I'm not comparing anything anyone has done to myself. I'm taking your work on (more or less) its own merits and I've found that it's just straight-up not worth my time to engage with. I don't know why you'd think I'm making comparisons to anyone whatsoever, but I guess now it's just because we're doing a shit-flinging contest and you feel the need to try to get a dig at me wherever possible, even if it's total nonsense. (I guess I am more or less the sole person making it a shit-flinging contest at this point.) You are free to try to continue insulting me in the manner that you were with that bit, but I'll spoil it for you that I'm afraid there's not much ground there. Try insulting me in another way. (Or don't, any response you give is gonna be funny either way, so do whatever you'd prefer.) That, or it just simply goes back to you feeling insecure and too afraid to admit to yourself so you ascribe your own problems onto me, but either way, it's not really something that serves you too well.
At this point I'm not really gonna bother with pretending to respond to your points in a respectful fashion as I (more or less) previously was before the start of this paragraph, as AI bros like you don't really deserve it, but you can use that as an argument against me somehow as well, if you'd like. To be honest, I kinda just want to see how you'll respond to this. Even I, the person that initially might have cared about the arguments, doesn't really care as much anymore, so I'm just winging it, and I'll get to each of the points as I like. Uh, you are the one that has sole access to your financial statements, but even if you made all of your finances public, there'd still be plenty of doubt regarding them, so how do we know you haven't hit the "exact number" of supporters at some point previously? Sure, they've been public, but supporters come and go, how does the audience know for a fact that you haven't hit the goal already? I doubt there's someone watching your numbers 24/7. Or maybe you'll just change the goal in the future. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if you suddenly stopped updating one day and just ran off with the money. I've seen plenty of creators do something akin to that, and there's been people that have stuck around to support them.
Also if you were interested in making the game as good as possible, you should have made the game and then put the game up on Itch.io to make the money back that you spent, but you didn't, so I imagine you're actually just more interested in getting as much money as possible. I mention this point because you clearly used AI in the game (as you admitted to), and not because you haven't finished the game, and though one could argue not releasing the full game before it's ready is potentially something that could be considered greedy, that's quite a bit more nuanced and I have to wonder if you even know what that word means, so I'll just skip writing that section altogether for everyone's sake.
Back to the main point, though, I am saying that I wouldn't be surprised if you somehow found a way to skirt the rules you've set for yourself, because again, people like you tend to be pretty invested in doing that when it comes to money, so whether or not the goals written on your Patreon are accurate or not, I'm gonna have to cast some doubt on your relationship with honesty because again, using AI will elicit that response from people. Especially from me. Feel free to scroll up to re-read the longest bit of this post if you've forgotten that discussion, or don't if that's too much effort for you.
It's also very interesting how you are one of the first people, a creator, who has mentioned my history of arguing on this platform. I argue with people for fun because it's something that I like doing, and I use it as an outlet for my own artistic preferences, plus I'm arguing with people about things that I think are correct. You, on the other hand, clearly only actually care about making money, and because I insulted your behavior and publicly bruised your ego in the comments of your own game, feel the need to defend your creation because you're more concerned about your sun-dwarfing ego and how you appear to others. And while I sympathize, because I too very clearly have a sun-dwarfing ego, the thing is that I'm actually both more capable of taking an insult AND admitting that I have big ego, so I dunno, in terms of being pathetic, that seems to be a win on my end - one that I am happy enough to walk away with and to finally stop writing this behemoth of a post, even if I still have a myriad of arguments and things to say that I could continue to publicly flog you with, but I think I have proven my point.
You're more than welcome to try and continue arguing with me, but with the type of person you are, I fully expect you to either delete one or more of my comments, block me from commenting and then make some "sick dunks" attempting (and failing) to argue against me, not respond to this comment at all, or do some combination of those decisions. Unfortunately for you, I've already won. Not only have I now insulted you violently and multiple times publicly in the comments of your own game, I've also more than kicked the hell out of your ego - and I have both the skill and will to keep going. At this point, responding to me is gonna just turn into a Road Runner cartoon - I write something, you think you've got the upper hand, but shocker, I outwit you at the very last second.
I'd suggest just taking the bruised ego at this point, especially since I presume this is going to be something you're ruminating on for years afterward - and I would know, as I was somebody like you, and even to this day I still think about making a "sick dunk" on people I had a minor disagreement with when I was younger. Honestly, whenever you're done with your bruised ego, I would start by looking inward. (By that, I mean that you should at least stop using AI for more than just the reasons that I've given. If you're gonna make a game or if you're going to do something artistically, start with making it all yourself, and not just the aspects of the game that you've made thus far. (At this point, I'm trying to actually get across to you and write as if you were a human being - because despite what you might think, I do ACTUALLY feel bad for you - specifically, I feel bad that you're the person that you currently are, because I know for a fact that you aren't happy nor fulfilled in your life, so start now by changing yourself gradually. Again, I know this for a fact because I used to be you. And then I got better.))
Anyway, back on to your point of, "but if you're so talented, make a game, Mr. poster!" While I am claiming I have a skill in making art (as arguing with skill is something that takes at least a modicum of intelligence and time), I'm not suggesting that I have any talent in regards to making video games - that's supposed to be something you're doing, but instead you're reliant on using AI that's trained on (and is using other people's work) to make up for your own lack of skill in terms of the visual medium, and you're also committing theft while you're at it. You apparently have not put any definite money towards hiring people to actually make the art, so who's making the art for your game thus far? This connects back to several of the points I made previously, and my interest in coherently tying those arguments back to this is waning. That's lucky you, though I do still have the steam to keep going. I don't need to conform to the expectations of you to prove that I'm better than you, I can just simply be better. As stated previously, I also don't care what you think. Onto the last post.