I keep seeing the term 'NPC' used as an insult on social media, as in 'You speak in programmed, hive mind phrases' - but is there not a deep irony there, in that you're parroting out the exact same limited, scripted pejorative lexicon as your peers, just like an NPC in a game? 
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Have definitely seen people use the expression in a completely non-ironic way...
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