I don't get it.
A friend of mine just sent an email telling me that Dungeons and Dragon creator Gary Gygax has died. He wrote:
"Guess he didn't make that savings<sic> roll. Bummer."
I clicked on a link about him, and saw all these people saying how they were all choked up and how words failed them...
...all about a man who most of them never met.
It's like the whole Heath Ledger thing. I don't get that either.
What affects me? The loss of people I know...whom I've spent time with, whom are real people, not just a name in the paper, or roles played on screen.
It's sad for the people who knew them loved them. It's perhaps sad that we won't see more of their work. But why do I suspect that 99% of these people who profess being upset by such news will pass on the news to others via email and then go back to whatever they were doing, unaffected?
Maybe I'm just bugged that people make a big deal out of the suffering and passing of celebrities and not give a thought to other suffering all around them... Sad.
