow, locked everyone during covid, including people who just wanted to leave, and country that bans games and shows because it's "improper. It's a prison of a nation i think.

@darksu6947

11 ай бұрын

​@@WalkdplankfrankIt's rather difficult to live in 'Murica. Being able to think, say and do whatever I feel like doing at any particular moment is a horrible thing to be burdened with. I wish I lived in Upside-down Kangaroo Land like you, that way the government can do most of my thinking for me. 😂

@totaldramagamer5521

11 ай бұрын

​@@TheJeremyKentBGross So many people hate private practitioners for literally no reason. If you're not part of a giant medicare deal or hospital then they'll be an infinite amount of obstacles in your way... and then you get to deal with lousy patients. I get that one bad doctor can really screw up a person's future perspectives on doctors, but it's pretty bad now. "Privatized healthcare" is considered the devil to a lot of people.

Bro you are one of the most unique perspectives on this app like no one else would think to post a video like this. thanks for being one of the best on here.

@WhatifAltHist

11 ай бұрын

Aww,,,

@theangrydweller1002

11 ай бұрын

Makes me want to record my mind rambling and see if I can splice it into a coherent and upload it.

@charmyzard

11 ай бұрын

It's true though, @@WhatifAltHist

@pepethefrog50

11 ай бұрын

@@theangrydweller1002 Just because you lack the cognitive ability to understand that he is correct doesn't mean he is wrong.

@GalvanizedRobit

11 ай бұрын

⁠@@WhatifAltHistYou’re younger than me??? Being in a 1 month coma totally flipped my life, for either better or worse 🤷‍♂️ Although, to bring this bizarre comment back to what redbrick6885 said. I really appreciate your videos 😌

When I’m just sitting around bored, or waiting for something to do, I am tormented by the feeling that I am failing to realize my potential; that I should be someone of more renown and wealth. It’s rooted in vanity and I know this because it all goes away when I’m out in my backyard chopping up wood and getting dirty. Being in direct contact with the earth is such a vital part of the human condition and yet so many of us spend 99% of our time in contact only with concrete and carpet.

@LEKSANDER01

5 ай бұрын

I used to feel the same way too, I would become bored, do nothing for about 10 minutes and I could not handle it. I felt like I had to be productive and do something that leaned towards making money, or something of that sort. It was weird, I'm reading "The Burnout Society" by Byung-Chul Han and it describes this well. I recommend it.

@artOVtrolling

5 ай бұрын

@@LEKSANDER01 I feel burnt out on modernity itself. The neoliberal system we are caged within is fraudulent and it’s currency arbitrary and backed by nothing but a rapidly waning “confidence.” I don’t have high hopes that a book is gonna be able to ease a burnout stemming more from a morale crisis than over exertion, but maybe I’m wrong. I often am haha. I’ll add it to the list.

@matturner6890

4 ай бұрын

If I can speak in materialistic terms, that last sentence you wrote is MONEY!! You gave me a lot to chew on, thank you.

@DetPersc

3 ай бұрын

I feel similar, except it's also fueled with some anger that I was harassed by certain groups out of the potential via gaslighting/mobbing/stalking.

This video exactly explains what I’ve tried to tell other people. The thing is, I don’t need money or wealth, I just want to own a place and have a humble life. But everyone my age is obsessed with material crap. I spend $150-$200 a month on “want” goods, most of which is fishing gear and concert tickets.

@Torgo1969

11 күн бұрын

Nice. Bowling is the key for me.

I remember my pastor in the 90s was telling us about modernity. He knew it would be soul crushing, people would on,y live to chase pleasure, and sin would be celebrated. He thought it would take 50-100 years, but we’ve been speedrunning it.

@dr.vonslifeinvesting6485

11 ай бұрын

Cellphone/internet/socialmedia was an afterburner for destruction. The speed is shocking what I’ve seen the last 20 years.

@Cooldude-ko7ps

11 ай бұрын

Have you asked him what he thinks of today?

@fuckshitfuck69

11 ай бұрын

Ask him about when ww3 starts

@deanchur

11 ай бұрын

@@dr.vonslifeinvesting6485 Yep. If you take the 200-year cycle for civilisations I wasn't expecting the West to fail until the 2060's (if you consider the end of the US Civil War as the beginning and the Moon Landing as its apex). The internet and instant communication fast forwarded the decline.

@profet1385

11 ай бұрын

What a load of bullcrap. People were always living to chase pleasure, he wasn't giving you any news. Some guys society thinks of as messiahs j knew that over 2k years ago. That pastor just gave you the usual "it's the end of the world speech" that American pastors love to give. It was already happening. Its just now you see it more coz of live TV.

The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the face of increasing comforts

@gatergates8813

11 ай бұрын

The deepest happiness comes from overcoming difficulty- when everything is easy, nothing is satisfying

@Stryker98

11 ай бұрын

A certain german jew that wrote a certain book about class struggles made post industrial society noticeably more depressing than it should have.

@biggibbs4678

11 ай бұрын

If you believe in God, this just makes sense.

@gideondejongh838

11 ай бұрын

I get scolded for saying people of the past knew better and were smarter. Now that modernity sandwich does not taste so good huh.

@vincentseng

11 ай бұрын

My suggestion is that do dopamine fasting, once the brain neurons wiring return to the lowest expectation then give some comfort would give you more happiness otherwise it's going numb.

I only have 2 major criticisms of this video. Otherwise, it's a solid take. I'm a 48 year old right leaning independent, and i stopped being scared of covid after doing the math of the deaths from CDC numbers. I wouldn't take the vaccine no matter who was in office. It's untested and not worth the risk by using the numbers to assess the risk of dying from covid. My neighbors job forced him to take it, and he had 2 strokes shortly after. Most conservatives i know wouldn't take the vaccine if Trump was president upon its release. Secondly, the majority of conservatives against the Ukraine war know Ukraine is an authoritarian country like Russia, and we don't want to fund either side due to their corruption. We have our own financial issues and security concerns that are not being addressed, but we are printing money, which causes inflation, to fund defending a corrupt country with financial ties to our presidents family, while not securing our own border. It's not partisanship. It's that we are tired of funding never-ending wars while our citizens receive no help and the tax funded bill for these wars. Otherwise, it's a solid video. You're very insightful for being in your early 20's.

@Torgo1969

11 күн бұрын

Well stated on both topics. We know that Ukraine had killed 14,000 people (says the UN) in the Donbass regions between 2014 and 2021, and the same logic that the US used to bomb Serbia in 1999 was used by Putin to launch the SMO in Feb 2022. Not our problem. And the flaws of the jab clinical trial are so egregious that it turns the stomach of a medical professional like me. Glad to hear you avoided it.

I’m 49 and have called them human suits since my teenage years.

@matturner6890

4 ай бұрын

I wonder how many different names for it there were going back through time.

The worst thing my generation told your generation was that you are perfect just the way you are. Why strive for anything if you are already perfect?

@king-zahi2438

11 ай бұрын

I've noticed that a lot. That's why I lift, to show to others that improving oneself is not impossible.

@charlescaine6022

11 ай бұрын

@@king-zahi2438 that's great! Keep it up.

@jaredbryant8297

11 ай бұрын

Missed the point didn’t you

@king-zahi2438

11 ай бұрын

@@charlescaine6022 thanks bro

@charlescaine6022

11 ай бұрын

@@jaredbryant8297 I'm not perfect so I could have. What point do you think I missed?

Man, I'm 35, you kids grew up in a totally different world than I grew up in. Shout out grad class of '06.

@CMAzeriah

11 ай бұрын

Shout out from the class of 2020.

@michaelsilver253

11 ай бұрын

Right there with you, graduated HS the same year. I can't imagine being a kid today, and I say that as I'm trying to start a family

@jamielynn2585

11 ай бұрын

The 90s felt like there was a future, the 00s you saw your parents afraid for the future, the 10s you began to fear for the future, and the 20s you’re the close as humanity has been to it since the 60s.

@jrocker152

11 ай бұрын

Class of 08 here

@thomasspeer1388

11 ай бұрын

Shit dude. I’m 19 and you graduated 2 years after I was born. Just remembered how young I am lmao

I remember the first time I talked to a real life NPC. It was talking to an operator for support I needed at the time. The operator used premade cards to essentially talk to me and it was so obvious that he was reading it to me.

@libertatemadvocatus1797

10 ай бұрын

They make them do that. Call center work forces you become an NPC.

@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman

9 ай бұрын

​@@libertatemadvocatus1797oof

@VetkinaOlga

2 ай бұрын

I work support and these things are literally called "scripts" and you can be punished if you go too much off a script.

As always powerful stuff. Whatifalthis is easily one of my favorite channels left on KZread

@holyX

6 ай бұрын

Lol u Dunning-kruger showcase, you don't even know 0.01% of channels on yt yet openly delude yourself into thinking you know how much 'good ones' there are

@Tra982

3 ай бұрын

@@holyXnpc

Whatif: “I’m not into fantasy… but I spent my life crushing Tolkien” Whatif: “I’m not a gamer… but I spent my life crushing StarCraft”

@caniblmolstr452

11 ай бұрын

Wiah - I am not an incel but my fav ppl are Tate and Petersen

@tanimation7289

11 ай бұрын

@@caniblmolstr452 That dose not make you a incel.

@peaches4623

11 ай бұрын

Petersen has done more for young men by telling them to make their beds than anyone I know 😆

@shadowling77777

11 ай бұрын

Right? Lmao

@di4352

11 ай бұрын

Top comment.

Let's be real, we are all just NPCs in the Story of the REAL player one, Chris Chan

@SabbaticusRex

11 ай бұрын

You spelled Kanye West incorrectly , but yes . When Kanye isn't looking at me or thinking about me , I go to a dark place and cease existing .

@scudinferno

11 ай бұрын

Long live sonichu

@The_Natalist

11 ай бұрын

Please Lord no

@fishsticklord5147

11 ай бұрын

He warned you of the dimensional merge, and the world laughed at him

@tyeferguson5109

11 ай бұрын

It's the darkest timeline, then.

Thats what frustrates me most as a Christian conservative. Most "Conservatives" are just anti-leftists. They dont create any of there own culture and dont seem to think rationally beyond the current group consensus. Im voting for Trump, but every now and again he has a policy hiccup. I rightfully criticize it and immediately get the " are you a traitor" stare.

It’s fascinating that it’s the generation that was affirmed and indulged the most that has developed the most apathy and the least interest in exploration.

@isaac6077

10 ай бұрын

The only thing leftists understand how to do is actively make humanity regress as a species

@scorpixel1866

10 ай бұрын

When told that you are born perfect, the only way is down.

I have lived in the same town almost my entire life. The friends I made moved on. The forests I grew up in are being cut down for subdivisions full of standardized homes with no character. My boss is an abstraction because all of my assignments happen through a online job board. I'm going back into an industrial scale secondary education institution that has campuses scattered around the burgeoning megalopolis to complete the educational requirements for a professional license in the desperate hope I can obtain enough money to make something of my life. All of those classes are online post-COVID so I need to go out of my way to form professional relationships. The best plan I have right now for long term happiness and the hope of a wife and children is to make enough money to leave the only I place I've truly known for the chance of better prospect, like my Scot-Irish and French ancestors did in the 1700s. The only reason my world is merely brutal and not completely bleak is because I have a family, a religion, and because I'm part of a local social club. Those three things keep life from being a desperate struggle.

@chilledoutrobot6358

11 ай бұрын

Good luck man

@guildmagetroy5153

11 ай бұрын

@@chilledoutrobot6358 Thanks. Good luck to you as well.

@sirliner8035

11 ай бұрын

Does your plan include SEAmaxxing for that wife & child? Might want to consider it

@HeortirtheWoodwarden

11 ай бұрын

​@@sirliner8035what?

@Amanitaland

11 ай бұрын

I can see that where I live now and I've only been here five years. Especially the deforestation.

99% of schools teaches children to be NPCs, usually people who were ostrasized or seen as deviant for various reasons can unplug and see learn (unschool yourself) to see the world for what it is.

@Star.Chaser

11 ай бұрын

Mate at least schools were originally made to teach people how to be productive and useful. If no one did normal jobs even 50 years ago we’d be beyond fucked.

@leoal9294

11 ай бұрын

​@@Star.Chasernot to be rude by any means,but in a more detailed look into the roots of the education system, school in the traditional way we know it as was created for there to be more lower class workers prior to the industrial revolution to keep the economy going,in simplified terms. if we go back further in time,the original system is from ancient rome,where the point was to create individuals who were physically strong and capable so they could partake in the army,but also develop an eloquent speech and ability to debate so they could be participating members of their democratic society. of course,neither versions are perfect,but the current one inherently places one's worth on whether their abilities are profitable in a capitalistic world,which is inherently wrong because humans all have different sets of capabilities,some of which are not "profitable",especially creative fields, and philosophically every individual has inherent worth to them. tl,dr; school does not exist to create 'useful' citizens,just profitable ones.

@caringheart34

11 ай бұрын

​@@leoal9294 If we made schools into unprofitable ones, we'd likely see a scenario similar to A Clockwork Orange.

@leoal9294

11 ай бұрын

@@caringheart34 so? it was still just fact. the point of my comment was saying that school doesn't create 'useful' citizens,it creates profitable ones. but I'm assuming you forgot to take a look at how i made no implication that schools have to be 'unprofitable' and mostly missed the point of my reply. my comment was made in an entirely neutral tone,stating only historical facts that have proven true so far in order to correct the former statement between profit and usefulness.

@Estelle2007

11 ай бұрын

I prefer the way I used the term since 2006. Long before it meant what it does now. I didn't always use it as an insult. It was just a way to refer to a person in the background who you have minimal to no interaction with, isn't well known by you or society as a whole, or does anything particularly memorable in that moment. It was also relative. All but the most famous (or infamous) of us were NPCs to someone else. Like being part of the audience at a movie theater. When it was used as an insult, it really had nothing to do with being incompetent. Just relatively ordinary. For example, Navy Seals compared to the common, random Military Police seen on a base.

Industrialization is simply making lots of the same thing. That's what a factory *is.* So industrial society *needs* everyone to be the same, to sell the samey products. This entire philosophy is itself packaged and exported so industrial society can expand. From food to houses to media, everything is mass produced, and you will pay prohibitively more to be unique, or be content to have less than others. That's the key. Be content to have less, but better, stuff. This *requires* you to train yourself to ignore all advertizement and marketing at all times, everywhere, because industrial society doesn't *want* you to be content, lest it fail selling you the product and thus cease expanding.

@Torgo1969

11 күн бұрын

Pure GOLD!

I remember in High School AP Literature we were assigned Brave New World. I picked up the book, and flipped through the first two chapters - I then devoured the entire book that afternoon and night. I was always an avid bibliophile, but for the first time I read a book that definied the world I lived in perfectly and recognized that fact instantly, and suddenly everything began to make sense. If you havent read it, give it a chance, despite being written a century ago it outlines everything we are dealing with today like no other story has.

@Thomas-rv1wi

10 ай бұрын

Wake me up when the state starts mandating sexual partners.

@ALFA-sm2nm

8 ай бұрын

People dont know about it, because it was too correct. Instead they focus on 1984 and fill their heads with delusions of a hypertotalitarian government thats simply not feasible. Unlike BNW. We will enslave ourselves. We've already started.

@hopperstreams4487

7 ай бұрын

I hated that book, seven year olds diddling each other isn't really my thing.

@ALFA-sm2nm

7 ай бұрын

@@hopperstreams4487 You miss the point. It was to highlight how a society focused on enslaving itself would embrace hedonism at early ages, essentially programming the citizenry early on. You can see it nowadays - influence in the media and world around us idolizing sex and drugs, which influences the youth disproportionately.

Modern fashion at first confused me, but when i learned that people actually think ‘OFF WHITE’ ‘SHOES’ looked good it became clear people are too conditioned by advertisements to not become one, as the saying goes: “You become what you put your attention to”. these people became advertisements.

@brandonlemon2060

11 ай бұрын

Yep, I'll never wear anything with a loud logo. At least not if I'm paying for it. But we know people wear that stuff as a status symbol rather than fashion. Completely ignorant of the fact that it is peak NPC attire.

@matthewmizrachi1877

11 ай бұрын

“You become what you put your attention to” kinda sounds like the saying “you become what you think about” from Earl nightingale’s “The Strangest Secret” and I think it’s just different ways of saying the same thing, interesting stuff. By the way, look up the strangest secret by earl nightingale, it can help you be better

@matthewmizrachi1877

11 ай бұрын

@@Fgwaywouldn’t they be discounted to discourage it?

@TaraConti

11 ай бұрын

If that’s the case then can we go back to the days of Marky mark & Kate Moss, Calvin Klein ads! Lol

@matthewmizrachi1877

11 ай бұрын

@@Fgway I know what you’re saying, but now I’m just confused, so let me get this straight, logo goods used to be discounted to encourage their adoption because they used to not be popular, and now we’re dealing with the ramifications of them being popular?

Must be really cool to watch the downfall of modern civilization being a historian Also I think it's time to change the channel name to Whatifactualhist

@juggernautnation369

11 ай бұрын

Or Whatisactualhist

@SuperCulverin

11 ай бұрын

This is the best timeline. Future proves past.

@JayVal90

11 ай бұрын

The real althist is the friends we made along the way.

@Eleku

11 ай бұрын

I love the channel, but I disagree with his extreme pessimism. I don't see any signs of the downfall of our civilization. Our problems are small compared to the problems of previous civilizations.

@tristanthamm505

11 ай бұрын

@@ElekuI disagree. Mainly because of the birthrate which is a ticking time bomb and a problem that has yet to been solved by any industrial nation. Immigration will be a band-aid solution to this but this isn’t a sustainable model.

No matter the race. I could NEVER respect, or be friends with someone who hates or is ashamed of their race. Your race is apart of who you are as a person, and is 1 of the things i appreciate about you. Being ashamed of that in a way, diminishes some of the unique qualities (respect, self respect, and honor) i'd look for in a friend.

My Big 5's openness trait measures around 80% (Roughly translates to 80% on the MBTI N). I was the weirdo kid growing up, who always thinks about weird new things and abstract thoughts, and no one around me could understand someone like me until I climbed the higher education and workforce. Grad school in pure mathematics felt like the place where I met most people who are like me, open minded and not afraid of new ideas, and philosophical discussion about anything is the norm

I'm 41, and I see this. Not sure why so many others can't. It's weird. The world has definitely gone mad.

@buddhastl7120

11 ай бұрын

Western civ has been carefully steered towards madness. None of this is random.

@AdolfStalin

11 ай бұрын

I’m the same age as you

@timspiker

11 ай бұрын

I'm 27 and I definitely see it. The memories of the world before phones are glorious, I was maybe 7 years old but I remember, people just had more time for one another and they actually cared. Now everyone is stuck on their screens. I got rid of my phone and so my friends got rid of me, it was inconvenient to them. That's how stupid spoiled people are, they're absorbed in a bubble and don't realize what they're doing because everyone is doing the same thing. It's horde behavior. I chose not to be part of that and suddenly you can no longer function even though I'm human just like them but also not like them... it's weird. It's like trying to explain to a zombie that they're a zombie and I'm not sick they are sick... But all zombies want to do is eat your brains and they don't care, they're in that brain eating mindset.

@badart3204

11 ай бұрын

@@timspikerYour friends are smart and you overestimated your position in their life. You are a hassle they can do without so they did as it’s not like they don’t have other friends that don’t make communication hard. They aren’t zombies you are just a contrarian that expects people to cater to your odd demands.

@timspiker

11 ай бұрын

@@badart3204 see, you are like everyone else. It's not difficult to communicate trough email, times, locations, appointments. You are spoiled and willing to sacrifice life over it. That is the difference. Inconveniences are everywhere in life and mine's the phone and theirs is a person, this is the core difference between moral decisions and materialism.

FWIW I'm 51 and most of my adult life I've been trying to tell younger people "It's not just going to just be OK, the authorities lied to you" and for most of my life I've been labeled a misanthrope, or whatever insulting descriptor sits opposite of each authority figure's alignment. I've gotten through to about 7 people, and these have become some of my most trusted friends.

@MonsieurWorldwide

11 ай бұрын

Anyone who's switched on, no matter their age, is aware that it's not gonna be okay.

@tuckerbugeater

11 ай бұрын

Seems like a lot of people just want to go around warning people instead of actually working to fix the situation.

@tuckerbugeater

11 ай бұрын

Now they got you vulnerable and open up for the next metal injection

@user-rn7sw8pz2w

11 ай бұрын

If you just warn them, then they will learn the world is cruel not when they grow up, but from now on. You shouldn't just scare people, you need to come up with tomething better. Sadly, I haven't yet.

@gideondejongh838

11 ай бұрын

@@MonsieurWorldwide The problem is most people in the world are not.

The right wingers would’ve taken more of the shots if Trump was president, but I don’t think the number would’ve been drastically different. For example, I was never going to take those shots. Donald Trump would’ve never mandated the shots. He just wanted to give you the choice to take one.

just destroy the Machine and return to Monke.

Memeology is not a serious field of study. Yet.

@leandersearle5094

11 ай бұрын

We're already in clown world, why not take jokes seriously?

@bgbuilds2712

11 ай бұрын

I hope that one of my shitposts makes it into a history textbook.

@joshuarichardson6529

11 ай бұрын

Memeology is a thing, but it's called Sociology in college.

@SpadesPlaysIt

11 ай бұрын

​@@joshuarichardson6529This is true and funny at the same time

@sethd.8381

11 ай бұрын

memeology is advanced decentralized advertising

As someone growing up in a small village next to a beautiful forest, with no expectations but to be myself, joining society has been hugely traumatizing for me. I had this beautiful and mystical view of the world, and felt like I could just trust anyone… It all fell apart piece by piece like a big lie over my teenage years. I still hold on to that vision, but I just can’t deny the corrupt bigotry that’s happening everywhere around me. Now I’m literally obsessed with economy, politics and especially history to make sense of this society, but once I have the resources I need you’ll see me moving off grid permaculture style.

@zainabzolita8436

11 ай бұрын

I also used to live in a small town and when I moved to a city it's been rough yesterday I was chased down my own street by a old man and big women telling me to go back to where I come from can't even take a walk without horrible stuff happening

@pandoranbias1622

11 ай бұрын

I wish you luck. The US government doesn't tolerate those who try to go off-grid.

@shadowling77777

11 ай бұрын

@@pandoranbias1622true

@justinmadonna3733

11 ай бұрын

Just turn the news off bro make your life better

@pandoranbias1622

11 ай бұрын

@@justinmadonna3733 "Just ignore all the problems you see bro"

I’m 38. We left the house at 10 am,came home when the street lights came on. We used our imaginations, created things, dealt with life the old fashioned way and came out stronger because of it. I wish I could raise my kids in a world like that…this one sucks.

@StevenSpergburg

10 ай бұрын

I can't breed

Corpos/Govt: May I take your order? Consumer/Citizen: Uh yeah, I’ll have a burger, and large fries with a side of Pfizer please.

I usually just don't care enough to get into a more meaningful conversation with most people so I probably end up just doing the surface level npc conversation when forced to speak with people

@SabbaticusRex

11 ай бұрын

I too suffer from crippling apathy for the most part -- but that also tends to get me into prodding and playing with people by steering convos into some seriously weird places and studying their reactions . People are fascinating when pressed but absolutely mind numbingly boring on average .

@hungedteddy7971

11 ай бұрын

​@@SabbaticusRexSounds like y'all got a case of NPC SYNDROME!😮

@LoganLS0

11 ай бұрын

I can't listen to people say Commie things without calling them on it.

@urphakeandgey6308

11 ай бұрын

I'm similar. Especially at work, I basically operate on auto pilot... And my social auto pilot is pretty bad. Everyone at work just thinks I'm a shy person or something. In reality, I would consider myself a bit of an extrovert.

@oronk60

11 ай бұрын

But what kind of conversations do you expect to have at a convenience store or a Cafe? It goes without saying that you aren't going to find deep emotional interactions there.

I’m 50 and it really messed me up when I found out a few years ago that some people don’t have an inner dialogue. A lot of things clicked into place for me from the past when I found that out.

@TheMysteryDriver

11 ай бұрын

Those people can still process and do stuff. They're programmers and stuff. What should blow you away is that people with like 90 and below IQs can't imagine scenarios. If you said "What would you have done if you hit a deer on your way to work today?" And they can't process it. They'll just respond with stuff like "I didn't hit a deer today".

@mcalo2000

11 ай бұрын

@@TheMysteryDriver that’s wild. Ty

@EURIPODES

10 ай бұрын

Yup some people don't have a inner monologue, a minds eye, or color sight. Just imagine being the guy without all three.

@TheMysteryDriver

10 ай бұрын

@@EURIPODES color sight? You mean they have color blindness?

@feefawfern8240

10 ай бұрын

That sounds like the theory of the bicameral mind and one of its main points was that religion and god(s) were providing the equivalent of the "inner dialogue" and as science took over more parts of society more people started developing more of their own individual inner dialogue, allowing more individuals to imagine what they would do if they hit a deer on the way to work, rather than imagining that god would be speaking to them and telling them what to do.

Some "npcs" don't like having to watch these types of videos. They get angry, uncomfortable, and depressed. Sometimes, some people are better left alone to just live. Otherwise they implode.

Revolution doesn't work; reformation does.

Ironically one of the messages of the Matrix trilogy is that humans and machines are symbiotic but the machines also know that some humans cannot handle living in an artificial world so to deal with the problem they just factor this into their mechanical plan by giving the humans both an outlit, a faith, and a messiah figure for the humans that cant handle the artifical world only to purge them when they hit a critical mass.

The reason "NPC" is such a compelling description for so many people, is they respond in such incredibly predictable ways. Bring up any subject in conversation, and you can predict word for word what they will say - it will be whatever the corporate/mainstream/regime media said about that subject most recently. It becomes striking when you realize, "Orange man bad" or "diversity is our strength" is really just the same verbal tick as "I took an arrow to the knee" and "Do you get to the cloud district often?"

@sonnyb7612

11 ай бұрын

Women are the most easily predictable with the things they say. The relationship podcasts make it real easy for the hosts cuz they get hit with the same shit over and over again.

@amadeusagripino6862

11 ай бұрын

​@@sonnyb7612 to quote Orwell's 1984: "It was always the women, and above all the young ones, who were the most bigoted adherents of the Party, the swallowers of slogans, the amateur spies and nosers−out of unorthodoxy."

@MonsieurWorldwide

11 ай бұрын

The current thing must be supported at all costs

@SootShade

11 ай бұрын

Exactly. An NPC's media digest can be essentially likened to programming updates. And that's basically the extent of the applicability of the meme - the superficial resemblance of an ideologically captured individual to an NPC. Whatifalthist largely misses the point by trying to go too deep into it.

@HeortirtheWoodwarden

11 ай бұрын

​@@sonnyb7612I feel like relationship podcast guests are not representative of the average woman, they're usually bimbos.

As I am new to the channel, I really wasn't expecting such a insightful analysis about our modern times from just a KZread video that claims to be on Real Life NPCs. Amazing content.

What is a real life NPC? A person enacting the will of another, and while it can happen to people on both the left and the right, it is more predominant on the left because of their embrace of collectivism. Collectivism and individualism are not two equal but opposing forces. Individualism is superior, it can produce collectivism. Collectivism can not produce individualism.

love how it used to be an alternate history channel, and now its more about denouncing hypocrisy and stupidity not complaining though, kinda seem like the natural outcome of the world we live in

@The_WatchList

11 ай бұрын

Exactly. The world only feels like it is getting more foolish and the logical, decent human can't abide by that so they push back.

@presidentmerkinmuffley6769

11 ай бұрын

Perhaps because when plotting alternate history you have to read actual history...

@M33f3r

11 ай бұрын

And then you have to make it logical wich is what the powers do NoT want.

@Paul-xu6gt

11 ай бұрын

this channel used to be somewhat itelligent, now it's become an incel whining about girls and gays people, Rudyard really has become pathetic

@svendevarennes520

11 ай бұрын

Isn't that what happened to life itself though?

I love when NPCs see me and immediately act like I should know everything about them, like I should want to.

@mam0lechinookclan607

11 ай бұрын

In my world you are an NPC, people who unironically use this word, are most likely just the most delusionaö arrogant people, who you can find.

@sageoverheaven

11 ай бұрын

​@@mam0lechinookclan607What makes you say this?

@scholaroftheworldalternatehist

11 ай бұрын

Sonder is when you understand everyone has a life as complex as yours. Perhaps you'll experience it one day

@MeanBeanComedy

11 ай бұрын

​@@scholaroftheworldalternatehistBut they don't. You can only believe that if you haven't met people. Some folks are *incredibly* simple. It feels nice to say "we're all the same" with our complexity, but that's just more modernist claptrap like in the video.

@Supiragon1998

11 ай бұрын

​​@@scholaroftheworldalternatehistMaybe, but their reponses to the complexities of their lives are often different. I'm actually jelaous of NPCs in that aspect, since they seem to be better adapted to the weird world we live in.

"you cant have a society if everyone has their own truths" TRUE, which is why everyone should unite under ONE religion, MY religion. So that we all share the same rules and values (mine)

I often act as an NPC so that people don't talk to me...

Whatifalthist has become far more based than I ever imagined he'd ever become

@The_WatchList

11 ай бұрын

My opinion, it's because he's a logical, decent human. And in this world currently, to be logical and decent forces you to be based because everything else is.. Subpar to be polite.

@sk8trryan1997

11 ай бұрын

/pol/ wins again

@Stryker98

11 ай бұрын

Whatifalthist, Leather Apron Club and Metatron are the based triumvirate pushing back against the narratives set by Marxist "historians" like Atun-Shei.

@M33f3r

11 ай бұрын

@@sk8trryan1997pol is always right. No exceptions. Always. I didn’t choose to be obsessed with truth but our world forces everyone to the right of stalin into the based path.

@sk8trryan1997

11 ай бұрын

@@M33f3r the sun rises from the glow of the east, a sign of freedom.

Modern society is sick. It's like junk food for the soul. We are fat, lonely, miserable and cynical.

@amadeusagripino6862

11 ай бұрын

I long for the time this sickness end this corrupt and crooked society for once and all

@tuckerbugeater

11 ай бұрын

Yes and historically others like you have always worshiped the end of days nothing new

@arthurfleck8934

11 ай бұрын

pithy accurate comment

@justinrogers1807

11 ай бұрын

This just sounds like America in general

@rey_nemaattori

11 ай бұрын

We're lonely cuz we're just scolling on social media, no longer going out or interact. We're fat cuz we don't exercise and eat absolute friggin garbage. We're miserable and cynical because of the first two. You can just stop scrolling, go out and get in shape..gives you two less reasons to be miserable and cynical?

Explaining what NPCs are to someone who doesn't play videogames feels so painful and cringy lol

All I can say is its a little disheartening watching someone make my yearly income in one day 💀💀 Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

@SabbaticusRex

11 ай бұрын

But at what cost -- don't forget they may be grifting lots of money but at the cost of their own integrity , honor , morality , etc . Their souls are tattered sh1t-stained rags and there is no putting the toothpaste back into that tube .

@vincentlu8856

11 ай бұрын

You’re in 29 Palms, aren’t you?

@rey_nemaattori

11 ай бұрын

There's people who make 100k per minute, but that doesn't make me unhappy with the 50k or so I make per year. Sure it could be more, but I'm not really lacking anything, I have my own house, a wife, my own social life. I wouldn't want to give that up and work 100+ hours per week for a decade to make a shot at earning millions per week.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but the whole NPC thing came around because there are some ppl out there who don't have an internal monologue. They don't hear a voice inside their head. Their mind is literally blank and they simply just exist. That's where it began anyway.

@ethanetn

11 ай бұрын

I remember a quote that a greek philosopher said ( i think it was plato) that said a slave is something like a body with no agency. They arent animals but they arent people either

@XenusSerathiiIcelon

11 ай бұрын

Correct, that is the source of the meme. There are also people who can not 'see' in their imagination either, if they try to picture something or think back to a memory they just don't get anything. They may remember what happened or be able to understand what the thing they're trying to picture should be like, but not see it in their mind But that was the start of the 'npc' meme, which then started getting applied to people who only got their opinions from the news. And then it expanded a bit more

@normanclatcher

11 ай бұрын

Aphantasia is an unfortunate coincidence, but doesn't preclude NPC characterization.

@joshuarichardson6529

11 ай бұрын

"A man chooses, a slave obeys." -Andrew Ryan (Bioshock) If you live your life in fear of what random people on the internet say about you, then you're doomed to be enslaved to them.

@The13thRonin

11 ай бұрын

@@XenusSerathiiIcelon I'm actually one of the people who has no ability to 'see' in my imagination and was surprised to learn that others have this ability. However this doesn't preclude someone from being an independent thinker. Just because we can't mentally visualize doesn't mean that we can't have abstract thoughts. In fact I find that I think more critically about the world than most people around me. I guess this is similar to how blind people end up sharpening their other senses so they can still engage with the world.

Dude said covid could have brought us together. That threw out everything else.

while the left-right brain theory is a popular concept in popular culture, it is an oversimplification and not an accurate representation of how the brain truly works.

Goethe did not invent physiognomy, it dates back to at least the ancient Greeks. A guy named porphyry writes that Pythagoras practiced it on prospective students to decide if they were worthy

@ulforcemegamon3094

11 ай бұрын

Also didn't that thing had a success rate of like over 70% ? If you ask me that is a pretty high success rate for something that would be considered "discriminating","baseless" in our modern society

@thereaction18

11 ай бұрын

Admiral Thrawn invented it a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.

@cadowyn735

11 ай бұрын

He’s always been my favorite “villain” for his use of art to study his enemies. Books were great. Even enjoyed the new ones a lot until the most recent one…seemed like it was more about that girl Chiss than him.

@brightlight3520

11 ай бұрын

wow so spot on

There's an npc theory that says there's not enough souls to go around so thwts why we have so many npcs now

@WhatifAltHist

11 ай бұрын

This is a theory in Buddhism and the esoteric tradition

@thealaskanseparatist6786

11 ай бұрын

​@WhatifAltHist it's correct isn't

@Stryker98

11 ай бұрын

Simulation theory is the most probable answer imo, look up the double-slit experiment.

@C12341

4 ай бұрын

Some people think it's a young soul versus old soul thing. Like if you're an older soul you might be more of a composite of prior experiences and you'll have several "yous" running the game simultaneously or overlapping incarnated at the same time. Then next time around you're more of a composite. Some people have more "light" than others and I think the younger folks need to interact with the older to learn how to generate their own "light" (you can't live off borrowed light saying for example) but some people in service to self status learn to vampirize that life energy etc because they're choosing to be evil and so are cut off from the light and need to steal it until they make good choices again. So they need to steal it, not borrow it. Like draining people or "energy vampires." Could all be wrong but it's interesting. TL:DR some people are playing several characters at the same time depending on their soul age and then those lives combine in their next life I guess

Ugh okay so I watched the entire video. I think a few things are being conflated here. The politicization of almost every aspect of our culture is something particularly unique among the left. Once the left secured and leveraged the US Supreme Court to push its ideals (after realizing that they couldn’t do it via the ballot box), then almost lost the Supreme Court as a weapon to cudgel the unenlightened of the country, they still quickly identified “lawfare” as a weapon and has become more efficient at using it as the years go by. That, paired with the Vanguard “ESG mafia” types showed a weakness in our laws and culture that has motivated the left to continue using lawfare as a weapon. At the point, the right is just flailing and reacting to those attacks the only way they know how: get the word out and debate folks with the confidence that their position is the right one. It’s naturally the wrong approach since the left has also adopted a pretty strict “censorship is awesome” doctrine since the folks controlling most media outlets are leftist and believe in the cause. This is why we are all looking at ourselves wondering why we are having a big argument about whether mutilating the genitals of miners is a bad thing or not. 5-10 years everyone would say “wtf that is bad!”. Now, your career is ruined and your friends shamed for even suggesting it’s a bad thing. The left is moving the goal posts fast enough that they are already shoveling propaganda on their next task while the right is still arguing whether gay marriage is right or wrong.

I work construction and I swear I can tell which people on a job site are able to thing and which ones are "ants". not that they cant work hard, but they can NOT think on their own.

It's so weird to me hearing that most other people grew up being told to follow their dreams and that they could become whatever they wanted to be. I was told incessantly that the important thing was that whatever I did, I should work my hardest and do the best that I could. I don't know how many times growing up that if I ended up a ditch digger, I should be the hardest working ditch digger. I was a hard-working software engineer for 30 years and I retired early. I look back on my life and am satisfied, and I owe a lot of it to that upbringing.

@matthewmizrachi1877

11 ай бұрын

You had great parents, I’m 20 and I have great parents too, I’ve always been told to try my best and put in my best effort, especially with school

@matthewmizrachi1877

11 ай бұрын

@@tropics8407 what was

@tropics8407

11 ай бұрын

@tbobtbob330 Boom 👊 that was nicely done 🤗

Moral of this: Stay out of urban hellholes😂 But seriously, avoid these types and hang out with more down-to-earth people and also imbibe good culture and traditions.

@SabbaticusRex

11 ай бұрын

Basically hang out with people who work for a living . .

@LarryWater

11 ай бұрын

Urban areas have the most massage parlors.

@MonsieurWorldwide

11 ай бұрын

Go to the city before the city comes to you

@rainmcmey

11 ай бұрын

Man, I grew up outside an urban hellhole, dreamed of an urban hellhole until I was in my late teens, moved to an urban hellhole at the first opportunity, and you couldn’t pay me to move back. Fuck, I wouldn’t even move to a large town unless it was going to quintuple the size of my house and have a sub-10 minute cheap commute back into the city. Idk where your head is on this, and more power to you, go get it, but small town folk are on average the most mind numbing, un-creative people I’ve ever met, I’ve legitimately had more interesting interactions with pigeons in urban parks than with some of my closest neighbours in my home town. /Those/ people are NPCs, jesus christ.

@rashidisw

11 ай бұрын

Be wary of people who attempt to flee those urban hellholes as they often bring with them the mentality that led to the manifestations of those urban hellholes in the first place.

This video just went on rants and tangents without really talking about the NPC issue.

Your videos are an intellectual breath of fresh air

As a person who has lived his entire life in a rural area People will often forget about any dumb things you did when you were younger because they don't care

@fauberkaupfmann982

11 ай бұрын

Somehow, that scares me even further. Like total indifference, if your actions dont mean anything to anyone, does that mean you were not even there? Its like that saying: "if people rememebered you even existed 2 yrs after you died, consider your life a victory" but thats still pretty horrible and the lowest common denominator...😢

A thing i noticed is, it's almost impossible now, to talk about "deep" complex issues with others. They just try to avoid it, or drive away the Issue with Jokes.

@tuckerbugeater

11 ай бұрын

What purpose does it serve them? You're just giving them problems without any solutions.

@deriznohappehquite

11 ай бұрын

Because you are an autistic moron and they don’t care about your delusional opinions.

@normanclatcher

11 ай бұрын

I love Jokes. They're shorthand communication tools.

@killerkraut9179

11 ай бұрын

@@tuckerbugeater Who say there isnt any solutions! Often you have to talk about problems first to come to the solution!

@killerkraut9179

11 ай бұрын

Maybe can talk to me?

I think NPC meme strikes so deep into the cultural zeitgeist is because most of the folk feel or want desperately to feel like they're the protagonist of their own story. The capitalist and hustle culture pushes individuality and rogue element as THE desirable trait to strive towards, but in reality, only a small minority has a chance to reap the rewards of such system. Most of the people are just left hopelessly to survive and grind in the matrix, because in reality, a lot of people lack agency in the civilization that is completely overdriven by competition and technological progress, so many just shut off and run on basically safe-mode to live in a way that attracts the least amount of chaos into their lives.

@Kafilkavich23

9 ай бұрын

Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.

As a kid, I was very right leaning. But as I got older, I realized, no the left were right about some things. However, since I've gotten older, the left have completely abandoned reasonable discourse. I wish I could still talk and debate those who were socialists back in 2012, as the more intelligible and reasonable person that I am now. Unfortunately, they don't exist anymore.

@rogierb5945

4 ай бұрын

Socialism is socialism. Doesnt really matter what year it is. Result: mass poverty and millions dead every single time.

Dude, you are insanely wise for a 22-year-old. I'm in my 60s and most of my peers are nowhere near your level.

@cavemann_

11 ай бұрын

This guy is 22?!

@usurpvision

11 ай бұрын

Yes, this guy is 22.

@usurpvision

11 ай бұрын

UwU

@chuckdavinci9044

11 ай бұрын

He's not wise at all, not even for the fool he is.

@John3.36

11 ай бұрын

He is an AI robot.

We are at the point were silly meme drawings are now turning into political satires

@rey_nemaattori

11 ай бұрын

Memes were always political&cultural satire to some extend....

@johndcoffee632

11 ай бұрын

Always have been bro

@Yea___

11 ай бұрын

Always have be- oh, someone already said that

@alandelaruiz4403

11 ай бұрын

I personally noticed during Trump's administration. I think that was because I had just graduated high school though

Before the term "NPC" came to be used this way, I was already characterizing such people as "mindless automata" -- largely because as an old school dungeon master I associated the term "NPC" with characters whose lines were ad-libbed in real time by a real person rather than video game characters. The point is, while the scripted video game character analogy works well, they were noticeable online well before that analogy was made. (PS: Care or not, the term was coined by American wargamers in the 1970s.)

Rudyard is the most articulate person I have ever listened to.

My dad always called people I'd now call NPCs, "clueless"

@solrosenberg4529

11 ай бұрын

I’m 45, I used to call these kinds of people The Borg from Star Trek before NPC was a thing.

In "my truth", the man I saw just standing on the corner was a grave threat to me, so I was acting in self-defense. Imagine a world where only your truth matters. Every person is the main character in the movie, and everyone else is just supporting cast.

@QrazyQuarian

11 ай бұрын

In a way, you might be able to equate it to one of those Battle Royale a everyone is playing these days. Everyone's the main character and there can only be one winner, or truth, at the end of the day. Someone else's truth throws you out of the game.

@usurpvision

11 ай бұрын

I support the theory that Fortnite is a harbinger of the apocalypse, yes. The horseman of conquest, yes.

Since we're talking gaming, I've been doing a second playthough of Xenoblade 3, and I think it has some interesting commentary on the subject. One which IMO kind of flew over a lot of people's heads. Here's your spoiler warning. So the premise of the game is you have these child soldiers fighting an endless war between two nations, Keves and Agnes. Pretty on the nose here if you know those are the Hebrew and Latin words for "lamb". Each colony of soldiers is shackled to a "clock", which measures their life force. Taking enemy lives charges up the clock. If you can't take enough, it gradually runs out, and the entire colony will parish. If your colony does well enough in battle, they will also rank up and get access to better quality supplies from HQ. So there's both a material and existential reason for the soldiers to keep fighting. And nobody questions it. Except your main character, Noah, who performs funeral rites for his colony. After "sending off" countless friends, he starts wondering what the point of it all is. The others think he's a bit off his rocker for having these thoughts, but tolerate him because he's a good guy who's decent at his job. For most soldiers, the dream is to survive 10 years of service, where they die a peaceful death in the embrace of their nation's queen, at an elaborate "homecoming" ceremony. Even then, very few reach this point. Eventually Noah and his friends discover the truth of the world, after encountering a strange man who's much older than should be possible, at least from their frame of reference. (All soldiers die when they turn 20, and they're "born" already at age 10.) In reality, the entire war is a sham. The system really only exists to allow a small number of elites, called Mobius, to live forever, which is accomplished by harvesting lifeforce from soldiers who die in battle. Even the ranks are fake. They're meant to keep the soldiers motivated. However, once a colony gets too good, they get purged in order to maintain the stalemate. Those elites want a static and unchanging world in an "endless now", because they all fear the uncertainty of the future. The old man provides Noah and friends with a McGuffin akin to an Apple of Eden, which frees them from the cycle by essentially giving them agency. He tells them to go to a place called the "City", where they will see what true humanity is. Which turns out to be located inside the giant sword you can always see no matter where you are on the map. There they see a woman with a newborn (and since they're tank bred clones, hilariously learn how babies are actually made), couples embracing, wise elders, children playing, and it really opens their eyes to what's really important. Noah then resolve that he will destroy the world if he has to, so everyone can have this authentic existence, rather than being a slave to the bad guys. Even if that means giving up everything he holds dear. Something his past incarnations had tried, but failed as they couldn't let go of their fear. The current Noah kind of comes to represent the Übermensch. in this context. Who's transcendence is manifested in the Sword of Origin/Lucky Seven; a primordial blade that can cut through anything, and (literally) contains the spirit of logos (reason). When he's able to unlock the sword's full power, he also wears a gauntlet that contains the spirit of pneuma, or "breath of life". Something passed down to him by the hopes and dreams his great-grandson (it's JRPG logic, just roll with it). The game's writer, Tetsuya Takahashi, really likes to explore philosophy in his work. More so in Gears and Saga than the Blade series, but it's still there. It certainly seems like an allegory for the modern world. Draining your life away as a cog in this massive industrial machine, shackled to a clock, never questioning it, all for the benefit of faceless leaders who only have their own interests in mind. People just accept that's how it is, even though nobody really knows why, let alone enjoys it. Meanwhile the key to authentic existence was hidden in plain sight all along. I think it says a lot about our leaders too. Some of the Mobius are of course straight up psychopaths and cartoon villains. Others meanwhile gave into fear and despair, and decided to join the bad guys because they saw no other way to have agency in this world. And they just learn to accept the hypocrisy of it over time, thus perpetuating the cycle of violence, because they see it as a better alternative to an uncertain future. That is at least until one does decide to take a stand and blow it all up from the inside. There's also elements of persona and shadow here too. Less overt than the Persona series, but definitely a key element to the villains. It's also a rare Nintendo game that deals with self-deletion. The conclusion being that it doesn't actually fix the problem, and it's better to do anything to leave a legacy. Just thought that it was interesting to see that included. You wouldn't see that in a WRPG today.

I used to be an NPC when I was a cashier at Walmart.

“If you were a peasant, you’re life was boring” Bullsh*t. You spent your whole day using your skills to solve problems alongside your friends and family, constantly adjusting your daily routine to the weather, the change of seasons, and the needs of the people around you. You had scores of random holidays throughout the year to throw a minor party, where you would dance, sing, play folk music, drink, and feast. Tack on weddings and births and deaths, and your life is constantly flowing between meaningful work and meaningful celebration and meaningful mournings. Of course things were rough at times: petty wars, random famines, and inscrutable diseases were common. Children died often, and justice was usually hard to come by. Most people in developed nations today couldn’t handle a life full of such erratic ups and downs; we prefer the comfort of the predictable and routine, even as it drives many of us into depression, substance abuse, and suicide. Life today is many things; you might even call it better than before. Life back then could be very rough, but it most certainly wasn’t boring.

@wurzel9671

11 ай бұрын

I really don't know what would make someone define breaking your back in the fields as meaningful work. Interested in finding out though.

@samihookings8241

10 ай бұрын

@@wurzel9671 because, as a peasant, if you don’t work and others don’t then everyone starves. If you stop doing your job then your company might see a %0.09 decrease in productivity. Tangible results for you and your family, over intangible results for a soulless corporation.

@loydjenkins2241

10 ай бұрын

It was a hard life, but not backbreaking. You had a position in the world and worked to fill it. It was not all bad. But very different from what we know.

@PimentelES

10 ай бұрын

You literally just described life in Brazil

@moritamikamikara3879

10 ай бұрын

The reason farming is so much more meaningful than wage labour is severalfold. 1) Your work was more diverse. Sure, you had a set of stupid chores you'd have to do every day, feed all the animals, let the chickens out, muck out the pigs etc. But you would also have a lot of other things to do that would give a lot more variety to your life. Fix the fence, re-thatch the roof, brand all your animals so that everyone knows whose animals they are and no ones gonna steal them, make a new fence, Hmmm, I think the pigs should be over here instead of here..., today I'll head to market to get a new yoke for my oxen etc. 2) Independence/self employedness. Ok fair enough not all farmers were smallholders, but as Rudyard has pointed out, even doing sharecropping for a feudal lord, you're still producing your own food. The work that your doing is for your own sake so you can see how meaningful it is. Wage labour has you doing work, the fruits of which you will never see, and you're compensated for that with... numbers... granted you can buy shit with those numbers, and more than you could with farmer's food, but it still feels less natural. 3) Relationships and family. If you're an animal farmer, your animals are like your family, who doesn't like being around animals? As humans we like it so much that as soon as we got away from the stage of working with barn cats on the regular, we started making cat videos. Being around farm animals is like having a whole family, and you can see this if you watch farming youtube channels (which I do) like Gold shaw farm. Even leaving aside the more interpersonal nature of the pre-modern world, farming gives you a big old family to protect, to feed and watch over, what could possibly be more meaningful than that?

I think something interesting is that as a high school student, teachers seem to reward students who kill their social life for school. All the teachers for each subject expects you to make “extra” time for their subject, so in the end, if you do what they want, you end up having no time to socialize and be a teenager and learn valuable life lessons before going into society, unless you sacrifice your sleeping hours, that is.

@yokaioni7863

11 ай бұрын

School is a machine to train kids for work 8am-3pm 3-45

@SG-tx1fz

11 ай бұрын

Literly I guess we can tank ford for that

@nicoledoubleyou

10 ай бұрын

Yeah well being a teenager and adolescence is a new thing, for most of society you became an adult at puberty. So you don't really need to learn life lessons if you wanna be like the society that built America. For all we know, giving kids time to be teenagers and the idea of learning lessons before becoming an adult, is part of the downfall of society.

@HollyLengyel-gu4ht

10 ай бұрын

It's Not WHAT You Know, But WHO You Know That Matters....

@random_person8537

10 ай бұрын

@@nicoledoubleyou I actually had this topic with my Ethics and Religious Cultures teacher, the whole adolescence is a new concept to help the older people keep their jobs after they came back from wars. It’s interesting because I think it questions the basis of whether age really determines how mature someone is. Which I think it doesn’t because some people simply never reach psychological maturity, but it’s an interesting topic and could change the way we shape our society. But honestly I think with how society is right now learning life lessons before reaching “adulthood” is important, like social interactions and ideas, learning to admit to small mistakes young instead of struggling to admit big mistakes later and all that. I think the earlier the better.

I am a NPC who wants to become a main character. I wish I could have my own land, farm my own food and be free from society. Yet with land and property prices going through the roof in Australia I'm not sure it's possible.

I’m 62 and grew up rough. Philosophy n psychology helped me change my thinking and life slowly got better. The struggles younger men are going through are both similar and not similar to my experiences. Your videos help me understand their plight. I generally agree with you and respect the fact you speak the truth regardless of current social norms which aren’t so normal.

I was thinking today, "Man, I sure wish a new whatifalthist were to show up today" and here we are! Thanks, man!

@akgxd

11 ай бұрын

I thought this very same thing just yesterday lol

@normanclatcher

11 ай бұрын

Maybe the main character is here...

Dude, I have been saying this for months and I am not even a Yankee. We are getting played by both sides and even people in the middle. In the modern world, there is no right or left and you have the illusion of right or left. Real traditionalists like myself can see this clear as day. I hope people watch this video and see reality for what it actually is.

@jakinboaz8558

11 ай бұрын

Do you think a revival of traditionalism is possible? Lots of right-wing thinkers have begun to tilt in that direction, but most of the leaders are stuck in the modernist mentality of “just make material conditions better”.

@boomser911

11 ай бұрын

Faith, family and localism with as much self-reliance as possible is the way forward.

@noktumwhatever753

11 ай бұрын

I tell this to everyone who tells me democrats are the problem or republicans are the problem. That's all an illusion, there aren't two parties. It's all smoke and mirrors. Theatrics. They don't count votes, it's an illusion of power. Nothing more. If voting was real it wouldn't be legal. I think they probably used to, but then Kennedy was too much of an unexpected thing (televised debating was brand new, government didn't expect him to do so well). They fixed that and stopped counting votes. 2000 election the supreme court just decided the winner and told FL to stop counting. Had FL finished counting Gore (say what you will, my point isn't that he was a better option) would have been president. This stuff is like an onion with infinite layers because reality itself is.

Okay but he still never addressed the 'ice cream so good' tiktok girls

This explains my a few of my friends that literally repeat talking points. I ask critical question they make fun of me. I gave up on those people and don’t see them as friends anymore

I almost had a physical altercation over the whole " this is my truth and im going to stand in it" idea recently. From my perspective to deny objective reality in favor of a personal fantasy is either madness or evil, or both.

@smak387

11 ай бұрын

My extremely well educated siblings now believe there is no objective truth. It's madness. You cannot reason with a anyone who doesn't believe in objective truth. It's chaos all around

@NuIIname

11 ай бұрын

Evil is a bit of a stretch, madness perhaps

@notreal5513

10 ай бұрын

Everyone lives in fantasy if they don't they would have to admit they don't know anything

@joshfloyd7755

10 ай бұрын

@notreal5513 I approach everything with the mindset of " I'm a dumb hillbilly. What can I learn about this ? "

@notreal5513

10 ай бұрын

@@joshfloyd7755 that's a good idea actually

I'm almost 30, a maybe-slightly-more-than-casual gamer, and haven't watched television in maybe 10yrs instead opting for documentaries for the largest part. I love the way you convey your content and so glad I'm subscribed so I can hear more of the logical truth the way it needs to be said: bluntly.

“Nothing is more evident than that modern capitalism is just as subversive as Marxism. The materialistic view of life on which both systems are based is identical; both of their ideals are qualitatively identical, including the premises connected to a world the center of which is constituted of technology, science, production, "productivity," and "consumption." And as long as we only talk about economic classes, profit, salaries, and production, and as long as we believe that real human progress is determined by a particular system of distribution of wealth and goods, and that, generally speaking, human progress is measured by the degree of wealth or indigence-then we are not even close to what is essential...” - Julius Evola

As an autistic, I can relate to this....People act like npcs, no wonder i feel disconnected from people. But I guess its for the best just to make sure the beast in them doesn't come out....b

There was a line from Starfield that bothered me. One NPCs was telling me all the things I could do in the city. They said, "if you're hungry, there is a restaurant across the street. If you need a place to chill and have a drink, there is a bar next door. If you need some spirituality, there is a holy place you can visit." That's all "spirituality" is for the writers of Starfield, just another "need" to be satiated, like hunger or thirst. And that tells you why our society is in dire straits. God isn't some momentary drug, He is supposed to be loved with all your heart, might, mind and strength. Only then will we find true happiness and joy.

@scarling9367

11 ай бұрын

It's a reciprocal relationship like everything else. You get out of it, what you put it. Consume trash food or cultivate a culture where "I can sleep when I'm dead" you'll reap the consequences. Same goes for the soul.

@ColdNorth0628

11 ай бұрын

Well in context of starfield to the guy it is just someplace to worship. It is written to be impersonal and the guy is not religious. Did you go into the church and see what the characters there had to say?