Wow. It seems like forever ago since I dropped my Patreon to this guy and he STILL hasn't released an update!
More bad news on that front. Newest Patreon post just announces that the update is close and that Proxxie has "hit his stride".
Yet again I'd like to believe that the 9 months that stand behind us means that he really means it this time and the update is close, but considering how much later than what he, by his own post half-year hiatus self, considered a ridiculous and impossibly large amount of time that the update could not possibly be done "way before" than, I would again ask everyone to keep expectations low.
For those with held breath and crossed fingers regardless, he considers himself to be really truly working on the final stretch of the update instead of just thinking about it, and that his biweekly updates will be faster as the update approaches.
But of course, in addition to no expected release date, there was no mention of how often these faster posts will be. Wouldn't want to ever be accountable to even a self-imposed nearly year long deadline now would we? That would obviously stifle the workflow which has been
so smoothly improved by absolutely no accountability! Hi I'm Jeff, and despite being 26 years old I don't understand even a single mote of how human motivation works, but I do know that stress is uncomfortable and I dislike it a bunch. Yuck yuck, get it away from me! "HI JEFF!"
Y'know I also remember school and how much it sucked to hit a deadline, I also remember it forcing me to perform the tasks I had to do. Being your own boss and forcing suffering upon yourself sucks, but if not doing so means so ridiculously little gets done then he needs to learn to either bear the bursts of suffering and toil around deadlines, or have a more consistent scheduled work ethic that prevents deadline panic.
Just by the way even these small Patreon posts have been released, it seems he's just waiting until near the 2 week "self-imposed unclarified habit-based super-comfy low-stress non-binding-of-course ;D ''''''''deadline'''''''''" and then panicking anyways and doing barely enough to mention last minute instead of just lying. I'm glad he doesn't have the stomach to just lie about progress, especially at this point, but if it's just a goddamn Patreon post and we're talking about the dev in question, why do the posts get progressively later and later each time, and get later relative to the previous post as opposed to an actual 14 day schedule if not for this exact reason?
The only thing that stands between this update and the dev's behavior being an exact reiteration of the mess that occurred way earlier in the game's life is the absurdity of the timescale, and unfortunately anyone following this is keenly aware of just how immune to the absurd this man is.
But then again, why a subscription. Do people really care for a vlog or some words despite an update missing for a year?
