I work at a thriftshop, yesterday during our opening hours. I saw my colleague go in to one of the closed off sections where we keep all the new goods that hasn’t been priced yet.
A couple of minutes later, he opens the door, takes one step out and just stands there… staring in to nothingness for almost 2 minutes.
Me and my other colleague (close friend) observe him, we look at each other and I say:
“That dude got hit with a loading screen”.
We both laugh our asses off. All of a sudden this dude’s eyes light up, he looks around like he just got an update on some quest and just walks away.
One of the funniest yet strange encounters I have witnessed.
Update:
He doesn’t have epilepsy. I also asked what he was doing at that moment and he said that he was just thinking about something.
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Bro was just testing out some of the secret merch in the backroom, chill
Maybe he was popping a pill, and just needed a minute for it to hit.
NPC is when people are not staring into their phones
If he got a loading screen, surely he’s the player rather than an npc?
My friend has this, although it’s a type of Epilepsy. She’s not allowed to drive because of it.
Sounds like someone with epilepsy.
Could have just been reefered.
My daughter has focal seizures that are similar to this. Please don’t laugh at people who experience this and call them “NPCs”, that’s harmful. 🙏❤️
He probably just leveled up and had to upgrade his stats
This will happen to you some day.
I refer to everyone at the gym that I don’t know as an NPC.
People are people. Referring to them as NPCs is for sociopaths.
Maybe he just took a massive rip off a weed vape, or huffed some airduster
Calling somebody an NPC is dehumanizing. People have dozens of human interactions in a day and most of them don’t require us to deeply consider the other person’s motivations. We are all somebody else’s NPC.
Is it possible that some of the new stuff in the storage room is cursed? Like a haunted doll or something that might want to possess a human?
What is irl NPC?
I do that a lot. Especially when I’m deep in thought and my autopilot runs out of next steps. Brain keeps going, body stops moving.
I always figured it was part of that disassociation and maladaptive daydreaming thing. If it gives me NPC status then I should start handing out quests.
I think this was supposed to be normal, like a thought hit you, you zone out and focus on it, just to deal with him.
Isn’t this being laser focused.