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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Feel like shit, just want him and his excessive emojis back.
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
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:
The treatbrained
The Redditbrained
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.
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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 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
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.