Feel like shit, just want him and his excessive emojis back.
EDIT: Jesus Christ guys
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.
The horror!
Dickish behavior is dickish behavior
it must have been really hard for you when someone didnt like the same thing as you… :( sorry that happened <3
This really is some disingenuous redditbrain shit.
Hexbear thrives on being a fun nice community, being assholes to one another isn’t the crime of the century, but it sure as fuck isn’t welcome in any community I want to be part of.
i have depicted you as the virgin, and me as the chad
it must have been really hard for you when someone portrayed you as the virgin… :( sorry that happened <3
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.
Ulysses at the very least find Kissingers phylactery before killing him. Dealing with incredibly powerful undead is no small feat.
I disagreed with what they had to say, but I also disagreed with their right to say it.
I have no idea what’s going on with Star Citizen now
this is so fucking true hahaHe would be losing it over the Cybertruck
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)
He truly was the best of us
Thank ye, inner self
I recognize the words and style. I kinda have seen the user not on this site. I know where he posts now.
Ooo, where?
I don’t know if I should reveal it
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”
Huh I’d never guess that was one of his contributions (I heard it outside the context of the original creator)
It was on the like third or fourth account iirc. Don’t even remember the name. Smashthepaintup or smth like that? Timecubeevangelist?
Anyone identified the most recent incarnation?
How do we know these are his alts?
Fairly unique writing style + timing. They always end up getting banned for sectarianism, then after some time a new account pops up with a similar kinda of name and writing style.
That wasn’t BMF but it was a good post
Nvm I just did a quick search and it came up:
https://hexbear.net/post/15414/102145
FTPU was an early bmf account, before the style had fully developed iirc
Who was it do you think? Iirc it’s commonly accepted as an early bmf post. Matches the style.
Pretty sure I already dug into this to verify a couple years ago, but I’ll look again if I get some downtime at work
POV: You wrote something positive about a tv show on hexbear in 2023
Not even necessarily positive. Even just not being AS negative about something, or just interpreting something differently than he did while still agreeing with was shit, was enough to get labeled “treat chaser”.
Like even if you don’t like the treats, if you don’t dislike them the exact same way as him, treat chaser.
he was right. about all of it.
I don’t. He was annoying
Yep dude has a giant laundry list of obscure grievances and if you didn’t play along with him you got added
I considered it a mark of honour to get yelled at by him
Removed by mod
Wow, it’s like he never left. Thank you.
rude
deleted by creator
loved to rage about pointless children’s movies
the jordan peterson of hexbear
deleted by creator
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.
lmfao the tone policing in lieu of actual substantive criticism is strong in this thread
the guy was unpleasant and an asshole and made the site worse. you don’t need to critique his arguments to not like him
actual substantive criticism
I found UT’s whole world view simultaneously too focused on pop culture but also not particularly deep in it’s analysis of pop culture. He often attributed the rise of the far right in America to a pessimistic and nihilistic underlying theme in popular television, melting the brains of the American people and turning them towards the alt-right, and openly called for media that was more optimistic, wholesome, and straight forward and blatant in it’s moral messaging.
But the American people’s brain’s have always been melted, what was causing it before the advent of prestige TV? Some really nihilistic vaudeville plays? Media is part of the broader cultural hegemony but only one small part of it, the relative level of cynicism in media is dwarfed by the broader history of settler colonialism and deeply ingrained racism. The rise of this current, vulgar expressions of fascism, MAGA and the alt-right, to me seem more a reaction to the declining status of America as a global empire than due to Breaking Bad’s popularity.
Even if media is as powerful at UT claims it to be, his analysis of it was often just wrong, or at least very one dimensional. There was the famous Barry incident where he just straight up said things that were factually incorrect about the show only to then admit he had never watched it (and never intended to). Also, his analysis of the overall media landscaped seemed caught a decade or two in the past. He had a particular hatred of Breaking Bad and Fight Club, but the latter ended in 2013 and the former 1999. If anything I’d argue our current media landscape isn’t defined by cynicism and darkness, but saccharine feel good vibes and light irreverent comedy. The biggest media empire in the world right now is Disney, who’s whole brand is wholesomeness. An anecdotal survey of the Chuds in my life reveals more Disney adults than Fight Club fans. But UT’s defense of the wholesome often lead him to dismiss any substantive criticism of it, he was convinced that the dislike for the character Barney was born of some edge-lord hatred of love and kindness, but would never engage with anyone who tried to point out that Barney is an extremely one dimensional character who behaves almost like a parody of a children’s show protagonist, his saccharine continual bubbly-ness grating even to a lot of young children, myself being one of them. I myself tried to contrast the distaste for Barney with the fondness most people have for Sesame Street, a children’s show with a far more interesting and engaging cast of characters who actually have emotions beyond ecstatic happiness, but he refused to engage with this argument.
It was difficult to debate UT on anything because he was very arrogant and sure of his own opinions, and interpreted even the most politely worded disagreement as people either slavishly defending their “treats” or trying to “silence” him (despite him posting more than anyone else here at the time). Even when people weren’t defending any treats, just criticizing it from a different angle, that was still treat chasing, since any criticism besides his own was illegitimate and born purely out of an addiction to pop culture. It’s not a surprise most people who disliked him ended up blocking him leaving only those who had positive interactions with him in the crowd when he made his exit.
Dude thought TVs were literally the machines Jim Carey’s Riddler made in Barman Forever. Media isn’t a hypno ray and while they did reprogram Alex in clockwork orange by making him watch TV, there was more than just that going on there. Very agreed on the datedness as well, we are living through the consequences of saccharine anti-irony pablum right now and here’s something from the current front page to prove it
Nihilistic edgy people don’t think these thoughts. And the far right, and I’m talking more online and farther right than punisher logo poster Maga guys (boomers), the imageboard genuine fash are just as bad for it in their own way. Things get shittier and shittier and the art that people have clung to for the last while has been hiding from it, not reflecting it. Everything on TV is written by a millionaire on their third marriage who’s in therapy and it shows in the writing or it’s a ‘heartwarming’ ‘inspiring’ drama disguised as a comedy series. Ted Lasso and The Bear would have been mid as hell Oscar bait films in the past and not marketed as comedy. And I don’t think everything needs to be slimy and grimy but everything thst isn’t specifically trying to be dark has this pastel veneer that seems so fucking faked to me.
An anecdotal survey of the Chuds in my life reveals more Disney adults than Fight Club fans.
there’s overlap between Chuds and Disney Adults?
Oh yeah totally, well less so now since Ronnie D went on a whole “Disney is WOKE” campaign, but before that I knew a fair few. And even after, CHUDs can be pretty selective in what parts of the culture war they get mad about, if Trump or some other ghoul goes on a tirade against a thing they really like they just ignore it or talk themselves into thinking he didn’t really mean that and was just worked up.
I never had problems with the guy myself, i had solely pleasant funny convos with him, but you are going super hard for him.
kind of weird pal
I thought he was pretty cool, mostly. Yeah, he would definitely get into heated arguments over what was ultimately mundane things, but then… so do most of the regulars/power-users here, and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. On the whole, it just means you’re passionate about a lot of things and have strong opinions. There’s nothing wrong with that and nothing wrong with arguing about those things, even passionately. Now, if a person who gets into a lot of heated arguments over these small things does so with toxicity, then yes that is bad. But it’s a separate issue of toxicity being bad. I would concede that UlyssesT did way too often approach being toxic and even cross over that line sometimes in the way he’d get mad and go super personal in attack mode. (And again, he was not the only regular user here to do that). Just saying, we should criticize that and not the fact that he was opinionated about things that other people aren’t. I also feel like if we are going to criticize a user for that, UlyssesT is far from the only one who should be put in the crosshairs for it. He was just so prolific, it was impossible to miss.
He also just hated anyone who enjoyed something he didn’t
See, I don’t feel like that’s true. I enjoyed Gambo’s source material (still do, actually) and even defended it against UlyssesT once. He did get mad at me and he was very vehement about it, because of course he was. But then he talked to me about other stuff a day later and was perfectly comradely with me, even while mentioning the previous argument in a non-confrontational way.
As for the Star Citizen thing, if I remember right, he was one of the people who put money in early on and got duped. So it was really personal for him for understandable reasons. He probably did post too much about it, but I just didn’t read or engage since I wasn’t interested. I think people should be able to post about their pet peeves as much as they want, so long as it is in kept in the appropriate places and made so that it can be ignored by those who don’t want to see it.
I just disagree that he was “overwhelmingly negative.” He was intense and that doesn’t jive with a lot of people. But “overwhelmingly negative”? No. He contributed a lot of positive things here too, the way I remember it.
Blocked gang here. Fuck that guy
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
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
you know your hitting the main artery of hexbear when you see this beautiful rainbow
He was an asshole but gosh I didn’t like Oppenheimer either and enjoyed seeing him unhinged-ly go off on it lol
I was there!!! I remember this thread and cackling manically
brother really did expend inhuman amounts of energy popping off about shit he didn’t like and could have simply not cared about
I didn’t even end up watching oppenheimer lmao
Like King Arthur, he will return when we need him most
we needed him when dragon show had a spinoff, where was he goddamit
Will UlyssesT return when Hexbear need him the most or when Hexbear deserve him the most? The world may never know.
i didn’t know he was so despised here i just thought his news reports from people coping about Star Citizen were funny
I think more people liked him than didn’t like him. It’s just that people who dislike him are going to be more motivated to post about him at this point. If you did like him then he was just a guy who used to post here and doesn’t anymore.
Idk the people who liked him seem pretty impassioned in this thread
Haters gonna hate. His farewell post was beloved by the site. Now maybe that’s because the haters were going “thank fuck he’s leaving the site forever” so who knows lol
A lot of his haters probably had him blocked by that point. I had no idea he left until the memes when Kissinger died
I thought he got banned and I just didn’t notice. That said, I haven’t seen a star citizen thing in ages
Yeah i had no idea he was hated tbf. most people here are generally super nice. once every couple months ill run into the typical forum type smartass asshole, but i just block them now instead of arguing back like i would have in the past. im in my mid 30s now, i just dont have that sort of time nor the patience anymore
Most of us who had a hard time with him blocked him months before he left. After a while only people that likes him saw his posts at all and reduced how much people would push back on him cause we aren’t seeing his bullshit anymore, so the posts themselves appear more popular. A legend is born out of enough people being so annoyed by the dude to block him. Only user I’ve ever blocked that wasn’t banned within 12 hours of the blocking
ive had a disagreement with you about scotland and that remained fairly cordial. Nobody blocked anybody or told anybody off.
i wish all forum users were like this
I’d forgotten all about that and honestly can barely remember what it was about. If I recall I made a quasi shitpost about how Scotland is still responsible for some crimes of the British empire and the disagreement was over the subtleties of what that entails. I don’t remember much else aside from my agreeing Wales would be in the same boat and it kinda fizzled when it turned out we aren’t really on different pages. Also for some reason Scottish people have just filled my life, first partner’s mom came over from Edinburgh when she was 19 and a bit of family followed and my partner would get an accent but only when yelling regardless of emotion, worked with an absolutely astounding baker who’s name was shit you not Robert Burns and two jobs later I ended out working with 3 Scottish servers which is weird as hell for Canada, but I am from New Scotland as well and we’ve got fake Scottish people instead of plastic paddys so I gotta admit, I’m probably more comfortable mocking Scotland than I should be. Regardless, it’s the type of disagreement I’m fine operating in, both parties are amicable and an understanding is possible to reach. This was not the UlyssesT way. It’s been expounded upon in the thread, but that kind of obstinate defense of what is a repetitive, shallow and obvious argument cause his essential arguments while not totally wrong can apply to literally all media and therefore doesn’t bear endless repetition. That shit is annoying as hell and is All Media is Capitalist Programming is just as boring as The Curtains Are Blue. I’m here to have fun and would prefer to generally not be taken seriously but I’ve shit posted better media analysis than that dude ever made with a full dedication to it. Being uninteresting and repetitive while also demanding to be the only voice in the room gets my goat hard. I got into it pretty hard before blocking. I generally reserve that for usernames that aren’t from here or the grad, there’s an assumed comradship extended to anyone who’s here just for being here, but thst fucking guy…
yeah same but a bit older. i enjoyed having some convos about sci-fi with him he seemed like he had a good head for worldbuilding
plus i think he was a (self) published scifi author so that was cool
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
Lots of people seem super salty about him though
He didn’t like the treatbrained, and the treatbrained didn’t like him.
he was pretty obsessed with elder scrolls and elder scrolls lore. not talking shit on him for that, if i have a treat weakness, its rpg games and shit like dark souls and elder scrolls
yeah people obsessively into pop culture is annoying, but i dont waste my time getting into peoples faces or arguing about it on hexbear.
all that said,he was cool to me, but i also dont like cape shit movies or mainstream television. like a lot here seem to.
UlyssesT doesn’t like three things:
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The treatbrained
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The Redditbrained
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The techbrobrained
Hexbear hates the Redditbrained and the techbrobrained about the same as him. Everyone here loves shitting on Slava Ukraini Redditors and the cybertruck. We all love UlyssesT when he’s shitting on Star Citizen or AI art. However, Hexbear is also very treatbrained, so he butts heads with people here over treats.
I can sympathize. i dont like excessive worship of pop culture either. i got into a small back and forth about that crappy deadpool and wolverine movie a while back.
i have my pop culture weaknesses as well, but when people get obsessed with movies like batman it makes me cringe a bit.
i think someone on here once implied that since i was shitting on pop culture i was almost by extension shitting on people who are neurodivergent.
l
I just dislike the conflation between a hobby and pop media consumption, which is just one of many types of hobbies and I find it disturbing that people are so glued to their particular pop media consumption to the point where they can’t just switch hobbies. You see this most clearly with 2024 Gamergators. I’m not taking the grifting content creators but the actual people who are still on /r/KotakuInAction. Like, in your scree about how games have sucked for decades and how it’s taken over by the woke nu-male soyboy DEI SJW t-word that’s running gaming into the ground, you never once thought about just dropping gaming and finding a new hobby filled with fellow travelers like WH40k? You never once thought about just getting into MMA with other fellow reactionaries or joining a gun club where you won’t see a single strand of dyed hair? Why do you still care about an artistic media that you’ve long decided has gone to irreversible decline?
i think someone on here once implied that since i was shitting on pop culture i was almost by extension shitting on people who are neurodivergent.
I toyed around viewing being treatbrained as a form of addiction. Most people would say that people who can’t stop spending money on gacha games are addicted, so why not expand this idea to pop media consumption in general? Of course, if you want to say they’re addicted to pop media, you can’t shit on them for being addicts.
Can you not direct them to WH40k please? We already have enough of a reactionary problem as it is without getting the video game crowd in on it too. It’$ been getting better, but if you keep assuming it is full of reactionaries, it will eventually only contain reactionaries.
GamersTM will never give up games, but will continue to bring up how woke they are and still play them.
They love those treats too much man.
Myself? if it meant a better world for everyone id taken a hammer to my ps5 and switch and never play video games again. id just read more
kind of like what Stephanie Sterling said
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The thing is I love media criticism, it’s like half the reason to consume media. But he didn’t criticize media, he skimmed over it and mocked people he deemed inferior for enjoying it. There was no discussion to be had, because he wasn’t interested in anyone’s opinion but his own (and half the time hadn’t even seen the shit he was blathering about).
And that’s whatever, just skip it and engage with people capable of conversation. Except he posted 100-200 comments per day (by my count at the time and if I remember correctly, not gonna check right now), so you couldn’t go into any thread without it being derailed by his massive ego.
And if you offered even the tiniest hint of crit about his behavior, no matter how polite, you were a forever enemy who would be harassed in any thread he saw you in. Thankfully the block feature easily solved that problem. Those of us bothered by the toxicity could quietly block, and he could exist in his perfect bubble of people who tolerated or enjoyed the spectacle.
