If you care about spoilers, why are you still here reading? (Destiny)

by Funkmon , Sunday, September 03, 2017, 21:02 (2874 days ago) @ General Vagueness
edited by Funkmon, Sunday, September 03, 2017, 21:19

Easy. People don't actually care, they just want to care, and be upset if they're spoiled. Spoilers don't matter and I'm confident people are fooling themselves.

Like, I don't actually care if someone wants to check my ID with a Visa or MasterCard, but I really love starting a fight about how they can't require that per their agreements with those companies.

what's wrong with you? honestly what's wrong with you?
I don't hold to the same standards for what's a spoiler and what isn't, and I think bad things don't really deserve to have their plot protected, but I still understand those viewpoints, and I don't accuse people of faking having them
so what's wrong with you (or what's wrong with DBO) to make you say that?

Pretty simple. A couple studies have shown that people enjoy things more when they have plot points spoiled, spoilers being talked about here are barely spoilers at all, merely acknowledging the existence of a story, and also the stranglehold people crying about spoilers have on conversation.

For example, I've said a big plot point of Star Wars a few times on the forum, and one time some guy got really mad at me because HE WAS WAITING FOR THE DVD. ARE YOU SERIOUSLY SHITTING ME WITH THAT?! You want to inhibit my conversation with my friends about the biggest cultural phenomenon of that summer, because YOU want to watch it on DVD?! I sincerely do not believe someone is that arrogant, much less people I know personally or reasonably well, who are otherwise normal.

They call spoilers even about things they have no intention of even seeing! For example, I once spoiled Life Is Strange by saying Rachel Amber is dead, something we knew basically from the beginning, and something which is not, strictly speaking, the main plot of the game. I was internet yelled at by a guy who was considering playing the game. Are you kidding me? The game had been FINISHED, and it was $20! If you were going to play it, you would have.

I just am completely incredulous. My personal incredulity leads me to think that these people cannot possibly expect people to not talk about the story until everyone conceivably has experienced it in his own time.

Again, this ain't no spoilers. The trailer for Castaway is a spoiler. The appearance of literally some plot or a character isn't, and, again, I don't believe anyone actually thinks it is.

Some people may want to avoid knowing things about the game, which is fine. Don't read about the goddamn game. If you want to read about the game but have arbitrarily deemed parts of the pre release info as a spoiler, and you're still reading, you're literally lying to yourself about which thing you value more: spoilers or Destiny 2 info.

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EDIT: I want to say there's a difference between faking something and fooling yourself. I fooled myself into thinking frosted tips were cool. I didn't fake liking them when they were hip. I just didn't realize that I didn't care, but MTV told me it was cool so it was, in my head.

This situation, calling this a spoiler, is just like when Star Lord's dad wasn't known to be whoever that famous actor was. The movie companies keep this stuff hidden to fuel internet speculation and keep the movie, still in development or a long time from release, in our heads. Then they release a trailer showing who he is and people call SPOILER. Dude, they manufactured that spoiler to keep you talking about the movie. You literally are pissed off because you know someone is in the movie.

As this type of thing gains traction online as a marketing tactic, so does the acknowledgement by some people of its legitimacy as a plot point.

The same way payola convinced us to like some pop artists and not others, this very avoidance of these very spoilers can be convincing to some people. They think they should feel spoiled, culture has told them they should, so they do. Then after some time, they will realize that maybe Semi Charmed Life isn't that good of a song, and they'll realize that they didn't really care as much about spoilers as they thought.