u/Agreeable-Lab-372

U/J

“I have been struggling with carpal tunnel syndrome since 2020. And it has been an ongoing problem for me, and I have continued to try to keep up with gaming and everything as best I can while still - especially in the last couple months, having to be something of a passive observer to it - and I am recovering from surgery on my left hand, I still have to get surgery on my right hand. I still can’t play thumb stick-based games, it still hurts too much.

…

That is the one half of this, is that playing video games causes a lot of pain. It’s hard for me to play a lot thumbstick-based games while mouse-based games are still very easy.

But more than that - I’ve been covering video games since… my first writing job when I was 13, I worked for the newspaper…

(…)

I’ll be honest, because of the hand stuff and the way I want to engage with video games… I’m more interested in stuff like preservation and technology…. I would like to engage with video games in a way that brings pleasure to me, and I have not gotten a lot of pleasure out of it for a while now because we do have to work so fast to go through these games.

I’ve always wanted to keep doing the show because I love talking about video games, and I love these jabronis here. But I feel like… I don’t want to sour my relationship to these things completely, and I feel like if you’re the sort of a person that would be a multi-hyphenate interest in terms of your genres, if you have a broad enough palette to enjoy a show like this,then you deserve someone in this seat who has the same appetite and that same area of interest.”

[they are not replacing him, they will rotate out a fourth host]