Leaving. This is it. Wow. Crazy. It may not be the very last of the Q&A columns I do, but it is the column that will signal the end of me being the Q&A guy, and move me into the hallowed halls of Q&A guys of the past.. to the hall of fame.. to sit and watch, and see younger, less sleep deprived kids take their shot at entertaining thousands of you per day. I will sit proudly next to such greats as Andrew Kaufmann, Thor, JD, and of course, my personal hero, Alex Kimbel. The response has been overwhelming from you guys. I've gotten a huge number of honestly touching responses about your memories, and about how much you enjoyed my time here. I want to thank all of you who wrote, and well, I've got a rather large column today.. even though there aren't many questions.. I'm printing a lot of what I received today, so you'll just have to bear with me. If you don't like it, tough. Not my problem anymore, is it? :D Know that the column is going to be left in capable hands and that you will of course, see me again.

When my army of arctic monkeys and I take over the world.

--hunter

Brad:
Heh, the great Hunter speaks... all shall listen... though I don't know if he's celebrating being free of me, or my own freedom from doing this late at night every night...

~The Sack~

PS Oh, and you made me wet myself when I found out you were going to stop doing Q&A. I'm gonna miss you man...and my underwear as it washes.

Brad:
Yikes. Okay, this scares me just a little bit, but I guess not enough.

Well, I have to say, I'm surprised you're leaving already, but that's only because I didn't really think about the working forty hours + school thing. So, just let me say that I think I speak for lots of people when I say I really liked your column. Personally, I think there should have been _more_ monkey jokes, but you can't win 'em all... Kudos on spending so much time on the whole thing. It paid off. Are you still going to do that other website? I must shamefully admit I haven't checked it out yet, but now I have a much better reasonm, don't I? Well, this is way too serious for my liking, so I better wrap it up. So how about it? Print a last letter from your #1 fan? :)

Happy trails,

Ben

Brad:
I just have to say thanks, Ben, you've been with me since editorials, and it's been a long road. As for more monkey jokes.. .. *giggle*.. he said monkey! Okay, you probably don't get that one.. :D As for your question... Yes, I will be working at both RPGamer (in the newmedia section, and also on The TOF Project. If, like Ben, you have not been there.. then you are a naughty monkey.

You've never printed any letters from me! ...Granted, I only wrote two or three times to you, but still, I'm more special than the rest! I've got severe psychological problems that I try to fix with drugs! I have four women who have nothing better to do but follow me around all the time! So seeing as this will be your last column, I give you one last chance: print this or I'll enlarge the ozone hole! The ice will melt and you'll drown! Mwahahaha!

Seriously, though, I really liked the job you did with the column while it lasted...so you'd better have found someone damn good to replace you or we'll all be mad! We'll force you to come back and write columns and not get any sleep for a long time! Uh...any word on Thor recently?

~Commander Kahran Ramsus

Brad:
Well, you got your letter printed.. hope you're just DARN happy, or something.

Seriously, though, it's been great readin' the column. You helped to stave off my insanity from not having FF8, and also found a way to talk about monkeys all the time for no apparent reason. That's a rare combination in today's working world, and we all appreciate it. Don't let the admin job get to your head and become evil and corrupt.... well, okay, DO become evil and corrupt, but use it for our benefit. Thanks for all the entertainment!

-Toni

Brad:
TONY!.. what's up! And you too, Tony! .. go say hi to Steve, Tony. No, not you, Tony.. just Tony and Steve. Thanks for the good words, and well, if I'm ever the right hand mand of the Master of Evil.. we'll see what we can't work up for ya'll.

Here are some questions. They have question marks at the end of them, ya know..?

Yeah. I know.

1)How long did it take you to beat Suikoden 2?

About 30-40 hours.

2)I remember this certain staircase in Suikoden that was always inaccesible. And I found another one in 2, how can you get past that person?

As I hear, there's a random chance that Viki will beam you up on top of that staircase.. though I've never had her mess up the teleporting..

3)I just started Thousand Arms. I like the battle system, but it seems kinda awkward...what's your take on it?

Haven't gotten that far yet.. (shrug)

4)Is Veronica going to do the column just on weekends now..and is that familiar face you mentioned..Thor???

Yes, Veronica will continue doing weekends. As for the rest, you never know.

Well, thanks for your time.

-Nigel Friends don't let friends drive Chevys.

Hahahha... oh dear, there's some bad mojo down the line for me for just laughing at this line... Heather drives a Chevy.. haha

Is Grandia worth getting? I can only afford one more RPG before X-Mas, so I want to know if that one is worth, thanks.

Kahgani

Brad:
Well, according to JD's review, this is the game to buy. So go get it. Or just read the review. :)

I am sorry to hear you will no longer be doing letters at RPGamer. I commend you for sticking it out as long as you did despite lack of sleep and all your other problems. It's been fun and I wish you a fond farewell.

J.M.

Brad:
Dude, the doctor said the Viagra would definitely solve my problem, and that I was no less a man for it... yeah! And.. oh, geez I'm just dropping that one now before it really takes a nose dive off the cliff of badness...

"Who was that masked Oracle?" "Dunno... but I think his name was Steve..."

Adios, man. You were the best thing to happen to the column since Thor. But I won't bear your children. Male pregnancy looked far too painful in "Junior". ^_^

- ChocoMog ZERO

Brad:
Heh.. I'm the best thing to happen to butter since sliced... tuna.. or something. Thanks, man.. and I just found this entertaining. As for the male pregnancy, Hunter didn't mind.. of course, he was birthing puppies for weeks afterwards.. you'd be amazed at how many they can store up there! :o

1.aggry [OED:1:182; W2; W3]
2.ahungry [OED:1:194; FW; W2]
3.angry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
4.anhungry [OED:1:332; W2]
5.begry [OED:1:770,767]
6.bewgry [OED:1:1160]
7.bowgry [OED:1:1160]
8.braggry [OED:1:1047]
9.conyngry [OED:2:956]
10.gry [OED:4/2:475; W2]
11.haegry [EDD (see "hagery")]
12.hangry [OED:1:329]
13.hogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD]
14.hogrymogry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "hogry-mogry")]
15.hongry [OED:5/1:459; EDD:3:282]
16.huggrymuggry [EDD (see "huggerie"); CSD (as "huggry-muggry")]
17.hungry [OED; FW; W2; W3]
18.iggry [OED]
19.kaingry [EDD (see "caingy")]
20.magry [OED:6/2:36, 6/2:247-48]
21.malgry [OED:6/2:247]
22.maugry [OED:6/2:247-48]
23.mawgry [OED:6/2:247]
24.meagry [OED:6/2:267]
25.menagry [OED (see "managery")]
26.messagry [OED]
27.nangry [OED]
28.overangry [RH1; RH2]
29.podagry [OED; W2 (below the line)]
30.pottingry [OED:7/2:1195; Jamieson:3:532]
31.puggry [OED:8/1:1573; FW; W2]
32.pugry [OED:8/1:1574]
33.rungry [EDD:5:188]
34.scavengry [OED (in 1715 quote under "scavengery")]
35.shiggry [EDD]
36.skugry [OED:9/2:156, 9/1:297; Jamieson:4:266]
37.toggry [Simmonds (as "Toggry", but all entries are capitalized)]
38.ulgry [Partridge; Smith:24-25]
39.unangry [OED; W2]
40.vergry [OED:12/1:123]

Bleh.

--
Jesse Jackson

Brad:
Why thank you, jesse Jackson.. and .. oh my. I like that list. That's so .. old english and stuff.

- Googleshng

Brad:
Heh.. man.. well, the next guy is competent.. well, fine.. he was the guy changing the toilet paper at the RPGamer headquarters.
.. but well, someone's got to do the job.

-Temijirim

ps-You're not really leaving so you can invade the world with your arctic monkey's are you? You'll give us fans cushy government jobs with lots of benefits, right?

Brad:
Vandal Hearts ruled. And about the gov jobs.. well, sure. If you don't mind your boss being.. AN ARCTIC MONKEY.

'Tis a sad thing, hearing of your moving on. I actually liked your brand of humor and sarchasm, the likes of which I haven't seen in the Q&A column since Thor was still there. Speaking of Thor, I was wondering...is he coming back? If so, when? Me being a true follower of the Blarg, I don't really want to have to suffer through yet another dry, humorless orangutang(or whoever you put in charge) whilst waiting for Thor's triumphant return.

Although I can't say much more than that, I wish you well wherever you may walk. I seriously hope that your replacement will be as funny, sarchastic, and witty as you or Thor. Adieu, Brad Lohr, Adieu....

-Andrew "Steve! NOOOOOOOOOOO!" Mike

Brad:
I'd have to say that I feel that the person who will be doing the Q&A column on Monday has a sense of humor that matches Thor and my own fairly closely. :) Take it how you will.

Well, not really sure how to say this in a non-sentimental, mushy goo-goo way, but it's been kind of...what's the word.. fun (yes, FUN!) working with you these past 2 months. I'll tell you one thing: I've never worked with someone as... "interesting" as you in my experience. ^_^

Yeah, I know you'll still be hanging around with the crew in the *wee* hours of the morning slaving away at the Hell desk.. (oh, I mean New Media, ahem...) but it won't be quite the same without your terribly CGed pictures, very "interesting" ending quotes, and all around mayhem that you created so cleverly and spoon-fed to an audience of hundreds on a daily basis.

Best o' luck, and I'll remember to call you when I get another "Biology project".

Ehrm...yeah...

Lots of love, (And darn, I know you're taken but how often do you get the opportunity to be a drama queen and use the word "love" in a farewell letter? ...don't answer that..I should know better not to ask in the first place.)

-Veronica

(P.S. - Substitute "interesting" with your favorite profanity. :D )

Brad:
Hey, I get the opportunity to be a drama queen ALL THE T-- .. er.. HEY. Thanks, Veronica. You've done a great job, and I leave these turkeys guys in your hands. Don't thwap them too much, and well, when they ask for naked pictures of you, send them that neat picture I showed you.. you know, the one with the thing. Have a good time in your genetic lab, mutating squirrels into albino pigeons.. 'biology' indeed. And my favorite profanity is "        "Haha, you thought that that was hidden text!