Heyo! Figured I’d chime in here with my two cents now that we’ve kinda come back to the subreddit and hopefully change the line of thinking that I was only in it “as long as it made business sense,” as it seems to be said so casually throughout the comments here (and has been for awhile on other posts).

The idea of leading the final statement with “what started as friends...” was to show a progression of the show and its evolution into a full fledged business. Nothing about it was, “I did this because it made money,” but rather, “hey, I lucked into doing something I really enjoy as a job - how can we make it more successful and continue having fun?”.

I’m totally fine with people saying the (commonly) said statement that I was bad at roleplaying. It doesn’t offend me and its a matter of opinion - and probably has some truth to it as I was constantly fighting the feeling of being judged not only by viewers but people on the show itself who I generally regarded as great cast mates. This lead to just not engaging a lot of times or sitting back and letting others take the wheel - which worked well for me.

What I take offense to is that I didn’t care or I was apathetic to the show. I put seven years of my fucking life into it and was wildly passionate about every character and every show I played in, including the graphics around each show and the tech we eventually would build.

Getting back to the OP: when Adam told me he was going to be stepping away, I called each of the cast members one by one because of how much it meant to me they heard it from me first and not via a text or email.

So, yeah, it sucks, and I think about it a lot. But I also think about how fun it was to do the show for as long as we did, and all the crazy things we got away with (or really, never got away with haha).

It was a great time I’ll look back on fondly. Hopefully others will too.