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I usually don't reply to negative comments but this is just a silly thing to say. I was (and mostly still am) dealing with a serious physical health crisis. Spending 1 hour per day browsing and replying to notifications on Twitter while I wake up/have a coffee is hardly disproof of this.

There's also a significant difference between casually browsing a website/typing a few posts on Twitter, and working on something that requires significant creative effort, energy and motivation. Anyone who's ever worked in the creative field will know exactly what I'm talking about: creative work such as writing a story can be both physically and mentally exhausting and draining. If it was as simple as "just sitting down and typing," everyone would do it and make a career out of it. You also need to be in a "certain mood" to be able to write erotic content, specifically, which physical health ailments can obviously interfere with.

Finally, I'm not just the game's writer. I also manage all of our subscription pages/social media and chat servers, I direct and annotate every single render and animation that is required from the game's artist, I do 100% of the game's testing and programming, I handle advertising, I create all of the game's non-3D assets (such as UI elements & end credits), I manage our funding and payouts, etc. In other words, my job extends well beyond just writing: I direct the entire project. Writing is the biggest and most time consuming part of that, don't get me wrong... and this is especially true with the game's continuously branching choices which greatly increases the time it takes to finish scripts... but the point is that there's more to the job than you maybe suspect.

Anyways, I do apologize for things taking a while. Regardless of my physical health, I understand how much it sucks to wait for something you enjoy because I play these games myself. I also understand how easy it is to get swept up by the "rumor mill" of certain web forums, and to be caught up in narratives that I'm just lazy, a liar, etc. and I don't blame you for your perception of me. At the end of the day, as players and paying customers, my health is not your personal concern and I expect to be judged on the basis of merit/my ability to create and deliver a product. I understand how bad it looks when things aren't progressing as promised.

I just wanted to say this so that you know I have no hard feelings towards you/am not writing this comment out of spite. But whoever told you that I was lying about being physically ill is simply lying. While I don't want to go into the details of said ailments, it is significant enough that I had to get health insurance to cover the costs, and my entire life, daily routine and schedule was uprooted, because of it. On the positive side, while as mentioned above I am still dealing with health problems (and will be for years to come), as the OP suggested I have gotten these things under control and progress on the game is continuing as normal. And yes, Chapter 8 is coming/is almost done!

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Also, Alorth making a "spinoff game" (it's more like a non-canon side project) has nothing to do with me or anyone's incompetence. It's something he's wanted to do for a long time (we first spoke about it years ago) – he is just trying to find ways to increase his personal income so that he can take care of his personal artists/employees. And since we are co-developers/equals and I want him to succeed and profit in his business endeavors, I obviously approved of this/have no problem with it. 

This weird desire from certain members of the community to pit me and Alorth against each other or act as if we're having problems is just... ridiculous and self-defeating. Without me and Alorth working in collaboration (not one of us or the other), there is no Radiant / it would be a completely different game. Alorth and I have two completely different styles and preferences when it comes to ero-content: I don't even think Radiant is the type of game he'd play in his spare time. Despite this – Alorth is like family to me. We get along extremely well, and we work very well together, even if he is much faster/more efficient than I am.