The only reason Bluesky is worse is because X is a sewer trap filled with nothing but NPCs and a few Barstool personalities. Amazing to me that people still use X for discourse.
The only reason Bluesky is worse is because X is a sewer trap filled with nothing but NPCs and a few Barstool personalities. Amazing to me that people still use X for discourse.
So you admit you are an NPC and so is the OP, interesting
This is almost all NPCs
Buddy. The left is mean to you on the internet. The right is ushering Christian fascism and the death of democracy and destroying the lives of people. Bill Kristol and Adam Kinzinger aren't left-wing but they can recognize where the threat is and dedicate their voice to that effort.
Three names but no brains
Certainly a take.
Not what your mom thought last night.
You’re replying to NPCs
Until dinner
dino nuggets?
Paging @thelouvreof.bsky.social
Dear lord grow up you toddler. Embarrassing stuff
Don't you have a kid who needs your attention more than us "NPCs" do?
How are you simultaneously 65 and 12 years old?
It happens when you live and breathe an unearned destiny of three names.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=3a0L...
Classic!!! Love, love dry, cerebral humour!! ❤️ 👏👏👏👏👏👏 (If Thomas has any character, he'll find that funny as well.)
Surprised he didn't drop a "Sigma rizz" in there.
Yes, I am an NPC. Got me. So smart.
Just call us a racial slur already Tim. This is taking forever.
You're such a strange, hollow person. I bet deep inside you loathe yourself. How's that for NPC, turdburglar?
Feel free to fuck off then? I'm not understanding your problem.
This is quite a spiral, TC. Are you going to write about it in your fifth autobiography?
There is nothing more NPC than a centrist who thinks they are uniquely objective because they have an uncanny ability to pretend everything happening is a game of both sides being equally culpable for an authoritarian regime
“Siri, how can I get ratioed harder than anyone ever has?”
This is why people don’t like you Thomas, you refer to human beings as bots
You wish
Sorry you'd rather post amongst Nazis, quacks and Scammers than have a few people tell you that you have a bad opinion, usually be ause yoh have a bad opinion Never get how people who complain have skin so thick on twitter while here you cry from bejng brushed by grass
You're just bad at writing.
I got very lucky then
Damn you just accept you have no morals or integrity? I guess that’s par for the course for a domestic abuser
Except you’re going bald which isn’t lucky
Yes you absolutely did lol. My 10 year old writes better
Its less luck and more more you're willing to write the things your peers are too honest to write, and you clearly lack any sense of embarrassment
Lack of any sense of embarrassment is a trait amongst apologists for Trump. It is a point in the case that asserts Trumpster Divers are too stupid to be insulted/embarrassed.
This is just a disgusting way to talk about *other human beings* and you demean yourself by doing it. Would say a website’s user base was full of “cockroaches”? I would hope not.
Any review of his output ought to conclude, imo, that he is not better than this
😆
It reminds me a little bit of when Jordan Peterson first burst onto the scene and ppl in media thought they had to take him seriously because he knew some twelve letter words (I think/hope those days are gone now)
I first heard about him when he got fired for being a transphobic bigot, and that he & Paglia are the most prominent pop Jungians makes that whole thing suss
Give it a week.
“This is Twitter. There is no grace. None. Here in an orgy of organized disinformation and trollery, our republic has come to die. There is no teaching the fuckmooks and deplorati. Go down swinging. Use every cruel word. Invoke their mothers. Lather them with contempt. Enjoy.”
David Simon of the Wire fame wrote this leaving Twitter. As he says if you’re not on there you miss some genuinely insightful ideas. Although some, like NPCs, do come from there too. davidsimon.com/die-of-boils...
NPC talk comes from 4chan
lmfao you sound like my 12 year old
god damn you are just the whiniest little bitch
Thank you for your ill-informed, self-serving opinion. NEXT!
is it still a "ratio" if a purely ignorant and insulting comment yields 86 replies and not a single like?
The venue is worthless
then leave, damn is someone forcing you to be here? are you being held at gun point?
worse... it could be ... endorphins.
I disagree. If you'd care to explain why you believe that I promise I'll try my best not to insult you.
Well. Bye.
then bye bitch
Bro this is pathetic and sad, just go back to Twitter lmao
your writing is worthless
To douchebags, correct. Go back to Twitter homie it suits you
What a sharp quip. Dorothy Parker would be proud of you. If you stopped writing books.
Then why are you here? Once I thought Twitter was useless, I left.
if we are mean enough to bari weiss will you fucking leave already or does that only work when you can kick people out of your french chateaus
...lol, you seriously think the bots and Nazis of Twitter are more likely to buy your book than the people here? Jesus, your publisher is gonna fucking starve.
Take the hint
And yet you're still here. Which means you too are worthless. But we already knew that Tommy.
And yet here you are, still seeking approval from people who, unfortunately for you, all realize what a hack of a writer you are.
Hahahahahahahahahah! What a fricking idiot!
"People I don't like aren't people"
You seem like a stupid fucking asshole sheesh
I'm still batting 1.000 with my one simple rule: Anyone who unironically uses the term NPC can be completely ignored and nothing of value would be lost.
What you say when you're in a house of mirrors
Let me guess: the few PCs are united in fawning over your brilliant posts
There is no greater sign of someone being morally, intellectually, and philosophically bankrupt than calling people 'NPCs' for disagreeing with them.
You are the problem. Not Bluesky.
Says NPC in chief - the man with no opinions but damn can he write!? I mean it, can he write?? I can’t tell
No
do you even know what that means
You know that’s not true. Me, a real person with a semi-anonymous account, don’t miss the days of trolling Glenn Greenwald and the Russian Foreign Ministry. Or some pathetic bastard at Judicial Watch,
X is like that romantic partner that you want to leave in the rear view mirror, fast and not going back.
Thomas Chatbot Williams has an opinion.
In this town we make MYTHRIL armor. Try some for yourself!
Proving once more that there is no bottom for The Atlantic.
You call Nazis "high minded and civilized" and use dehumanizing language for those who dare to disagree with you. I would recommend some self-reflection, but it seems you are incapable of such.
Maybe some day, if we all try real hard, we can be as civilized as the Nazis.
Someone who speaks German can't really be evil.
It’s because he’s a sympathizer
Eat shit and pound sand, loser. Christ you people are insufferable.
This line must be a big hit at the middle school lunch table
You're a hack.
Maybe you hate this app because we all grew out of solipsism at the typical milestone of about 6 years old.
demise of discourse, case in point
Speaking of NPCs Eat 💩!!
“Please buy my book and stop being mean to me”
Way to use the slang terms parroted by right wing fascists to demean the opinions of others. Go back to Twitter you fucking loser.
you're 40 and paid for a hairline, you can't say NPC's anymore.
Literal infant mentality coming from girlfriend-beater over here
Yea I am an NPC, unlimited health bar. Fucking fight me and enjoy the end of your hardcore run
This is pretty rich coming from a guy who constantly resets and repeats the same dialogue over and over again with no awareness of changing context. Just walking into the same wall in his chateau.
if you don’t like it delete your account and leave us alone. Congrats on nobody buying your book
No, TCW. It really isn't. This is probably the most disturbing idea for you to hold in your head at this point. Unless you are like those techbro numbnuts who think we're in a simulation in which case all of us out here are actually NPCs? That would, I'll grant you, explain a lot of your behaviour
Please explain what exactly that means
So, you're using the groyper cope now?
This is bait, right?
Why are they all such thin skinned whiny little bitches?
Imagine thinking you're some sort of intellectual with valuable insights that fly in the face of conventional wisdom or whatever and then using the term "NPC" to dismiss criticism like the median 4chan poster (or Elon Musk, but six of one, half dozen of the other, etc.)
You know, when someone uses the term "NPCs" to describe actual human beings, that is an immediately recognizeable indication that person is a fascist
Twitter really is poisoning you if you've adopted this psycho notion unironically
you're not intelligent. quite the opposite really
Enjoy your ratio dipshit
Are you a child?
Guy who definitely knows what “npc” means
Calling people NPCs is the epitome of dehumanizing and the fact you're doing that after complaining about the "nastiness and vitriol" here is just cementing the general "you see the energy you bring" vibe you give off.
They probably just seem that way because you’re so deliberately obtuse
I guess I'll just leave this here. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
You should probably just get off bluesky then, no ones forcing you to be here dawg
Do you have to cut a royalty check to Dunning AND Kruger with every post or do you have a more efficient licensing deal?
Nah, you wouldn’t be overfilling your diaper right now if you believed that
Guess we NPCs don’t need to read your articles or buy your books. File under: Good luck with that self promotion approach.
Actually I’m a flesh and blood human endowed by my creator with certain inalienable rights, fascist
Referring to other people as NPCs is a huge tell, like writing three memoirs for some reason.
If you wanted to convince everyone that your opinion is not worth listening to, literally dehumanizing everyone who disagrees with you was the best way to do it. There are no NPCs. This is not a game. This is the world. We're all people.
Oh are you gonna go cry to your “frens” on your racist Facebook group?
Good luck in seventh grade!
hey thomas this is a great article have you read it yet ? www.vulture.com/article/post...
You don’t even have a real job
Ratio
Ok then show your completed sidequests.
The ultimate level of conservative thought: Everyone who disagrees with me doesn't actually exist. With this simple trick any moron can walk around thinking they're smart all the time.
Says the man happier on X getting fluffed by bots.😹
You are almost all full of shit
Dude, go back to twatter
You write vapid centrist nonsense that's utterly detached from reality.
Or maybe… just maybe.. you have really shitty opinions and no one on here will coddle you like the other app
The Demise of Discourse starts by calling people shit like "NPCs".
My man you cannot posture as an intellectual and then trot out the weak attempt at an own crafted by 4chan nerds. Gives your whole game away.
Dude you live in a fantasy world
so let me get this straight. James Baldwin went to France to get away from racism in the US, you went so you could pretend it doesn’t exist, and now you set yourself up as the arbiter of which place is better than another? boy would I never follow a restaurant recommendation from you
using NPCs unironically is a sign of a broken brain, imo
Oh you're RIGHT-wing right-wing
TCW accusing people of being NPCs
Also a strong sign of his comfort level with white nationalist online spaces. I’d be embarrassed to admit I was familiar with the lingo like that, if I had a fancy writing gig.
Nazi ass thing to say Thomas
just cause ppl hate you doesn't make you a player or a character
Everyone on the right and left seems to hate you. Contemplate on that, do the right thing.
See, and there’s your problem: you think that dehumanizing language like this is cool and edgy. Stick to the pro-Nazi site, friend. It suits you better.
Chatter on, nerd.
BEEP! BOP! Im a motherfucking robot
Then leave
You’re an NPC
Nobody read your book. Insane coping
“These people don’t matter. In fact it’s better they be killed.”
Oh shit this loser is on here
Thomas really thought he was chattering with this one
Hey quick question: how are you so stupid
Hi bud go fuck yourself
Mayhaps the vast majority of individuals who feel some inexplicable compulsion to vocalize their “critiques” of my ideas are in fact operating at a level of intellectual autonomy so laughably minimal that they might as well be pre-programmed dialog boxes in some off-brand metaphorical Role Playing G
Christ you’re a tedious little nothing. Why are you even on my timeline? I have pocket lint with more interesting ideas than you.
Hey, man, GamerGate was 11 years ago.
Reddit is that way loser.
did a baby write this
No, just an man-child
You guessed correctly!
You can NPCeez nutz chud
Unironic use of NPC? Twitter has pickled your brain
Said the guy who goes by Thomas Chatterton Williams
Someone disagreeing with you doesn't make them an NPC, Thomas. Conservatives like Tom Nichols and libertarians like Walter Olson seem to regularly have constructive discourse here, even when they're in the minority on a given issue, because they don't insult their sparring partners like that.
I think he’s just calling us Non-Parisian Citizens, which is fair enough, I guess
Tom Nichols is a conservative? How about that, I still like him.
Nothing constructive has ever involved Tom Nichols
You might have a worse time because you don't even really try to engage with anyone else in good faith.
He can’t.
I prefer to label myself a liberal rather than a libertarian but (with the caveat that there’s some threshold number of dumb fucking tankies that just have to be blocked to make the platform enjoyable) this is my experience as well. I miss *the people* I followed on Twitter, but that’s it.
I’m basically an FDR Dem. Somebody on here called me a tankie. Maybe it was you.
If I were inclined to call you a “tankie,” I’d have said nothing & blocked you.
I’m never going to be unsurprised about how far right this country has gone. To the point we’re expected to entertain the validity of fascist ideology on X and that some equate New Deal policies with Stalinism. I’m just glad I can post this here w/out 50 far right bots calling me a libtard groomer.
Look, I have big qualms with many of FDR’s policies but it damn sure wasn’t “Stalinism” & I wouldn’t put you anywhere near the class of political/economic flat earthers that tankies occupy.
His policies kept extreme wealth inequality in check and prevented outsized private power from dismantling democracy, as we just witnessed. Not a fan of internment camps or redlining. Those were symptoms of American racism rather than a result of economic ideology. Keynes > Friedman.
1. The fundamental problem today is that the President holds FAR too much power—FDR was *instrumental* in that establishing & entrenching that trend. 2. I don’t care about wealth inequality. 3. There’s compelling evidence that he prolonged the Great Depression—I do care about that. 4. He nearly >
See: I wasn’t an asshole or a jerk to people. I didn’t whine about not getting as much engagement as I thought I should. & the only one who had anything shitty to say was a dumb fucking tankie (& those cretins are always best ignored anyway).
IMO these tankies are more funny (albeit obviously mentally ill) than scary or infuriating
They’re definitely not scary. They are extremely stupid &, at this point in my life, are a complete waste of my time & attention, though. But if they entertain you, all the more power to you!
This place got so much better when I went on a tankie blocking spree last year.
People are really good at making fun of him over here. There's a lot of really funny dunks anytime he posts, I think that's his real problem.
He has a worse time because he hasn’t had an idea worth any engagement.
Bitch you’re an npc. Your whole shit is still buffering
Dude, I was just going to ignore you, but what a freaking bigoted way to think and talk. Like, do you believe that you’re the only person with a brain or ann inner life?
yeah em rata isn't here for you to ogle
We get it. Mom lied to you and told you your opinion was much more valuable than it was. Nobody gives a fuck. Get a life. The one where everyone agrees with you doesn’t exist. You feel this way because you have shitty opinions and you know it, not because everyone’s a robot , you simpleton.
lol whatever you have to tell yourself
Nobody here likes you because your ideas are trash. Go away. Stop writing.
That’s what an NPC would say.
I have given up on explaining to smooth-brained arrogant twits like you that the "people are rude to me on social media" function has two independent variables. So maybe get a tutor or sumn who can explain that sentence to you
Yet you're the one here not engaging in any of the criticism, lmao. You've provided no examples, no analysis, no clarifications, no nothing, except hate on people and call them names when they rightfully point out legitimate critiques. You claim you're an intellectual, but you're not. You're a fraud
You are simply not profound or talented enough to be this much of a narcissist.
Actual NPCs: “I saw a mud crab the other day, fearsome creatures.” Twitter: “Heil Hitler” Idk, THOMAS… maybe a site with all npcs is better too.
Just bc *you* don’t like interacting with people doesn’t mean they’re inconsequential, they still have lives n shit and deserve at least the thought of goodwill
Calm down Tom
If we're all "NPCs" because we disagree with you, you're looking for an echo chamber
You should be torn apart by wild dogs. As part of a quest.
Why did your parents name you after a centuries-old person who took their own life? I genuinely feel sorry for you, that is so disturbing and wrong.
What’s an NPC?
Ah. The dehumanizing "degenerate animals"/"human rats" term of the 21st century. You are definitely making the case...against you.
Anyone ever tell you how much you look like Stephen Miller?
HA HAHAHAHA! HA! HAAAAA!
How about you NPC deez nuts on your forehead
Shut it trash bag
Just a conjecture; I know you'll class this as "bsky people being abusive" but I have heard about you about 4 times in the last 2 weeks, and each time - including the post above - made you look like a motherfucking arsehole. Have you considered that that might negatively affect your user experience?
Great. This guy.
Shut up bitch
I believe you were saying something about nastiness and vitriol?
so leave you insufferable shitpile
Nah, sport, just people who’ve got your number.
I give ya less than a year before the discount used book store is putting you latest in the dumpster.
Looks like someone looked in a mirror.
Congratulations, using the power of your banal and easily bruised ego, you've created one of the dumbest pile-ons I've ever seen on this site (or any other, for that matter). Quite the achievement.
Look-up the origin of insults before you use them Chatterton Williams. Or are you some far-right 4Chan user who enjoys dehumanizing normal, decent people?
your solipsism is showing
Can you even define, "the left"?
There are over 8 billion people in the world. Imagine thinking that *you're* the main character
Calling people NPC’s? You know what, man. You are what you is. Maybe you’re too young to get the reference, but you are what you is, and that’s all it is. Be careful who you’re keeping company with, because they know it, too.
bsky.app/profile/kthe...
God damn you truly are stuck in your own ass aren't you. How's your shit smell Tommy? Like fucking roses? Here's an idea. If it sucks here, log off, delete your account, and go hang out on Twitter with the Nazis.
What a statement.
You speak with the diction of a fucking idiot.
"NPC?" Jesus Christ. You think of yourself as an intellectual?
Dumbest fucking post I read today 😂. Wild stuff
Careful, you’re going to hurt his feelings.
Hardly
Regardless, how you came up with that trash post is beyond me. Twitter isn’t toxic cesspool of nothing but fake accounts stroking fascism not like this is perfect, but it’s significantly better than that shit hole.
Guess your response means I’m not a NPC. 🤣
Wouldn’t be my 1st time. 😇
Someone has to do it.
Apparently
So if you’re so certain about that, why are you here?
This one is for you specifically
"anyway, please take me seriously."
Projection
hey man you contribute nothing but bile to the public sphere, maybe consider fucking off, yeah?
Do you regret signing the Harper’s letter
youre one bad day away from being a groyper arent you
I predict he will instead be one of those "I didn't help Trump and everything is the fault of the NPC brigade that didn't listen to my wise counsel" Richard Hanania types.
Those who disagree with me are unpersons doesn’t seem like the healthiest mindset.
spoken like someone with firsthand knowledge
Oh wow, solipsism. Definitely the mark of a serious thinker.
The most insufferable aspect of your condescension is it's total lack of any rational basis in your talent or skill or intelligence. You're a dilettante, you dumb posh bitch.
Nice try, but your attempt at abject loathsomeness falls short by inclusion of the word “almost”. Still loathsome of course but we know you can do even worse.
Just gonna leave this right here for no particular reason. bsky.app/profile/jool...
It’s absolutely meant to dehumanize.