I would think about some kind of Epic War movie, but Action War is close enough for me.
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NO.
(And 10 characters)
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Nobody sees the āyour move-my moveā āletās get closerā and all the different names for approaching moves as the quintessential flirt?
No? Just me?
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Soā¦ are you trying further the case that it is just like Twilight?
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Twilight has as much chemistry in it as a linguistics studies curriculum.
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Wellā¦ some people seem to really love linguistics, and sometimes also play a game of Go
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2 dans watching a 25k game doesnāt make it a dan game.
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I canāt speak for others, but playing Go on a live board I feel as anxious as 007 defusing a ticking bomb.
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How often do you defuse ticking bombs?
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How long is long enough to be allowed to talk spoilers?
- Right away
- 24hours-ish
- A week-ish
- A year or so
- Never
0 voters
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Imho, itās okay to talk spoilers if the other person has given consent to being spoilered. But you need to ask first, no matter how much time has passed.
Well, maybe itās okay if itās about something you know for sure the other person(s) will never watch / read anyway.
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Well, I donāt think itās plausible to spend our time asking for consent to share information that is not harming the other person.
I mean, if I want to write something that spoils the fact that Bran became King of the Six Kingdoms two years and approximately 7 billion posts/ videos/ tweets later, do I really need to ask consent from all the potential readers of this post?
Or should I be lynched if I forget to put a spoiler tag?
I personally think thereās a reasonable amount of time to expect other people to cryptically hush-hush discuss pop culture, and itās a bit entitled to expect everyone to stay silent forever, in case said person might decide to watch a series someday.
(oooh, strong feelings in the polls 
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Iām assuming that the question is in the context of without warning nor consent. I answered about a year or so, but I think it is really a bit flexible, however long until it is generally accepted that the work is within public consciousness and people have generally had enough time to consume such work, if they cared.
Without such an limitation, how could anyone wear shirts that say or jokingly utter stuff like āLuke, I am your fatherā (i.e., in a deep Vader voice. Note: also a common misquotation) or āHan shot firstā or āTeam Jacobā (giving away that a live triangle would form) or āyouāre a wizard, Harryā or āitās made of people! Soylent green is made of people!ā. Similarly, people may often snowclone these phrases (replacing a word or two, using them like a linguistic meme), taking advantage of how well known the originals are. Although such phrases are spoilers, they are also well known enough to be part of our cultural consciousness and used as expressions, by making reference to well known creative works.
At the end of the day, itās not such a big deal to spoil things. Itās just a discourtesy and not a crime against humanity.
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I think the largest problem with spoilers is when they come out of nowhere, and you have no way to dodge them. At least give an introductory sentence that mentions that youāre talking about so-and-so, from which it is immediate that there may be spoilers following.
The worst kind of spoiling is what my mother sometimes does, where her story goes like āI watched a good movie the other day, I forgot the title but it was about [[ insert major premise of the filmās ending ]], oh yeah, I remember, itās called X.ā
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Even phrases like āTrojan horseā or āAchilles heelā can be considered spoilers, but no one objects to using those.
I firmly believe that there is a statute of limitations on these things.
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I had to google that one.
How am I supposed to get consent in that? If Iām talking with a coworker (not now, when the world still functioned) about Bran, and another coworker butts in to scream that Iām spoiling the end, or if I want to meme into a forum conversation the Kassandra in a suit thing, how would that work?
If Iām talking with a friend, I probably know what they watch or donāt watch, so obviously I wonāt blurt out things out of nowhere, and Iām also not going to blurt out of nowhere that Dexter kills his sister and leaves the next day after the finale aired in a social conversation without a lead-in, but if two people end up saying ādid you see that?!ā āoh, yeah, that thing happened!!ā, is everyone around entitled to scream āspOilersSS!!!ā?
At some point, we should be allowed to just talk, you know? How much conscious of what I say must I be about things that aired/ were published years ago?
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Youāre allowed to talk, all Iām suggesting is to first mention the series / film / book youāre going to talk about before starting the spoiler.
Like Iām not reading your above post, since I know your GoT spoiler came unexpectedly (which I donāt really care about), but have no idea if youāre spoiling other things that I do actually plan to watch.
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Iād rather talk how Iām supposed to, and not mechanically add extra information everywhere because someone might be slightly offended, thank you.
I take it you have turned off your internet since forever and watch nothing on TV and wear noise-cancelling headphones everywhere, in case you sometime in the future want to watch Se7en?
After a certain amount of time, itās not a spoiler. Itās a thing that exists.
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Itās not about being offended, itās about ruining someoneās experience of something you like enough to want to discuss it, why not let that other person have their experience? Itās just rude putting the blame at others for not having watched something immediately.
Well yes, I tend to either stop watching / reading when something appears that Iām interested in but havenāt seen / read yet.
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