Why I hate Google

Discussion in 'Trek Literature' started by theblitz, Jul 8, 2013.

  1. theblitz

    theblitz Commander Red Shirt

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    Using Google when you are reading "old" books can be a minefield.

    I just googled something to do with DS9 and accidently saw a spoiler for something kinda big.

    Grrr.

    Anyone got a memory wiper handy?
     
  2. rahullak

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    This is just to test your vision. If you will look at this light here...

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  3. theblitz

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    I abstained from the internet for two days before STID came out. It killed me, but I triumphed.
     
  5. bbailey861

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    Me, too, and I was very impressed that this BBS remained remarkably spoiler-free except in those threads marked as such. I thought I was going to have to abstain from The Trek BBS totally but it didn't end up that way at all.:beer:
     
  6. DS9Continuing

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    I have experienced similar traumas - in one particular case thanks to this very board, which not only placed, but on further consideration allowed to remain, one of the most massive spoilers there could be right in a thread title.

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  7. F. King Daniel

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    I was spoiled on
    Janeway's ressurrection and surviving the book
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    Harrison being Khan (which admittedly had been rumoured forever)
    on Facebook. The former by a Trek Lit page and the latter by a bitter little Elvis wannabe. Such is the risk we run. But I still very much enjoyed both, and both still had plenty of huge surprises in store!
     
  8. ryan123450

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    That was the worst spoiler related incident to ever happen to me. I still can't believe people could be so insensitive.
     
  9. Paris

    Paris Commodore Commodore

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    ^To which thread do you refer? Feel free to post the title in spoiler bars :techman:
     
  10. ryan123450

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    I'm at work now so I won't search for the thtead link, but the spoiler regarded the big event of Plauges of Night/Raise the Dawn.
     
  11. JD

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    Oh, I think I remember which thread you guys are talking about know.
    Was it the one about the destruction of DS9 that popped up right after PoN came out?
     
  12. Ain Jalut

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    I try not to use it because it personalises my searches.
     
  13. ryan123450

    ryan123450 Rear Admiral Rear Admiral

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    Thats what I was talking about and I'm pretty sure thats what lvsxy808 was originally refering to.
     
  14. DS9Continuing

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    I was indeed. :klingon:
     
  15. Patrick O'Brien

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    ^That sucks that it was spoiled for him. Though it is fast becoming old news.
     
  16. DS9Continuing

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    ^^^ Now, over a year later, yeah maybe, these things happen. But at the time, when it had been about a week since release and I was still waiting for the book to even appear in my local bookstore? Unforgiveable.

    And it's big news, too. It's not like a "we find out what Klingons really look like under their helmets" level spoiler - it's a big mofo-ing mofo-er of a mofo.

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  17. F. King Daniel

    F. King Daniel Fleet Admiral Admiral

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    I read that spoiler before reading the book too but it didn't faze me. Even after reading it I was 100% sure...
    ...that Sisko saw the station engulfed in a huge explosion, not that it actually exploded.

    It wasn't until I started the next book when I realized they'd actually done it! *cue Planet of the Apes reference*