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[[File:SpoilerWarning_8862.jpg|frame|The [[Spoiler Warning]] crew. From the left: Josh/Reginald Cuftbert, You, Shamus, Rutskarn and Mumbles.]]
{{quote|'''Josh:''' Ok, so next episode... Hopefully there will be less [[Accentuate the Negative|rage-filled discussions about how much Bethesda deserves to die in a fiery pit]].
▲{{quote|'''Josh:''' Ok, so next episode... Hopefully there will be less [[Accentuate the Negative|rage-filled discussions about how much Bethesda deserves to die in a fiery pit]].<br />
▲'''Rutskarn:''' I don't know, why change the formula ''now''?<br />
'''Shamus:''' I know; we've got a good thing going here. The worst thing they could do is put a good game now: They'd put us right out of business. |''Spoiler Warning: Let's Play [[Fallout 3]]'' (Episode 20)}}
''Note: This entry has nothing to do with actual [[Spoiler
'''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131110232330/http://www.shamusyoung.com/spoilerwarning/ Spoiler Warning]''' is a [[DVD Commentary]]-style [[Let's Play]] group, whose main style consists of deconstructing, analyzing and (in some cases) ruthlessly mocking the plots and characters of the games they play, usually while using a play-style designed to showcase pieces of the game in ways that 'normal' players usually won't see (i.e. by playing the game like it was a tabletop role-playing session and they are [[The Loonie]]). They tend to favour [[Role Playing Games]].
The group (in order of appearance) consists of:
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* ''[[Shamus Young]]'': Better known as the author of ''[[DM of the Rings]]'' as well as a contributor for [[The Escapist]]. Tends to serve as [[Mister Exposition]], and also the most opinionated of the group.
* ''Josh Viel'': An anime reviewer for The Escapist. Plays the game, with the others as backseat drivers.
* ''Randy Johnson'' : The Player for the majority of the [[Mass Effect]] LP (taking over for Josh a handful of episodes in), Randy left after season one was finished. Started the group's now signature [[Chaotic Stupid]] play-style.
* ''[[Rutskarn]]'': Added to the group for the Fallout 3 LP. The group [[Troll]], [[Pungeon Master]], and hipster.
* ''Mumbles'': Added to the group for the [[
* ''Chris "Campster" Franklin'': Added a few episodes into the [[Deus Ex: Human Revolution|Deus Ex Human Revolution]] season. Runs the video game youtube series ''Errant Signal'', and provides [[Straight Man]] analysis (and a few jokes).
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* ''[[Mass Effect]]''
* ''[[Fallout 3]]''
* ''[[
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'' (one-episode special)
* ''[[Mass Effect 2]]''
* ''Trainz 2'' ([[April Fools]] episode)
* ''[[Amnesia: The Dark Descent|Amnesia the Dark Descent]]'' (Anniversary episode)
* ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''
* ''[[Half-Life 2]]'' (between-season specials)
* ''[[Hitman]]: Blood Money'' (One week "Hitmas" special)
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* ''[[Alan Wake]]''
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* [[Accentuate the Negative]]: The group, particularly Shamus and Josh are harshly critical and will quickly pick on parts of the game that they find frustrating. Though they do point out the parts they like in the games and note that as harsh as they are, they do actually like the games (though in the case of Fallout 3, it's more because the game is fun).
** And then there's ''[[Half-Life 2]]'', [[Inverted Trope|which is practically non-stop gushing]].
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* [[Awesome but Impractical]]
* [[Berserk Button]]:
** [[Idiot Plot|Idiot Plots]] and Railroading pisses them the hell off, with [[Bethesda]] earning a special place for ''Fallout 3''.
** Yeoman Kelly Chamber of ''Mass Effect 2'' in particular is a sour point for Mumbles because [[Name's the Same|Kelly happens to be her name.]] She's also disgusted by [[
** Mentions of Little Lamplight.
** The incinerator in ''New Vegas'' that Josh lugs around for no reason whatsoever.
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* [[Brick Joke]]: Rutskarn's ''Face/Off'' pun in the ''Amnesia'' episode.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Most of the team has one.
** Mumbles' "God-''dammit'', you guys!"
** Mumbles correcting the pronunciation of Caesar:
{{quote|'''Mumbles''': Kaiiiiiiiiiiiii-sarrrrrrrrrrr...}}
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** Shamus mentions how "this is what bugs [him] about [game]", then explaining what.
{{quote|'In the Original [INSERT NAME OF PREQUEL/SPIRITUAL PREQUEL GAME HERE]...' (Drink!)}}
** Josh's [[
** Someone mentioning a criticism and Shamus going "Euugh, ''yes''!" and elaborating. Often coupled with "This is what bugs me about X/this game-"
** Someone making a suggestion for Josh to do something stupid, to which Shamus responds "Strongly in favor of."
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'''Rutskarn:''' Hold it, hold it. On the other hand, I actually do have a counterpoint: *ahem* {{spoiler|''Fuck the [[Smug Snake|Illusive Man]], blow it up''!}} }}
** In ''New Vegas'', they also "completed" Boone's quest by having him kill the wrong target (specifically his old friend Manny), telling him that they just wanted to see him die and killing him when he [[The Dog Bites Back|retaliates]]. Later on they said that they didn't want to kill Boone, only wanting to "mess with him" and didn't know that he'd actually become hostile afterwards.
* [[
* [[Cutting the Knot]]: A (un)surprising amount of quests get solved this way, i.e. by horribly murdering the quest-giver.
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: All four of them.
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* [[Dropped a Bridge on Him]]: Reginald Cuftbert of ''Fallout 3'', slayer of Three Dog, The Enclave, and The Capital Brotherhood (and a ''lot'' of other things in-between), {{spoiler|died for good (and unintentionally) in a [[Random Encounter]] with a non-named super mutant not two minutes after finishing the last quest of Broken Steel. The group decided this was too good an [[Anticlimax]] to waste, and stopped playing.}}
* [[The Eeyore]]: Shamus will find something to complain about in just about anything going on.
* [[Even Evil Has Standards|Even Chaotic Stupidity Has Standards]]:
** At the end of the main ''Fallout 3'' campaign, they refused to use the Modified FEV due to the fact that it is tantamount to a slow suicide, with the player not being immune to any of its effects despite what Eden (who is unaware that the Lone Wanderer is born a wastelander) says.
** A better example was their all-rescue streak in ''Bioshock'' (naturally, with Shamus lampshading that the 'gains' of going all-harvest were so minimal so as to render the 'moral choice' pretty much moot).
* [[Early Installment Weirdness]]: It is kind of wierd looking back on the first season with the lack of Mumbles and Rutskarn and the inclusion of Randy.
* [[Evil Laugh]]: Once given permission to do ''Honest Hearts'' after being vetoed against doing so previously and [[Sanity Slippage|tormenting the rest of the cast]] [[Humiliation Conga|for an entire week's worth of episodes]], Josh indulges himself in deliciously vile bouts of laughter in jubilation in [[Karma Houdini|having gotten his way]].
* [[Failed a Spot Check]]: Shamus not spotting things happening on-screen happens semi-regularly. It's even happened to Josh a few times, and he's the one playing. Shamus also admitted to having failed to spot Liberty Prime during his first play-through of ''Fallout 3''. For those not in the know, Liberty Prime is a 50 feet tall [[Humongous Mecha]] and tends to dominate the room it's in, which you visit several times during the course of the game.
** Josh also points out during the [[Mass Effect 2]] series that a large group of Quarians failed a spot check on their ''wost enemy in the middle of their home''
* [[Fission Mailed]]: 'The Great Crash' in ''Fallout: New Vegas''.
** This was shortly followed by the episode 'Fission Mailed', in which Shamus inadvertently made Josh go do the ''Honest Hearts'' DLC.
* [[Flashback Cut]]: The opening of ''Human Revolutions'' involved Shamus saying the reason they weren't playing the original ''[[Deus Ex]]'' first was due to problems with the others' computers in viewing his stream properly. We then cut to a flashback of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9r7xH6PvJng&t=00m47s how said stream looked to the other players]. ('''WARNING:''' Not for the faint of heart or ear.)
* [[Fridge Logic]]: Pointing out the in-universe [[Fridge Logic]] in the games they play is their secondary hat, like the above Little Lamplight question and why, for whatever reason, ''C4'' is classified as a concealed weapon in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''. In one case, Josh is impressed when Papa Khan lampshades the Fridge Logic of Cuftbert coming to his home and talking to him while having no idea who he is.
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** Not to mention his favourite weapon; the perpetually burning Shishkebab. How anyone manages to stay stealthy with a [[Flaming Sword]] is anybody's guess, but Reginald does it somehow.
** ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'' is already Highly Visible Ninja: The Game, but Josh's extremely unsubtle play style and confusion with the controls sure as heck doesn't improve matters. Much lampshading on how tearing off a few posters compensates for his misadventures abound.
*** They finally succeeded at the [[Stealth
* [[Hostile Show Takeover]]: The reason for the ''Team Fortress 2'' episode? The Spy ''sapped the Normandy''.
** Shamus at one point gets sick and can't record for a week during ''Alan Wake''. The rest of the crew treat the event as this.
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* [[Iconic Item]]: The pre-war bonnet in the ''Fallout'' games
* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: In ''Fallout: New Vegas'', Mumbles is often urging Josh to take up cannibalism, which he always refuses for the sake of not wanting to waste a perk. Of course, he does at one point absentmindedly eat a piece of human flesh he looted from the Fiends.
* [[Insistent Terminology]]:
** It's pronounced '''Kai'''-'''Sarr''', not Caesar. Mumbles loves pointing this out.
** Shamus was very insistent about referring to ''Mass Effect 2'' as a "[[Take Cover|cover-based shooter]]" instead of an RPG.
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* [[Promoted Fanboy]]: Inverted. The regular hosts were self-proclaimed fans of ''Errant Signal'', and thus got its creator to join their merry band.
* [[Obviously Evil]]: One of the things that the group like about Human Revolutions is that despite the fact that Frank Pritchard is consistently a jerk to Adam Jensen and David Sarif is a Cyberpunk CEO, {{spoiler|neither are actually evil nor do they backstab Jensen at any point in the game.}}
* [[Running Gag]]:
** Someone (commonly Shamus) [[Sarcasm Mode|getting upbraided by the others]] for spoiling the plot of the games they play.
** Rutskarn's (under legal drinking) age.
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* [[Shaggy Dog Story]]: In ''Mass Effect 2'', the story of {{spoiler|Thane}} took this bent (which was lampshaded). He was recruited, never used once, never talked to once, {{spoiler|and then killed by debris in the opening rounds of the Suicide Mission}}. Basically, all that (plot-mandated) ado for absolutely nothing.
** In ''[[Assassin's Creed II]]'', the team basically proclaimed the entire carnivale of Venice as this, considering you went through a lot of pointless minigames just to have the prize taken away due to a bribe.
* [[Shiny New Australia]]: This trope [[Conversed Trope|was mentioned off-hand]] during the climax of ''Mass Effect 2''.
* [[Soundtrack Dissonance]]: The opening for ''ME2'', which features Shepard being blown out of the Normandy while a jaunty jazz tune plays.
* [[Stating the Simple Solution]]: Another trademark is to question overly complicated quest proceedings (which they're Railroaded into) with asking why they don't do the obvious, i.e. commonly kill someone.
* [[Stealth
* [[Stating the Simple Solution]]: Shamus pointed out that the entire reason ''Mass Effect 2'''s plot exist is apparently because ''nobody'' thinks about mining, booby-trapping, disabling or otherwise blockading the Omega 4 relay, since it's the only way the Collectors can enter the rest of the galaxy. Doesn't help that the ''Arrival'' DLC mostly invalidates the point of the relay.
* [[Stupid Evil]]: Their opinion of Cerberus, specifically in how their [[Playing with Syringes|research]] always seems to end up killing more humans than the main villains and never actually produces anything useful in the end. Likewise, they consider The Illusive Man as a [[Smug Snake]] at the very best.
** Likewise, they accuse [[Fallout: New Vegas|Caesar's Legion]] and [[Assassin's Creed II|The Templars]] of being pointlessly evil for no real reason.
** And, of course, Josh himself. (Or at least his playstyle for the purposes of the LP.)
* [[Suckiness Is Painful]]:
** Josh's playstyle and Rutskarn's puns occasionally have this effect on the others.
{{quote|'''Shamus:''' Is this my blood? I think this is- I think I'm bleeding. Guys, I think that pun...}}
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