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nordlead, you're mean, honestly... :(

It's ok like this? ;)



     

 

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speaking of gifs, why the hell is kratos attacking a titan in your sig ???



Dazkarieh said:
nordlead, you're mean, honestly... :(

It's ok like this? ;)

you're not the only one to be warned because of this thread and I now see more people to send notices too

edit: and yes, your sig is fine now.




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I wonder how many folks on the internet avoid seeing those amazing spoiler videos? hmm



The argument has merit. I don't need to see a sig for a game I already beat, like inFAMOUS. I am in favor of a ban on all sigs with GIFs of games I already beat.



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Take my love, take my land..

But Okey Dokey's is really funny and besides, you could get the same thing from pictures. If there is an awesome boss in a game that was in a trailer you haven't seen and you see it in a signature image and think, wow that's a cool character. Then when you play the game and the anticipation is rising as you come up to a boss and you realize it is the same character, the anticipation is killed. You are like, oh its him.

It could even be dulled if it is a word description. So the best way to limit spoilers in all cases is to limit signatures to just words and only to 4 word phrases. That's really silly in today's world.

The reason I don't like "most" gifs is that they entrance me into watching the same thing over and over again when I have many other things that I should be and could be doing.




wasn't okey's previous sig the "don't fuck with kratos mmk?" bit with the whole ripping off the head? :p we haven't forgotten.

Still, i doubt a 4 second animation is going to spoil a game. The gifs are as informing as looking at the boxart.



It's not a spoiler. It's in a trailer. Thus, it's common knowledge.

And why would you want to ban all gifs? What if somebody wants to post a gif of Mario break dancing? Is that a Super Mario Galaxy 2 spoiler? What if somebody wants a Killzone 2 gif? Is that a spoiler?



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Squilliam said:

Im going to make an Infamous spoiler to send a message about what I mean.

The big bad boss guy is actually your dog you had when you were growing up turned into a human with the power of the device. See now its spoiled. A gif is essentially a visually spoiler, I hate it when people masturbate over the low quality spoilers. Besides that it gets really old seeing it 20-30 times. I got bored of KZ2 because I felt like all the most impressive bits had been shown to me. Gifs made Killzone 2 look average to me. It made it look like some low budget game thats thrown out by any old developer.

That was horrible, now I have to post a spoiler of my own.

At the end of WipEout HD, you get a trophy =O

Argh, I had to spoiler tag it! I can't bear to think of somebody whose enjoyment of WipEout HD would be ruined by them knowing the ending!

No, I haven't finished WipEout HD.



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