• Stovetop@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I’m out of the loop, is it just someone being completely oblivious to the large coal plant in the background, or does the character have like a chronic illness causing them to cough?

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      • spoiler hidden by popular demand

      :: spoiler Tap for spoiler He dies from tuberculosis contracted earlier in the game. :::

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        I was about to play that game your spoiler warning doesn’t work if you can see the text while reading the warning

        I finally get a computer that can run it and I get the ending spoiled immediately, thanks god

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          The good news is, this isn’t much of a spoiler. The game shows this part coming from miles away. You learn about the disease probably like 3/4ths through the game. It’s part of the ending, but it isn’t what makes the story good.

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          Me too. I have a wife and kids, and a 50 hour a week job. Been plugging away sporadically for a year. It’s not the spoiler that bothers me, it’s the “it’s a blah blah year old game why haven’t you finished it yet etc etc”

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            I’ve played it, but yeah, 7 years isn’t that long. If it were like 20 then yeah, people probably have already played it or weren’t going to —though still, there will be some new people, either younger people or curious people, so not an excuse to spoil it. 7 is still recent enough that people are still going to be new to the game.

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        You can make a proper spoiler message this way:

        ::: spoiler Some text here, whatever. Click here.
        The actual spoiler content here
        It won’t be visible until you click the spoiler thing open.
        :::

        And this is what it will look like:

        Some text here, whatever. Click here.

        The actual spoiler content here
        It won’t be visible until you click the spoiler thing open.

        Could you be so kind and edit your message, making the spoiler look that way?

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            I thought it was some kind of game mechanic or something else that they didn’t understand. I didn’t think it would be this spoiled. 🤷‍♂️

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                I haven’t really been super interested in watching the HP films, but my children might eventually be and maybe I’ll watch the movies with them some day in the future? For this reason, I’ve taken care at least to not know who kills him. This came kind of out of the blue here.

                But now I know. Thanks?

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                  The game came out in 2018, I think a reasonable amount of time has passed to not have to worry about spoiling things. I guess I could’ve just said that rather than make a rude/sarcastic comment, sorry about that

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          Can’t believe how many people are defending this obvious misuse of the spoiler tag lmao

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              I love the hive mind coming out of the wood work to downvote comments just because someone else has. I’ve noticed that often here. It was especially bad on Reddit. They see a zero or a negative one and have to put their unreasoned stamp on it too.

              I bought the game a couple months ago and have put maybe 6 hrs into it so far so yeah, having someone spoil a part of the plot just because the game has been out for a while is fucking shitty.

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        Thanks for the massive up votes, as well. Been plugging away on my free time. One of the most story-driven games of the decade. Thanks guys. I knew he died at the end, but not the cause.

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        3 days ago

        Further less serious spoilers

        Tap for spoiler

        Micah can kill you in one of the endings? I knew I should have shot that piece of shit.

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      So, no one is allowed to talk about any piece of media ever on the off chance you might eventually get around to watching/reading/listening to it?

      Okay buddy.

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      No, but there does need to be a reasonable time limit on when it is reasonable to not have to worry about spoiling something…

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        Why? Do you think new people will never play this? They don’t deserve to enjoy plot turns because they’re younger than you?

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          Do you think that no one can talk about a thing they like just because you’ve been too lazy to interact with it? The world doesn’t stop for you. Out of consideration, spoilers will be avoided. Not indefinitely though.

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            I don’t think anyone said they couldn’t talk about it.

            It’s just common courtesy to try to not spoil things for others. It’s really not a difficult thing to aspire to.

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              I get that, but sometimes the “spoiler” is what’s discussed. Or worse, we don’t realize that it’s a spoiler, because you didn’t watch some related media that revealed it.

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            Dude, I wasn’t talking about me. It is possible to think about things that affect other people rather than yourself, and to want other people to enjoy things as much as you did, but it seems you wouldn’t know much about that.

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              I’ve seen people get butthurt over spoilers from NES games. To me, that feels unreasonable.

              There needs to be a point where we stop agonizing over spoiling content that is 30, 40 years old. Even if you never had a chance to play it, it’s 30 or 40 years old. I don’t know where that cutoff point needs to be. I’m just saying there needs to be one. And if you’re going to be upset over spoilers, over content that that’s that old, then maybe you need to be careful about what you’re reading.

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                Dunno. The ::: spoiler -tag does exist and is not difficult to use at all. Why not use it?

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                  Because sometimes it isn’t always clear what will be a spoiler. >!And I think spoilering everything would be silly and not helpful at all. Especially considering that different Lemmy clients do spoilers differently sometimes!<

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                There doesn’t need to be a cutoff, you just go with ordinary politeness and put it behind a spoiler tag. It’s not even hard, it’s just polite.

                What price politeness? Less agro than calling someone butthurt or lazy just for suggesting you don’t spoil a fun experience.

                There are very old films that I would advise against spoiling.

                There’s a reason it’s called spoiler. It spoils the experience for other people. There’s no need.

                Be more thoughtful and less self centred.