non-player character

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Meaning

(role-playing games, video games) A character in a role-playing game or computer game whose actions are not controlled by a player.

(Internet slang, derogatory) An individual who does not think for themselves nor makes their own decisions.

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There used to be an old joke in role-playing circles-it isn't funny these days-that there were only a thousand real people in the UK-everybody else was a non-player character. Now it's pretty much the reverse. Charles Stross

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