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

EDIT: Jesus Christ guys

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      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.

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      3 months ago

      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

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      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

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        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

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            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…

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        3 months ago

        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