Post 889269 by IrisKalmia@cybre.space
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(DIR) Post #888934 by IrisKalmia@cybre.space
2018-10-31T21:37:38Z
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Try as I might, I cant wrap my head around spoiler culture. I've tried a few times and at least I'm not longer outright antagonistic towards it but the way people weigh it...It seems really weird to demand the same treatment people give towards phobia triggers, current events, politics and a whole host of other stress points to the possible dampening the enjoyment of some piece of media. People seem outright afraid to talk about their enjoyment of a thing? its weird
(DIR) Post #888935 by Canageek@cybre.space
2018-10-31T21:48:03Z
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@IrisKalmia I mean, it makes sense when you've got media that is heavily based around big reveals and revelations. The shock of a character dying won't have as much of an impact if you know it is going to happen, for example. 17776 would lose a lot of its wonderment in the first couple sections if you actually know what is going on with it, for example.
(DIR) Post #888946 by Canageek@cybre.space
2018-10-31T21:48:51Z
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@IrisKalmia I'm on a couple blogs where someone documents themselves playing through a game, and they have us use ROT13 for spoilers, so that we don't ruin puzzles for them, or bias them with our opinions of the game too much. That is a pretty specific example though.
(DIR) Post #888956 by IrisKalmia@cybre.space
2018-10-31T21:49:12Z
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@Canageek I... Guess? I admit I'm incredibly out of scope with this given I can be chatting about what happens next in a episode I'm watching for the first time if the person next to me has seen it.
(DIR) Post #888958 by Canageek@cybre.space
2018-10-31T21:49:57Z
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@IrisKalmia The problem isn't talking about the game, its talking about the game without warning people ahead of time, and people conflate the two. I think this really became a thing due to twitter, as you can't choose what you see on it. Like, forums and IRC you could always make your own spoiler area and choose if you went into it, whereas on twitter or Facebook you'd see snippits of other people talking.
(DIR) Post #888992 by IrisKalmia@cybre.space
2018-10-31T21:52:36Z
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@Canageek It's REALLY hard for me to empathize with the position as a whole. It strikes me as on par with getting upset with a couple people talking about the game/movie/book openly in a cafe
(DIR) Post #889017 by Canageek@cybre.space
2018-10-31T21:54:25Z
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@IrisKalmia Well, I don't go to cafes much, but typically when I am everyone talks softly enough/ambient noise is loud enough I don't hear everyone else's conversations. It would be more like talking about something loudly enough that everyone else in the restaurant can hear it.
(DIR) Post #889117 by Canageek@cybre.space
2018-10-31T21:59:22Z
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@IrisKalmia Basically, I should have a choice if I read/talk to someone about the ending of a movie or whatever. CWs give you that choice, same as clicking a forum thread with spoilers in it or opening an email with that subject line. In person I could ask you not to talk about episodes I haven't seen before you finished your sentence for example.
(DIR) Post #889131 by IrisKalmia@cybre.space
2018-10-31T22:00:02Z
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@Canageek unless they're being incredibly quiet it's hard for me not to overhear someone. I listen to basically every conversation that happens without a closed door in my office. This honestly seems like one of those things that's beyond me because of how abnormal a lot of my context is going into it. Generally I try and just let it pass over me, it's the easier and better solution after all but the fervor of it today got to me @@;
(DIR) Post #889269 by IrisKalmia@cybre.space
2018-10-31T22:07:02Z
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@Canageek I've watched people sssh fairly quiet conversations between coworkers about an episode or movie that released over a week ago, which seems well outside a moratorium to me? Hell I've even seen people apologize for getting into the plot of something released over a decade ago without warning which is unimaginable to me
(DIR) Post #889286 by Canageek@cybre.space
2018-10-31T22:08:34Z
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@IrisKalmia I don't see why there should be a time limit to be honest. There are so many movies that if I watched them 14 hours a day, every day, I'd never see all of them. If you want to talk about them, don't do it when uninvolved people have to overhear it? Like, move away from them, do it with CWs, ROT13, over email, etc.
(DIR) Post #889303 by Canageek@cybre.space
2018-10-31T22:09:57Z
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@IrisKalmia Its like, a decade ago it was pretty much impossible for me to play Final Fantasy VII, right? The PlayStation was out of production, I wasn't going to buy a PSII, and it was hard to get a copy of the PC port, and hard to get it working if you did. So I read a comic of the ending, which was cool.
(DIR) Post #889333 by IrisKalmia@cybre.space
2018-10-31T22:10:57Z
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@Canageek I'd say the fact all media can't be consumed in a life time is an argument against being concerned with spoilers, theres unfathomable cultural context I'd be without if key elements of media I'd not consumed weren't over saturated.
(DIR) Post #889337 by Canageek@cybre.space
2018-10-31T22:10:58Z
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@IrisKalmia A few years ago I tried to play it, and its hard to get into it at times, since I see all this clever forshadowing and its just, like, wow, this would be a great lead up if I didn't already know the ending. But as it is, I already know what they are hinting at.
(DIR) Post #889348 by Canageek@cybre.space
2018-10-31T22:11:37Z
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@IrisKalmia That makes no sense. Something might have come out before I was boring, but it might be something I've got on DVD and am going to watch later this week.