Feel like shit, just want him and his excessive emojis back.
EDIT: Jesus Christ guys
I really don’t get the love some users have for that guy. He was super aggressive, he held grudges like no one else and if you pointed it out then you were concerntrolling. His analysis never really seemed to be anything beyond surface level, and his volume of posting and general vibe made it so media discussions were almost always hostile. I never understood why he never got banned despite having several meltdowns with much hostility.
I’m not really a prolific poster anywhere because I have this unhealthy thing where if someone is angry at me online I actually feel bad and spend time introspecting. Your post actually makes me feel less alone, I generally am on hexbear to de-stress and I only remember his handle because no one else has given me an angry reply. People here have generally been polite in correcting my idiot opinions.
I have this unhealthy thing where if someone is angry at me online I actually feel bad and spend time introspecting.
Same tbh.
Your post actually makes me feel less alone
I only remember his handle because no one else has given me an angry reply. People here have generally been polite in correcting my idiot opinions.
dude would come out swinging if you disagreed with him in any way. The general vibe has gotten much better after he left.
For some reason I could never take it seriously when he got mad, but I can understand if it was unpleasant for most people.
I feel this a hundred-fold to be honest. Hexbear is the largest community I feel safe talking because most people are nice and genuinely understanding.
I’m okay in most social situations, but then someone blows up at me over the dumbest immaterial topic and I take it like a stake to the heart. And I spend too many days feeling upset and anxious about it.
I don’t really care if people are angry online. But when someone is Sheldon Cooper with more energy while making fun of low energy Sheldon Cooper as if they’re so different, it just becomes a pointless endeavor to have a conversation with them
Felt like it was always hostility about shit that didn’t matter, too. The most annoying argument I ever had here was him absolutely malding about tongue-in-cheek usage of the term “meatspace” to refer to non-internet stuff
I once had a chuckle at his use of the term “booba waifu” and he had an absolute meltdown about it.
I don’t think you can use some of the corny ass lingo imaginable while also expecting everyone to engage with you like you’re a super serious academic.
Yeah, most media discussion threads felt like the mood was “if you like this thing you’re a disgusting treat baby” and if you ever acknowledged that then you were a disgusting treat baby for feeling attacked when he was really just criticizing the media itself.
I remember him getting pretty unpleasant when I disagreed with him about some D&D edition war stuff.
If you said anything along the lines of “yeah the politics suck, but what doesn’t? Personally I am able to bear with the lib stuff and enjoy the setting. Besides it has some fantastic fight coreography” then you were actually denying all the critique and being a debatebro or something. Except for Avatar, you had to like avatar. If you liked Oppenheimer then you hated women
I remember the time i like disagreed with one of his takes and he would literally reply to ppl replying to me saying shit like “idk why you would talk to this fking idiot” lol
Or like he would bring up previous times i disagreed with him when hes shitting on me lol to show how much of an idiot i am for disagreeing with him
But still credit where its due
The fking dude is free of this shit now i pressume hes fking logged off while im still being miserable here
I remember how I disagreed with him about a hydraulic bed which he thought was soy because hydraulics aren’t trustworthy. I thought it was cool and since the guy was single and had built it himself he was probably aware of the dangers of hydraulics and fine with it, so I didn’t see anything wrong with it. Ever since that interaction he would bring up how I hated him and loved techbros. When I replied and pointed out how and I why I felt he was being disingenous, he called me a debatebro and a stalker. I told him that he seemed very hostile and paranoid and that was apparently concern trolling. Then he’d do the thing you’re describing as well. From then on whenever we interacted he would immideately write about how my reply was part of some sinister plot to… I dunno, make him love Elon Musk?
But still credit where its due
But yeah he managed to log off and I’m still here. I gotta count my blessing though, until recently I was posting less and less and I am doing a lot more other stuff these days. Hopefully I can also leave some day. Right now I’m focusing on gaming less, reading more and exercising more, and it is going pretty good! This is a bad day tho, since I’m just spending my time hating on a random online person.
yeah I blocked his ass the first chance I could.
I ran afoul of him a few times but especially remember when he said I needed my “space treats” because I like rocketry.
Who’s not even here hahaha but seriously don’t go i like your posts and seeing you around
I remember when he got white hot raging mad because I said “i need my truck for work, jed” referring to a comically large truck
but hey i get mad about dumb shit too
One time he hopped on an alt account just to continue harassing me because I wouldn’t agree that breeding decorative aquarium shrimp was the same as the Holocaust.
Yeah same. I still don’t understand how he wasn’t banned. The dude was incredibly hostile. I remember he accused someone of being a pedophile or something because they liked GoT. It was their first post here. When they wrote they weren’t he started to call them debatebros.
I really do not understand why people unironically enjoyed him
Ironically after this thread i kinda want ulyssesT to come back, a refreshed man, a better man. They left right around the time i got here, in fact all i recall is their farewell post talking about the need to unplug and do “some real communism” iirc. Id love to see what good they time did them, what they’ve been up to…
Or maybe they learned nothing and i can have a good nasty mudfight…
But that’s the part of me I’m trying to get beyond so maybe not lol.
Ok the best part of me just wants the first thing.
Seems the consensus is UlyssesT had some issues but also made an impact on people. Those kinda people fascinate me and tho i don’t know em at all, that kind of energy and those screeds speak to pain (in my personal experience) and i want them to get right… so I’m glad they’re out there touching grass and hope they come back someday having figured something out.
I guess I have more positive memories of him because I never really got in an argument with him. That and he shared my white-hot hatred for the Yudkowskyite/Rationalist crowd.
i think it depends on how you interacted with him. his angry rants about pop culture could be fun at times, being in his crosshairs not so much
e: actually reading this thread it seems like i somehow missed most of the worst of it. there’s a level of pettiness and hostility that’s just unacceptable and it seems like that line was a faint memory for him at best
and this is coming from someone who is deeply and unpleasantly petty and hostile
he held grudges like no one else
Damn I’m gonna need to top this stat
spoiler
Sorry, I need to avoid social media sometimes because of work. I have no idea if this is true or not.
remember to talk about the people you have held grudges against in an overdramatic way, like how a marvel comics villain does
This thread is full of disrespect for the man that ended Kissinger’s life smh
His posts were filled with disrespect for anyone who disagreed with his opinions on Netflix shows.
if you thought I was making serious commentary, you may have similar inclinations to the man you are DISRESPECTING RIGHT NOW COME ON HE ENDED KISSINGER
Kissinger was so fucking old by the time he died I’m honestly not impressed that he killed him. Dude lived a much longer life than most, if anything letting him linger on in his frail mortal coil, watching his dreamed neoliberal world order crumble around him would have been a more apt punishment.
I have no idea what’s going on with Star Citizen now
I miss BMF. Both Ulysses’ and BMF’s posts had the cadance of bad beat poetry, but If i’m gonna read angry stream-of-conciousness breakdowns of cultural or personal minutiae, I wanna read the one that accuses people of being reptilians instead of gamers.
Edit: To clarify, I miss Ulysses too. He could be an asshole, but recognized this and logged off to find grass and better things to be mad about. This is an admirable example to us all.
bmf was 100 times the poster ulysses could dream of being
Death to America
What’s some banger posts of BMF, when he was around (I was around for Ulysses, not so for Black Mold Futures)
I do self-criticism constantly because I’m trapped in a Maoist cult where comrades (white terrorists) criticize me mercilessly for having a fascist credit card (VISA Silver Signature Rewards)
They won’t let me order vegan pizza anymore because the phone is fascist and “summoning my pizza slaves with a bourgeois app” is “bad vibes”
