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Goodbye Urealms and Thank You Rob
First of all, Rob, thank you. Thank you for the memories that have helped define my childhood. When this show started I was only 13 now earlier this month I turned 18. This show helped shape me into who I am now as an adult. Rob thank you for giving me something to care about and cherish these 5 years. I will always remember these campaigns as the highlights of my childhood and I thank you for that. I spent a lot of time in the hospital recently and your streams have always helped me forget that and enjoy life a little more. Thank you for ending this now before you lost love for it. I'm not sad because it's over. I'm happy that it happened.
Goodbye Thea Mazing, the embodiment of Justin's silence before his punchlines.
Goodbye Kalark, the first character who truly made me burst out in laughter.
Thank you for giving me these memories Rob. They are something I will always cherish.
Goodbye Thea Mazing, the embodiment of Justin's silence before his punchlines.
Goodbye Kalark, the first character who truly made me burst out in laughter.
Thank you for giving me these memories Rob. They are something I will always cherish.
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Rawb is an amazing person, and I love everything he has done, he's doing what he needs to. And he will likely come back, if only for a few streams far down the line as a memory for the good old days!
If anyone wants to contact me, I'm on discord. Screw my PMs, here Rayna#0005
Feel free to talk to me if you want, but Rob is really tugging on our heartstrings, I'm going to follow him wherever he leads us, trusting him. Because it's the right thing to do.
Feel free to send friend requests.
Thank you so very very much, and best of luck to everyone here in their future endeavors.
Thank you Robert Moran!
I am in shock. I'm confused, upset, stunned, and glad. I did not expect this type of announcement at all and I'm still wrapping my head around what it really means for the future. I have been a fan for such a long time, following you from project to project over the years. Ironically I was having a conversation today with a friend about how celebrities are portrayed in the media and how when they quit/retire/die/or disappear from the spotlight their fans overreact about a person they've never met. You were one of the only "celebrities" or content creators I have ever gave a damn about and you had me in tears like a fool. I don't play video games nor do I roleplay, but I've invested so much ~empathy~ into you; especially Urealms.
I'm glad you're doing something that you believe gives you fulfilment but god does this hurt as a viewer. I'm so proud of how far you've come as a creator and a human. I've grown up with you throughout these years and it's very clear that you've been doing some growing as well. I really want to be optimistic and I hope you made the right decision for yourself. You helped build so much of my own character and it's only fair that we allow you to continue growing in this new path you've paved.
I'm going to miss a lot. I really wanted to know how everything ultimately settled in Urealms. I always envisioned myself growing old and still watching as that world evolved and storylines never tired. But I guess they were tiring and it's only reasonable to put it to rest.
Thank you so much!
You say you were a bad person but as someone who has come into your community relatively recently, I find it really hard to believe. I was introduced to URealms Live a few years again right around when season two ended by someone who was a friend of mine at the time. Your show got me through a lot. I pretty much need background noise whenever I do literally anything because my mind has a habit of racing out of control really quickly when I don't have something to drown it out with. So the over a week backlog of URealms season was perfect. It got me through endless hours of studying, quite a few dark souls bosses, and some rough nights were I really needed a good laugh and a way to forget my day. Your takes on empathy and masculinity have driven a lot my own character arc the past couple of years and I've tried to model myself off of how much of a wonderful and caring person you are. Today you maxed out your empathy stat and won the game. I am and always will be genuinely really sad to see URealms go, and I'm sure there are a few times I'm gonna wake up and forget that it happened before remembering later that day. But no matter what I will always support you and what you do Rob. You are not only my favorite streamer and content creator, but the nicest one I know. Thank you, for everything.
Although I cannot fully understand the amount of pressure, stress, work and emotions you have put into URealms, I can empathize with your choice. You deserve a break as well as the choice to do whatever you want. Please take care of yourself, you magnificent internet bard. I hope you find great success and fulfillment.
This might actually be a goodbye as I have only really watched your URealms content since you started streaming again. It is quite difficult trying to catch your stream due to time zones constraints so I don't know much about your other projects. But I will always support you, whether it was URealms or your next endeavor.
It hurts considering how much I've loved this show. I've watched this show through many times in my life. Through both love and loss and moving houses and all sorts of things. It gave me plenty of laughs. It gave me plenty of feels. It gave me plenty moments of awesomeness as those dice just line up perfectly and the animations that kick ass come in.
It's been a great ride ever since that fateful drunk new years campaign. I still vividly remember Roamins Band of Thieves and the technical difficulties and the silly first encounter. I still remember the village getting destroyed in woodcarvers. The building a god stream where I finally became part of the order of chaos. The huge endings of all the seasons (and finally getting that gold in the credits of season 3). Heck even dumb stuff like the mimic house in Deadrealms which was an awesome concept.
Thank you so much for creating this show. Really. Urealms was by far my favourite project you've ever worked on and quite possibly ever will work on. I've never been much of a person to watch regular twitch streams although I have caught the occasional stream outside of Urealms. Even the Pokemon stuff that I loved I didn't manage to catch most of the time. Times rarely line up as much when you're European. We'll see though.
I'll always keep my eye on what you're up to at least. It's been a good 6 years so far (feels so much longer) and I might seem like just a small sometimes quiet and unimportant part of the community, but I hope 6 years from now I'm still invested in whatever cool new projects you're doing then.
Maybe this doesn't seem as cohesive as I'd like. I'd rewrite this but then I kinda want to just post the stuff as it comes in my mind. Whatever you do, please do look after yourself. Keep being your awesome but still human self. If you do end up reading this, I hope it leaves you more positive than negative in the end.
Urealms was always a blast to look forward to, though I have noticed the writing on the wall for a while. I will keep this brief.
Rob saved me a while back, a bout 13 years ago, when I was in Middle school. Tough times being bullied, and hiding in the library during lunch hours. Only myself and the original Unforgotten Realms Cartoon. It got me into Table Top games and inspired me to seek out others who also had fun with such games. I now run and play D&D and even some Urealms games close to a couple times a week these days, and I feel I wouldn't really be here to do it if it wasn't for Robs uplifting comedy pulling me up from a very dark place in my life.
From Unforgotten Realms, to the GRR Show, 2 Player with Roamin, to the Funny Minecraft and Warcraft videos. Then he vanished one day from my radar, the Unforgotten Realms Site died and video files either corrupted or faded in some cases. I still revisited on occasion and kept an eye out till I rediscovered him with Lords of Minecraft, and Urealms Live.
Now once again he drifts off, but I am better for it now.
Thank you Rob and the rest of your crew for the entertainment and uplifting experience you have given myself and others. I look forward to seeing what is next.
Till we cross paths again.
I've followed Rawb ever since my friend in high school showed me the original Newgrounds animations and have followed most everything since. I remember coming home each day from school and going to the website he had and watching the newest 2Player first thing. Watching each new episode on the Escapist and talking about i with my friends at the lunch table. Going into college and discovering the Buffalo Wizards through LoM. The Christmas streams! I'm not close to my family. I'm the outcast internet dweller. Those streams were so helpful the last few years. Then finally the big project, Urealms Live. Something so creative and unique. My favorite fantasy world and characters. You've made so much good shit beyond all this and I know you'll continue that moving forward.
I won't pretend it doesn't suck in some way. I really hope years from now he finds that passion again to continue Urealms, but I've been fan most of my life. I'm not going anywhere and I know Rawb will always deliver something entertaining.
Rawb you are a huge influence on me and I hope you find new passion and excitement with your new projects. If the itch to ever return to Urealms comes back, 2, 5, 10 years or more from now. I and many other fans will be here to support you fully.
Thank you for everything you've done. I'm excited for whatever you have planned next.
*Plays Guts theme on repeat*
I was hooked. This was the first time I had seen something like this (never got into learning what DnD was) and I laughed and laughed until my chest felt sore. And this continued as time went on. I would look daily for news about new Urealms or about more campaigns coming up. At first I never could catch them live so I was always watching the two videos that came out daily just dying for the next day to come already with it's new uploads. And looking back on it now, I realize I have so many memories about Urealms. I remember the first official campaign, I remember how special the Sunswords campagin in season 1 felt, I remember finally catching my first live show with the beginning of season 2 (The Woodcarvers), I remember watching the weird Lore streams where they talked about bee people (pfft like skygyptians would ever be a good idea), I remember faking sick so I could watch the climax of The Buckeroos as soon as the videos were uploaded (The Law FTW), I remember rewatching the animation of Bopen appearing for the first time in the Fall of Dundinborough countless times, I remember how hype I was to see the huge returning cast in Den of Devils, I remember watching almost every campaign live in season 3 (the 8 hour+ sessions of sitting in a hot room laughing continuously), I remember crying at the end of season 3 when Gwenyth became the grand paladin, and so much more. I laughed, I cried, I cheered, and I loved.
I am now in my second year of college after spending over four years growing up alongside this world and its characters. I've always been very lonely and I've never been able to make any friends I can be myself around, but I will always cherish the shared connection we had as fans of Urealms. It makes me extremely sad to see the show go. But I've always had a silly little theory about characters in fictional worlds. Characters can't die, or at least, they never stop existing. As long as someone remembers them; imagines them in a new story, a new place, or a new world they still live. So as long as someone remembers all of these characters and this world, they won't die. They might be going to sleep right now, but someday someone will remember them and they will make a new story with them, and so they will be living once more. I had so many ideas for these characters and this world and I know there are so many people who have probably even more ideas than me, and I'm willing to bet some of those people will end up creating those ideas. So even though the show is ending, I don't feel like the world is over, just going to sleep.
Sorry I've talked for so long, and I know I was never really active in the community, but I just had to share this. If you read this whole thing send me a message for a virtual high-five because you deserve it. I hope you guys are doing just swell and I hope you have a great time, where ever you are. I can't wait to see the great times in our future and I won't ever forget the great times in our past.
- Aesrien
I have to say, you are a special man. I'm not sure what to say more then thank you for leveling my empathy and being part of my Childhood.
You other people can find me on the web as Darnokthemage.
and thank you for all of it all the fun the laughs and entertainment
I fucking cried watching the stream because even though it was a video of mostly Rob's redemption arc it felt a lot like watching my own growth as well.
When I heard the news I was immediately devastated, I didn't see it coming, it felt like this silly little dream world was gonna last forever. I'm still holding back tears even as I type this, which I know seems ridiculous, but getting attached to silly things is a human thing. This show meant a lot to me, as I know it meant a lot to everyone else, but a 'Hello' has to be followed by a 'Goodbye' eventually, and it was wonderful while it lasted, but it's not like Rob is going away! Every great thing he does is a stepping stone for the next fantastic idea. So while I'm holding back tears now, I'm definitely waving goodbye with a smile on my face, and knowing that I'm going to be holding back tears of laughter at whatever may come next.
These Realms with not be forgotten.
URealms is an amazing show and an amazing idea, and I'm sad that it's ending (at least for now). However above all, the health of the person that made something should be the number one priority, even if it means stepping back and taking a break from something that you (or others) enjoy.
I'm a fan for life, Rawb. Keep doing what your passionate about
I'm really going to miss this show. More than DvZ, more than Game of Thrones, more than any of the other things I've loved this year that have ended. At a time in my life of incredible change, this is just another one.
I have been a fan of Rob's for many, many years, and I did look at him as a role model for a long long time. Someone who's creative, passionate, and just seemed like a pretty chill guy. Through discovering about him/DvZ with mindcrack, to the first streams of URealms. URealms is where I'd say I was cemented as a life long fan though. I just loved it. Everything about it. The humor, the people, the community, the game, and by far the story. It is the last two aspects I want to focus on.
URealms, through the tabletop mod and me roping in my friends to play it with me in late middle school and early high school, was my first tabletop RPG experience and my first experience in trying to GM. I ran about 10 campaigns total before finding a full group of friends became too hard for me to do to play in in high school, and those games are one of my favorite things I did throughout my childhood. And even though non of my friends ever got into URealms like I did, they've still told me of just how much they enjoyed those games. Overall this just shows how URealms was an important part of how I grew up.
But more importantly, I love the story of URealms. The 10% serious, how everything connects in this massive, complex web of storylines. The meta elements of the story. It's all just so intriguing, so enthralling, and so... connecting. I've cried quite a lot to various scenes throughout URealms. Gwyneth getting stabbed, the end of Silvermine, the end of Woodcarvers, Quintara's rage/revenge on Ghostblade, and of course the end of Lightbeards. There are some storylines that are so personal to me that I have had slight epiphanies about my own life through them. Through reflecting on some of the things that have happened in the overall URealms canon, I have become a better and better person I think. And that makes it really special to me.
Even going into college this year I always thought that I would be sitting down on every last saturday of the month to watch these campaigns. And now that that isn't part of my subconscious scheduling any more, it's a bit... strange. A bit empty. But, ultimately, I think this is a good thing, most importantly for Rob, but also for me.
My girlfriend always tells me, whenever I'm feeling really, really down and purposeless, that I'm still on my "quest of self discovery," trying to find my passion, what I want to do, and that its okay to not know as long as you practice what you like and explore it in ways that interest you. She reassures me that I'll find myself when I can't see that light. And I can't help but relating that saying to how Rob seems to have come to at least, the beginning of the end of his journey. He really seems to have found what will make him happy, and what he can do to make other people happy. And that's amazing.
It makes me to glad to see someone who I've looked at as a role model make a decision like this to get closer to discovering themselves. It's great, it's inspiring, especially now that I'm much more on my own. And I couldn't have asked more from my favorite creator. Thank you Rob for showing me, as someone still in the beginning of this journey of self discovery, the best and most positive way to get there. And although I'll miss URealms and silently hope for it's return, I'll always have what it gave to me as a show and whatever else Rob chooses to make next. Thank you Rob.
Now I just hope to finish my tribute drawing in reasonable time frame but I'm probably not gonna be able to do that haha