Why can't people realize that their experience isn't the standard that everyone else's lives are based off of?
I like to think I'm a reasonable guy. I know that people like to talk about things, and that sometimes you reveal something without meaning to, but, you know, when I'm talking about something in a public forum or chatroom and it gets into spoiler territory, I mention that there are spoilers. From time to time (and by that I mean pretty much every time I do this), someone will make the comment "lol, it's ten years old. You don't need to spoiler tag it."
Fruit you, sir.
Do people not recognize that, I don't know, something being slightly old doesn't mean people haven't seen it before? Shakespeare's work were a good deal older than 10 years old when all of us were born, but did that mean we should automatically know about them and couldn't, you know, maybe want to read them ourselves? Maybe we don't know the ending to Hamlet when we're five, or fourteen, or twenty-six, but that doesn't mean we're not halfway through it when you decide to give away the last bits. Just because a video game or a movie was released two years ago doesn't somehow mean that everyone who is going to want to experience it has done so. Some people don't have the money. Some people have had other things to do, because
more content is produced by humanity every day than a person could reasonably see in a year.
In fact, it's probably
a lot more than that, but I'm going to be reasonable about this and cut out 99.999999% of the estimate on that page. That's
only 25 billion bytes of data (25 GB). Per day. Every day. I'm certain you can get to everything you want to get to within a year or two, and that your tastes won't change or evolve so you become interested in something else. No way something might slip past your watchful eyes or, you know, be put off for a bit while you have other priorities. No. None. Never. Not you. Not anyone. Who could possibly miss something when it's only that much?
But wait, what about the first couple years of your life when you couldn't really experience content meaningfully? Or the near-decade after that when you probably didn't have full control over what you could experience either? And what if you were born somewhere else and recen- NO ONE CARES.
"Oh, so you don't want to let anyone talk about anything?"
When in the name of all that is holy did I ever say that? I just want people to take the TWO SECONDS out of their lives to indicate, especially when talking about something made within their lifetime, that it's possible no everyone in the room will know what they're talking about. Two seconds. Every day, in the U.S. alone,
10,000 people learn about something for the first time. And that's being
very generous with the math. So generous it's actually provably untrue, but, hey, I'm being reasonable. So, you know, maybe take the time to place the warning, or, when someone comments on it, DON'T BE AN
APPLE ABOUT IT AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE ARE SPOILERS.
I get it. I do. We live in a world where everything moves really fast, and people like to make memes and share funny things while they're relevant, and that's fine. I get it. It's a risk you take being alive nowadays. But when someone complains? When someone mentions that they still haven't seen it? When someone politely inserts a spoiler tag for something because
I don't want to assume that bananas, maybe you could just accept that and not point out that your ego is so massive that you can't believe someone hasn't experienced the things you've experienced? You know, maybe?
Or, maybe not, and you can go
fruit yourself.
I may have done this rant before... but hopefully it wasn't here.
tl;dr: I haven't seen Infinity War yet, but people are talking about it in a chat I hang out in and have no respect for anyone who hasn't seen it.
P.S. Anyone who replies with joke spoilers, or "everyone knows these so it's not spoilers" spoilers, like...
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Romeo and Juliet are characters in Romeo and Juliet, lol.
You make my list.