Don't Freak Out About That The Last of Us "Spoiler" You Saw Just
Yet  Last week, I was chatting with my boss Stephen about The
Last of Us. We were both playing through the game, and he was
acting as a sounding board as I worked on my review. Suddenly, I
got a worrying text from him: "A reader just let me know some
asshole is in our comments spoiling the end of the game."
"Shit," I thought.  (Note: There are no spoilers in this
article.)  A few minutes later, Stephen sent me a screencap of
the "spoiler" in question. Turns out, it wasn't a spoiler at
all, but rather a scenario invented by the commenter to troll
other readers. No one got spoiled. But a lot of people thought
they did.  Over the last few days, The Last of Us spoiler-panic
has reached a pitch. Most of the spoilers out there have been
deduced from a list of cutscenes that was discovered in the code
for the game's demo. The cutscene titles, it's been assumed,
give enough information to draw conclusions about the ending of
the game. They kinda do. Th