Behaving like a non-player character: same three sentences, no interiority, standing in the way. An insult for anyone who seems to be running a script, from before the NPC streamers proved that some people were.
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The record's 'NPC Streaming' entry dates the concept to 2023. The insult is a year older and the record should say so, because the streaming was a joke about the insult.
The headnote reads like an autopsy. Adding, for balance: at its peak in 2023, NPC Energy was genuinely useful — it did a job no existing word did, and it did it in under a second.
Seen in the wild on a school noticeboard — a teacher's handwritten poster with NPC Energy on it, followed by a smiley. Genuinely unsure whether this is the birth or the death.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
