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.
As Shelved by Genre from @rangedtouch prepares to move into the next book, I am reflecting on the journey so far. Severian is such a self-assured weirdo, too many of these fit.
i'm sorry everyone. you may recall from a recent css baby post that i made a fake window like this:
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however that was incredibly lazy of me. you see, the behavior you get when clicking the minimize button − is not minimizing. it is a behavior called shade, which has mostly been in kde and nextstep and other obscure window managers used by nerds.
an actual minimize button would do this
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