I'm really sorry but I got no idea what you are talking about
@Hells Malice and
@XrosBlader821. My articles are original and purely of my work. If you think I copied someone else's work based only on the topic, then you have a lot to learn about. And if you think poorly of the article, use proper language so that I can understand what you dislike about it.
It's pretty irrelevant really. It's quite likely you were inspired by it. Which there is nothing wrong with, i'm not even sure why anyone would deny it. The timing is either absurdly, absurdly coincidental, or that's where you got the idea from. The little "I'm not going to spoil the next MGS plot line" is also a dead giveaway given that was also a major topic in the discussion. Or again absurdly, incredibly, horrendously coincidental. TB did also mention GoT but i'd give that one to you since GoT is a major spoiler trap.
But again I just really don't care. I don't think anyone does. Being inspired by something and sharing your thoughts is how quite a lot of gaming articles (and really just articles in general) are created.
But the big issue is that this is an article written without an ounce of inspiration or passion. I wouldn't give half a glass of shit if this wasn't something posted in official news, by an official, uh, 'contributor', featured on the front page of the site.
Generally an article will have a well thought out purpose. I didn't get that from this article. I felt like it wasn't trying to tell me anything or inform me of anything. It just had words on a page to be read in sequence and then a vague discussion would follow based on keywords.
Here, i'll even break it down word for word (well not literally) where I think this article is weak.
Hold your horses. I’m not going to spoil the next MGS plot line or who dies next in Game of Thrones. But it’s hard these days not to be spoiled about anything. Who’s to blame? Well, the internet, social media, your friends and… yourself!
This part is fine. It introduces the premise, and defines the theme of the article. Do note though that while this is fine...
The internet is a tool that spoils us. Literally. The endless ‘leaks’ of upcoming smartphones has ridiculed launch events to a point that some consider them
redundant. We’ve also grown to accept it as a sort of ritual for each year’s E3 to have 'leaked' scripts of Nintendo
games to be announced. All of these raise the question: do we have to accept being spoiled while we browse online? Is it an integral part of it?
I felt this really didn't fit with your introduction. Your introduction referenced a videogame and a tv series (and I guess videogame), but then this jumps to smartphones, which really aren't something that can be spoiled. Subjective I know, but we all know the iphone 436 will be after the iPhone 437. Linking to another article is fine in theory, though someone then being more interested in that article than yours is a bit of a...thing, yeah. Technically fine though, I just felt it was an awkward jump to a completely different realm of spoilers.
The leaked script thing is a bizarre point to bring up out of the blue because it doesn't actually have anything to do with spoilers, given they're fake. (or often so, don't think i've seen a real one)
"All these"
you mean two points? No not really. Especially not those two very weak points. Not to mention phone spoilers and E3 game lists can easily be avoided during general browsing. More often than not you'd have to watch or read something to spoil yourself, it's not like seeing keywords or some thumbnail art and being spoiled unintentionally (or hell, intentionally). You posed two strong spoiler topics, and then gave two incredibly weak followups. I would've just expanded on where you began.
We use social media for various reasons. To connect with friends, keep in touch with news and… getting spoiled? Remember that
massive spoiler from The Walking Dead’s official facebook page? I'm sure you must have had other similar personal experiences, be it via your friends' or other pages' feeds/tweets. Don't these actions question our reason to be hyped about anything?
Not much to say for this one. Your question is weak. I don't see why a few spoilers on social media here and there would cause that thought to come up. But against this is just a beginning that should lead to a meatier discussion of this topic, instead you just kind of...drop it. So that's it then? Spoilers on social media are a real thing and you could have voiced some sort of opinion on it rather than stated the obvious and then asked a vague question. Basically all i'm saying is that this is a point that literally has no point. You didn't reach any sort of conclusion, it was just "so how about those facebooks and them spoilers?"
What about our friends? They might be spoiler-friendly and casually drop the twist of a game’s plot during a conversation. Do you have to explicitly tell them you are spoiler-friendly/unfriendly? In extreme cases, will it lead to us redefining our circle of friends?
Yes pran senpai my friends always do this (actually to be more specific I do this by accident when talking to my spoiler hating friends, haha).
You had it for one sentence. Now you're just asking me questions. I'm not here to answer a survey. This is another paragraph that trailed off into nothing. You introduced it, you asked questions, and then you dropped it. Don't do that. You can ask questions, but you also have to answer them. We know what WE think, we want to know what YOU think.
How to protect yourself from spoilers? Well, it’s actually your responsibility. You could tell your friends about it if you are having a conversation prone to involve spoilers. On social media, you could unfollow or stop receiving feeds from people and/or pages that post news you don’t want to hear beforehand. You could also get yourself up-to-date. Watch that episode, play that game, read that book... It would get many happy and keep conversations longer and more interesting.
That first sentence isn't a sentence. Just a nitpick since I do that in casual speaking all the time. In an article it just looks awkward.
This is basically where you turn into lieutenant Obvious, in charge of the Obvious squad.
I could TELL my friends not to spoil me? No way man!
I could unfollow spoiler heavy twitters? Man get outta town I didn't know that!
You started off fine though actually, I think it's a very fair point to say we are responsible for not being spoiled. I just think you could have named off a few less obvious things, like avoiding youtube thumbnails and comments because they can often contain spoilers. Etc, things like that that are fairly obvious but at the same time aren't SO obvious they're redundant to speak of.
Overall I think I just found this lacking because of the rest of the article.
Spoilers can be more a choice or an unintentional mistake than a thing to be avoided at all cost. It’s the internet people. Protect yourselves!
Solid ending statement.
So to summarize...
Your intro was fine, your ending statement was fine. But this article lacked meat. It had way, way too many questions and not enough answers. You gave little if not no insight of your own, and no opinion of your own. You, ironically, contributed nearly nothing to this article in the way of discussion or intrigue. You stated some facts, you asked some questions, and that was it. Overall just a severe lack of substance and all I could think of at the end of reading this was "Must've needed to fill a quota" rather than any sort of thought about the topic at hand.
I think that's enough though, for both of us. I got some scrubs to nuke in Halo.
Oh and as you might already be painfully aware, don't ever tell me to "use proper language" unless you want to be crushed underfoot by a post 4x the size of your own article. I'm not afraid to waste an hour.
Random: I wrote spoiler for every goddamn [ ] instead of quote. Literally every time, i'd have to go back and be like "dumbass" and fix it. Wow. Brains are funny.
EDIT: i'd also like to note I just could not be bothered to proofread this post, so, yeah. Excuse dem typos or repetition.
