U hates Tales becaue tales represents a buddy. He is social and hangs out and doens't let you play by yourself. Tales is the anathema to U's autistic mind. In fact his worst nightmare would probably be a group quest in an MMORPG where you had to interact with people to get it done.
I always wondered, as a kid, how people figured out the game cheats featured in magazines and later in online FAQs. I thought that the people that figured these things out must be the coolest and best video game players in the universe. I was right.