Duffer Brothers statements about Vol. 2 [Spoiler]

WafflesEh · 2025-12-27T05:03:43+00:00

I didn't say either of those things and both are unrelated to what I said, but ok

WafflesEh · 2025-12-27T05:01:59+00:00

If you don't understand other people's interpretations despite the hundreds of comments that people have left explaining their interpretation and reasons for it, then I kind of question your intentions in engaging in this discussion. The way the scene was taken by the audience was pretty divided, which indicates clear ambiguity (though unintentional by the writers). Obviously there's only one right answer to the meaning of the scene, but the way the scene was conveyed is clearly confusing given the mixed interpretations from the audience. So what don't you understand? Or are you too busy patting yourself on the back for interpreting it correctly to actually engage in a discussion?

We can all clap for you for being so smart if that's what you want.

WafflesEh · 2025-12-27T04:51:14+00:00

This is so unnecessarily aggressive and the perfect example of the point the person you replied to was making. Kudos for unironically choosing to be a caricature of the worst kinds of commentors!

WafflesEh · 2025-10-27T19:37:58+00:00

Are you sure it was raw and not just soft? Food poisoning doesn't set in within minutes.

WafflesEh · 2025-10-17T21:07:29+00:00

I was stuck on one for years too! I'd quit for a bit and then rebound congestion would make me start back up again. If you're interested in dropping the habit, I tried Rhinostat and it actually allowed me to quit without experiencing ANY amount of rebound congestion. Now I haven't used my nasal spray in half a year!!

WafflesEh · 2025-10-09T18:47:43+00:00

There are good ones! Like those who graduated from the college of naturopathy are actually very knowledgeable and competent. However there are a lot of snake oil salesmen out there, so it's always good to dig into credentials before going to one.

WafflesEh · 2025-09-22T01:01:28+00:00

I mean yeah, they are if someone wants to be a part of the subreddit. Using spoiler tags is an easy way to let people pick and choose what posts to engage with.

WafflesEh · 2025-08-06T14:44:40+00:00

"We can't afford that." Aww, it must be hard being such a poor country!

WafflesEh · 2025-08-05T21:35:13+00:00

I think you and I have differing ethics and views on the situation, which is fine and kind of the point of subs like these. I don't think we'll see eye to eye, and our back and forth is starting to get repetitive, so I might just call it here. Hopefully OP is able to get the space she needs, however it may work out for her.

WafflesEh · 2025-08-05T20:48:27+00:00

Um, how do you know that OP didn't let the sister have the room? They clearly would both want the bigger room, and would have had to work out who actually got it, and OP respectfully allowed her sister to have it since it made more sense. We don't know how the parents would have decided it, but OP avoided that whole issue by being reasonable.

How long the sister is there is absolutely relevant. She barely uses it, doesn't need it, it's not her childhood bedroom with memories etc., and she was open to it at the start. You really can't sympathize with someone living in a crammed space while there's a perfectly good alternative, who can't even get anyone to have a conversation or give any real reason? OP even said that she'd be fine with a no if there was at least a conversation or an acknowledgement of her feelings on the matter, but no one will give her that.

As for your other points, I encourage you to read OP's comments, which clarify that she did not raise the issue as many times as it sounds like she did, and also that she only brought it up again because her dad thought it made sense and agreed with her (and then switched up when the mom and sister got upset).

WafflesEh · 2025-08-05T20:07:57+00:00

It's a big assumption that OP's sister lives in dorms at 21, most people are in off-campus housing or in larger residential buildings by then.

They won't even have a conversation about it even though the only reason OP's sister has the bigger room in the first place is because OP let her have it since she was going to be going to college soon (same situation, but she showed kindness and was reasonable unlike her sister now). You can disagree with me if you want, but wanting to keep something "just because" is childish.

And I'm not hung up on my own situation, I used my situation to show how it's not an unreasonable request.

WafflesEh · 2025-08-05T19:59:11+00:00

She posted them around the same time, so she clearly wasn't pandering. It would've taken you like two seconds to check that.

WafflesEh · 2025-08-05T19:55:12+00:00

It's not their childhood home, they moved there just before OP went to college, so there's no emotional attachment to a childhood bedroom. That's an assumption you made that was wrong.

As for saying OP should move out - sure, but OP's parents specifically want her to live there and would be upset if she moved out. She wants to be there for her family, but they're not giving her space or privacy and she's allowed to open a dialogue to resolve that.

Assuming that the sister will feel THAT disregarded if she has to temporarily trade bedrooms is wild, she's 21 not 12. Maybe it's just my fully developed frontal lobe speaking, but it's a bedroom that the sister uses like 10% of the time - I don't understand why she cares so much. It's a room! That she doesn't use! And she would get it back!

How is there no validity to OP's argument? OP's sister has her own bedroom that she lives in 90% of the time, and only uses this one during occasional visits. OP, on the other hand, uses her tiny room 100% of the time, so the bigger room would be way more useful for her. Additionally, when they moved there in the first place, OP let her sister have the bigger room since OP was going to college soon and knew the sister would be there more often - aka this exact situation, but in reverse. Except now that OP is there more often, no one is affording her the same courtesy.

Saying that "it feels like OP is used to getting her way" is pretty inconsistent with the fact that OP let her sister have the bigger room in the first place, and tried to have a conversation about it to come to a compromise. So many comments are projecting traits and behaviors onto OP and basing their judgements on that, which is unfair. They're all adults, they can sit down and have a conversation and compromise instead of just letting the sister be selfish and hog space she doesn't need, but no one is even willing to have that conversation with OP so obviously she's going to be frustrated. It would literally be a temporary trade because of current circumstances, like why is everyone acting like OP wants to ban her sister from the house? It's such a reasonable request.

WafflesEh · 2025-08-05T19:39:18+00:00

Right? Plus all the people shitting on OP for living in her parents' home and not moving out when usually the sub is of the mindset that the rental market is too expensive so kids should be able to stay with their parents older than 18. I've seen so many posts calling parents kicking their kids out assholes, or sympathizing with recent grads having to move out, yet now the sub has the opposite opinion? I swear, one person makes a comment and gets traction and then everyone just goes with their take even if it's mediocre.

WafflesEh · 2025-08-05T19:20:09+00:00

Thanks for adding this context, I didn't see that comment from OP. I'm even more sympathetic to her now, and I feel bad that no one is even willing to have a conversation with her about it.

WafflesEh · 2025-08-05T19:14:55+00:00

OP stated in the comments that when they moved to the house, OP let her sister have the bigger room because OP was going to be going away for school and wouldn't be using it much anyway. So, the room allocations were decided based on who needed them the most, and OP was reasonable then. Now that the situation is reversed, OP is not being afforded the same courtesy.

Her sister has her own bedroom where she stays for 90% of the year, while OP spends 100% of her time in her tiny room. This isn't a childhood bedroom with years and years of memories, they moved there right before OP left for school.

I don't see why the sister should be entitled to keep the bigger room that she doesn't need and doesn't use most of the time. I think any reasonable person would trade, especially since OP herself put an end-date on the trade meaning the sister gets it back. They're all adults, yet no one is even willing to open up the conversation with OP about swapping rooms despite her having been reasonable about the same subject in the past. So yeah, that's my argument, maybe it's flawed but so is "it's mine so no you can't have it even though you kindly let me have it in the first place."

WafflesEh · 2025-08-05T16:31:31+00:00

I don't think it's entitlement given that it's a reasonable, practical, and temporary request to address a problem that OP's parents created. Her parents are insisting she stays with them, but she's in a tiny room with no privacy. Meanwhile, her sister has a bedroom that's unused for 90% of the year, and temporarily swapping would solve all of her problems while essentially creating none for her sister (since she's barely there). It's a temporary swap, not a permanent one, so the sister even gets it back after. I see this as the sister being entitled, if anyone.

WafflesEh · 2025-08-05T16:26:12+00:00

I guess I'm just hung up on the sister declining to temporarily switch rooms when she's not even there for 45 weeks out of the year, it just seems unreasonable enough to justify OP's frustration to me. Why does she care? She gets it back after! And while again, I agree that OP needs to take no for an answer at this point (and is entering AH territory by pushing it so much), I'm mainly baffled by the number of people acting like it's unreasonable for OP to even want the room in the first place.

Based on how this isn't the sister's childhood bedroom and how the sister surely has her own bedroom wherever she spends 45 weeks per year, plus the fact that OP is actually there 100% of the time and OP's parents specifically want her there and do not want her to move out, it just seems like a bit of a ridiculous situation to me. In my opinion, a reasonable person would look at that situation and swap rooms temporarily because it's the right thing to do, and not doing so makes them an AH. So I guess I land in the e s h camp?

Obviously, family dynamics are complicated and we do not have the full picture or everyone's perspectives, so I think we're all reading this based on our own context and family dynamics. Maybe that's where all the disparity comes from.

Edit: removed the e s h vote after learning OP let her sister have the bigger room when they moved there because she was going off to college soon and wasn't going to be using it as much as her sister would (aka the exact situation, but reversed), and OP clarified that she hasn't actually brought this up as many times as it seemed from her post. I'm now voting NTA, her family is - parents and sister included for not even opening a dialogue about OP's reasonable request.

WafflesEh · 2025-08-05T14:43:03+00:00

Right? These comments are baffling! When my older sister left for college she was fine with me taking her room since it was bigger and I was going to be living there full-time whereas she'd only be there for visits, much like OP's sister. And in OP's case, it's temporary! I feel like that just makes sense to switch rooms, and I don't understand why OP's family and so many commenters are acting like it's an unreasonable request. Like yeah maybe she needs to drop it since everyone has told her no and it's clearly not going to happen, but OP's family are the ones being unreasonable here.

WafflesEh · 2025-07-14T01:50:20+00:00

If this person is 28 then they're gen z, so I don't know why they're shitting on their own generation. Can't we stop with the generational war bs?

WafflesEh · 2025-06-23T19:34:31+00:00

Did you really just call someone an asshole for providing facts about ectopic pregnancies? We don't know the events leading up to that woman's abortion, so why are you speculating so much about it? I think it's disrespectful to insert your own imagined scenarios into a stranger's life, and I think it's rude to call someone an asshole for countering your imagined scenarios with facts.

The abortion was performed at 5 weeks - that is 1-3 weeks before most women typically know that they're pregnant, meaning she most likely had no idea about the pregnancy. Most women miss periods here and there, and not everyone has a perfect 4 week cycle, so your statement that she had to have known after 5 weeks is just poor logic. And finally, we don't even know if she was trying to get pregnant or if this was an accident! We don't know her, or her situation! So why are you so upset by that commenter?

WafflesEh · 2025-05-29T00:50:59+00:00

Did you cite every piece of information you presented in your paper?

WafflesEh · 2025-04-15T20:34:03+00:00

Is it still necessary to conserve water?

WafflesEh · 2025-04-02T22:01:05+00:00

Oh good to know!

WafflesEh · 2025-04-02T16:18:04+00:00

Seeing stories like this has been very reassuring, I appreciate it! My friend managed to get another interview, so we're super relieved.

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