Third (Middle) Option here is redundant. Especially since Lena and Ian can cheat on one another immediately after committing to a relationship. So just let the player make choices through the game to either cheat or be faithful.
I think at this point she's definitely feeling some sympathy for Ian, but she's undecided about how and who she feels and who she'd be better off with (Wade? Axel? Ian?). First of all, as Ian well noted during their hangout at the Shine, she's looking for close attention and something new and exciting, some kind of adventure. Plus she needs someone to please her ego, to make her feel valued and needed, which is why she is so flattered by Axel, who is constantly showering her with compliments.
What are you talking about, it's already there.
Oh of course. The reason she ditched self-imposed deadlines is because they only put extra stress and she felt shitty, not being able to make it in time instead of focusing on work, having to constantly apologize that the release was late by a week or two or three. So, what's the point in setting up a deadline for yourself if you can never meet it anyway and only feel extra pressure? Not having a deadline is not the problem, more like a consequence of the problem (too much to do and complex situations that are tricky to write in a satisfying way that would also feel in-character).
That is one way of viewing deadlines. The other one is that a deadline helps you to focus on the important work, it reduces the likelihood of procrastination and makes you feel good about yourself when you finish something on time. That stress and pressure that you are talking about is not always a bad thing.
Now this is an actual problem. If someone is unable to meet any self-imposed deadlines, for a longer period of time, that should raise some flags that something it's terribly wrong and just continuing to do the same thing is not ok.
The main question is, what does Ian feel? Is he really in love with Cindy, or is simply lusting over her and feels fun talking to? I don't think either of them have deep feelings for each other, they seem like teenagers who are only discovering attraction for each other. But if Ian's attraction is more physical, Cindy's attraction is more emotional but I'd say is equal in intensity. She's not the one to fuck without some level of connection. Ian encourages her to do what she loves and appreciates her when Wade doesn't, and is himself an artistically-inclined person that she respects and seems to even be a little jealous of, she likes how passionate Ian is in pursuit of his goals and I think that rubbed off on her, making her pursue her modeling hobby with equal passion. Even her lust for Axel (that she tries to suppress) is fueled by admiration for his work and new satisfaction he can give her, not sexually but emotionally / professionally. After all he's her key to a life full of excitements where she can do something she enjoys and is naturally good at, receiving intoxicating praise all the time, opposed to distracted and grumpy Wade who is never happy with her ideas and unlike Ian is too jealous to fully trust her with her newfound passion.
Nah. If she actually had a deadline she would try harder to meet it. The absence of consequences is an issue.
I don't think that Eva is the one to procrastinate (or at least wasn't before Chapter 9). It's just easy to undervalue the amount of time that the task will require no matter how easy it seems. For example I thought It'd take me only a week to release the Beta version of the 0.9 Remastered guide because in my mind the task was simple, therefore quick, but in reality it proved to be not the case due to unforeseen challenges (simple tasks can actually be quite tedious). I do think Eva has personal goals, having a desirable approximate time-window for the release, after all you don't want to drag things out because you tend to simply loose interest and passion over time. I'd like to play Chapter 9 Remastered already (still didn't get the chance to do so) to have the saves ready to test Ian's Chapter 10 content, but can't get to it until I finish with the Beta, and that's very annoying. I think Eva was feeling the same when writing Ian's part, having interesting ideas about Lena's scenes brewing in her mind already, but not being able to execute them until she managed to finish off that complex scene for Ian.
If the reason for doing the remaster was cleaning up the story to make it easier to build upon - then it clearly failed because soon it's gonna be half a year since that update, which is something that has never happened before to this author.
Tl;dr Cindy is an attention seeker and craves for Yes Men. Even more reason for my Ian to not pursue her. I'm just gonna fix her relationship with Wade instead.
Some say Billy bathing in bleach is to avoid being too similar with Tyrone from GGGB. Not sure how true this is tho.
In the year 2525...
Maybe, my theory is that it depends on the decisions you make as Ian, maybe based on some choose Cindy is not as committed to the relationship as Ian is (like she is currently with Wade), and also, maybe with some choose she will be more in love with Ian than he is with her.
August 2023 according to the latest post on patreon.
That's a harsh, but not entirely untrue statement.
