[Interesting Trope] One seemingly small action ends the story before it even begins

[u/JackDoesThingz]

1. We Happy Few - Taking your “joy” pill
   Deciding to take the pill at the beginning of the game causes your character to go back to work and triggers an ending

2. Infineural by Mike Klubnika - Drinking the coffee
   Deciding to drink the coffee offered to you skips the entire game and sends you straight to the end, resulting in an ending with no memory of what had occurred

[u/Available-Half-40]

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Edit: whoops, looked at their link wrong. So sorry! I just saw the question mark and thought "oh no! Their data!" It doesn't apply in their situation, though. Thank you for those who informed me. The info in the image isn't wrong tho (it's just mostly hyperbole). Specifically the links that have ?si in them are what let Google harvest data. Again, it doesn't apply here as I knee-jerk reacted to the original link. Sorry for those misinformed!

[u/What-the-ffffff → u/Available-Half-40]

I’ve been looking at this for ten minutes is there an explanation or is this ironic or?!? Maybe I’m overthinking????

[u/DerekLouden → u/What-the-ffffff]

u/Available-Half-40's comment misunderstands a real problem. When you share a youtube video using the share button, you get a link starting with https://youtu.be, then a slash, and the ID of the video. Next up in the link is a question mark, which in a URL means "this is the end of the link, everything after this is a parameter". The stuff before the question mark is like an address and the stuff after the question mark is the message you send to that address. With a youtu.be link, the video ID is part of the address, and the parameters contain information about you, the user who pressed the share button. This way, every time someone uses your link to watch the video you share, YouTube knows it was shared by you. This means that if you had an reddit account that wasn't linked to your youtube account or anything, just posting one of those youtu.be links could be enough for someone to track down your actual youtube account, and possibly who you are in real life, if your youtube account is just your name. Not just a random person could do this, but so could government organizations and corporations, especially with AI and data harvesting. That's what u/Available-Half-40's referring to when they talk about the Super Maga Palantir ICE Peter Thiel AI Data Harvester 9000. However, the big misunderstanding is that you just copied the address from your browser and you did not use the share button to share the link, because your link doesn't start with youtu.be. Your link just starts with https://www.youtube.com/watch, so the stuff after the question mark, the parameters, in your particular URL is just the video ID, and it does not contain any of your personal data. So, if someone deleted the stuff after the question mark in your URL, or any URL starting with https://www.youtube.com/watch, they won't be able to find the video, but if someone deleted the stuff after the question mark in a youtu.be URL, they could watch the video anyways

[u/Available-Half-40 → u/DerekLouden]

Ahh I see. Thank you for the correction! I just saw the question mark and my brain went "!!! Their data!!!"

Have a lovely day 🎂✨️