Im suggestin people be a little more considerate about others. Youre lucky to not be spoiled, but not everyone. Saying "spoilers ahead" isnt that hard I dont think.

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I don’t get why YouTubers have to put spoilers in their thumbnails, it spoiled the last boss of a game for me one time and really pissed me off. I did learn my lesson to stay off YouTube when a new game comes out but still think people don’t need to include spoilers for games in their thumbnails, if I’ve started looking up videos for a game YouTube will start recommending me videos of that game and many of the videos have titles that are spoilers.

Are you suggesting that people never make any public commentary about anything?

I get it, I don't want to see a big spoiler about a show a day or two after it comes out on Twitter or whatever, but if I'm interested in something I avoid the topic. I managed to avoid spoilers about every Star Wars movie and show, because I care about that. Andor has been out for how long and all I know about it is that it's very good and I need to get around to watching it.

I played about 15 hours of rdr2, and never finished but always thought I might go back. I never encountered an accidental spoiler for it. I eventually realized I'd never get back to it and watched a let's play to intentionally find out the rest of the story.

I'm on YouTube a lot. I work from home and have ample time to watch videos, and I don't find avoiding spoilers that hard, it just takes a littler effort on my part.

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gaming culture favors people who play games, gym culture favors those who are athletic, car culture favors mechanics, and so on and so on and so on... if you aren't a mechanic, why go to a car meet? If you aren't interested in being athletic, why go to a gym? My point is you've entered into a culture you don't like and then question why you're there. Sure, I get that it leaks on to gaming culture more heavily than movies or books, but it's each of our own obligations to avoid spoilers for ourselves. It's rough, but it's the life we live.

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It's because I really only use YT. But that doesn't mean that other social medias would be different. They wouldn't. It's the same people there aswell.

I know social media breaks is the awnser, but the point here is that spolier culture seems to favor people who spoil stuff.

Aside from when someone posted a spoiler on a thread about football about a game I was playing I’ve managed to avoid spoilers for both tv shows and games. In my first comment I mentioned avoiding both social media and YouTube as I would personally avoid both if actively trying to avoid spoilers for something - you however have stated on two separate occasions that YouTube has spoiled things for you both in your original post and about red dead 2. It seems your problem is predominantly YouTube and actually staying off it or not using it so much might actually be beneficial in your case?

The tweaks were nice to Crystal but buying something new specifically for it nah not so much

If you think that to avoid spoilers you have to get out of yt, at that point you should just not use an internet connection, because its not just YT. Its all social media. What I wanted to say is basically that surely it isn't that hard to say "spoilers btw," because just as you also said, new people are constantly playing things and I don't think it's too much work to warn people of spoilers. But im just a fool who doesnt take responsibility I guess. Curse me for suggesting people be just a weensy teensy bit more thoughtful of others. I mean this whole post got even downvoted.

>Threw it in the trash after a couple months. > >>! It was in a pile of newspapers that I threw out. !<

Omg that is horrible

Never heard about this device till just now. Looks tiny

I can say I have done that before with emulating games and enjoying something I didn't own. Personally with the vast games online I have wanted a pc

Maybe it was my adhd but I never finished the game either. I got caught up hunting for hours on end and making a nuisance of myself until I burned myself out. But you're right there is an issue with how loose lipped people can be with games. Couldn't tell you how to fix it outside of taking breaks from social media while playing.

Just stay off YouTube until you’ve played? I don’t really use it so I don’t know how it works but I imagine when a new game is released videos pop up everywhere. People are entitled to make videos. Also, where does it stop? Like is the threshold when YOU personally have played the game, then it’s ok? Because there will always be someone who hasn’t got around to playing it yet - but that’s on them and that’s why they have to take responsibility themselves if they want to avoid spoilers.

Are spoilers ok? No, not really. But you’re never going to avoid them because between people genuinely making content and just idiots who make it their goal to post spoilers everywhere to purposely upset people you’re never going to escape them completely unless you take responsibility.

Ok that's a good one! They are about equal for me!

Umm... Yes, as I just said?

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But the question is are spoilers ok? Do you think it's ok to spoil things? Id rather not live like a caveman, just because someone with too much free time feels like ruining games for others. And it doesnt matter that you tell YT to not recommend you stuff. The universe always finds a way to spoil you somehow.

For me it's the opposite. I got an merciless never-ending barrage of spoilers for red dead redemption 2, even after telling youtube to not recommend ANYTHING related to the wild west or whatever. I actually almost never finished it because of it, and to this day I can't enjoy that game because im always reminded about how that games story was robbed from me.

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Believe me, I stay as far away as I can from stuff that could get spoiled for me. But it doesn't matter. Really the only way for spoiling to stop is that people wouldnt be such a-holes. (which is to say spoiling stuff wont stop unfortunately)

Tend to agree with the first few comments here, essentially you need to take responsibility yourself as it’s not up to other people to protect you from spoilers. If you haven’t had chance to play the latest game yet but you want to avoid spoilers then simply stay off social media/YouTube, you can’t expect the world to stop for you.

An honest answer is I think games stress the story less then the experience. And so does the community at large. A lot of games have a story only as an excuse to play the game(gta, saints row, far cry) that isnt always the case some games are heavily reliant on the story (last of us) but it's much harder to stumble across spoilers for games like that. The feeling of going though the story is better for me personally if I know the ending or how my choices affect that ending. I don't like surprises.