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Yeah, your reasons are understandable. Honestly I was going into the discussion assuming you were just hyper-focused on VotV for one reason or another, but if it's due to actual gripes about the platform itself rather than just "I want more updates", (hence the part where I was suggesting moving on to other games) then admittedly my addition of that part was unnecessary, so I'll admit that's my bad.

Unfortunately, all social media platforms are going to have some kind of criticism that can be levied against them - I find that the reasons can typically be justified, but at this point, I don't know how any "platform" can exist without some degree of criticism. I imagine that their usage of Discord once again comes back down to the team's ability to control the community that they are surrounded by - at least in some capacity. There's several methods of locking down the server if need be and there's the phone verification thing which weeds out a lot of trolls and ne'er-do-wells, so even these two methods might be good enough for the team to justify the continued use. I imagine there's also other methods of keeping things chill that I'm simply just not aware of, but I digress.

I am not aware of any platforms that are similar to Discord that have even a fraction of reach that it does, so I assume that's also a big part of it - I am presuming that they would want the updates to get out to as many as possible. That's a lot more speculation on my part than I've done previously in this thread, however, so of all the things I've expressed, take that one with the biggest grain of salt possible. (I don't actually know anything outside of what little information I gleam out of some streamers or people that might be "around" the community, so my speculating is not to be fully trusted, but I'm hoping throughout all of my posts that's kind of evident for one reason or another.)

Also, don't justify your writing style to me. It's your writing style, own it. If it's shit, it's your shit, not just any random garbage - be proud of the work you put into things, even if it's minor (like making long-ass paragraphs of text that very few people will ever read, for example). 

Anyway, I generally try to levy my criticisms with some padding, devs might not see the "original" comment I make, so if I just criticize without said padding, it might lead into misunderstandings or an eventually necessary stating of the padding, anyway. This also tends to lead into me repeating myself, which also leads to my particular writing style, but I figure half-measures are just work with half of the effort put in, so I might as well go all the way while I'm at it. With that said, now I'm moreso offering suggestions for what you might look to include when posting, rather than offering actual criticism, as I was previously - you haven't said anything especially egregious or outlandish in either of your posts. Either way, do as you will.