video;

[potatochips]

[ hey community. look who it is. haven't seen him outside of the comments in a while, have you? here he is, leaning completely back in a chair and swerving it side to side. his attention seems to be fixed on a spot on the ceiling. he's speaking in a quiet tone, like he's a little dazed ]

Someone died recently. People die all in my world but it was someone important. Important to me, anyway. After it happened I thought, "This is going to be broadcasted on the community." It likes posting deaths, doesn't it? If your best friend dies, the community probably has it recorded.

But... my death isn't anywhere to be found on here. There are a lot of deaths on here too recently. It's almost the theme of the summer here. It's not a complaint, of course, the privacy is nice but I couldn't help wondering about it. Perhaps it didn't think it was important enough. That it didn't mean anything in the big picture.

Maybe it doesn't.

Comments

[video]

[croibhristeoir]

...I'd think anyone's life or death to be significant, even those which some would call inconsequential.

[video]

[potatochips]

If the president dies doesn't it make more of an impact than the mailman's? Surely someone's would have significance...

[video]

[croibhristeoir]

A life is a life. Their position should be irrelevant.

[Video]

[material_guy]

Was it a messy death? If it's just some old man or somethin' lyin' in a hospital bed when the thingy goes "beeeep" then...

[video]

[potatochips]

Not messy, no. It was someone young and powerful.

[video]

[material_guy]

You got powerful friends, eh?

[dekillerqueen]

That is one possibility. However... it is difficult to judge such things.

[potatochips]

It certainly is.

[dekillerqueen]

Were you looking for a concrete answer?

[hugmyscythe]

Additionally, this place is the only way to be informed of deaths that occur in different worlds. Grim, perhaps, but it does have its uses.

[potatochips]

What uses are you thinking of?

[video]

[harlol]

Oh, noooo. That's so sad!

Although I think it would only be posted if you died or you killed somebody. I definitely don't want you to die, and nobody else does either!

[video]

[potatochips]

It is sad...

Only if I killed somebody? [ ha... ha ha... but i did ] I really wouldn't want to either. I suppose it's a good thing it wasn't me then.

[video]

[harlol]

Weird things have been happening lately... Although I could only really see you doing it if you caught the guy you've been chasing and he didn't want to go to jail so you had to stop him!

[mightletyouknowme]

It's not like it's a good thing to show people dying.

[potatochips]

Oh, I wouldn't disagree.

[mightletyouknowme]

Who was it?

video.

[pawful]

[ "didn't mean anything in the big picture"... in other words, the ultimate "fate" of the worlds this community connected or whatever? ]

Do you really think this place can indicate something like that...?

video.

[potatochips]

I don't see why it wouldn't.

video.

[pawful]

That's hardly the only explanation for it not showing a particular person's death.

[video]

[blanched]

You died...? But...

[video]

[potatochips]

Not me. Someone else.

permatext

[callmeimouto]

...It's better that it wasn't recorded.

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[potatochips]

I know it's better.

But what it could mean...

[callmeimouto]

Does it have to have a meaning?