Which generation are you referring to? Twenty something’s? Thirty something’s? How about we not parrot a nostalgic, overgeneralizing baby boomer sentiment, unless you’d like a yard and some bratty young whippersnappers walking on it to yell at? 
I’ll be honest, I’m not really sure who this is meant for. Is it for LCD for trying to control his subscribers? Is it for the people that disagree with him?
As for not having control over people’s own lives and wanting to control others… This is a video game forum, man. About a niche video game in a niche genre no less. I don’t think that there are a ton of megalomaniacs running around here, trying to build a cult of personality to celebrate their own greatness. I’d like to think everyone here, including Larry, has more perspective than that, but it’s entirely possible that I’m just being naïve, I suppose.
While that sounds possible as a theory, I’d argue that truth can be distorted. Plus, ya know, lies exist. So do complete lies. I think if we’re gonna complain about anything in regard to “these days” let’s maybe start here instead: Opinions, especially those found on the Internet, can at times be supported by opinions, buttressed by opinions, founded upon gut feelings or unsourced, uncriticized misinformation.
But let’s say there is some needle of truth in a hey stack of BS. For the record, I’m not saying that’s what LCD’s opinions or videos are. Others can judge for themselves, obviously. Does this truth always equate to value to such an extent that it was worth sifting through the layers upon layers to find it?
Does an ounce of truth always balance out a pound of lies? Does truth equate to value simply by its mere existence? I don’t think it’s black and white. Not always. I don’t see that as wisdom I’d entirely accept as a universal truism, but that’s just me.
As for who cares about what one complains about and how much they complain about it, if you’ve been a broken record for three years on some of this stuff, and I personally think Larry has on specific points, if your influence becomes increasingly toxic toward that which you love (debatable, for sure) and you’re opting to leave a cloud of poison gas on your way out the door, as some might see it, then I’d say some people might take issue, and just as LCD’s more than entitled to speak his mind, so too is it okay for others to find fault, take issue or disagree with any or all ideas he’s putting out there.
Not sure who Collin is or the full story behind why he left whatever it is he left, so I honestly can’t speak to that and must profess my ignorance on that specific issue.
As far as this self-perpetuating idea that everyone’s offended all the time “these days,” I tend to think that sentiment is a mixture of factual and fictional.
People are moving in to and out of one another’s information bubbles more and more often thanks to the internet, and that’s bound to cause conflict as people with differing opinions and world views collide in small doses, usually with minimal information to go off of, especially as it pertains to the person they’re speaking with.
Plus, the anonymity of the internet seems to be resulting in an increased willingness of people to speak their mind unfiltered. Obviously not an original idea here, but this also results in what some seemingly interpret as everyone taking offense to everything.
But mixed with those realities is a fiction grown in rather specific echo chambers of propaganda telling us that everyone’s offended and we can’t say anything anymore and the PC police are out to get us and you must rebel against this culture of compliance when honestly, I think it’s just more the first two things. No one’s more offended by anything than they were ten years ago or even fifty years ago. We’re now just all up in each others faces and we all have microphones. If an opinion is largely crappy now by societal standards, it was probably crappy ten years ago too.
TL/DR: I philosophicaterated about stuffs… for some reason.
