let it leave me like a long breath

my dream daddies hot take is that it kinda sucks that it's getting played by straight gamer bros on their youtube channels as "wow check out this wacky game; lets play it for laughs". but idk, as much as i dislike the game grumps it is kind of weird seeing what is basically a standard/mediocre dating sim (if what i've heard about it has been accurate) get debated about a bunch in peak "i don't like this so it's problematic" discourse.

i definitely don't like it tho.

(or like this and that arthur chu thing have been across my various dashes and timelines at roughly the same time and the whole "let's take stuff entirely out of context to vilify this thing" is really worrying, b/c like, somebody made those original posts knowing they were definitely not accurate and it worries me that a lot of discourse is just about, like, playing into the hands of whoever can construct a slightly robust problematic facade.)

(uh w/ the context of: the 'satanic cult' ending is like some fragmentary half-finished thing only visible via datamining; arthur chu's "fuck off you alt-leftists care care about single payer the same way pizzagaters cared about saving children" comment was while he was in the middle of being bombarded by ostensible leftists telling him to kill himself b/c he doesn't support single-payer (which he does). so like. out of context snapshots circling as widely and as loudly as possible to tar a thing entirely irrespective of its actual qualities)