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I miss UlyssesT complaining about Game of Thrones (hexbear.net)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/chat@hexbear.net

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sicko-wistful Feel like shit, just want him and his excessive emojis back.

EDIT: Jesus Christ guys

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[–] Egon@hexbear.net 69 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (18 children)

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.

[–] christian@hexbear.net 57 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

penguin-love

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.

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

For some reason I could never take it seriously when he got mad, but I can understand if it was unpleasant for most people.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago (10 children)

It wasn't really the "getting mad" but more so the instant hostility and grudgekeeping that got to me. It was kinda fun seeing his deranged posts about mundane things, it just wasn't so fun to see how he would have very obvious negative impact on people he interacted with. Especially because he was a power user, so he would often get a lot of support, while the person he was accusing of doing something would be alone. It took me a while to block him because it was nice to see him go off on chuds. He just went off on everyone, which sucked.

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[–] crime@hexbear.net 45 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 39 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago

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

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[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (7 children)

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.

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[–] Black_Mald_Futures@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] MerryChristmas@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago

100% agree, dude was super annoying and literally the first person i blocked once the feature was introduced. all of his posts basically boiled down to "let's get mad about annoying, irrelevant shit"

Death to America

[–] Darth_Reagan@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago

He was a very unique asshole. I also remember him jumping down my throat over nothing.

[–] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, he was one of the few hexbear users I blocked.

[–] Egon@hexbear.net 37 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

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

[–] mechwarrior2@hexbear.net 33 points 3 months ago

(Ulysses voice) Even here, on hexbear, treatlord stalker alts are blocking me very-smart

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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 31 points 3 months ago

He was also terrible about using CWs, just throwing out

CW: SA

"rape" and "pedo"

nonstop like it was nothing even after being told off many times

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[–] macabrett@lemmy.ml 55 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This thread is full of disrespect for the man that ended Kissinger's life smh

[–] Diuretic_Materialism@hexbear.net 46 points 3 months ago (20 children)

His posts were filled with disrespect for anyone who disagreed with his opinions on Netflix shows.

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[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 49 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have no idea what's going on with Star Citizen now oooaaaaaaauhhh

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 38 points 3 months ago

data-laughing this is so fucking true haha

[–] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago

He would be losing it over the Cybertruck

[–] Zoift@hexbear.net 49 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 45 points 3 months ago (16 children)

bmf was 100 times the poster ulysses could dream of being

Death to America

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[–] BeamBrain@hexbear.net 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

hypersus awooga libertarian-alert so-true

[–] Tommasi@hexbear.net 50 points 3 months ago (1 children)

POV: You wrote something positive about a tv show on hexbear in 2023

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[–] EmoThugInMyPhase@hexbear.net 40 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I don’t. He was annoying

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Yep dude has a giant laundry list of obscure grievances and if you didn’t play along with him you got added

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[–] Moss@hexbear.net 36 points 3 months ago (9 children)

I'm glad people have decided they don't like him now because he was just not cool. He would get into extremely heated arguments over anything, I had to just stop engaging with any of his posts and block him as soon as that became a feature. He loved to call people redditor debatebros but was easily the most toxic debatebro on this website. He also just hated anyone who enjoyed something he didn't, even if you have legitimate criticism of something doesn't mean someone cannot enjoy it and also agree with those criticism. The obsession with Star Citizen was just annoying and spammy and overly negative - like, why spend so much time on hating something relatively unimportant and making other people hate it too. Just every post he made was overwhelmingly negative and brought down the vibe of the site so much. To this day he is the only person I've ever blocked because he was so annoying.

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[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 34 points 3 months ago

Blocked gang here. Fuck that guy

[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I remember when i have to lock posts, remove comments and temp ban him from movies comm so he could chill out a bit and stop spam posting over a treat he didnt like

[–] MiraculousMM@hexbear.net 32 points 3 months ago (4 children)

His best contribution to the site was this exchange that gave us the incredible tagline:

how do you expect anyone to connect "booba waifu" to Katherine Oppenheimer

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[–] Des@hexbear.net 30 points 3 months ago (16 children)

i didn't know he was so despised here i just thought his news reports from people coping about Star Citizen were funny

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[–] booty@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Like King Arthur, he will return when we need him most

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[–] CliffordBigRedDog@hexbear.net 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

damn lol this turned into a hate thread for the dude

UlyssesT kinda reminds me of the badempanada fellow that got dragged through the coals here (though i dont think hes ever had the level of absolutely dogshit takes that BE has)

very entertaining and cathartic to watch him go after someone who deserves it but like dont ever have a disagreement with him which i guess is why both of them had fans here

[–] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 28 points 3 months ago (8 children)

At the very least UlyssesT didn’t go around spouting chauvinist shit like “Maduro stole the election” and “I hope NATO kills all the Russian Orcs”

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