• Gray
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    11 months ago

    My wife went to school for English lit and is a professional writer. I cannot get a plot twist past her notice. It sucks so much. There was a video game that featured a serial killer (no spoilers, so no title) and I NEVER would have guessed who it was. I played it and I was shocked at the twist. Then I had my wife play it and in the first five minutes of the game she was like “That man is evil and I don’t trust him” and I was like WTF!!! He’s like nice and friendly and stuff. How the fuck does she do it. I spent hours having to gaslight her about how correct her prediction was. She also always knows when someone is going to die. I have to tell her not to comment predictions about movies because she’s correct at least 70% of the time.

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      I find foreshadowing and death flags are obvious the second time around and wonder how I missed them. I could see someone getting really good at noticing them, but I feel like that would ruin every show for me

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        My brain likes meta-analyzing everything and something like a shooter game basically looks often like Shooting Gallery A -> Guiding Light -> Safety Hall -> Shooting Gallery B -> Drop Gate and so on. Same with shows or movies, red flag drops and foreshadowing are so visible to me that I don’t really watch anything unless it’s something absurd, or very unique. All films feel the same, because you see the same structure, bare character archetypes, the same Disney-style writing, etc.

        I like older games for that reason, because back then you didn’t have things like online gamedev conferences where they teach you how to use a ruler, and often level designers were just random junior programmers or ex-modders that thought “this would be so sick” and made really iconic designs that are often unpredictable

        Edit: I now realise that people like things like Cruelty Squad and Death Stranding for this exact reason too

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      11 months ago

      This is why I don’t like watching anything with my friends. My husband and I like to pause the movie/show every so often and theorise. When we talk it through we can usually figure it out, and that’s obviously not fun for anyone else.

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      11 months ago

      I think I know the game and my wife did the literal exact same thing. Couldn’t even gaslight it, but to be fair there were at least other twists.

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      11 months ago

      Hahahaha I do the same, what type of autism does she have? I got my spergs to guide me to ilumination.

      (even tho when it really counts irl it doesn’t seem to work)