girlbear gautumn

i'd be like. so good at being a side character in a time loop. you walk up to me, say "i'm in a time loop," tell me exactly one thing you'd have no possible way of knowing, and i'll do whatever you need to try and break the loop. need me to stand outside in precisely one spot for seventeen hours? hell yeah i'm on it

you: hey i'm in a time loop and need help
me: what number am i thinking of
you: thirty six
me: hell yeah, how can i help

It seems like a lot of the "Baldur's Gate 3 is causing developers who hate their audiences and want to make dogshit titles to panic because now they can't be lazy!" stuff is coming from one specific op-ed piece at IGN by one Destin Legarie. I've put a few of his YouTube thumbnails above to give a sample of his work.

And who could have foreseen that a pundit who has spent the past few months on his personal YouTube channel defending the Activision merger seemingly at the exclusion of all other content would have some dogshit takes about video games?

To be clear: he doesn't seem like a hardcore culture war reactionary dude. He's not out here openly posting hate speech, and he's not overtly evil in the various ways YouTube video game people can be. It's not like IGN gave a platform to The Quartering or something, and I don't want this rant to be conflated with that sort of thing.

Instead, giving Legarie a platform sucks in a much more quiet, passive, insidious way. He makes bad arguments designed to stoke outrage based on his shitty, incurious worldview and then takes no responsibility for it.