A streamer I've been following for a long time and occasionally watching dropped the bomb today.

Yep, he said and I quote 'Sword and Shield? Should we get that? Let's get it on release.'

I can't support drones who just buy games without doing any research just because they have 'Pokemon' in the title so I dropped my follow right away.

You're doing the same, right, /v/? You should be dropping connections with anyone who says they're getting the games, especially if it's on release and not second hand later/pirated.