I appreciate FTR's interpretation of the events, but I don't feel sorry for him over that CCU thing anymore. He doens't seem fussed about not getting the CCU so no harm, no foul. Actually he talks about it like it's forgettable - I'd be pissed off but he's pretty chill about the whole thing. FTR does not mind, in fact from that I'd be surprised if he's ever, ever bought it up ever again...
I was interested to see him use the "No Evidence" line I keep using on Youtubers in regard to unsubstantiated claims and Due-Diligence - The last person who "borrowed" my angle was Virtual Ace... I won't pick apart his whole video as i've had lots of practice at this, but lets take one of his observations right at the beginning:
(In regard to Montoya calling himself a Dreadnought Class F*ucktard) "...so... a Capital Class... F*ucktard?"
The retort although technically accurate ignores the Historical pretext that makes the claim valid: There are many different types of Capital Class ship, usually the largest like aircraft carriers today - however the Dreadnought was the ship that
defined "Capital Ship" - Wiki states it was first coned in 1909, three years after HMS Dreadnought redefined what a battleship was when it was launched to sea in 1906:
"The term "capital ship" was first coined in 1909 and formally defined in the limitation treaties of the 1920s and '30s in the Washington Naval Treaty, London Naval Treaty, and Second London Naval Treaty. This applied mainly to ships resulting from the dreadnought revolution; dreadnought battleships (also known first as dreadnoughts and later as battleships) and battlecruisers."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_ship
They had to make
Treaties about how nations were going to go ahead with their Arms construction, thats how much of a game-changer the HMS Dreadnought was and lent its name to the whole Capital Class of its day.
By being a Dreadnought class F*ucktard, Montoya isn't just a Capital Class F*ucktard - he is
the F*ucktard, the one that redefined the genre of F*ucktardery in the first place, he is the beginning, the genisis, the alpha and the F*ucktard all others are judged by and must be looked to to gauge whether the person you are looking at
is a F*ucktard. Nations look upon Montoyas F*ucktardery and say: "Uh... woah. We gotta legislate for this or something serious could happen..."
Before the Dreadnought there were just Battleships. After the Dreadnought arrived on scene, there were
capital ships, yes being a Dreadnought Class in something
does mean something. Saying "Uh, so capital class?" is like saying "Uh, so guy that got nailed to a tree?" when The Beatles compared themselves to Jesus.
Again, yet another Youtuber not doing their Due Diligence.
You can read more about the 'Dreadnought Revolution' here, yes, it really was a thing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreadnought
Let this be a lesson to FTR and others not to use other commenters bullshit. (All youtubers, not just FTR: If you see some comment you like the sound of but it has the faint wiff of Bullshit,
don't then use that bullshit).
I helped in a small way to pull down the name of Virtual Ace (maybe I give myself too much credit?) when I realised he/she was repeating what
I was saying, because what he/she didn't know I was
going somewhere with it. Now FTR talks about evidence? I could go through his back catalog, I could detail every instance where unsubstantiated claim is made and there would be nothing they could do about it. It could pull down the credibility of his channel and kick his views in the dick - Even two days ago he put up a correction video because he made a claim that wasn't true about Quantum Travel not being available in patch 3.2... All credit for putting up a correction, but it demonstrates my point that he had not been into the patch to try it personally and didn't know what he was talking about.
If you make a comment,
always know where you are going with it. Have evidence, have screen shots if you have to, have backup proof, because if someone grabs it and runs with it as FTR seems to have done with my Evidence line, they are putty in your hands and wide open to where
you want to go with it
.
Am I going to go through his back catalog to find every unsubstantiated claim? No. Am I even going to go back to find the video of him ranting about the CCU debacle to reinforce my point in the first line of this post? Nope. Although i may have all the skills of a Troll built over 20 years of Forum use mixing with the worst the world has had to throw at me, I am not malicious enough to use those skills. Yet.