I miss UlyssesT complaining about Game of Thrones

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 disagreed with what they had to say, but I also disagreed with their right to say it.

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

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.

I don’t. He was annoying

I used to think lots of people here just loved to rage about pointless children's movies but then I realized it was just him lmao blocked but not forgotten

Permanently Deleted

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.

Blocked gang here. Fuck that guy

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

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

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

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

I liked UlyssesT but he could be a bit grating and also his criticisms of my favorite media slid off me like water off a duck's back, I don't care that Cyberpunk doesn't let me start a revolution among a nearly enslaved populace for whom class consciousness is basically illegal given how they treat homeless sewer-dwellers and people trying to organize a strike, I can deflect bullets with a katana and shoot people through 18 inches of concrete with a handheld railgun

Lots of people seem super salty about him though

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

after reading this thread and his final post i have developed a shitty headcanon right,

what if UlyssesT was some married guy "working" a higher 6 figure bullshit office job in silicon valley, one of those special bullshit jobs where he could do whatever the fuck he wanted on the internet all day?

so every day, he vented his profound frustrations at his coworkers and life situation (techbros, gamers, etc.) on this site for 7 hours after touching spreadsheets for ~1 hour, slowly loosing touch with any reality beyond silicon valley and the torment nexus that is the american media environment, becoming more of a paranoid hyperaggressive egomaniac as time went on

then, expecting a child with his wife, he decided "fuck this stupid shit, im trapped in a digital samsara doomed to repeat an endless cycle of debatebroism, im moving out to california in the middle of nowhere"

and he did just that using his savings from the bullshit job, leaving his techbro bullshit job to take up a farmers life allowed him to stop posting

*for the sake of his partner i hope he isnt as shitty in real life as he is online

i remember getting into an hour-long discussion with him that turned into an actual argument. it started with him calling Barry copaganda and me asking him if he had ever seen it

Anytime i see a lemmitor use the phrase "Its almost as if..." i miss them

All these haters here talking shit about my boy UlyssesT long after he left the site. Where was this energy when he was still around lmao

He's been gone for so long that I think I thought I was still cis when he left

I liked his weird ass posting

even aside from him being a huge asshole it seems like its usually a bad thing for a sites culture when one person dominates it as much as he did

leftist theory: capitalism has negative effects on many aspects of human culture such as media and the arts

ulyssesT: points out specific ways in which this manifests

hexbear: omg ur so abusive stfu and just let me slurp up my treats in peace

It took me forever to realize that when he said "gambo" he was talking about game of thrones.

He's as fascinating as a Larouchite....

Good when watching them using nunchucks from afar

Not so good if they use it on you/me...

What happened to UlyssesT?

Oops, forgot I could just look them up. Hopefully everything is going good with them on their adventure

I want him to dunk on the "what you like is for children, therefore bad" ableist shitheads again. As soon as he was gone, they were roaming free, and neurodivergent people like me have a hard time calling them out on their NT bullshit.

I miss him. We could all do with some more hatred for mainstream popular culture. Otherwise, what's even the point of being a communist?

every time someone makes one of these posts more redditor treatfuckers reveal themselves for me to block.

Also god damn there is no way that I would get eulogized to this extent if I stopped posting here lmao

Did you see there's another dragon slop show coming out? This time it appears to be a buddy comedy because people liked the part when the Hound and Arya were traveling together so lets make it a whole show.

ngl I'm excited for it.

I wish I could remember anything about him besides his username, I remember making note of the sheer volume of posts he made, but I can't for the life of me remember the content of the posts or how I felt about them either way

Wasn't he the user who debuted those sci-fi novels a few years ago or was that someone else?

god damn why are there 140 comments here

I've actively been on this site for 4 years and would consider myself a very online person. I honestly can't remember anything in particular he said. I'm not being tryhard nonchalant nor do I mean it as an insult to him. I guess I remember the name fondly?

I guess my thoughts are just 'i recognise the name, and I remember them being eccentric/amusing in general, then they went and started a new life on a farm? Or something?'

EDIT: maybe this came off as overly negative/judgemental. I've had times in my life where I knew everyone on a little forum, although said forum was all about getting to know each other rather than politics. Still though, I think for a lot of people here touching grass would be good. Don't bother with online arguments. It's the biggest waste of your time and energy, even if it's 'fun' in the moment in a sick sort of way. It's taken me a long time to realise that. Pretty funny that Ulysses became the ultimate grass toucher in the end.

To be honest, I wish hexbear had a way to properly get to know people better. I've been here for 4 years so obviously I like the atmosphere that everyone here co-creates. Opsec be damned, hey. We're all probably annoying in real life anyway.

see, this is why I delete my accounts whenever I feel like people have a solid idea about me (I keep an expanding block-list though) - If I could, I would be a ghostly presence in the walls (stealing your non-vegan milk)

Personally we should put @UlyssesT@hexbear.net in Lemmy, as a love letter to all the good people of .world and sh.itjustworks