S4E22 - Spoiler Culture - “Shouting Spoilers Out Of Car Windows”

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In This Episode:

We discuss... spoilers! No, we're not trying to keep the topic
from you. We are talking about how spoiler culture exists today
and how radically different people can be when it comes to
their reaction to spoilers.  


In terms of when we were first introduced to the idea of spoilers
and keeping things sacred, so to speak, differed for both of us.


For Void, it was when Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
was released. People would drive around at the book releases
yelling what happened out of car windows and trying to ruin
everyone else's fun. 


For Beej, it was the movie The Sixth Sense when people
wouldn't even discuss the movie before asking, "wait, have you
seen it yet?" because the twist was such a big deal.


And then there's the idea of not watching trailers or partaking
in reviews for fear of spoilers ruining the media for you,
whether it's a movie or a book or a video game. While for others,
those are the sneak peeks and sometimes extra content that makes
the wait for the new thing more enjoyable and great.


Plus, we can't not talk about cultural movements like Game
of Thrones or Avengers: Endgame because of the ridiculous
way that we all reacted to spoilers. Even Disney was putting out
a spoiler embargo until the first two weekends were finished to
give people a chance to see it if they were really into the
franchise. But then there's GoT where people would spoil the
events of the episode while the episode was still airing
with the idea that if you weren't watching it when it was on, you
didn't care enough not to be spoiled.


Just the idea of spoiler culture in general is interesting to us,
and we wanted to give it a deeper dive than would have been
possible otherwise. It came up during our Avengers: Endgame
spoilercast, but amazingly, we didn't have enough time to talk
about spoilers while we were talking spoilers. So here we are.


Let us know what your thoughts on spoilers are!
Weekly Geekery

For Geekery Beej got Persona Q2, which might be the swan song of
the Nintendo 3DS. It might be the last major 3DS release, but it
has all the style of P5 on the PS4. He also
(finally) started listening to The Adventure Zone and had a
ton of questions for Void about the show. He also watched Always
be My Maybe and John Wick (both of which are awesome) and got
back into FFXIV Stormblood.  


Speaking of Stormblood, Void wrapped up all the Stormblood patch
content to prep for FFXIV Shadowbringers, and he talks about how
well the politics and different storylines are brought together
to lead into the new expansion. And in more Final Fantasy news,
Void has started up another FF series playthrough, and he bounced
off of 1-4 for various reasons. Not that they aren't good, but he
thinks FFV is the place he will have the most enjoyment as he
begins going back through the series chronologically.
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