Protocol and the human NPC
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English - March 17, 2020 06:50 - 35 minutes - 50.2 MBArts Science literature anthropology art history music philosophy science Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Non-Playing Characters, or, NPC's are a feature of video games. I suggest that there exist human NPC's who follow protocol rather than think for themselves. Here I discuss the what it is to live under the yoke of technology.