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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JamesonCourage" data-source="post: 6075778" data-attributes="member: 6668292">Just depends on the reader. While I've written a book of short stories that was, quite honestly, much more verbose than necessary, when talking in a fairly casual environment -like most RPG message boards- I just keep it toned down (which is natural for me, anyway). Otherwise, when reading fairly casually, certain posts get cluttered, in a way. It becomes less of a casual read. Which hurts casual conversation, in my experience.But I've commented on your writing style before. Something about it makes me skip it most times unless the two of us are actively going back and forth. Something about your posts are sometimes so internally structured that they make it hard to read. It's like when pemerton (or you) mark things with the "(i)"s -I just skip that part of that post, unless I'm replying to it, at which point I edit it out or skirt around it.Why is this the case? I don't know (I learned the "(i)"s for personal note-taking, not for discussion, so maybe I just like them separate). But I know that while I do use my brain while on these boards, nothing in me really wants to engage in any sort of "professional" sense, where I parse note-style paragraphs. And, I know you've said you tried breaking the habit before, and couldn't, so I'm not trying to convince you to change your writing style. I'm just pointing out why people might have a particular problem with how you word things.As for this thread, I'm still going to stay out of it, so I think I won't comment much further than I am here. Sorry for taking up one post's worth of space. To everyone still participating: Have, uh, fun, I guess, with this 'discussion'. As always, play what you like <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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