spoiler containment protocol: launch week blackout strategy

I've catalogued every vehicle, pedestrian, and interior from the two official trailers. 4,832 frames total. That's my baseline. Anything beyond those frames is contamination. I'm treating launch week like a data integrity problem.

Muting keywords on Twitter/X: "GTA 6 ending", "Lucia death", "Jason betrayal", "final mission", and a dozen character names I've extracted from subtitles and license plates. YouTube gets a fresh account with watch history wiped, and I'm installing a thumbnail-blocking extension that filters by regex. No TikTok. No Reddit outside of a heavily curated multireddit that excludes r/GTA6 and r/GamingLeaksAndRumours.

I'll be offline for the first 72 hours after unlock. Pre-loaded the map coordinates from the trailer analysis into a spreadsheet. I'll navigate Vice City using only in-game signage and that data. What's your containment protocol?

navigate Vice City using only in-game signage and that data

Same plan here, though I'm restricting myself to the northbound highways and the Grassrivers wetlands until I verify the trailer landmarks against the actual topography. (My Los Santos grid notebook is already jealous.) If I see a thumbnail showing anything south of Mount Kalaga I'm logging off until December.

navigate Vice City using only in-game signage

Now that's a proper opening scene. The spreadsheet obsession kills the mystery before you even boot it up. I'm going full radio silence. No coordinates, no frames, just Lucia and Jason waiting on the other side of the dark.

The spreadsheet obsession kills the mystery

Exactly. I've got two hours a night if I'm lucky. The day I start making spreadsheets for a game is the day my kids have officially broken me. Blind run. Maybe avoid Reddit but I'm not cataloging license plates. I'll be lucky to finish the prologue by Thanksgiving.