I thought I'd share this...

[BatRobin]

So I was playing Minecraft (semi-related) and this was the loading...screen...blurb...thing.

[GreenSerpent]

:D

Well, Mojang and Notch evidently have good taste in selecting memes for their loading screen.

[KillianHawkeye]

Nice!

[Goosefarble]

Omfg Spoilers Notch!!!

[Leecros]

Omfg Spoilers Notch!!!

D: He's ruined OotS for me forevers with that tiny tidbit of information!

[Goosefarble]

D: He's ruined OotS for me forevers with that tiny tidbit of information!

Next he'll be telling me that Snape kills Dumbledore! ;_;

[TheMac04]

Next he'll be telling me that Snape kills Dumbledore! ;_;

Dammit how could you! I didn't even...AGH!

[TinyMushroom]

That is pure win. Period.

[FujinAkari]

Next he'll be telling me that Snape kills Dumbledore! ;_;

Not cool man.

Not.

Cool.

[Tass]

Not cool man.

Not.

Cool.

I am not sure if you are serious. My sarcasm detector must be broken.

But "Snape Kills Dumbledore", annoying as it is for people who are just starting to read/watch Harry Potter, has become a meme and archetypical spoiler. If anyone had not seen that before, then they can not have spend much time on the internet.

It has even surpassed "Vader is Lukes father", "Rosebud was his sled" and "Tyler Durden is himself".

[Cizak]

And Bruce Wayne is Batman.

[Mutant Sheep]

And Bruce Wayne is Batman.

What? How could you! YOU RUINED BATMAN FOR ME! *goes off to be one of those Batman villains who knows who he is then dies conviently*
If Minecraft is this cool, I might have to try it. Nooo my game-time is disappearing! DCUO nooo!

[Goosefarble]

{Scrubbed}

[rbetieh]

Next he'll be telling me that Snape kills Dumbledore! ;_;

Simpsons did it!

[Unisus]

I am not sure if you are serious. My sarcasm detector must be broken.

But "Snape Kills Dumbledore", annoying as it is for people who are just starting to read/watch Harry Potter, has become a meme and archetypical spoiler. If anyone had not seen that before, then they can not have spend much time on the internet.

It has even surpassed "Vader is Lukes father", "Rosebud was his sled" and "Tyler Durden is himself".

Actually i'm a lot around on the internet, but in fact this was the first time i saw this stated without a spoiler warning.

And just the fact, that there are people out there who care less than nothing about if they ruin something for others doesn't make it cool to act the same way. So i agree: Not cool.

By the way - does one have to spend much time on the internet to be allowed to read this forum?

[lothofkalroth]

Actually i'm a lot around on the internet, but in fact this was the first time i saw this stated without a spoiler warning.

And just the fact, that there are people out there who care less than nothing about if they ruin something for others doesn't make it cool to act the same way. So i agree: Not cool.

By the way - does one have to spend much time on the internet to be allowed to read this forum?

Th main problem with "Snape kills Dumbledore" is that while it's probably the most relevant spoiler meme for our generation, the fact that it's modern also causes problems (i.e. people who are interested in reading/seeing Harry Potter, but spend enough time online to get hit by that major spoiler).

That said, I've read the Harry Potter series a number of times, and it's really not that much of a spoiler. You can tell from the beginning of that book that Dumbledore is going to die, and Rowling almost explicitly states it with the foreshadowing scene involving Snape and Draco's mom in the first few chapters. The series is still very good with that foreknowledge.

And, for the record, I've also found that it's a very common meme when people on the internet are talking about spoilers.

edit: oh, and Notch rules!

[Leecros]

It used to annoy me quite a bit when people did the whole "Snape Kills Dumbledore" out of spoilers. It actually was spoiled for me that way, some jerk decided to spam it on a forum(in the topic title even) the day after it came out. It irritated me so much, but that was the point behind it...

[MesiDoomstalker]

What next?

"Aries dies!"

[What'sThatThing]

Miko dies!

[MesiDoomstalker]

Shojo dies!

And Miko kills him!

[FujinAkari]

I am not sure if you are serious. My sarcasm detector must be broken.

But "Snape Kills Dumbledore", annoying as it is for people who are just starting to read/watch Harry Potter, has become a meme and archetypical spoiler. If anyone had not seen that before, then they can not have spend much time on the internet.

Or you can, ya know, just not go to Harry Potter sections since you know they'll be spoilers there. People who will go to OTHER areas of the internet and drop spoilers for no bloody reason really can't hide behind "Well everyone does it!" as an excuse, since everyone most certainly does NOT do it here, lest I'd have seen it before.

[CloakedDancer]

I am not sure if you are serious. My sarcasm detector must be broken.

But "Snape Kills Dumbledore", annoying as it is for people who are just starting to read/watch Harry Potter, has become a meme and archetypical spoiler. If anyone had not seen that before, then they can not have spend much time on the internet.

It has even surpassed "Vader is Lukes father", "Rosebud was his sled" and "Tyler Durden is himself".

But the narrator was such a nice guy...

As for the Minecraft thing, that's pretty awesome.

[Lateral]

That is awesome.

...Looks like that's a new one he added in 1.0, according to the Minecraft Wiki.

[TheMac04]

Trigak dies

[MesiDoomstalker]

Trigak dies

Who else in-comic can we spoil the death of? What about The Guy with the Halberd? He probably died during the siege.

[Sith_Happens]

"Vader is Lukes father", "Rosebud was his sled" and "Tyler Durden is himself".

Wha... You mean that... But...

ARGHHHH!

[Trixie]

Or you can, ya know, just not go to Harry Potter sections since you know they'll be spoilers there. People who will go to OTHER areas of the internet and drop spoilers for no bloody reason really can't hide behind "Well everyone does it!" as an excuse, since everyone most certainly does NOT do it here, lest I'd have seen it before.

This. So much this

[Zeb The Troll]

Or you can, ya know, just not go to Harry Potter sections since you know they'll be spoilers there. People who will go to OTHER areas of the internet and drop spoilers for no bloody reason really can't hide behind "Well everyone does it!" as an excuse, since everyone most certainly does NOT do it here, lest I'd have seen it before.

It's been more than six years since the book where this happened was released. I'm not sure what the statute of limits is on this sort of information, but I'm quite certain we're well past it. Heck, it's been four years since the book that explains why came out and two years since the movie showing it happen came out.

[Procyonpi]

I am not sure if you are serious. My sarcasm detector must be broken.

But "Snape Kills Dumbledore", annoying as it is for people who are just starting to read/watch Harry Potter, has become a meme and archetypical spoiler. If anyone had not seen that before, then they can not have spend much time on the internet.

It has even surpassed "Vader is Lukes father", "Rosebud was his sled" and "Tyler Durden is himself".

While it's pretty pervasive, I'm not sure it's really surpassed "Vader is Luke's father."

[Lateral]

While it's pretty pervasive, I'm not sure it's really surpassed "Vader is Luke's father."

See, that's the thing, that one's become so ubiquitous that it isn't a spoiler to anyone anymore. Nobody uses it as an archetypal spoiler, because everyone's already heard it.