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I often read spoilers ahead of time.
Sep. 25th, 2007 02:29 pmI play Magic: the Gathering. It's fun.
Three or four times every year, a new expansion to the game comes out--somewhere between 250 to 350 cards. These cards are structured around several new game mechanics, some mechanical themes, and a new setting or story within the world of the game. During the lead-up to each new expansion, there are several weeks of previews, unofficial leaks, speculation, and rampant rumormongering.
I mention all of this because just two days ago, the rumormongers at M:tGSalvation completed the spoiler for the upcoming expansion (called [i]Lorwyn[/i]; it's set in a bright world of perpetual summer, inspired in part by the folklore of the British isles). In this context, a "spoiler" refers to a list of all the cards in the set, along with the rules (and often the flavor text) printed on each card.
Some people will tell you they avoid spoilers religiously. In a perfect world, I'd be one of them... but our world is the one where guys will shout the surprise twist at the end of a Harry Potter book to the people standing in line to buy it. When the likelihood of accidental spoilage is so high, I figure the only way to control when and how I learn the secrets of the new expansion is to spoil myself as soon as possible, so I often read spoilers ahead of time.
That's true outside the context of Magic, as well; I'd read the entire translation guide for Mother 3 weeks before I'd get to play it. It's kind of an ugly habit, now that I think about it. I hate the idea of someone having the power of privileged information over me, though, so while I try not to search for spoilers, if I come across them, I'm going to read them.
Three or four times every year, a new expansion to the game comes out--somewhere between 250 to 350 cards. These cards are structured around several new game mechanics, some mechanical themes, and a new setting or story within the world of the game. During the lead-up to each new expansion, there are several weeks of previews, unofficial leaks, speculation, and rampant rumormongering.
I mention all of this because just two days ago, the rumormongers at M:tGSalvation completed the spoiler for the upcoming expansion (called [i]Lorwyn[/i]; it's set in a bright world of perpetual summer, inspired in part by the folklore of the British isles). In this context, a "spoiler" refers to a list of all the cards in the set, along with the rules (and often the flavor text) printed on each card.
Some people will tell you they avoid spoilers religiously. In a perfect world, I'd be one of them... but our world is the one where guys will shout the surprise twist at the end of a Harry Potter book to the people standing in line to buy it. When the likelihood of accidental spoilage is so high, I figure the only way to control when and how I learn the secrets of the new expansion is to spoil myself as soon as possible, so I often read spoilers ahead of time.
That's true outside the context of Magic, as well; I'd read the entire translation guide for Mother 3 weeks before I'd get to play it. It's kind of an ugly habit, now that I think about it. I hate the idea of someone having the power of privileged information over me, though, so while I try not to search for spoilers, if I come across them, I'm going to read them.
