Feel like shit, just want him and his excessive emojis back.
EDIT: Jesus Christ guys
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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.
I mean I am one of the people who dislike him and I'm only motivated to post about him because people keep making threads about how they miss him. I don't really see anyone post "UlyssesT sucked" out of the blue, it's always in response to a thread like this.
He was a sucky dude who I blocked a long time ago. I only found out he was gone because people posted about how they missed him. I don't think this is as one-sided as you describe it
I mean as of right now there are 185 comments in this thread and 16 of them are yours. You are, personally, almost 10% of the entire comment section. I think most people who liked him aren't motivated to post that much about him.
When you write it like that you make it sound like I wrote 16 comments that just said "I hate the guy I hate guy"
I'm not gonna count them, but of those comments about half aren't directly about him but instead direct responses to people who I feel are misrepresenting what others are writing, short affirmations, and this one. Then finally we have the comment chain where I respond to the OP with expressing my lack of understanding for why people miss him. This comment then got some responses which I interacted with, partially sharing negative interactions about Ulysses and partially just sharing personal feelings. Those comments were all in response to other users responding to me.
That being said, yeah they're about Ulysses. We're in a thread about him, that's why I'm writing about him. I'm also very open about how I feel like I'm wasting my time on this website and that I have a tough time letting go once I've started engaging with something, which is why I'm still posting, but again all of this is in response to others, which is why I'm saying it's not as one-sided as youre making it out to be. I don't see people making threads about how they're glad he's gone, or posting about how they miss him in unrelated threads.
My point is that while there are a lot of comments in this thread, the sample size of users posting in this thread is still very small. We can't necessarily draw conclusions about the site's general attitude on a topic based on the temperature of a thread with so few users posting in it. And my personal belief is that more people here liked him than didn't, which I have no evidence for and don't think this thread's direction is strong evidence against.
People who like him make posts. People who don't make comments on those posts. It's pretty simple.
Okay, but this is the bit of your comment I was responding to.
People who dislike him aren't motivated to post about him. People who like him are, which then motivates people who dislike him to respond. I don't see people posting negatively about him out of the blue, but I do see people posting positively about him out of the blue - and this thread is an example of that.
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