Control by Remedy

GWJ Conference Call Episode 673

World of Warcraft Classic, Children of Morta, Control, GWJ Donation Drive 2019, Shawn: Fond Memories and Safe Travels, your emails and more!

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This week we have a full house with Shawn, Elysium, Amanda, Allen, Cory, and Michael as we share our own fond memories and wish safe travels to Shawn!

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00:05:43 GWJ Donation Drive
00:10:15 World of Warcraft Classic
00:18:15 Control
00:39:03 Children of Morta
00:45:53 Telling Lies
00:54:38 Shawn: Fond Memories and Safe Travels

I’d recommend watching the archived Twitch stream of this episode if you can. It’s a thing of beauty.

Safe travels Shawn. I’ll look forward to hearing about your adventures upon your return.

Just watch the Twitch stream. Its great. I'm laughing and crying. Safe travels Shawn!

I’m crying at my desk at work after that one, luckily I don’t have any meetings for another 23 minutes so no one will think I’ve lost it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Shawn, and enjoy your adventure.

I gotta admit, the line that had me choked up the most was "I picked you."

...what, you thought I was only going to join in on all the *Legion* sh*tposting?

Rat Boy wrote:

...what, you thought I was only going to join in on all the *Legion* sh*tposting?

Who?

I remember wondering if the podcast could really get that lucky just randomly pulling Amoebic. It was the right call.

Best wishes and safe travels, Shawn.

I try my best to express it whenever navel gazing opportunities like this arise, but I am so, so grateful for the thing you guys have built and maintained here. It’s been my home on the internet ever since I stumbled on GWJ Radio in the earliest of iTunes podcast directories, it provided an essential place of community for both myself and Schmoona at a time in our lives where we really, really needed it (and even though she doesn’t frequent the site anymore, it still has great value to her, and she’s always excited to hear about your wild adventures), and it remains a wonderful, shining example of all the ways the internet can be good for us even in an age that feels increasingly more bound and determined to promote the ways in which it can be terrible.

So thanks again, and I’m excited to hear all about your next great adventure sometime soon.

I just wanna say that it was utterly impossible for me to listen to this episode for more than 5 minutes at a time. Had to stop. Take a heavy breath and then continue. It's been emotional. Your voice will be missed!

I'm mostly a lurker but this podcast has been part of my weekly routine for at least 12 years and Shawn's voice and guiding hand has made it a absolute pleasure. Good luck in your future endeavors, Shawn it won't be the same without you, but I will definitely continue to listen because everyone else is awesome in their own right.

Rat Boy wrote:

I gotta admit, the line that had me choked up the most was "I picked you."

You're not the only one. That had me tearing up as well.

Thank you Shawn and Sean. You created a place where those of us who often have few things in common with those around us have found our family, our clan, our people. You have created a place where we can be ourselves, and can be treated with dignity and accepted for who we are.

Thank you, and may your journeys always provide you with a moment to reflect on who you are and who you want to be.

As part of the Dome Crew it was amazing to have a small part of in this, and be able to share a few words of thanks to Shawn from the perspective of a podcast listener and forum member

Emotions were definitely running strong as a dozen of us all huddled in the basement during most of the recording watching the live stream together

A short story about how I went from watering petunias at 8 am in Western Canada to #domecrew fulfilling a bucket-list item:

Episode 302 - July 25, 2012

  • I downloaded my first ever podcast to pass the time at the boring garden center job after nearly failing my first year of University
  • Favourite line from the podcast: "Today's show is brought to you by Ravenwood Castle located in Ohio. This is your chance to sleep in a castle without having to fly across the ocean to Scotland"

Episode 459 - Jul 28, 2015

Episode 673 - September 4, 2019

I'll let the wise and beautiful words of Shawn and Amanda take us out. I know "The Heart" is in the very best of hands <3

"[I] do service and do things for my friends, help them in any I can [...] it is my love language" - Shawn

"All I've ever wanted to do is give amazing voice a platform to do what they're best at" - Shawn

"Step back and watch them be amazing" - Shawn

"Our own little tavern at the end of the universe" - Amanda

"The Heart: We build it together, it beats so long as we keep showing up" - Shawn/Amanda

The door is always open when you're lost, the food always hot when you're hungry, a bed ready when you're weary, and the light, we'll all keep it burning bright.

Shawn's effortless words of wisdom and love

I looked for a good point to clip the audio, but Shawn's words deserved all the space he gave them, I look forward to adding his wise words to my morning reflections

I created an account here on GWJ today after listening to this podcast for many years, and after listening to this episode. The GWJ community is such a beautiful and precious thing, and I am so thankful to Shawn, Amanda, and every single person who has helped this podcast be the absolutely amazing thing that it is. I will try my best to contribute to the forums, and help contribute to and continue this welcoming, loving space that Shawn started. Really moved.

"May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
Until we meet again. "

Shawn thanks for the calls! & safe travels.

Good luck, not goodbye.

I’ve just been catching up. Where is Shawn going and for how long?

b_scott wrote:

I’ve just been catching up. Where is Shawn going and for how long?

Nepal for a month or two to help the isolated communities there with health-related issues, then a monastery in New Mexico for a number of months. (6 I want to say, but don’t quote me on that. )

mudbunny wrote:
b_scott wrote:

I’ve just been catching up. Where is Shawn going and for how long?

Nepal for a month or two to help the isolated communities there with health-related issues, then a monastery in New Mexico for a number of months. (6 I want to say, but don’t quote me on that. )

Thanks! A monastery like he wants to be a monk? A gamer? Who lives for electronics?

b_scott wrote:
mudbunny wrote:
b_scott wrote:

I’ve just been catching up. Where is Shawn going and for how long?

Nepal for a month or two to help the isolated communities there with health-related issues, then a monastery in New Mexico for a number of months. (6 I want to say, but don’t quote me on that. )

Thanks! A monastery like he wants to be a monk? A gamer? Who lives for electronics?

Buddhist monk, ya.

The only game they'll let him play while there is Zen Pinball.

Godspeed, Shawn. Gonna be quite the year for you, especially as you're now fully committing to your NFL career. Go Eagles!

Seventeen years, eh? You raised a child. That's nuts.

Definitely not a true goodbye, you'll never be able to leave this place entirely, so I'll just put it this way:

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staygold wrote:

Favourite Audio Clip: "The Luck is on our end"

So perfect now that we know the truth!

Keeping in line with the theme of this episode I'd love to engage more with the community on a real life basis - especially on the board game front - but I'm from Berlin Germany and I guess that chapter isn't particularly strong compared to state side. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

garion333 wrote:
staygold wrote:

Favourite Audio Clip: "The Luck is on our end"

So perfect now that we know the truth!

Sometimes you make your own luck

groovebeat wrote:

Keeping in line with the theme of this episode I'd love to engage more with the community on a real life basis - especially on the board game front - but I'm from Berlin Germany and I guess that chapter isn't particularly strong compared to state side. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

D&D and other RPG groups do a lot of their work online. Time differences may make things tricky for connecting with North America but there are European folks out there too.

Skraut wrote:

As part of the Dome Crew it was amazing to have a small part of in this, and be able to share a few words of thanks to Shawn from the perspective of a podcast listener and forum member

Emotions were definitely running strong as a dozen of us all huddled in the basement during most of the recording watching the live stream together

Same here. Thanks for writing it for me, Skraut!

garion333 wrote:
groovebeat wrote:

Keeping in line with the theme of this episode I'd love to engage more with the community on a real life basis - especially on the board game front - but I'm from Berlin Germany and I guess that chapter isn't particularly strong compared to state side. I'd love to be proven wrong though.

D&D and other RPG groups do a lot of their work online. Time differences may make things tricky for connecting with North America but there are European folks out there too.

Good call. I might have to look into this. Was thinking about something more direct and personal but that also sounds like a good option.

b_scott wrote:
mudbunny wrote:
b_scott wrote:

I’ve just been catching up. Where is Shawn going and for how long?

Nepal for a month or two to help the isolated communities there with health-related issues, then a monastery in New Mexico for a number of months. (6 I want to say, but don’t quote me on that. )

Thanks! A monastery like he wants to be a monk? A gamer? Who lives for electronics?

An electric monk?

It's gonna be really weird not hearing you on the podcast for a while, but even if you fall off a mountain in Nepal (you better not!), your legacy is secure, Shawn.

You have done more in the first half of your life than most people do in the whole thing.