I’m sure most of us have played Skyrim. I’m sure most of us have seen the NPCs that just awkwardly stand there, swaying slightly with a blank look on their face.
I’m starting to think this whole world is just an illusion. I just walked into my break room, and saw a guy just staring at the vending machine. Slightly hunched over, and swaying.
So I sat down at a table and start browsing my phone.
He’s still standing there. Same spot. No words. Not looking at a phone. Just dead staring at a vending machine which is 2/3rds empty. Not counting money. Just staring dead forward.
After a while I wondered how long he was going to do this. I walked around the side of him, looked at his face, and asked if he was ok. He grunted at me, like hmmmmph.
I went back to my table and started a stopwatch.
When my break was over he was still standing there. 22 minutes staring at a vending machine, and telling multiple people he’s fine, but also grunting at most people.
The ONLY explaination I can come up with is that he’s an NPC who failed the turing test, and this entire world doesn’t exist. I don’t exist. You don’t exist. None of this matters.
Anyone else think this is some kind of poorly coded simulation?
Sex is way too enjoyable for this to be a poorly coded simulation.
I think you just saw someone who needs either a break or some better mental health care.
Maybe everything else is so poorly coded becsuse the developer focused entirely on making sex the gimmick. Like the chainsaw guns in Gears of War.
I’d assume drugs if I saw a guy staring at a vending machine for ages. That’s “took too much of something that doesn’t leave the system fast” behavior. Possibly he wanted to get something from the vending machine, but couldn’t hold on to the thought for long enough to go through the process. Perception of time gets fucked on those sorts of drugs, so he has no idea he’s been there for however long. The behavior sounds specifically like that of people I’ve known who accidently took a higher dose of edibles than intended.
The world is real but we perceive it with a brain that can read signals of it imperfectly if something goes wrong in there. That leads to strange behaviors like you described.
Sees a mentally stable guy, thinks the entire world is a simulation.
Humanity may not make it, lol. :)
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Unless there’s a way to exit game, I’m not sure what difference it’d genuinely make. I am as real as I am.
Yeah but that’s what makes it a fun thought experiment imo is thinking of how the simulation accounts for our reality.
If I’m a Sim in The Sims equivalent, my dying results in the exact same outcome it does in The Sims; my avatar is gone and not resurrectable (without mods).
Maybe the Mandela effect is when we’ve moved servers from one that had different DLC.
God/Jesus/all prophets was just the admin visiting.
Ghosts are bugs in the code only visible to some of us because we have the residual DLC files that weren’t properly removed.
We can’t see far into space because the draw distance is short.
God, I hope so. How bleak would it be if this were baseline reality?
my man!
You are still on your free trial period, so this is a demo.
You may have lost your mind, not sure what else to suggest but a thearpist🍀
Lol I think I posted something like this before.
First existential crisis? I had like 10 of these ready.
My life is so bizzare because
I WASNT SUPPOSED TO BE BORN
Literally narrowly even lived to birth since there was One Child Policy and CCP made it their mission to terminate pregnancies if the woman already had gave birth to a child. So I was my mom’s second child… if they found out I would’ve been deleted so quickly, they’d grab my mom and forced abortion.
Feel like as if its scriped.
Like what are the odds.
Did someone make this simulation and added this to my “character sheet” for funsies?
Movie character “crazy backstory” type of shit.
Still crazy to think about the fact that I am not even supposed to be alive walking around in this world.
Every time I think I’m just chillin, BOOM crazy shit happens.
A fucking PLANE CRASHED near where I live… what the fuck… must be a scripted event
So surreal
Someone having a stroke doesn’t realize what’s happening to them. Their only hope is to encounter someone who can read the symptoms - - maybe that’s not what happened but it’s a million times more probable than your crazy explanation.
I pretty much live inside my own head so it’s possible I could be someone’s NPC just staring at a wall because I am currently engaged in mental gymnastics.
I think if we are on a simulation or not is irrelevant anyway, you have to work with what you have. It’s like the question if god exists or not… it’s just irrelevant if we know it or not nothing will be magically different if we have reached this point WO knowing it what will be the difference anyway you can’t change what you can’t change why focus your attention on that?
I had an uncanny experience like that as a teenager with an “NPC like” character. I was walking around a small cul-de-sac, and there was an older woman standing in front of her house, completely frozen in place, just staring off into the distance blankly.
As I’m walking past she suddenly looked at me and barked out rather aggressively “Do you know what time it is?”
I checked the time on my phone and told her it. She snapped “NO! It’s [completely different time]”
Then she just glared at me in complete silence. I started walking away and she just turned her head, watching me, but not saying another word.
She didn’t move from the spot she was standing on.
That said I blame dementia, psychosis, drugs, or otherwise failing mental health before I’d jump to the nothing is real or everything is a simulation conclusion.
