Fri. 02/10 - Spoiler: This Is Our Last Episode

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Society & Culture, Science, Tech News

4.6 • 739 Ratings

🗓️ 10 February 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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We all love a good ending, but has the culture around spoiler warnings gone too far? Plus, a roundup of interesting links and stories from my drafts. And the story of the Cool Stuff Ride Home. Sponsors: Indeed, Indeed.com/goodnews ZocDoc, zocdoc.com/coolstuff Links: Spoiler Alert History: No Alarms and No Surprises, Please (Tedium) guys who think everything is a spoiler (Man Carrying Things, YouTube) The Antisemitism of ‘Harry Potter’ Returns in ‘Hogwarts Legacy’ (The Mary Sue) Dream Interpreter AI Viral Vault: The Kinetic Poetry of Gary Brolsma's “Numa Numa Dance” (Consequence) CNN Exclusive: Inside the secretive process to select the first astronauts for NASA's next moon mission (CNN) Sync Your Calendar With the Solar System (NY Times) The Rude, Cruel, and Insulting 'Vinegar Valentines' of the Victorian Era (Atlas Obscura) The Atlas Obscura Podcast The Twisted Life of Clippy (Seattle Met) Voice Changer Online Shopping in the 1950s (Messy Nessy) The Astounding Physics of N95 Masks (Minute Physics, YouTube) My newsletter, First Draft Theater (Substack) My Twitter My YouTube Channel My Instagram My TikTok The Neo-Futurists, the experimental theater company I'm in The NY Neo-Futurists’ podcast, Hit Play Hit Play Live in NYC on 2/13 C.A.M.P. this summer in the Catskills Everything’s Bigger Book me to speak at your event! My book See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Are you a smart booker or a silly booker?
0:07.4	Smart bookers get access to a three airport lounge by booking a five-star holiday with On the Beach.
0:13.8	Silly bookers?
0:14.8	Well, enjoy those cues at the bar.
0:17.1	Stop booking around and visit on the beach.com.
0:22.2	Conditions apply.
0:26.4	Seven night minimum stay outbound only from selected airports for up to six people at all protected.
0:29.7	On the beach.
0:43.6	It's Friday, February 10th, 2020. I'm Jackson Bird today. We all love a good ending, but has the culture around spoiler warnings gone too far? Plus, a roundup of interesting
0:50.6	links and stories from my drafts and the story of the cool stuff ride home.
0:57.3	Buckle in because it's going to be a long one. But you know what? For the last show ever,
1:03.8	I'm writing as much as I want and I'll make no apologies for it. So for one last time,
1:10.5	here's some cool stuff for your ride home.
1:15.9	So there's a thing happening in several corners online right now, in which people are posting
1:22.2	spoilers for the ending and other plot points of Hogwarts Legacy, the new RPG from Avalanche and Warner Bros.
1:31.3	This kind of behavior is typically verboten in fan spaces.
1:34.8	You might expect it from trolls organizing on 4chan or something,
1:38.6	but not more mainstream gamer and fan spaces.
1:42.6	The reason people are doing it is because a lot of people have
1:46.3	boycotted the game. There are two main reasons behind the boycotts. One is that Harry Potter
1:52.9	author J.K. Rowling, who was not involved in the development of the game, but presumably will
1:58.1	earn royalties from it, has for many years publicly denied the
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