Patreon and other providers need to get off the big nanny mentality. In the meantime I hope that some farsighted souls are scrapping absolutely everything off the Patreon and archiving for future generations. Hopefully there can be a mega or torrent of FET that holds all the game and art assets including the art dumps Marty created along the way....
The only way I would comprehend those decisions is if they got a warning from Patreon and don't want to shift to another funding platform. But then, like you said, it would be almost impossible to go on with 18titans as those characters don't look exactly "legal" if you know what I mean.
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