The NPC meme frames the average person as a non-player character in a video game — a shopkeeper who exists only to sell swords, has no wife, no kids, and stands in the same spot at midnight and 8am. The insight isn't just a joke: it names a pattern where people recite cliched ideas in cliched ways, revealing no original mind beneath the script. Once you see it, you can't unsee it, like noticing Agent Smith everywhere in the Matrix.
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