US 11 Year Old Stabbed at a Dollar Tree After Calling Man 'NPC' - An 11-year-old child is stabbed multiple times at a Dollar Tree store after calling a 29-year-old man an 'NPC.'

An 11-year-old in Mill Creek, Washington was stabbed multiple times at a Dollar Tree after calling a 29-year-old man an "NPC." NPC stands for non-player character, used to describe any character in a video game that isn't controlled by the player. Friendly NPCs typically engage in repetitive, predictable behavior, which has led to the term "NPC" being used as an insult when used to describe another person. While NPC being used as an insult is nothing new, it seems to have become more popular recently.

Since NPCs are forced to do whatever they're programmed to do and are not smart enough to truly make their own decisions, the term is used to insult someone's intelligence. Social media is full of people slinging "NPC" at each other as an insult, or even people purposefully acting like NPCs in real life for prank and comedy videos.

On Wednesday, March 22, Joshua Federov and his 11-year-old friend yelled at a stranger, identified as 29-year-old Joshua David Pence in a report by Fox 13 Seattle. The kids called Pence an "NPC," and Pence allegedly responded by brandishing a knife and chasing the kids into a Dollar Tree store. According to the report, Pence stabbed the 11-year-old multiple times, injuring his lung and liver. The 11-year-old was hospitalized but has survived the attack and is back home. The family has set up a GoFundMe for those interested in donating. Meanwhile, Pence has been arrested and charged with two counts of assault, one for assault with a weapon and another for assault of a child.

Whenever there are news reports about real-world violence involving video games in some way, they typically revolve around sales gone wrong, as opposed to someone using a video game-related insult. Over the years, there have been multiple reports of people being attacked while trying to sell or buy video game consoles after meeting up with someone they met through places like Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace.

In other cases, people have been assaulted over video games themselves. For example, there was a reported incident in Malaysia where a teenager was assaulted by an angry father when they allegedly pocketed a bribe to let the man's son win in a game they were playing at a gaming store, but still won regardless. In another incident, a Pokemon GO player was sentenced to seven years in prison for assaulting a fellow player by hitting them with a metal pole.

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[East_Clintwood]

Can someone search the arrest records to figure out if he is methican or nigger?

I tried a quick search. Mill Creek PD doesn't seem to have accessible online records, you have to fill out a request via webform, which I can't be arsed doing. Snohomish County Jail, where he's staying, doesn't include mugshots or personal info in the publicly available records. Court also doesn't seem to have any persnoal/demographic info available either.

There are probably nerdy kids at his school who are celebrating their bully’s defeat

I saw a news clip of an interview with the other kid who was there. Assuming the stabbed kid is similar to his friend, anyone who lets little chubby faggots like that bully them fucking deserves it tbh.

 

[Megaton Punch]

except humans aren't computers
our entire brain is a processor for a variety of things other than reason

You present intelligence like a tabletop system's description of it when it's presented alongside wisdom. I can see where you're coming from, but it's flawed. Would you consider someone good at their job intelligent? The reality is they're just good at that thing from either experience, natural inclination, or a mix of both. Critical thinking is the greatest indicator of intelligence because it's the process of deductions in search of conclusions. It is observing available information to reach what a person can best describe to be truth. If you cannot deduce anything, what are you? Even animals can do that. To be incapable of critical thinking is to be dead. Lacking the ability to think critically on the same level as everyone else means you're stupid. Get what I'm saying?

I look at it like a psychological lobotomy. It's not that they're incapable of critical thought, it's that they've been abused and coerced into locking that ability away, often forever. It's still there, but they won't use it.

From a very young age, kids are taught that critical thought is bad. If you question your teachers, they lash out at you and label you a "problem child". If you question your professors, they mock you openly and hold your degree, which you've paid tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for, hostage. If you question your government or the news, you're called an insane, evil conspiracy theorist. If you question your peers, you're "unfriendly" and "weird". If you question your religion, you're a heretic who lost his way. So most people simply stop questioning anything, ever.

NPCs aren't born, they're made. And they can be unmade. It's just that the entirety of the western establishment will come after them the second they display a willingness to think for themselves, so they never do. Remove them from the cult and they'll recover. Unfortunately, the only way to remove someone from the cult of globalism, at this point, is to kidnap them and send them to a Amish country.

 

[HERE YOU GO]

this reminds of black & white where kids are stealing cattle and you literally kill one to make them stop.

 

[pikachudidnothingwrong]

“Akkkshually…” the term sprang specifically from a post on Reddit where someone claimed that they (or it might have been their friend) didn’t have an inner monologue. This sparked the realization by normal people that other people exist who cannot form independent thoughts - that literal NPC’s walk among us. From there it was used as an insult against people who support the current thing, becoming popular on 4chan as they mocked the redditor who originally posted it and the comments that followed from people who also said “yeah, I don’t have an inner monologue either.” I think there was even one girl who said that she was unable to visualize an apple in her head without saying it out loud. Then I guess the left co-opted it, like they always do, because they are literal NPC’s who can’t meme.

I remember at one point it was used almost exclusively by the center-right and right. To the point that the usual faux news sites (vox, salon, kotaku etc like sites) ran handwringing pieces about how dangerous and dehumanizing it is.. Comparing it to nazi ideology.

 

[bifftango]

He clearly was too high of a level for the kid to grind xp.

We can wrap it up right there.

 

[Lone Outsider]

I hope to fuck that kid survived and the NPC gets executed. The boy forgot he that this is hardcore mode.

 

[Agamemnon Busmalis]

No mugshot on VINELink but he's definitely a white male. Currently held on $500,000 bond in Washington which gives you an idea of how violent this assault was. To put that in perspective, that tranny who was planning to shoot up the school is held on $50,000.

UPDATE: Suspect charged in stabbing at Thomas Lake Center in Mill Creek

UPDATED MARCH 24 According to the City of Mill Creek, suspect Joshua David Pence, 29, is currently in Snohomish County Jail charged with two counts of assault with a weapon with bail set at $500,000. This incident involved two juvenile victims, 11 and 13, who became involved in a verbal...

www.millcreekbeacon.com

 

[JosephStalin]

Didn't even know what an NPC was until reading the OP. Over-reaction by the assailant, he should have ignored it. I sure would have, just don't care.

Moral of the story - don't call strangers names and you likely won't get stabbed.

 

[Jason Wynn]

This is what happens when you forget enemies don’t scale to your level IRL.

Kid should have stayed on Noob Island a bit longer grinding before taking on the mid-boss

 

[Starved Artist]

>11 year old fails a speech check.

We're reaching levels of Fallout 2 that shouldn't be possible.

 

[God of Nothing]

From a very young age, kids are taught that critical thought is bad. If you question your teachers, they lash out at you and label you a "problem child". If you question your professors, they mock you openly and hold your degree, which you've paid tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars for, hostage. If you question your government or the news, you're called an insane, evil conspiracy theorist. If you question your peers, you're "unfriendly" and "weird". If you question your religion, you're a heretic who lost his way. So most people simply stop questioning anything, ever.

This is weird because I've been subject to a lot of things like this. All it did was assure me I was right as things went along. I could predict people's relationships, their responses to questions, how they would breakdown mentally, and the type of shit they'd get themselves into. At first, I just thought they were being willfully ignorant when they got themselves into shitty situations resulting from their own actions. It took a long time for me to realize they were just too stupid to see their own trajectory.

Maybe it's just my own anecdotal experience. A lot of the woke stuff never fully sat right with me, and I grew up in one of the wokest regions on Earth. Could be most people just get broken down, but as we've seen time and time again, people who have to experience the retarded things that are advocated for rarely support it. There's a difference in available information. Opposing information than what you have needs to be sought out to reach a better conclusion. Unwillingness or dismissal of the necessity in opposing information is indicative of a lacking intellect.

 

[Megaton Punch]

This is weird because I've been subject to a lot of things like this. All it did was assure me I was right as things went along. I could predict people's relationships, their responses to questions, how they would breakdown mentally, and the type of shit they'd get themselves into. At first, I just thought they were being willfully ignorant when they got themselves into shitty situations resulting from their own actions. It took a long time for me to realize they were just too stupid to see their own trajectory.

Maybe it's just my own anecdotal experience. A lot of the woke stuff never fully sat right with me, and I grew up in one of the wokest regions on Earth. Could be most people just get broken down, but as we've seen time and time again, people who have to experience the retarded things that are advocated for rarely support it. There's a difference in available information. Opposing information than what you have needs to be sought out to reach a better conclusion. Unwillingness or dismissal of the necessity in opposing information is indicative of a lacking intellect.

Having someone in your life who encourages critical thinking is often all it takes to resist the indoctrination. Usually this is a parent, and almost always that parent is the father. Despite all the pressure from authority figures to simply Obey, your brain still wants to think critically, because that's what it evolved to do. So it actually takes much less pressure to stop the indoctrination process than to continue it.

I'd wager you had a presence in your life that encouraged thinking for yourself. Sadly, a lot of kids don't. Children of single mothers are screwed from the get-go almost every time, and even many two parent families have a weak, ineffectual father who may as well not exist.

 

[TowinKarz]

This is what happens when you forget enemies don’t scale to your level IRL.

Kid should have stayed on Noob Island a bit longer grinding before taking on the mid-boss

Let this be a lesson to grind for your XP, and not just charge it to Mom's credit card.

I've found the "I don't' have an internal monologue" claim to be incredulous, everyone has to have some, unless you're sleepwalking, you're at least discussing a step or two internally while doing even a simple task, like buttering bread or loading a dishwasher, even if it's something as basic as "Wait, that won't fit there" - or "do I need more of this from the store or can I stretch it another week?" - you're monologuing.

You can't even read words without hearing your "voice" in your head reading them back......

What I think they're really trying to say is "I don' think about hard things" which I find much more believable - You think about getting gas on the way home, you don't' think about how the price or ease of getting it will change if that latest pro-EV green law passes that will cap the number of gas stations per city. That's too complex and might prove you voted for the wrong person so, don't "think" about it.

 

[God of Nothing]

I'd wager you had a presence in your life that encouraged thinking for yourself.

I legitimately had no one and a family that operated by doing what they said and not as they do. Youngest child, so it was expected the most from me. Could just be an outlier, but I still doubt it. NPCdom is too drastic to be commonly manufactured. Gotta be some kind of inclination. Maybe I have too much or too little faith in humanity.

 

[The Lawgiver]

“Akkkshually…” the term sprang specifically from a post on Reddit

No it didn't. Just because stuff involving the concept was mentioned on reddit does not mean the term originated from fucking reddit. Npc memes have been around for a while. back in the mid-to late 2000s you had Npc memes and talk about fake fuckers everywhere, though they weren't in the exact same format as the ones of the last around 6-ish years.

I remember at one point it was used almost exclusively by the center-right and right. To the point that the usual faux news sites (vox, salon, kotaku etc like sites) ran handwringing pieces about how dangerous and dehumanizing it is.. Comparing it to nazi ideology.

The specific NPC meme there in that case was the NPC wojak, It was used by pretty much everyone online a few years back but clickbait sites kept hyping it up as a "right winger" thing. It's still used to death now so past-tense speak really isn't fully accurate.

 

[Morethanabitfoolish]

No mugshot on VINELink but he's definitely a white male. Currently held on $500,000 bond in Washington which gives you an idea of how violent this assault was. To put that in perspective, that tranny who was planning to shoot up the school is held on $50,000.

UPDATE: Suspect charged in stabbing at Thomas Lake Center in Mill Creek

UPDATED MARCH 24 According to the City of Mill Creek, suspect Joshua David Pence, 29, is currently in Snohomish County Jail charged with two counts of assault with a weapon with bail set at $500,000. This incident involved two juvenile victims, 11 and 13, who became involved in a verbal...

www.millcreekbeacon.com

My money's on homeless nut who was possibly screaming at the sky. Carrying a knife and chased children into a store then stabbed them suggests someone not able to function in normal society. I'd also put money, given the size of the bond, that this is not the first time they've been brought in and the authorities know as soon as that news breaks they're in trouble.

 

[Fuck You Pay Me]

All children/adults should know to NEVER FUCK WITH STRANGERS.

 

[Pissmaster]

“Akkkshually…” the term sprang specifically from a post on Reddit where someone claimed that they (or it might have been their friend) didn’t have an inner monologue. This sparked the realization by normal people that other people exist who cannot form independent thoughts - that literal NPC’s walk among us. From there it was used as an insult against people who support the current thing, becoming popular on 4chan as they mocked the redditor who originally posted it and the comments that followed from people who also said “yeah, I don’t have an inner monologue either.” I think there was even one girl who said that she was unable to visualize an apple in her head without saying it out loud. Then I guess the left co-opted it, like they always do, because they are literal NPC’s who can’t meme.

A big reason why it got so popular is because there was a substantial number of people who got surprisingly very offended by it. Like it really touched a nerve in a lot of them. I guess the NPCs are very self-aware.

 

[Dysnomia]

Awful lot of text about video game themed violence when this entire incident had nothing to do with vidya beyond a kid calling someone an NPC. There's no point in half that article. It's just filler explaining vidya related violence to people who don't play any.

My money's on homeless nut who was possibly screaming at the sky. Carrying a knife and chased children into a store then stabbed them suggests someone not able to function in normal society. I'd also put money, given the size of the bond, that this is not the first time they've been brought in and the authorities know as soon as that news breaks they're in trouble.

This is why we need more loony bins. You can't have these people walking the street.

 

[Go Lift Some Bitches]

The name is 29-year-old Joshua David Pence

Can someone search the arrest records to figure out if he is methican or nigger?

Like a fucking nigger would have a middle name