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[Cunth]

Not shitting on people who do care about spoilers - to each their own - but am I the only big dick here who doesn't care about being spoiled on stories? I care more about the journey than the conclusion. Nevertheless, people who intentionally spoil things for others are pretty shitty.

 

[O-N-E]

“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies... The man who never reads lives only one.” - George R.R. Martin

How would you like it if I spoiled your life, dude?

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

You’re definitely not the only one, considering how many people read/watched the leaks from TLOU2 and are positing about it, it’s a mega thread. Plenty of people seem fine with them. Same with Game of Thrones when it was on.

Guess it’s just a person to person thing. I hate having something I’m really looking forward to spoiled. Experiencing a compelling story for the first time without knowing what’s gonna happen is a big part of the fun for me, but it’s whatever I guess.

Matt made a pretty solid point about just reading the leaks and moving on, since they will be really hard to keep avoiding anyway

How would you like it if I spoiled your life, dude?

I fear you

 

[Tranquil]

Not really, I always find movies/tv shows are best on the second watch anyway and I know how they end at that point.

 

[neobiz]

that kid sees dead people

 

[Tesseract]

i care but i also don't, usually over it after a couple seconds

def not one to spoil people tho, always apologize if my enthusiasm gets ahead of my patience

 

[Nymphae]

I decidedly do not want things i am interested in spoiled for me, but at the same time I don't get bent out of shape if something is spoiled. If it was content I was interested in, i'm still going to consume it and enjoy it, unless it sucks in which case who gives a shit.

 

[Barsinister]

How would you like it if I spoiled your life, dude?

 

[Tesseract]

How would you like it if I spoiled your life, dude?

 

[teezzy]

Depends on what the spoiler is, I guess.

Sure someone could give away the ending to a story and you could argue, "I only care about the journey maaaaan," but imagine if that same asshole whispered various key plot points in your ear while you were watching the movie or whatever.

 

[Tesseract]

Depends on what the spoiler is, I guess.

Sure someone could give away the ending to a story and you could argue, "I only care about the journey maaaaan," but imagine if that same asshole whispered various key plot points in your ear while you were watching the movie or whatever.

i'd prolly laugh it off and move on, lols

 

[neobiz]

Depends on what the spoiler is, I guess.

Sure someone could give away the ending to a story and you could argue, "I only care about the journey maaaaan," but imagine if that same asshole whispered various key plot points in your ear while you were watching the movie or whatever.

LOL!

 

[haxan7]

Fellow big dick who doesn’t care about stories being spoiled. I actively seek them out sometimes. I also skip all cutscenes in MMORPGs. Just want the gameplay.

 

[teezzy]

i'd prolly laugh it off and move on, lols

 

[nush]

Nevertheless, people who intentionally spoil things for others are pretty shitty.

For those of us that have young kids. You know when you give a 3 year old say for example a boiled egg and there's something inconceivably imperfect with it like there's already a small crack in the shell. Then the kid refuses to eat it just because the shell is cracked, and you reason with them and tell them they have to break the shell to eat it anyway but the kid keeps crying and does not want to eat the egg because it's not perfect. Then in the end you just give up as it's easier to just boil another damn egg and save yourself all the drama.

Grown adults crying about spoilers are the same as that 3 year old with a cracked egg.

people specifically spoil them because the big baby hissy fir they throw, if they just shrugged people would stop intentionally spoiling them because there would be no payoff.

I don't care about spoilers, I wont actively seek them out or demand that the entire internet stops talking about something becuse I've not seen it yet.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Spoilers give me motivation to try something that looked shit if I had no interest it of if I had poor judgement. I prefer no context minimal "this happens" as opposed to a full blow out.

 

[MetalAlien]

Sometimes I will ask people how a movie ends to see if I want to pay for it or not... so no they do not bother me.

 

[Lionel Richie]

A lot of people don't care, it became a more prevalent feeling recently due to games being 50 hours behemoths and thanks to capeshit asinine storylines being split into multiple movies for maximum profit. The time investment is just not worth it if you don't get that surprise you totally never would have guessed. Nobody likes them and giving out spoilers is a unambiguous dick move, but this fearmongering culture is also a bit excessive IMO.

 

[12Goblins]

if a spoiler can ruin something it's probably not worth watching in the first place

 

[Mr Nash]

Depends what it is. If there's a good twist at the end or it's something like a murder mystery, then I don't want to know what happens. Not gonna make a lot of friends running up to people who are about to watch The Usual Suspects for the first time and telling them what happens at the end.

 

[Richard Packer]

am I the only big dick here

 

[highrider]

No it really doesn’t bother me, but I have the attention span of a gnat.

 

[Blade2.0]

Had a friend ruin the KOTOR plot twist during my xbox days. stopped giving a shit about spoilers then. Was literally like 5 minutes from the spoiler. shit pissed me off.

Nowadays, I will actually look up wiki plot posts while I'm watching a movie. I DONT GIVE A SHIT, BABY!

 

[GoldenEye Samurai]

They don’t bother me that bad. I spoiled myself on a lot of Naruto Shippuden before the anime came out, but I still loved the shit out of it.

 

[Darkmakaimura]

Depends.

Kinda bummed I had Rise of Skinwalker spoiled. I managed to avoid spoilers for all the other Star Wars films but ROS was all over the place.