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If this were real, the creator would have commited a crime.
Within the context of the game itself, the point isn't whether Coda continues, the point is that he never wanted them shared, and we shouldn't/wouldn't know if he did continue.
Didn't Davey say that Coda was him with a cough at the start of the game?
In the actual game, I didn't hear the bit about being the same, I thought they were separated.
It's essentially about Davey's need for praise following the massive attention which the Stanley parable got, how he became addicted to that praise, doing every interview offered and eventually had to find what made him happy. Coda is the improved self, because he does things just for his own satisfaction rather than to please everyone.
Perhaps that is the point. He could have genuinely stolen someone's work and know that the real life Coda would be too reclusive and ashamed to come forward.
The grand irony being that Davey claims to have "only" put out his work to contact Coda again, and yet, this game costs 10 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dollars, which means he is profiting off of another man's work. And hypothetically, if this story is indeed fictional, Davey using his best friend's private video games to make money on Steam is a contradiction to everything he was trying to achieve with compiling The Beginner's Guide.
It does not make sense within the in-game narrative, nor is it admirable in the real world.
Not really a contradiction. You have to make money somehow.
Why genius? I'm not connecting the dots
He's chasing his tail.
Nice interpretation, I like that.
I have kind of a more verbose, slightly pretentious theory about the name Coda, kind of related to yours:
In language, a "coda" is sort of like an optional epilogue that's unnecessary to the story's completion, but is still somewhat related. For example, if I told a story about how I got a flat tire and Jeff Goldblum pulled over to help me fix it, a coda for that story might be "A year later I saw Jeff at a con and he remembered me." It's named after a musical term for a little flourish added to the end of a musical piece that isn't thematically related to the rest of the song. The song doesn't strictly speaking need it to be complete, yet the creator of the music felt their music piece was incomplete without it.
Basically, a coda is an embellishment added to the end of a work.
Kind of like the lamp posts Davey kept adding to the end of Coda's games...
I also feel like the Epilogue chapter of TBG represents Davey finally getting his own "coda" and feeling complete as a result. See, the Epilogue chapter is in the same spot as a coda, and the player wanders mostly through settings that aren't represented anywhere else in the game (train stations, mansion, cave, ancient ruins, etc), so just like a coda in music or language, it's a thematically incongruous embellishment. The whole thing then ends at the Whisper "glitch" that ostensibly inspired Coda originally - only this time it goes completely without explanation, following Coda's final instruction, don't say anything. It is here that the coda is added and the piece "feels" complete..
So yeah, John Frek said it much quicker - he's chasing his tail. And I think in a way he catches it. :)