He was right, the book was 85 years old when the first Hobbit movie was released, it doesn't matter if the movies bring in new audiences, the story itself is old as fuck and those who don't know it by now obviously don't care that much about it.we had this same thread when the hobbit movies were coming out. Martin Freeman spoiled the ending in an interview which he thought was fair game since the books are so old.
I disagree, just because something is re-released or remade doesn't mean it's not an old story. I don't think going into a thread about the re-release and talking about the ending is fair but generally spoiler rules shouldn't apply.Sorry OP but your goof was the timing of the remaster. Sure people should expect spoilers to be discussed after a reasonable time but they also, reasonably, expect you to move back into avoiding spoilers during period of re-release.
He was right, the book was 85 years old when the first Hobbit movie was released, it doesn't matter if the movies bring in new audiences, the story itself is old as fuck and those who don't know it by now obviously don't care that much about it.
I disagree, just because something is re-released or remade doesn't mean it's not an old story. I don't think going into a thread about the re-release and talking about the ending is fair but generally spoiler rules shouldn't apply.
Pretty much. And like Correctomundo illustrated, it's up to context. The age of something always struck me as an arbitrary metric when it comes to spoilers. It's not irrelevant altogether, but there are other factors to keep in mind beforehand.No. There is plenty of old media I haven't got around to consuming yet. I don't want to know any details of Anna Karenina, 12 Angry Men or Planescape: Torment.
No. There is plenty of old media I haven't got around to consuming yet. I don't want to know any details of Anna Karenina, 12 Angry Men or Planescape: Torment.
He was right, the book was 85 years old when the first Hobbit movie was released, it doesn't matter if the movies bring in new audiences, the story itself is old as fuck and those who don't know it by now obviously don't care that much about it.
I disagree, just because something is re-released or remade doesn't mean it's not an old story. I don't think going into a thread about the re-release and talking about the ending is fair but generally spoiler rules shouldn't apply.
Spoilers in a title of a thread is a dick move no matter what. It can easily be worked around and the reader will have a choice on going into the thread or not.
So yeah dick move
I just got chewed out on another site (won't say which)over posting spoilers in the topic title about the original Bioshock, a fucking 9 year old game. I'll be first the first to say I don't like spoilers, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect this kind of thing to be relaxed after at least a year. Hell, with something big like The Force Awakens, I think six months is more than reasonable. If you haven't played the game by now, I don't give a shit. I'm going to talk about it, and I'm not going to tip toe around late comers.it was reddit
That is nobody's problem but your own. Sure, if someone finds out you want to read something and just tells you the big twist, that's a dick move, but at the same time I am routinely amazed at how many people who want to know Absolutely Nothing™ about something pop up in every damn thread about that something they can click on.
What? Literally everything you've ever consumed had a first time. I'm assuming you read The Hobbit sometime in the past 15-30 years (and didnt get spoiled beforehand). Someone's 30 years ago is no different to someone else's 3 days ago.
If spoilers were just out there for the past 65 years your first experience of the hobbit wouldve been different.
Actually, I did get spoiled, I read Lord of the Rings first. So I knew how Bilbo got the ring (more or less) and that he survived his adventure and returned home. If I had been spoiled more, then so what? The novels were already decades old and I cannot and will not expect that people don't talk about old stories just because dorky 16 year old me hasn't read them yet.What? Literally everything you've ever consumed had a first time. I'm assuming you read The Hobbit sometime in the past 15-30 years (and didnt get spoiled beforehand).
Discussion is one thing, but the OP put the spoiler in the thread subject line on a group that might just be attracting a bunch of new users because of a release of a game that's nine years old. I doubt anyone would bust too many guts if he mentioned it in an overall discussion of the game or anything, but the place for dropping spoilers isn't in the one field of a forum post which is openly exposed to casual users.
(And, as a gaming forum, I seriously think people are overestimating the reach that any of the events in Bioshock have had in a broader cultural sense. It's not actually that well known a thing)
One problem with spoiler culture is that some people only consume products made within their lifetimes that take less that 220 minutes to consume, and lack the perspective to see how knowing what is going to happen while you go through 1500 pages may be annoying. So we make rules for summer blockbusters and assume they can apply to more than that.
You know what is weird? Spoilers for media based on real life events. As someone who watched Rush with a person who did not know who Niki Lauda was I find the topic rather interesting, because I know she experience an additional level of enjoyment that I could only try to imagine at the moment.
The fact thatis practically as well known as "I am you father" or "it was his sled".....I'm not going to win this argument am I?Fontaine is still alive
Rerelease or not, it's a classic game of the 7th gen. If you haven't played by now, that isn't my problem.
The remaster did just get released a week ago and that would mean there are many newcomers to the franchise.
For me? No. You can tell me any major plotpoint and I'll probably forget it because I'm not spoilerphobic.
The same week something is released. Spoiler culture is shit. Your whole enjoyment of something shouldn't rely on a twist or reveal.
Statute of limitations? Are we treating spoilers like a crime now?
If you actually want a time limit for your answer, it should be 10 years, with the clause that the time resets whenever a remaster or something similar comes out.