What?!?!

EDIT: Okay, now that I've listened to more than just the opening of the episode, I'll put my thoughts in here. This show reinvigorated my love for movies and brought me back in to the world of filmmaking. I went through three years of studying film at university, but my best teacher has always been this show. Seriously guys, not only has listening to this show been incredibly fun, it's been one of the most educational and informative things that has been part of my life. I co-wrote a feature length movie, something I never would have even thought I could do if it wasn't for this podcast. It has truly been an honour to listen to you bunch of awesomely talented and creative guys.

And this forum is something else entirely. I have never felt like part of a great community of individuals since back in the days of TFN Fanfilms. I lurked here for a long time before finally signing up and now I genuinely feel like part of the tribe. We've done some great stuff here together and I bloody well love each and every one of you.

Mischief motherfucking managed, indeed!

Last edited by Owen_Ward (2015-02-27 21:22:11)

If that one meme is my legacy on the internet, I will be very content with it.

This show is the reason I got off my ass and started trying to make movies.
The best film community on the internet, the best film podcast,.....man.

Losing DIF and Nimoy on the same day is rough. Shall be missed.

Edit: Teague - I personally want to say thank you from the bottom of my heart for creating a community that fosters and encourages creativity and making things. I haven't seen anything like it online, and at a time when I wasn't happy with what I was doing with my life, it meant a lot. Things are great now, and I credit DIF with helping me get through the tough times.

Last edited by bullet3 (2015-02-27 21:34:38)

It's sad, and I've gotten really used to hearing your voices, but of course, y'all owe us nothing. If you feel like not recording any more, don't record. Simple as that.
I'm glad there'll still be an archive of shows, and that the forum is staying open though.

Thanks for the thousand-or-so hours 

Disclaimer: if you dislike the tone of a post I make, re-read it in a North/East London accent until it sounds sufficiently playful

Godspeed.

You fellas had a good run. Good luck in all future endeavours 

*crawls back into cave*

What to say.

Over the last five years, you guys have been more than my friends. You've been, in a very real sense, my family. Whenever I needed laughter, you were there. Something to distract me, you were there. Just something to listen to, or someone to "talk" to, you were there. Without a doubt, you were the biggest influence on my life from the ages of 14-18. You guys have taught me so much about being a storyteller, about being a critic, about just being a good person in general, and most of what I know about the movie industry I've learned from you. Teague and Mike and Brian and Trey and Eddie and Cloe and all the rest are some of the absolute smartest, wisest people I know, and are all role models, people I aspire to be like, as well as friends in my head.

You all have put in a titanic effort over the last six years. Not only have you entertained us all—you've brought a forum of completely awesome people together, you've raised thousands of dollars to save lives, you've taught a lot of people a bunch of things. You've made a real difference, and that's no small thing.

I'm still gonna continue to follow all of the hosts and the forum members in their various doings, and hang out around here, because all that's awesome. And we all have the immense backlog to listen to and share for years to come. But this is the end of an era. And I'll miss that era tremendously. Thank you so, so, so much, again, for all that you've done and will continue to do. We all, and the world in general, are a much better place for it.

Also, damn you Teague for putting that clip in at the end. I'm misty enough as it is. :-P

Last edited by Abbie (2015-02-27 23:10:35)

Fuck. Didn't see that coming. I was still trying to figure out how you guys were going to top the Malariathon.

I guess you're not. Which is fine, we'll always have that.

I'd say best of luck in the future and all that, but this isn't exactly a goodbye, is it? You're all still here, you're just not making podcast episodes anymore. You'll still be on the forums, so yeah.

I'm personally honoured to have been a part of this community for the last 6 years, to have my name dropped in the Thor Commentary, and to have Teague and Mike come hang out with the Extended Edition more than once.

Hats off, and do your bloody worst, guys!

In closing; the lot of you are more than welcome to hang out again. Hell, we'll take all of you on at the same time to discuss the last 6 years with you, even if it takes 1000 hours to do so. You're probably not as willing, but you're the friends in our head forever.

(that invitation is 100% real, by the way, but we'll take you on for like 60 minutes or so, no hassle.)

I'd like to second every single word of this.

There was a period of my life where I had every single episode of this podcast on my iPod. All of 'em. Because I liked knowing that, wherever I happened to be, I could listen to any episode I wanted to. I fell asleep listening to the show countless times. There's this complete chunk of my life which has DIF and WAYDM playing in the background throughout. I can say with certainty that without this show I wouldn't be the same person I am today. I wouldn't be pursuing the things that I'm pursuing, and I wouldn't have been as motivated to do so in the first place.

I'm in a very different stage of my life now. This show has a fraction of the direct impact on my daily life that it used to, but I can't deny that the things I do spend my time on wouldn't have happened without it. I'm a contributing editor at two film-related websites. Without this show, I bet I wouldn't have moved past my blog. I'm studying film in college. Without this show, I might very well be doing something else.

And, perhaps most importantly, I co-host my own series of podcasts now. My editor over at Movie Fail wasn't a big podcast guy when I first suggested the idea of talking about the Oscars two years ago. He went along with it, but that was the sole podcast we did for a full year. Last year, we did another Oscar podcast, and I posted it on Facebook. And Teague commented that we should do more. In the year since, we've started a Game of Thrones podcast, a Legend of Korra podcast, and many other random one-offs, and we've got Teague and DIF/WAYDM to thank.

Anyway, this is a long-winded way of saying that I'm so, SO grateful to all of you guys for everything you've given me. I hope I can return the favor someday. And I'm so glad that the forum will be sticking around, because I love this place so much.

All credit goes to Faldor for voicing the idea behind this:

Last edited by Abbie (2015-02-27 23:34:16)