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I always meant to write a better goodbye, let’s give this a shot. Better Nate than lever, no?

It’s hard to believe, but now that I don’t write two or three times a week, I.. I… I kinda miss it.

I know I know… “Impossible!” you say.

“All that work that you guys put in with little readership and no pay! How could that have been satisfying?”

Think of it this way:

Think back to college. That philosophy paper? The one due at 8am tomorrow? You stay up late, writing like a frenzied chimpanzee. (That is to say, somewhat incoherent and generally sloppy, much like your college love life.)

It’s now 5 am. You’ve finished your philosophical masterpiece: What Would Jesus Smoke. Better save that to your flash drive.

Even though your printer is out of color ink, you somehow manage to get the damn thing to spit our your 5 pages of awesome. That wasn’t so hard, it only took two and a half hours. Might as well just go to class at this point.

Your peers trickle in. The professor shows up right on schedule and launches straight into the lecture. He never collects the paper. There was no assignment.

In essence, writing a post for Obscure was much the same. We’d make up some shit and hand it in right before the deadline. Our friends (sometimes) enjoyed what we wrote, but in the end, nobody asked for The Ten Suggestions. Nor did anyone ask us to supplant words in Star Wars quotes with the word, “underpants”. It might have been work at times, and it is possible that we didn’t always put in 100%. Very possible. But the fact is, we did it.

You’re welcome. And thank you, dear readers, for your insidious comments and heckling. You’re a wonderful crowd. We sure had a blast.

<3 The Obscure Inq. Team XOXO

I come to you today with sad news. I’ve decided to move on from Obscure Inq to pursue new goals in my life.

Though I cannot speak for anyone else, I’ve had a blast. Hopefully, all of the countless hours we’ve spent slaving away over a keyboard and scouring the vast and often frightening depths of the internet has done something for you. Whether it made you more educated, cynical, stupified, scarred, or just got you through the day, we consider that a job well done.

So if I could, can I please get one round of applause for everyone on the Obscure team. In order of appearance: Will, Jake, HP, Tom, Tucker, and Tristan. Thank you guys for all your efforts!