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)

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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