I'm not telling anyone how to watch or enjoy something. I'm not telling him to change his opinion. I'm disagreeing with the mental math where (Franky the builder builds a small section of bridge using craploads of bridge debris as part of a tension relieving gag) == "Take nothing seriously in One Piece except the character emotions in order to have a good time."
That's a wild oversimplification and overreaction to a joke scene with inconsequential stakes. Full stop.
Also, can someone please explain the bumf*** dumb*** idea that paying for something somehow gives you LESS right to share your opinion? Entitled? What the hell are you smoking? Paying customers pay to have the 'right' to an opinion. People on YouTube watching for free are the ones that applies to, not me or you or Uneducated Trucker.
What the hell is the point of having a patreon if it's not a direct connection to your fans? If someone described Patreon to me as "Yeah it's this place where you go to pay for the privilege of sycophantically agreeing with every opinion a reactor has, and you have LESS right to an opinion on that reactor's content.", I would have laughed in their face.
When you go to McDonalds and the grill worker sneezes in your food, do you thank them while you lick the wrapper clean? I just don't understand this sentiment. Does the customer who doesn't buy anything but hangs around in the store all day have more right to complain about a dirty bathroom than a regular who comes in every day? What the hell are either of you talking about? That argument has no legs whatsoever.
Just come out and say it. "I like Nerdy, and I don't have anything to say in actual support of what he said vs the points you're making, but it makes me mad that you dare to have an opinion on the matter. So stop it or else I'll try to make fun of you and look silly in the process."
Stephen Vaughn
2025-02-25 06:57:53 +0000 UTC
ye bro is talking to him like he needs to educate him. like who are you to tell someone how to watch something or rnjoy it lol. You even pay for his opinion how entitled to you have to be to tell him to change it
Marcus
2025-02-24 12:05:53 +0000 UTC
True, but also just something that people say when they have nothing interesting to contribute, and I've never cared.
For a bit of context, this isn't the first time Uneducated Trucker has voiced a subjective complaint about what I've said, and unlike this time, my gripe at then was not subjective. I'm just responding to this and all future complaints because i know it's not the last time they're going to blindly stan, regardless of the content of what I'm saying, which never gets addressed.
Replying with that lengthy book is actually just efficiency, because I can ignore him now.
Stephen Vaughn
2025-02-23 01:42:20 +0000 UTC
holy yap
Solarvoid4
2025-02-23 01:35:45 +0000 UTC
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I'm not super upset, you are. Just because someone types a bunch of text doesn't mean they are upset. When the reactor I'm paying to see (again, defending my right to express my opinion is getting annoying) makes a sweeping statement about a show based off of something that doesn't warrant the statement, I'm going to say something. What the REDACTED is the point of the whole concept of a reactor and their audience if it isn't to facilitate discussion? Why should I be sitting here like a weirdo peeking through his window and silently watching him watch something I like?
Why do you feel the need to white knight for someone who hasn't even mentioned my comments? Having an engaged audience (which I am) is good for him as a content creator. At least I'm not just one of the people who make a horribly worded, totally subjective statement and don't bother to back it up with a shred of logic or reasoning.
I can tell you're white knighting, too, because you always focus only on the negatives and don't acknowledge that I'm essentially a superfan of this particular reaction series. You're the one telling me how I should be reacting to him, but not once did I tell him he was wrong. I even opened the comment with 'I disagree'. and ended it with an acknowledgement that his viewpoint on things like this is more appropriate (objectively more appropriate) given that we're talking about One Piece.
Chill out, and don't look at the comments if you care about what other random people over whom you have no rights or control say in the comments. Pretty simple. Just look at Nerdy. Do you think he's reading this? I don't. So whose benefit is your comment for, if not yours?
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EDIT: (just imagine i slapped it up there to begin with)
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Oh, and my bad, i wasn't actually done, I just had to step away to take care of my daughter and forgot to finish editing.
I don't want nerdy to 'have the reaction I want', I just don't want sweeping judgments made on:
* Faulty information (Not paying attention, misinterpreting something, bad translation/unfamiliarity with Japanese puns rendering leading to wildly skewed expectations)
* Misremembered Context (pretty self explanatory)
* Forgotten/missed context (Missed the setup/foreshadowing, forgot about the character.)
And again, this is someone I'M PAYING with the expectation that THEY'LL be paying... attention to the show and taking it seriously to a certain extent. How is it that he can be authentic with his reaction but I'm supposed to just keep my mouth shut? Why?
I would be saying the exact same things, bringing up the exact same points, and 'getting super upset' if it were one of my friends who I knew personally, ESPECIALLY if I were somehow paying them to watch them watch the show and they were still making what I consider to be poorly thought out comments that express a wider view on the show itself, or implying that they think nothing but 'the emotions' matter or should be taken seriously.
So what's the difference? I don't see what your issue is, personally, but I'm going to ignore you from now on, and just link back to this comment whenever you decide you're feeling like donning the gleaming +1 Plate Mail of the Hall Monitor.
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Stephen Vaughn
2025-02-22 08:05:57 +0000 UTC
You get super upset when Nerdy doesn't have the reaction you want. It's really kinda cringe tbh.
Nerdy isn't you. Nerdy doesn't have to like the shit you like. There is no "correct" way to engage with the material, other than being honest about what he likes and dislikes, and being authentic in the way he shares that information.
Which is exactly what he's doing.
Highly Educated Trucker
2025-02-21 16:00:09 +0000 UTC
I disagree with your blanket statement about what to take seriously. Everything follows a specific set of rules, and very rarely are they broken. Franky building a bridge super fast here is fine, given that he is standing in the midst of a giant pile of rubble, he's been building things since he was a young child, and he can literally spit nails.
Let me ask you this... If he had just built the bridge, without decorating it at all and it looked like shitty cobbled together makeshift nonsense, would you have cared in the moment, do you think? How about if Oda had explicitly indicated that a short amount of time had passed between everyone lamenting the dead end and Franky revealing the bridge?
The man, in the span of a few days, built a massive ship with an aquarium, dumb-waiter, full kitchen, crows nest with a nice little surprise you don't know about yet) and a rotating below-deck section with multiple compartments with a unique vehicle or transportation method stored in each. The ship can effing fly.
He built a bridge off-screen from ample available scrap and the show communicated that in a hyperbolic way for a laugh. I don't agree that this situation is some prime example of one piece not taking thing seriously. It's a gap in a bridge on episode 300+. Is it really worth wasting some of the screen time to show the crew thinking of some dry, realistic way across a gap that doesn't look to be more than a few dozen meters across, if that?
I mean, hell, Usopp could have tied one end of 'Usopp no Ahhhhhhhhhhh' (the grappling hook belt from Skypiea) to Franky, then Zoro could have chucked Franky halfway across or more and have Franky use Strong Right to grapple the edge. Then Franky could just hang in the middle and hold both sides taught while Usopp and Zoro tightrope walk across... but at what cost?
Episodes are only ~20 mins, and minimally, a third or fourth of that is the opening, recaps, midway point crew commercial scenes, credits and previews for next week. I'll take the hyperbole and chuckles, thanks.
Still, I'm glad you've learned to partially let go a bit and take a slightly more tonally appropriate viewpoint, considering the story we're talking about.