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There's only one issue with what youre saying, why would he start working on the game when it's half complete writing wise? Even if he needed a new source of income and started actually making the game before it was complete, why would he not take at least one week off a month to continue writing the story he had a road map for and was clearly confident in? I almost wonder if someone else wrote the first chunk, which is why BD seems so aimless now.We got weekly updates when he had at least a somewhat coherent story and a reasonable number of characters.
But now the plot is out of control and makes no sense and he keeps adding characters to see if one of them sparks something or to use them in one of the many side-plots. He's also caving to the perfectionist stuff, which make the other things worse.
If he procrastinates, he's a "productive procrastinator" in that he does X work so he doesn't have to do Y work. X work being coming up with new characters/reworking stuff. Y work being figuring out a way to, well, untangle the story and make sense of it all.
BD has always, from the very beginning, massively overshared his personal issues. They may be excuses, some of them may be make believe to gain sympathy, but I think some of the things he's said about his own struggles over this game to be true. Not knowing how to deal with the success, perfectionist issues, imposter syndrome and so on.
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