/mlpol/ - My Little Politics

>>179056
go home sargon, you killed it already.

>>179056
Of course. It was exciting. I love sportsball.

I still don't know what's more dumb. This or the "gamers rise up".

>>179063
It's not a great meme, but the reaction to it is over the top. The natural answer for something being censored is to spread it further.

>>179059
I'm unfamiliar with this Sargon you speak of, but I do know Colbert.

>>179064
It's really getting to them and some of them seem to actually not have an inner monologue.

>>179063
It's an old meme. I think that I first saw people talking about others as NPCs on /pol/ or /x/ around 2012. It's probably been around longer. I love how it's struck a nerve though.

>>179069
Far older, in fact. Sir Francis Bacon compared people to ants, bees, and spiders, depending on their level of individual thought vs. groupthink. Personally I think it is a better analogy than NPCs vs. PCs.

Could have been a better meme though. I'm seeing a lot of folks complain that it's just another wojak derivative when 4Chan is supposed to be creative. In my estimation, though, the 4Chan universe of Pepes, Wojaks and Spurdos is basically a modern, more nuanced version of rage comics.

>>179064
The analysis I've seen on /pol/ seems fairly spot on. The NPC meme pisses off leftists because it strikes right at the heart of how they define themselves. They all think of themselves as hip, sophisticated free-thinkers who are so much smarter than the rednecks in flyover country. They like to believe that they're the intelligent people who can pull away from the herd and see through the world's bullshit. Above all they believe themselves to be completely unique and original, even though they all pretty much look the same, dress the same, have the same beliefs, like the same things, listen to the same music, eat the same shitty overpriced fusion food, drink the same overpriced craft beers....

Anyway, the worst thing you can possibly do to one of these people is point out to them the fact that they are not actually unique, that they are literally just clones of each other, who get all of their opinions from TV news and celebrity Twitter feeds, and that all of their observations and unique perspectives on things are completely predictable and the same as the next leftist's. I suspect that deep down inside they know this and are insecure about it. For someone who has spent actual decades carving out their own personal unique snowflake identity, the worst possible insult would be to tell them that they are just one of the herd. Even worse than that would be the realization that it's an accurate assessment of them. And the absolute worst possible thing imaginable would be to learn that the very people they themselves make fun of, the dumb rednecks who drive trucks and drink domestic beer and don't know who The Decembrists are, have been quietly laughing at them about it the whole fucking time.

It's not that great a meme I agree, but as something to attack leftists with, it's pretty much the definition of a critical hit. You have to remember that underneath it all, these people hate themselves. That's why they do the things they do and believe the things they believe.

This meme cuts deep.

>>179064
>>179067
I remember the day it started. It was that dumb article about inner speech. My guess is that everyone thinks a little differently and there is no way for us to see through the mind of someone else.
This shit is pretty funny now though. It was probably gonna die off until people started getting triggered by it. Ive often thought there were too many idiots in the world, maybe this is why.

You guys all have inner speech right? I think with my inner voice, images, sounds and concepts. I can empty my mind of sound when im out in the wild or some serious shit is going on.

>>179072
>tfw I moved to a hipster area for school and people thought it was gross that I drink PBR
:(

The birth of the NPC meme was particularly retarded, with the "they don't have thoughts" nonsense but this >>179064 >>179072 seems spot on.

>>179067
>and some of them seem to actually not have an inner monologue
I often don't, and for the longest time thought that an "inner monologue" was some kind of metaphor I just didn't get. People are happy to tell you what they think, but generally don't talk much about the mechanics of how they think.
A clue was when I read something about speed reading and how (among other things) you were supposed to stop using your thought voice for reading and just take it in directly. Wait, you mean that's not how everyone reads already?

Also "think about nothing in particular" comes pretty naturally, and if someone then asks "and say the first thing that comes to mind" they'll be waiting for a while. It takes a conscious choice to start thinking verbally. "I guess I'm thinking about how awkward this is getting."
But on the other hand I often find myself having something like an inner dialogue - fictitious conversations about what's going on; and my mother seemed to have an external something-or-other running at all times, often mumbling to herself. So maybe this means that talking something through with an imagined third party is one way we think verbally in my family?

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>>179076
>You guys all have inner speech right? I think with my inner voice, images, sounds and concepts. I can empty my mind of sound when im out in the wild or some serious shit is going on.
Same.

>>179056
>>179067
Whoa. I knew Veronika was a generic commie, but I never though you guys could actually push her beyond.
Russians really were cannon fodder.

>>179078
Subbed.
If I speed read nothing sticks but I'm a slow reader to begin with. I find myself reading paragraphs and pages over more than once, even when reading for enjoyment. I'll picture what I'm reading in many different ways until I find a version I like and it's committed to memory.
>>179081
Why sage? Op may be a fag with a shit post but the topic is pretty releveant considering it's triggering people this hard and pushing more censorship.
http://archive.is/giVGX
If anything this meme should be used and abused to the ground if it is this effective.

>>179108
t.NPC

>>179109
t. NPC

>>179111
t.trips

THATS IT! IVE HAD ENOUGH! FELLOW NPC FOLK WE MUST RISE UP!

>>179111
It's not just trips, it's 9/11+1 trips!
Also I use that program that flashes words at 500wpm to read.

>>179063
Gamers rise up is how you "jokingly" post about Chad and "Veronica"(Stacy The Roastie), Gamergate, the bullshit lies the SJW media feeds people while triggering the "Haha lmao how cringe" response from NPCs instead of the aggressive response.

variables {
trump = bad
democrats = good
whites = bad
islam = good
feminism = good
}
if (variable.false) {
error
}
if (error) {
Printf("FUCK YOU, YOU FITHLY FUCKING BIGOT PEICE OF SHIT")
block source of error on social media
clear memory
}
end

>>179136
Did someone say Chad and Stacy?

>Don't call people NPCs it's dehumanising you Russian Bots!
The left continues to completely lack self awareness.

>>179143
Yeah, that one. The one used to make the video that came from. RapidReader.

>>179136
gamers need to unironicly rise up tbh.

It continues.

>Orange Man good
;^)

>>179709
Too low of effort. Install Gentoo and try again.

>>179705
do these (((people))) not think with language?

>>179714
They just don't think.

>>179705
Every time these people speak, it just legitimizes the meme even further. How the fuck did this meme strike this much gold, and why didn't we realize it sooner?

>>179722
It's like the whole "It's Okay To Be White" thing, it gets under their skin because it challenges their convictions. They think they're so enlightened, so high and mighty for being progressive and everyone to the right of them is uncultured bigots who are all wrong. That when their ideas are put into question, they get so triggered.

to be honest i think the NPC meme is complete shit, whatever properties it has is now squandered by ecelebs like soygoy while the rest of the interned uses it as an excuse to impose even more censorship on social media. the meme lost its identity, people gloat at blue hairs being triggered over nothing and everyone loses.

>>179722
People that think tend to believe those around them are thinking the same thing. It then is a surprise when it turns out those around them do not think at all.
>>179740
It has never been great but to call it dead is premature. Even though sargon sunk his vampire teeth into this meme it does not mean it is yet squandered.

>>179740
>, whatever properties it has is now squandered by ecelebs
This, lots of YT fags made a shittone of videos making it common and without any value. Watch it become new Trollface.

Yay for NPC meme

I made a video about why this meme touches us so much.

Watch it if you want, Anon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEwogFtnA6E&t=16s

>>179750
Kak naschet net, hohol.

>>179744
You retard, shut the fuck up. This meme doesn't die when some trendy popular kid like Pewdiepie touches it. This meme lives until it stops needing to live.
It's the perfect summation of all that is hollow and false about the liberal ego's "I am perfect, unique, and superior. Others are my inferior and I can mistreat them because they're idiots who don't drink craft beer and don't even know who The Chainkillers are" delusion.
Sure, other memes have hurt liberals more.
But no meme has made Liberals act this hurt before.

...The fuck did the LGBBQs do to my flag?

>>179754
Because you are a fucking faggot, Zaldini. ;^)

>>179751
Whatever makes you happy, Grzegorz

>>179755
Is this because I said "Post those 'OP is gay' comics with Garfield's dad" in another thread?

>>179756
Not many things catually can, Alosza.

>>179757
Could be mods thought you were the OP using a proxy or just someone else who was trying to bait someone into posting Penis Garfield edits.

>>179141
AAAAAHH! WHAT THE FUCK? STOP! FUCKING STOP!
>>179705
>Thinking about things makes you a schizo
These people truly horrify me.
>>179734
I was just thinking about how similar this is to IOTBW; Both criticized their tendency to read into things too much, both forced them to either compromise their principles or sympathize with a completely absurd position and both made them the punchline of the joke, the only major difference I can see is that IOTBW was made for that purpose while NPC did it more organically.

>>179141
I almost forgot about that train wreck of an episode.

>>179141
That's hilarious. What have we done? Now the NPC meme hits the NYTimes in a few days. Incredible.

Don't forget that there are NPCs on both sides.

>>179887

the reality is most humans are followers, not leaders. they are the majority and i cant even completely put it against them. if every animal in nature acted like an alpha male, packs would not work. the animals would wind up endlessly killing each other over false leadership claims until no one was left. Sheeple exists because nature needs them to.

>>179890
>most humans are followers, not leaders.
I'd gladly be a follower if there was anyone to follow. Doubtful that this would automatically make me a "leader".

>>179890
It's simply about going parrot mode and repeating heard things without any thought given. Then it gets worse when enough people gather and go "see we are all same" because everyone is just repeating same stuff, without anyone actually having clue what they are saying actually holds.
Also whole murica version of this where people go shitting over few things and want to switch government to change it, without ever thinking what not so good things can happen with their option even if it fixes thing they are whining about.
Another recent case showing this kind of mentality was how Brexit voting happened.

>>179890
This is why Bhakti is the most popular path on Earth by far. They key for the follower is to find the best leader and not just accept what is around him.

>>179056
Seriously tho, do people actually not hear their thoughts as an inner voice?

>>180012
I like to think that the libshits are just being brainlets and misconstrue us talking about the inner vocalization of our thoughts as us hearing some kind of third party entity talking to us in our heads.

Or maybe they are just NPCs.

>>179887
It may be applicable to the Right, but it isn't a threat to us like it is to the Left.

>>180047
NPCs seriously don't have an inner voice. I remember when I was a kid, a ton of people in my Animorphs fan group (Again, I was a kid) were all "Woah, the idea of thinking inside your own head and hearing a voice is so weird, just like the idea of turning into animals!"
On an unrelated note, since there will likely never be a thread on this: Fuck animorphs, its ending was shit, the books are formulaic as fuck, the gore and violently mutilated kids are just for shock value, Cassie is still enough of a Sue to dominate a franchise with fewer original ideas than any given Power Rangers series, the whole "Everything is actually a chess game between cosmic god and cosmic satan" is a stupid attempt to give the writer license to be lazy rather than any sort of genuine design choice, the heroes never think to ask Alien God for a bullshit super-animal that can stand up against Bootleg Voldemort's bullshit super-animals, and that meltdown KA Applegate had when nobody liked her ending is still funny to this day.

What's going on with the left and the meme? I literally thought the meme was politically neutral. When did it spiral out of control?

>>180084
I never got that far into the animorphs series. I think that I stopped right around the time they started introducing the puppet-master characters. I don't remember the kids getting gored and mutilated, unless you count their animals getting fucked up before they morphed back and the damage just went away.

Although I guess that red tailed hawk guy (Tobias?) got the short end of the stick. Also that one extra kid that they added to the team for one book before forcing him to be a rat forever. That whole book was pointless and seemed just to be for the shock value of introducing him just to kill him off.

>>180099
It's a relatively bland and low-effort meme, but apparently it struck a nerve.

>>180111
It sure as hell struck a cord in the "Mods" at 4chins. But also NBC/Comcast has neo con shills working on the internet. They do work from home.

>>180257
proofs?

>>180183
I bet those two post with the "!" were censored for posting a way-powerful message.

>>179056
Anonfilly is already famous.
Video from this week about NPC liberals, where anonfilly shows up at the time index 0:52.
Also more ponies at time index 3:38.

The Liberal Personality, Void Space, and the NPC Meme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_2YkFMIud4

>>180360
I forgot the screenshots.

>>180360
>>180361
So, I get why he chose Anonfilly. But why the Bimbettes?

>>180107
Yeah that. I partly want to say "I suppose a children's book in which children are violently mutilated for the sake of shock value isn't that bad if they're animals at the time", but I've seen comic books less willing to use "Lol healing factors/spells/techniques" as an excuse to indulge some degenerate's guro fetish.
It's weirdly nice to know someone else saw how pointless that rat kid was. Five kids are sorta-forced (Been a while since I read them) to add him to their team as the obligatory Sixth Ranger, except he's a violent cunt who likes hurting animals. Then he turns into le spooky predator who knows where u live uwu. Then he's tricked into morphing into a rat and he's trapped that way, even though rats live for ten months tops or some shit, so this is basically just a pointlessly cruel execution method Cassue forced on Ratty (Because "Beware da nice ones" is a trope the writer likes. Fuck tropes) even though she had her best friend Rachel help her out with this, meaning she had to endure hours of him pleading/raging/whatever with her psychically as she counted down the seconds until she could leave the rat there.
And the rat is left alive, which means he gets to come back later as a new baddie, but he doesn't matter.
They also did another "Add to the team" bit where they get the Auxillary Animorphs, a bunch of disabled kids the yeerks didn't want, only... did they all end up dying, or did they all bitch out of the war after a short while? I forget.
Also, don't get too attached to Tobias. Even though he gets his morphing back after a while (but his human form is still gone forever. His hawk form is his default form now) He still dies like a bitch in the end, when after a pointless epilogue that gives everyone a sad ending and makes everyone a traumatized sad person except Cassie who gets to find some random new dude, move on, and marry him... A bunch of Yeerk ships attack earth, Jake, Ax, maybe Marco, and Tobias get on this one Andalite ship so they can ram it into the blade ship.
They ram their only alien ship, with their only remaining fighters, into one of the enemy force's blade ships, while the enemy fleet still has a fuckton of ships left that can fire on earth.
The final line of the series, "Ax, ram the blade ship!", amounts to nothing more than a pointless suicide attempt by the only heroes left willing to fight.
I still think it's funny that the writer was all "You stupid fucking kids just don't understand darkness and depth! If you think war is like a saturday morning cartoon, you'll change your mind when you enlist once you're old enough to do so!" in her rant about how few people liked her shit ending.
Sure, war sucks the gayest of balls at the best of times, but if you're writing for kids, ripping off Power Rangers Wild Force badly, ripping off old movies you hope the kids reading your books have never seen, writing for a kid's book publisher, and making a shit TV show on nickolodeon that's worse than Dragon Ball Evolution, "the heroes suicide and everyone dies to the aliens" isn't really the most tasteful ending for a grimdark story.
In the first chapter, the heroes barely survive their first attempt at raiding the Yeerk pool, and they only save about two people. A tone of "Dark but there's still hope" is established, and the writer usually sticks to it when she isn't wanking the grimdarkness of it all.

>>180361
Vertigo lurks on this board if he does not post here. He's put up the /mlpol/ flag on one of his videos before (I think that one got shoah'd). He's one of /ourguys/ who is sadly undermentioned here.

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