We all know it's considered bad netiquette to discuss video game "spoilers" – a nebulous term for important plot points, twists, and endings – without warning. Nowadays the internet is plastered wall to wall with big, bold and altogether obtrusive spoiler warnings to keep potential torrents of cyber-bile at bay. Sometimes it doesn't even need to be a real spoiler. It could be speculation about a game that hasn't even been released yet. It could be a punter's prediction based on the first few hours of gameplay.
The mere perception that something has been spoiled for someone can be all it takes to turn a seemingly normal human being into an invective-spewing hate monster. While we've been tripping over ourselves not to spoil video games for these dogmatic tyrants, have you ever considered that perhaps they are the ones spoiling video games for the rest of us? And maybe, just maybe, spoilers don't spoil anything at all.
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