WEBVTT 00:04.570 --> 00:10.130 But there's a new version of this, and perhaps it's always been there, but we haven't been 00:10.130 --> 00:14.390 as attuned to it, and this is NPCs, right, the non-player characters, and this is what 00:14.390 --> 00:16.970 I want to focus on today because, you know, it's funny. 00:17.750 --> 00:19.110 Let's admit that, right? 00:19.750 --> 00:24.210 And we'll talk about this, and in my own sort of unique way, I will. 00:25.270 --> 00:30.190 I'll try to make it as funny as I can, but the underlying theme most definitely is 00:30.190 --> 00:31.970 frustration, right? 00:32.050 --> 00:34.050 Because, well, I'm not in a video game. 00:34.430 --> 00:35.610 Maybe I am, I don't know. 00:35.730 --> 00:40.390 At least, as far as I'm concerned, I don't think that I'm in a video game. 00:40.830 --> 00:47.270 So, because I don't think that I'm in a video game, all of these NPCs, these 00:48.030 --> 00:53.730 people who are set on their predetermined routes that are walking in the same 00:53.730 --> 00:58.650 pattern, tomorrow when I play the video game, they'll be in the same place doing 00:58.650 --> 00:59.250 the same thing. 00:59.710 --> 01:05.490 It feels very real to me, you know, unfortunately, and I don't know if that 01:05.490 --> 01:10.050 was a thing in the past, but in the video games, you are, you know, it's populated 01:10.050 --> 01:13.850 with NPCs because, as a player, you need to know that there's a lot, there's 01:13.850 --> 01:17.850 action going on, and these characters give you the impression that there's other 01:17.850 --> 01:18.890 people in this world. 01:19.110 --> 01:23.330 Well, I'm in this world right now, this real world, not non-video game world, 01:23.330 --> 01:27.490 though, everything's got an asterisk because after smoking enough DMT and 01:27.490 --> 01:31.430 seeing the grid, it is possible to me that we are in a simulation. 01:32.070 --> 01:37.570 And in fact, if that were the case, then the NPCs would make sense. 01:37.990 --> 01:43.530 It's really the one answer that I am willing to accept when someone asks 01:43.530 --> 01:49.230 the question, why are there so many NPCs out there sort of aimlessly wandering 01:49.230 --> 01:53.350 around like Pac-Man ghosts out there on their predetermined routes? 01:53.820 --> 01:59.230 And if the answer, if the air quotes God, whoever creator of the universe, 01:59.410 --> 02:02.150 were to pull me aside and say, it's because you're in a massive video 02:02.150 --> 02:07.730 game and we need some people who aren't taking up computing power, 02:07.930 --> 02:12.090 they're just there, but they're not really there, you know, they're 02:12.090 --> 02:15.390 there in space, but they're not doing much of anything. 02:16.150 --> 02:17.670 That would make sense to me. 02:17.670 --> 02:24.570 I would go, oh, that fills in a lot of the gaps for why we are in where we are. 02:24.810 --> 02:27.050 But let's just say that we're not in a video game. 02:28.410 --> 02:34.470 Then all of these know nothing people out there who are NPCs, 02:36.210 --> 02:39.030 they're they're they're now just getting in our way. 02:39.650 --> 02:43.830 And and and I don't need them to be there for the video game, 02:43.910 --> 02:47.110 you know, for this this game I'm living, I'm going through. 02:47.930 --> 02:50.190 I would like for them to be gone, frankly. 02:50.390 --> 02:51.370 I'd like for them to get out of the way. 02:51.550 --> 02:56.010 Do you know how much easier traffic would move if all of these people 02:56.010 --> 02:58.110 were vanished, disappeared? 02:58.710 --> 03:02.590 I envision that this is kind of this might have been the conversation 03:02.590 --> 03:07.990 that was happening something along this line in the 1800s, 03:07.990 --> 03:13.170 when these old timey British eugenicists were out sailing the seven seas, 03:13.390 --> 03:16.770 colonizing the faraway lands and coming across people who were 03:16.770 --> 03:19.010 four standard deviations below them in IQ. 03:19.590 --> 03:22.310 They're probably going, this is a different species. 03:24.230 --> 03:28.690 And in fact, you know, frankly, a case can be made that it is different species. 03:28.950 --> 03:32.010 We have a variety of different species of birds, right? 03:32.110 --> 03:35.690 I don't know why it's offensive to say that bird over there is a cardinal. 03:35.710 --> 03:38.450 And you go, oh my God, how dare you call that bird a cardinal? 03:38.570 --> 03:40.390 That bird is clearly an orial. 03:40.650 --> 03:43.430 And it's like, oh, are you judging by the color of its feathers? 03:44.330 --> 03:47.190 It's like, well, yeah, it's actually a different species. 03:47.450 --> 03:48.510 So it does different things. 03:48.650 --> 03:52.910 Yeah, it's a bird in general, but is it are all birds the same? 03:53.870 --> 03:54.830 No, they're not. 03:55.110 --> 03:56.030 Are all people the same? 03:56.350 --> 03:56.970 No, they're not. 03:57.150 --> 04:00.090 And the idea that we haven't classified people in the different species 04:00.090 --> 04:03.230 is kind of crazy when you look at we've done it with all the other animals. 04:03.410 --> 04:04.730 Why haven't we done it with people? 04:04.830 --> 04:06.330 Because that would be offensive, right? 04:06.410 --> 04:10.010 And that's what the guys at the British Roundtable were talking about, right? 04:10.010 --> 04:13.330 They were interacting with people from far away land 04:13.330 --> 04:17.470 who might as well have not been human as far as they were concerned, right? 04:17.570 --> 04:20.230 So they were dealing with NPCs a long time ago. 04:20.290 --> 04:21.350 You know how they dealt with them? 04:21.550 --> 04:23.690 They murdered as many of them as they could. 04:23.970 --> 04:27.070 I mean, they really just said, oh, here we go, India. 04:27.430 --> 04:30.170 Yeah, see, let's just kill all these people, right? 04:30.270 --> 04:35.010 So that's sort of what happens when you when you get on the wrong side 04:35.010 --> 04:36.470 of a certain group of people. 04:36.470 --> 04:42.070 So the NPCs who are out there populating our world right now, 04:42.350 --> 04:45.110 if they existed during a different time and space, 04:45.270 --> 04:47.830 they might have been dragged up to the top of a pyramid 04:47.830 --> 04:49.890 and sacrificed over a long weekend 04:49.890 --> 04:55.290 and had their hearts pulled out by the guy from Indiana Jones. 04:55.750 --> 04:57.410 Hey, thanks for watching that clip. 04:57.570 --> 05:00.310 If you want to watch the entire video, it is available as well, 05:00.370 --> 05:02.590 or you can check it out as an audio podcast, 05:02.750 --> 05:03.770 wherever podcasts are served. 05:03.890 --> 05:04.290 Thanks a lot.