Mack is a good man but he lives in Bongistan, they could arrest him for wrongthink if he gets too spicy. Synth and the people in the Youtube comments should know that not every place on the Internet is /v/.
It's more frustrating that you could easily isolate the entire drama and bad developer response from the game itself.
A more reasonable stance is to criticize the clearly gay aspects that adds nothing, and then actually talk about the game. (kinda like what synth did with his BG3 review)
it's not a """/v/""" thing to criticize aspects of a game and still enjoy it. going full "KC2 is above criticism, if you say otherwise that means you hate everything about it and clearly not a real gamer, so what if the developers lied? WELCOME TO BAN WORLD" is not how you convince people that you're a trustworthy reviewer, especially if you were handpicked by the devs to get the game early.
mack making poor arguments in a live stream, and then deleting it with his excuse being "you people are disgusting, it was a great stream, had to delete it, WAY too toxic, you know how youtube is."
makes me think he's not even willing to discuss the issue in the first place. either stand by your beliefs, or say nothing.
The only response he deserves for that is calling him a shill, and moving on.