Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-7091122-20161209151123/@comment-7091122-20161211152947

Pumpkin Skelhead wrote:

They're still characters in a work of fiction that have stopped being available. Do other fictional characters refer to the deceased in present tense?

...I mean that hypothetically. Don't dig up some crazy obscure character or some crazy obscure work where the dead are talked about in present tense. It probably exists somewhere.

My point is, though, that despite not being people, they're basically sharing the equivalent fate as them. They're no longer available; you can't see them anymore. They're, for all intents and purposes, dead. Gone. Ceased to be. Lost forever. You can Keep Circulating The Tapes, but that's as far as you can go. Outside of that, it's all over for them. Maybe the game will launch again. MAYBE. If the stars align.

Say a movie was entirely destroyed. Every last copy. We pulled a modern book-burning and made movies the target. Wikipedia would say "Hypofilm 3000 was a movie released in 20X6" and not that is is a movie. Since, I mean, it's not anymore. It doesn't exist anymore.