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Not me, but I had a friend with a brother who was a year younger, and when they got in a huge fight, he told him he was adopted.
I'm not sure why a parent would let a kid make it to 16 and hide that type of secret.
Side note, I have an aunt that I didn't know was adopted until I was 30. Looks just like her sisters, and I never asked until she mentioned it as she felt less than her sister.
Damn, I tell my sister she's adopted all the time. She probably isn't.
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You're the adopted one.
Dude, spoiler tags!
I can't remember what it was specifically, but friend basically ruined a major plot point in Witcher 3 for me fully knowing I was a good ways out from discovering it on my own. As a kneejerk reaction and knowing he was about 20 or 30 hours into Fallout 4, I told him who runs the Institute and what relation that individual has to the protagonist.
He was angrier than I was because I had assumed Witcher 3 turned out the way he revealed, but my spoiler absolutely blindsided him. He never ruined anything for me again.
Tbh this is the best outcome. He learned his damn lesson.
What happens to Gus Fring on Breaking Bad. There had been all sorts of fake leaks and photoshops going around 4chan and Digg and Reddit and I sent one to my buddy, turns out it was the only real one. Whoops.
Well, I guess you spoiled yourself as well lol.
I guess this is a good a time as any to ask how spoiler tags work on Lemmy.
Also, do spoiler tags also work in Kbin? Because all the text in this thread is completely visible to me and I'm not sure if it's supposed to be.
Apparently like this:
Bible Spoiler
Jesus dies in the Bible!
To appear like this:
Bible Spoiler
Jesus dies in the Bible!
Line breaks are a must. It seems like some apps like Voyager doesn't support spoiler tags so you may need to look again in the browser if this doesn't look right.
Yeah, Kbin definitely doesn't support this at all lol.
But thanks for the spoiler, I wasn't done reading that one!
It seems this doesn't work with Eternity (Infinity fork for Lemmy).
Let's test something real quick:
!Batman is Bruce Wayne!<
It seems that Eternity still thinks it's on Reddit, but only in the preview, the actual post doesn't hide this either...
On mobile Firefox browser, I see everything, and in fact I've never not seen everything. So yeah, I'm pretty sure that spoiler tags don't work on Kbin, at least via mobile browser.
Clicking over to https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/5881116, the spoiler section is properly hidden, so the same mobile browser works just fine on Lemmy.
Edit: and I confirm that I also see the spoiler text on desktop Firefox as well. And Google Chrome too.
Or on desktop kbin.
It works on the website. But some (or many) apps don't seem to use the tag.
I accidentally spoiled Dumbledore's death for a college roommate (she was a late adopter and it was probably 5+ years since the book came out)
I accidentally spoiled the identity of the Half-Blood Prince. It had been a very long time since I'd read the Harry Potter books, and I didn't really remember movies 6, 7, and 8, so I forgot that it was even a mystery lol. But at least I didn't spoil the part where Hagrid kills Malfoy and feeds his bitch-ass to Fluffy. His father heard about that, alright.
I was present for a SKD moment. It was at a dinner table with some friends and a lot of new aquaintances. One of these new people was very obviously a shithead. No one liked this loud-mouthed guy, except he was a "brother" or whatever college Greeks call them.
This other girl was reading the half-blood prince- it had just came out the week before. She brought it to the table for some reason. Probably couldn't wait to continue right after dinner. He sees it, gives a knowing look around the table. I looked right at him and said. "Don't you fucking dare. Ben, stop your asshole friend from ruining toni-"
SKD!!!!
She was talking to someone and didn't quite hear him. But she could see the rest of us looking down at our hands what he shouted slowly dawned her and she fucking yelled so loud, left the restaurant and cried outside until we came out. She couldn't leave entirely because we were on a road trip. I felt so horribly for her. When the trip ended I never saw her again.
Why are there people like this? Why do we let them do this without consequence? Shame clearly isn't enough.
Hagrid kills Malfoy????
Yeah, oops. I thought it was weird that they didn't keep that in the 5th movie, but whatever, Peeves the Poltergeist was left out of the entire fucking franchise.
There was a class I took in college where we would read a book and discuss it at length. The problem (for me) was that we would read an assigned part, and discuss that part, each week. I, however, read the whole book almost immediately and tried to skim relevant sections prior to class. This caught up to me when we were talking about something, and I mentioned an event that would happen very soon to a main character, but hadn't happened yet. It was an incredibly important event. I really regretted it and the teacher's face was very mixed.
I was at a bar and a girl was flirting with dude with a big handlebar mustache. She left to go to the bathroom and the guy said he was gonna ask her if she knows what a mustache ride was. Well she comes back and asks what's going on. I blurt out "he wants to know if you know what a mustache ride is". He was pissed I spoiled his joke.
Well, did she?
I have accidentally spoiled more video game plot points in live streams than I would like so I have learned to keep my mouth shut. It isnt worth the risk of spoiling stuff the streamer may or may not have seen just to strike up conversation in the chat.
Since the spoiler tag thing doesn't work for everyone (Eternity doesn't hide spoilers, and apparently many other apps don't), I won't say what the spoiler is.
I gave my brother a big spoiler for Jujutsu Kaisen, because I misremembered the order of events and assumed he had already read that part. I've been extra careful when talking about Jujutsu Kaisen with him ever since.
One of my friends gave me a JJK spoiler recently, about a certain "topless" scene.
That sucks, literally my favourite fight in the entire series so far, I would have been so pissed if someone spoiled that for me before I could read it.
Not me personally, but when I was hanging with a couple of friends we talked movies with good twists and of course classic The Sixth Sense came up. One of my friends says he hasn't seen it, yet. So of course we recommend it to him and don't say anything about the twist. Unfortunately another friend was just coming back from the toilet and hadn't heard that someone hasn't seen the movie, yet. Only heard us praising the Sixth Sense, so comes back and directly goes:
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Oh yeah! Bruce Willis is dead the whole movie! What a twist!
I saw this with some friends, about 5 minutes in my friend leaned over and was like 'so he's a ghost too and he doesn't realise?' and I was like "Ohh, I hadn't realised that yet". We watched the rest of the film thinking how sad it was that his wife didn't know he was there, then at the end and that was revealed it was super confusing.
It's probably not as bad as some of the comments I'm reading here, but it was about Demon Salyer. I met my wife's little cousin (she is 12yo) about a month ago, and she was talking about anime (Demon Slayer, in this case) and she asked me who my favorite character was.
I had finished the manga, so I told her that I didn't have any because none of them really spoke to me and asked her what was her favorite. She said it was Shinobu because it was "her comfort character" (I had no clue what that meant at that moment), and not having thought about the fact that not everyone read the manga, I immediately said that:
I realized my fuck up when she started just tearing up, didn't know what to do so I said I was really sorry and left.spoiler
she was cool but it was a shame that she died a gruesome and slow death
I wasn't really following nor aware this then popular series. It was shown on a cable channel that we were subscribed to through a cable subscription. I was used to having reruns shown most of the time, and I've got pretty much no concept of following an ongoing series on cable TV. So I was pretty surprised when I spoiled a group of friends to a climactic scene to the Game of Thrones S5.
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One day, I was idly switching channels until I saw a scene of a naked woman being paraded around, being jeered having things thrown at her. Looking at the channel logo on the top-right and taking note of the scene's setting, I vaguely guessed that this was a scene from this then famous series, HBO's Game of Thrones. This striking scene made an impression in my mind, and I took mental note of it as I got lost in the succeeding scenes.
The next day, I was out to see some friends. We were idly talking when I blurted out a description of the infamous walk of shame scene.
I was surprised at everyone else's shocked reaction. One of them had the good sense to ask me when I saw the scene, and when I answered "yesterday afternoon, why?" everyone's mood shifted from shocked and angry to feeling sorry for me, but still annoyed nevertheless. This same person then explained to me why I've just spoiled the entire group.
Turned out that without knowing it, I watched a climactic scene of the then latest episode of that series. That I watched it on the early afternoon here locally was due to it being premiered at the same time as it was shown in the US. I apologetically explained that I was just shocked to see such a scene, and thought I'd bring it up.
You do know spoiler tags are useless if you don't specify what the spoiler is for, right?
My bad. I'll be fixing it.
I gave away the result of the 2015 NFC championship game to my ex wife who was out of town and planning to watch it recorded later. Still bitter about the game but would gladly ruin it for her again.
Packers-Seahawks or Broncos-Panthers?
Packers-Seahawks⦠ugh
So I had to do a company speech and to live things up I mixed in some famous scenes from wildly popular old movies. And that's how I found out that in 2016 among the colleagues in an IT company, one of them had no idea about a certain character from an 11 (is that 11 now?) movies space saga was closely related to the younger main character.
Always good to recognize that while there are many things most people should realize by the time they are adults, there are also about 10,000 people becoming adults every day.
The person was one year older than me.
To keep it soiler free, the specifics don't matter. I read fan translations of the manga Attack On Titan because I got tired of waiting for the anime to be dubbed or released or whatever. So I finished the series a long while ago.
My brother has been watching the anime as it gets released. I've been saving memes I found about it and after the next section comes out I'll send them to my brother.
Well. One time I over estimated how far the anime had gotten and sent him a couple memes of events that he hadn't seen yet.
Now that I think about it, I also spoiled Hereditary in about the same way, through memes. I sent a couple in a group chat that reference
Title
the telephone pole scene, if you've seen it you know. Not a huge plot spoiler but it did ruin the shock value I guess.
forgetting that one person in the group chat hasn't watched it yet but was planning on watching it soon.
The Walking Dead. Twice.
First time was when a coworker was telling me how good second season was and I should give it another shot. I ended up binging it then later talked to him about how shocking it was when it was revealed
Turns out he hadn't finished the season yet.spoiler
you'd turn no matter how you die.
Second time was the third season when
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Merle died. I was rewatching it with someone and when Merle was acting all heroic before his rogue suicide mission, I commented that it's such a trope when a hated character do something uncharacteristically selfless before they die so they could make us feel something for them in the last minute. In my weak defence, when I watched it for the first time, I thought it was pretty clear it was a suicide mission, but apparently it is not.
I was talking to someone about the 70s flick Jesus Christ Superstar and I accidentally revealed the verdict in the trial of the main character at the end. OOPS! (I won't mention it here.)
We were talking about The Wire and a girl at the party said she watched it, I said βit was pretty crazy what happened with Omar, right?β
Apparently she hadnβt finished watching it yet.