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Comment by Trasmatta

2 months ago

> NPC coworkers

I very much dislike the trend of calling other people NPCs.

When you feel tempted to see someone else as an NPC, it might be helpful to remember the concept of "sonder":

> the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/23536922667/...

I agree it's an unpleasant trend but please let's not cross into personal attack ourselves.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

  • Fair enough, I'll edit my comment to just call out my dislike of the term without making it personal about the author.

    (for anyone seeing this later, my comment above was originally more of an attack on the author, which is what dang was rightly calling out.)