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Ningmaster Tom

2010-02-26 (said on 2010-02-27 — implied: date said in the video; uploaded -1 days later) · announcement · Hank · 3:54 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Nerdfighteria · mode: Announcements · tags: heavy topic, civic or action cta

Hank says the brothers' videos matter less than the community people build around them, tells Nerdfighters that Tom (NingMasterTom), a key community organizer, was hit by a car while cycling, and asks them to send well wishes to an address his family reads.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Why the brothers have seemed weird; their own work is not that interesting; the community beyond two brothers is

  • ★★ Hank says that if he and John have seemed a little weird over the past few days, it is because they have been. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Hank says that, objectively, what he and John make on their own is not interesting or that good compared with most entertainment. (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • ★★★ Hank says what is really interesting is when it goes beyond two brothers into a large community of many people working to make it exist in a real way. (hedged) — 00:00:23

00:00:49 — Who Tom (NingMasterTom) is: de facto leader at nerdfighters.com, graphic designer and student

  • ★★★ Hank says Tom, known as NingMasterTom, a graphic-design student, is more or less the de facto leader of the community at nerdfighters.com and has done much to make Nerdfighteria better. — 00:00:49 · nerdfighters.com, Nerdfighteria

00:01:18 — Tom declined pay; he was hit by a car while cycling; what is known of his condition

  • ★★ Hank says the brothers have offered several times to pay Tom, but he wants his work to be about the community and not about money. — 00:01:18
  • ★★★ Hank announces Tom was hit by a car while riding his bike and hit his head; the brothers waited until they had talked to his family. — 00:01:18
  • ★★★ Hank reports Tom's family thinks he will probably be okay, though how seriously he is injured is not yet known and recovery will not be instant; he and John are very nervous. (hedged) — 00:01:47

00:02:17 — The community should come together for Tom; email well wishes to NingMasterTom at gmail.com; updates to follow

  • ★★★ Hank asks the community to come together for Tom and email thoughts and well wishes to NingMasterTom at gmail.com, which his family will read to him. — 00:02:46
  • ★★ Hank says the brothers will keep viewers updated on Tom at nerdfighters.com and in video. — 00:02:46 · nerdfighters.com

00:03:15 — This shows what they do is real; thanks to Nerdfighters, John and Tom; email repeated; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank says Tom's accident drives home that what they do online is real, made by real people working hard to make interesting things. — 00:03:15

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  • 2010-06-11 · Mmmm....PARTS (John) — refers back (update on Ningmaster Tom's coma and recovery (2010)) (derived — resolved by title match: whole title quoted) — John reports Ningmaster Tom, comatose when he last appeared in a video, is fine apart from problems with his left eye, and thanks Nerdfighters for their support. (00:01:52)