The Gaming Iconoclast: Is Ignorance Bliss?
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-- Thomas Grey
Knowing is half the battle.
-- G.I. Joe
It goes by many names -- Rumor. Speculation. Innuendo. Suggestion. Suble hints. Vague allusions. Nudge nudge, wink wink. Slips of the keyboard. Loose lips sinking ships. Detective work. Snooping. Unearthing forbidden knowledge. Call it what you will, by whatever method you choose, but it's become an increasingly inescapable fact of life regarding the games we play, especially those in the shared iterations of persistent worlds.
We're referring, of course, to knowing about content before it's on our hot little hard drives.
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