Hitman

**Jesse Munoz** (0:15)
Welcome to Two Sixteen A Link to the Past Randomizer Podcast. I am your host, your agent. Been a while, but back with another episode. Today, I've got on the show Hitman. Had a really, really great conversation with Hitman. He's not someone I've had a lot of conversations with, but someone I've raced a lot in the past, and I thought this would be a great opportunity to get to know him a little bit. And I've always loved his Discord profile icon, which is Brett the Hitman Heart, as the Simpsons character. So yeah, it was really cool to get to know Hitman a little bit more. We've raced quite a bit back when I was racing, and yeah, someone I just didn't know. And I bet there's a lot of you that don't know Hitman very well, so this will be your opportunity to get to know who he is. Great person, and yeah, I think you'll enjoy the conversation. All right, let's go over, but I want to do it quick. So I have this episode and two more episodes that I have recorded. The next episode I have will be with a Dapper Worm Man. I got to talk to him and that was really great. And then I finally got GFE to come on the show. And so I'll release that afterwards. And I don't want to make any declarations.
I don't want to say it's the end of the show because I've already ended the show once and brought it back. So I don't want to make any grand proclamations, but it's the last planned episode that I have. So with where I'm at in this community as far as racing and playing and being a part of the community and kind of where I'm at with podcasting, it honestly feels like my passion and my fire have kind of gone away. And it's hard to do something that you are investing a lot of time in and effort and then you don't have a passion for it anymore. It's just hard to keep it going. So I'm not saying the show is over. I'm not saying that there won't be any more shows after the GFE episode. There's just nothing in the works and nothing planned. And I'll expand. It has more to do with just rando. I just it's more of kind of where I'm at in life. I'm a very passionate person. I get really fired up and really into the things that I'm passionate about. Sometimes to a detriment. I feel like a lot of who I was in my late thirties even. As I was a part of this community, it really involved, you know, creating the league and on the council and part of the Tarkadmins. I feel like I was very passionate to a fault. And I would let that passion boil over. And when you feel things and you feel them a lot, it can be overwhelming. And so then you take, it's hard to take criticism and it's hard to see things outside of your purview. And I feel like it's something that I've, in my personal life, I've worked on at getting better at. And this are less passionate, but less intense about the passion. Because of that, because of the change in who I am, I'm not as into racing as I used to be. And when I do race, I've really enjoyed co-op. I really enjoy playing this game with other people. It's the one thing that I do enjoy. Every time I try to race solo, it ends really poorly. And I get really frustrated, and it's just not something that I really enjoy. As much as I try, I want to like this game, I want to race it solo and enjoy it, but I just can't get back to that spot, no matter how hard I try. And because I'm not racing, I'm not really plugged in. You know, I'll do commentary here and there when someone asks me, especially like ClearMouse or Tracy, but I'm not really plugged in. Like, the main tournament happened, my opinions, I feel like I've made my opinions pretty well known that I'm not a fan of the direction that this admin team has gone with the main tournament. I feel like trying to mitigate the loss of community members and people playing this game has just not been done. I feel like they've gone the other direction. And I think it's showing up in those numbers. Like, the fact that they weren't able to field 128 renters this year is honestly pretty disappointing. Having said all that, who cares what I think? I've not played this game. And I feel like me even like having an opinion is worthless. Like, it doesn't matter what I think. I'm not a part of the decision making. I'm not racing. I'm not really watching races or following along with what's going on. I think we're like a few weeks into the tournament and I couldn't tell you what anyone's records are. I feel like in the past, I have been more passionate about it even as I wasn't racing, but I'm just not there. So there's that aspect of it. It's a lack of passion for the game and especially the racing of it. You might say, well, don't race it. Just play it for fun. I just have never been able to get there. I know multi-world was really popular with a lot of people, but that part of the game just doesn't interest me. It just never has. And so there's that.