Like for example, Molyneux is a very clear cut example IMO of being a lying sociopath to the point of launch. He's lied his entire life and has promoted technologies/features/fame/fortune that simply don't exist and had no intention of existing, and he's acknowledged that through his entire career while still intentionally going to those places and even receiving crowdfunding (twice) from those who "believe" in him after being ousted from the game industry.
No Man's Sky dev lying up until launch might constitute someone going out of his bounds, but it breaches into malicious when he lies about major features being in the game until the very day of launch, using fake photos on storefronts etc. and there's clearly not even an ounce of it to show in the final build.
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One area I think that's different that matters, is that I don't think Molyneux and Sean Murray have shown a history of compulsively lying about nearly literally everything, merely the scope of their work, nor do they have an extensive history of then personally attacking people who shoot down the lies about the products. I'm not a Sean Murray expert though, so if his history is like that I'll find out later rather than know it currently much like if you asked me about Wu before Trump was President.
I think Molyneux clearly has some kind of problem, it does date back decades and he's never changed about it. Though he has regularly acknowledged it which is a step I guess. Even back when he was talking about
Black and White he admits that he may be describing ideas that may never make it into the game and I recall an Edge piece where another member of the staff specifically states something like "Peter sometimes gets ahead of what we're doing."
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Unless she had a history earlier in her life of being a clear "sociopath".
Wu had a restraining order placed on her by the employees of the college newspaper she used to work at because she threw a violent shit fit, when they wouldn't publish her shitty comic strip, that involved all kinds of racial and homophobic slurs. And back then was telling the stories about how she had been stabbed in the back of her head and lost her memory, that her comic was nationally syndicated when it only ever ran in the college paper, etc.
Maybe it's purely mental illness along with poor problem solving. The fact she seems to actively seek this out including seemingly trying to make herself a martyr if Gamergate were what she claims it is, all while having seemingly zero remorse for what she's doing to other people and instead bragging about her actions, is what makes me use more malicious language than I normally do.
