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nonplayer character

noun

  1. a character in a tabletop role-playing game who is controlled by the Game Master.
  2. a character in a video game who executes scripted roles and is not controlled by the player. : NPC


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of nonplayer character1

First recorded in 1990–95
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Tech journalist Kara Swisher, who has covered Musk for decades now, explained to the New York Times that the billionaire views himself as "the person who matters the most," and that "everybody else is an N.P.C. — a nonplayer character," which is video game slang for preprogrammed characters in a video game.

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He danced like a nonplayer character, or NPC, in a computer game for 39 minutes at a town hall meeting the other night after taking a handful of questions.

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Ryan Reynolds is a nonplayer character who realizes he lives inside a videogame in the convoluted corporate comedy “Free Guy.â€

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That shouldn’t be in Guy’s code, and when he starts stepping outside the expectations of a nonplayer character to pursue the mysterious Molotov Girl, it causes an uproar that turns him into a star known as “Blue Shirt Guy†to the “real world†outside the game.

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Another nonplayer character tells our avatar about Amazon Alpha, “a secret level above Amazon Prime†that costs $400,000 a year and includes negative-two-day shipping and double voting power in elections.

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