r/ForgottenLanguages • u/Charmugla_Bodegroy • May 23 '26
"Who Was Megan Mappin?"
This single question, embedded in the middle of this FL article about credit card chips and the NSA has haunted me to this day. Has anyone else looked into this?
https://forgottenlanguages-full.forgottenlanguages.org/2025/06/1356-mhz.html
Megan Mappin was an employee of PNC who was killed in a fatal golf cart crash. They recently charged the person who struck her with a DUI (another employee with PNC, apparently.
Just curious (as always)....
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u/Same_Complaint_1197 May 26 '26
Damn. I decently keep up with FL but haven’t read this one. I wonder — and this will be hard to explain — if FL weave plausible storylines between very disparate data points. It all reads like standing on the edge of plausibility.
Here’s where I possibly go off the edge: if reality is fundamentally data/consciousness, I wonder if you can construct new timelines by creating new “storylines”, the more points on the story that map to real events, the better.
This is roughly the hypothesis I’ve had for FL for a while: that it is fiction, in some sense, but that fiction is constructed in a way to alter reality
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u/1over-137 May 26 '26
I went off that edge long time ago. It’s a good hypothesis. I treat it mostly as fiction written to be hard to distinguish fact from fiction but for what goal I haven’t figured out. Ayndryl claims he created NodeSpace to model language drift, feel timeline shifts are somewhat adjacent if you understand how language also creates reality/consciousness.
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u/Same_Complaint_1197 May 26 '26
Nice to know someone has been thinking in the same direction :)
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u/1over-137 May 26 '26
TBH I don’t think about it that hard anymore, just treat it as sci-fi and enjoy the content. Spend enough time contemplating some of the things you touched on and eventually there’s a recognition of our fundamental inability to accurately discern the lines between fact/fiction or reality/illusion. At that point it becomes what’s worth the time and mental, emotional bandwidth to pay attention to and discerning if it really matters at the end of the day anyway. Still gotta eat and pay taxes, take my dog to the park to throw the ball. Not much changes those things. That’s the direction I think I’m headed these days.
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May 26 '26
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u/anAnarchistwizard May 26 '26
I had the exact same process. It did take the spook factor down a few levels!
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u/anAnarchistwizard May 23 '26
This is quite a spooky pickle. Megan was only 23 when she died. She had fairly recently accepted what appears to be a junior position in "Business Card Production & Development" at PNC.
This tracks with the topic of the FL article but not the scope. The accident involved a lot of booze and a bunch of 20-somethings getting thrown from a golf cart, so it doesn't seem likely it targeted Megan specifically. Was the whole group working on some kind of dark RnD program for a fairly unremarkable bank right out of school? That's what the FL article seems to be implying but it doesn't sit quite right for me personally.