Brain Needed Space
So we’re taking him somewhere where he can stretch out and postulate on everything going on in our life. You’re welcome to join us at www.dphowell.com.
This is indeed the final post on this blog. Last one out, please turn out the lights…
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Thanks for the good times.
*click*
Peace.
Right on! Heading there now.
Can’t wait to see more!
this is the saddest day of my life… nah just kidding… I knew you wouldn’t be able to stop blogging…
It’s so sad.
*wave*
Hope the site stays for at least a while, just so I can look at some of the stuff I enjoyed so much perhaps one more time.
Thanks for all the joy you brought to us.
Bye
c ya there BRK, I mean Daniel
Sad to see you go.
All the best to you and your family!
Rotseh / Chris
from Germany
BRK hath retired from the hunt.
<3 BRK
Words fail me.
I think it’s worth taking a screenshot of BRK.net upon the final post, showing the achievement Epic being the most recent, and perhaps last, gained.
Because BRK.net has been nothing if not Epic.
Be sure to tip the servers and be nice to the janitor on your way out.
*draws a little bit of supercutesy BRK U Class of 2009 graffiti on the wall, then stalks Daniel over to his new blog*
“And for thee, a hero among heroes, do we follow these rites for you.
Four bells tolled. Four torches were lit. And the memory of the hero was lifted into the cosmos.”
Farewell, BRK. May everything you do be met with as much success as this.
That’s funny!. I have a “brain needed” space too. It’s located midway between my ears.
NIght night all =] It has been fun..
/click
Well, I learned a lot from you BRK, and I’ll train all of my fellow hunters in your honor. Gonna miss reading the updates. Thanks for all the good times. And may you and your family be blessed and happy.
Night, Dan.
Well adios, thanks for all the good times : )
Sure going to miss this blog. Sure brought me from being a true melee huntard to an above average skilled one at least. Glad you are still blogging at the new site. I’ll be reading. Thank you again.
Really going to miss this blog. Lot of fun and info.
Farewell and good luck!
BRK was lots of fun. Thanks for the ride
Make sure there’s a nice time gap if you start the PhD. It’s an even bigger time sink. I’ve been amazed over the last two years that we hit so many milestones at the same time. Even this one. All the best for the future. Will undoubtedly see you around.
I am so glad you’re still going to keep us posted on your new blog ^_^
It’s bookmarked right next to BRK.
I look forward to reading your new stuff about your life.
Thanks Daniel
- Best Wishes
Laurin
I just openend this last topic, when the following song came up on the radio: Michael Bublé – Lost. What a good way to say a final goodbye to my favo hunter.
Farewell BRK and Hya Daniel!
BRK, just using this opportunity to say thatnk you for your blog. It pretty much brought me back into WoW when Wrath hit and although I am not a hunter you’re writing has always brought a smile to my face. I even started blogging about my experiences as a direct effect of reading things here.
I’ve been reading your blog for a while now, and though I never posted a comment I always appreciated your insight and your stories. I do hope you keep this blog up for the younger hunters to browse, and I wish you the best of luck,.
Just make sure you let Hobbes out once in a while to eat someone in PVP.
Thank you BRK!
And still keep coming back every day to make sure there are no new posts…
Till the end of time…
Thank you for all you have done here on BRK. I have been a daily reader here for nearly 2 years and I have learned so much from you. Your insight and dedication to what you do have always kept me coming back for more. Your blog has transformed me from “That pet pulling noob” to one of my guilds main assets in BC. It would be a true tragedy to see such a guiding light in the WOW blogger community dim completely.. Good luck in life and with the new blog Mr. Howell. PLEASE, keep the military stories coming !!! : )
Hope you are able to leave the bigredkitty site up as it is, still a great resource of good information and brilliant stories and humour.
Last post?! I thought you said something about tshirts? what happened?!
All good things must….
Whatever doesn’t kill you…
Gotta roll with the….
Nope. Nothing works. It’s still too sad for words.
I really don’t want to take the plunge and delete BRK from my Firefox bookmark feeds, so Brain Needed Space shall seamlessly take its place.
Adieu, good sir. All the best.
“The roots will heal in time. The sacrifices have been made …. and now that my task here is done, I will take my place amongst the legends of the past.” – Medivh
It seemed like the best quote to mark the end of your blogging here. /salute
Thank you for everything, BRK, thanks A LOT.
*wave*
Mewulf
/click
It’s been a good ride.
Farewell. wish you best
You’ll be back.
Farewell, and thanks for all the fish!
Gosh… I’m like… sick to my stomach reading this…
Thanks again BRK..
Goodbye….
By the way I wanted to say “hi” back to you yesterday when you were online, but I couldn’t type anything. Had to replace my keyboard and when I finally got it fixed you were gone. So HI!
The former night elf was correct……I am not prepared.
Amen /bow
Of course, one last bork by the comment editor……
Elune be with you and all you love, Daniel.
/salute
See you at the new site, Airman Howell.
I’ll miss the wow posts, but even the non-wow posts were always great fun.
Thanks for all the advice and help with my hunter.
/bye
Thanks again for the fun and entertaining good times.
Now I’m off to visit Brian in Space or something, which I’m looking forward to. Brain is always good, and I love Space!
Thank you, BRK, for everything. I think I will RIP my hunter as a tribute to you. Actually, I think I will follow your lead and spend more time with my family. Thank you for the good times WoW, BRK and the hunter community. All good things must come to an end eventually.
has anyone noticed the staff he currently has equipped in the armory?
Bye, BRK! Good luck to you!
/cry
You will be remembered man…I am leet cause of you, I pwn noobs cause I took your advice. I will continue to learn man and maybe one day have a blog of my own…BKS (BOOM KILL SHOT) u just got pwn
Thanks for everything time to pick up where you left off peace
/salute
So long…Bigredkitty…
Your advice helped me go from huntard to virtual ted nugent…
Thanks for all the halp BRK… you will be missed
Enkles
I won’t read your new blog, but good luck with it!
BRK has left the building. Thank-you and goodnight!
we’ll miss this epic blog..goodnight BRK
Good luck with the new blog, I won’t be moving to it.
BRK=Quitter
@ Jaded
Living up to the name I see.
The thing about turning off the lights is that the cockroaches come out to screw things up.
@Jaded
I really, honestly hope that you never get married or have children or buy a house or attain a management position at your job, because if you honestly valued anything important in life over this video game, you would understand why BRK did what he did.
I’m currently letting my WoW sub run out, as well.. Almost like a mass exodus away from the game. I still read all the usual WoW-blogs, though, and since you’ve announced your decision, BRK, to focus on the important things, I’ve still come back here every. single. day. to make sure you weren’t just messing with us. =(
I totally get why you did what you did, and I’ll be bookmarking Brain Needs Space in bigredkitty.net’s place. Thanks for everything. Really. Honestly. Thank you. For everything.
/lights.
Thanks BRK.
May the road be always ‘neath your feet and the wind be at your back.
Thanks for everything.
Man it’s going to be so hard to see this place go.
Every day I came home and check the blog 
Always made my day. I’m going to miss this place
Wow. I just noticed something on my way out…. You last achievment was Epic and your last weapon was Journey’s End… Creepy or planed?
Good night Dan
Anyways I cannot wait to enjoy your new blog
/cry
/click
– Senzir
Well I guess this is it. It’s been a joy to read your posts and while it saddens me to see this last post on BRK.net I cannot help but feel a bit of comfort when I read your new blog. As you said before, we play for the people, and sure people may have come here for just tips on playing Hunter but I know a lot of us also came here for the personality and humor that you put into your posts. So thanks Daniel, I’ll gladly be reading your new blog whenever you make a post.
*looks about*
“hmmm… no one left in here”
*turns off lights*
“goodluck big red kitty”
*shuts door*
I just a little too late to get into the video, so I guess it’s fitting I’m one of the last here after the lights have been turned off. BRK, Daniel, you were an excellent teacher of Huntercraft. I got countless complements during the BC, just applying the basics of trapping and aggro control you taught, and your appearance on my wee-little blog so long ago brightened my day. I hate leaving or losing my favorite teachers.
But as many have noted, I also understand why, my own habits indirectly hurt someone I care about, so I had been throttling back for the past month.
You’re a great man, husband, and father for making this change so decisively as soon as you realized it had to be done.
You will be missed, but it is beyond an excellent reason and I wish you and your family all the happiness in the world.
*slides letter under closed door*
“Last one out, please turn out the lights…”
/Deep Bow
/ Salute
/Thanks!
/smile
/wave
/click
so sad only just started reading this a few weeks ago and now this great blog is closing thank you for the help brk taught me and 2 others how to play hunters properly and for that i thank tou time to add the new blog as well once again thank you and good luck in real life
Please don´t go!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIAnkrPgTvY
From ur brazillian fan, thanks.
This page saves me from having to bookmark all those handy hunter pages! I’ll miss the news and the comedy, but damn this is still a great resource.
I’m sure someone pointed this out before, but just in case, how utterly and inexorably fitting that your last achievement was Epic. There are few to whom the word applies more, first for the way you played WoW and shared it with others, and now, and infinitely more importantly, for how and why you left it.
Godspeed RL hero. Godspeed.
will miss ya BRK / daniel *sniffles*
And thus the era of BRK ends.
/target lights
off
Kestrus and Revelin
Man I go out of town for two weeks and look what you go and do!
Ruining my internets!! D:
BRK, you were one of the hunter community’s biggest proponents
these past few years, and it is a sad, sad day to see you go.
Back in the day we used to send our newbie hunters to watch your
videos to learn how to kite properly. I used to scrutinize your builds,
or reference new players to your blog to help them figure out what
kind of hunter they wanted to be.
Even a diehard survivalist like me knows how great an impact you
made on our little player community.
So this troll hunter wishes you the best in your future journeys,
wherever they may lead you.
Taz’dingo!!
-Juzelle, late as usual
PS: …Even if you were a dirty dwarf ; )
“I really, honestly hope that you never get married or have children or buy a house or attain a management position at your job, because if you honestly valued anything important in life over this video game, you would understand why BRK did what he did.”
If he’s really doing this to spend more time with his family, great. However, I’ve been a critic of his in the past and it’s worth noting that the guy just seems to be milking the “retirement” and starting a new blog. How many posts now have we seen with, “I’m quitting. No, seriously, I am. Just a couple more posts where I talk about me, projects revolving about me, contests in my honor, and Q&A’s about me. Oh Blizzard, please make a Hunter item named after me! No? But Phaedra got her own item! Why not me?”
Meantime, we see mass praise for a guy who admits he neglected his wife and kid in favor of a video game, for a very long time. He clearly enjoys his WalMart version of celebrity in one tiny little corner of the Internet, and he can’t stop talking about himself. Hell, his entire blog was one big celebration of himself, and the new one looks like the same thing.
So I highly doubt we’ve seen the last of him, and it wouldn’t surprise me in the least to see a new post in a couple of weeks, maybe sooner, once the crave for attention returns.
Go ahead and delete my post, BRK, I’m well aware you do not allow criticism of yourself on your blog.
Actually, I’m the one who doesn’t allow criticism on the blog. BRK only deletes comments if they’re inflammatory towards other commenters. He doesn’t delete anything negative about himself. I do. Enjoy your little moment as the only one of tens of thousands who has realized the “truth” about BRK. –TJ
lol whatever man.
I still come to this blog, even just in hope he’ll only be an outsider to wow. BRK, you really were brilliant.
People keep saying “Its so sad” – and it really is. We all had a good friend in you and then you blow it by being worst hubby/dad and we lose a friend.
WoW is not a big part of my life, but I simply loved listening to your podcast. You are an irreverent and funny host. Now that’s gone because you refused to moderate your game time and I am down one joy.
You really need a serious bonking on the head.
Family is kinda important people.
First post but I must say I support your decision 100% weather it’s to play less or even get off wow 100%. I enjoy everything you dedicated to hunters and now it’s time to dedicate to your fam. they need to come 1st and formost.
BOL and I have your other site bookmarked, even if we don’t live with you I think we are all one big fam.
Jerry lvl 74 NE BM (Posing as survivial) Name gloonor Guild Six One Three General
I’m going to really miss this blog. I’ve only been playing WoW for about six months. I’m a Hunter and this blog really helped me out. I’ve learned so much from it. Thank you sooooo much for the great time.
Chris
aka
Kardellron lvl 64 NE Hunter (survival atm) @ Echo Isles
PS I herd Big Red Kitty mentioned in passing by Alex on Digg Nation, so I goggled it. That’s how I found out about you.
Some people earn respect in what they have done and achieved.
You have earned it. your latest achievemeny is indeed Epic BRK.
Bigredkitty, I’ve watched your videos for a while now. the first on I saw was Gorriliadin. Yeah that got me pumped to play a hunter. Then as time went on I did indeed play a hunter and found that everything you did was obvious to me. The hunter class came pretty natural to me and after reading bits and pieces of you other blog, I realized. I’m not a fan of Bidredkitty, so much as I am a fan of the man behind the Dwarf, next to the kitty. Every time I look at my Spirit Beast, or the Final Voyage I just got maybe an hour ago, I’ll think of you, and instead of being filled with sadness I’ll be filled with…well nothing probably. Which is the way it should be. Farewell Bigredkitty, and even thought the lights are out…your always welcome to come back.
BRK nailed it…
WoW is like crack
Actually if you play 10-20 hours a week. or more… how much time are you not doing other things that can benefit you and your family.
Yep, I play wow. Yep, I am going to quit also.
Seriously dont you all realize WoW is a game. A habit forming game…
But I am going to make money from WoW.. Im selling my account.
Not here you’re not. –TJ
this vid is so touching… “/sob”
thx m8
rilla says goodbye too^^
/daniel mode on
Thanks BRK u rock our socks… foshizzle!
Bye BRK, just found out about you about 2 months ago but its been a blast none the less
on your post you said you were taking a break from wow for about 3 months, but i guess thats not the case. your gone for good ):
thanks for the memories
*21 Horde Hunters stand with guns and bows raised*
BRK, the proud races of the Horde salute you…
*each of the Hunters fires a single shot*
You have no idea how hard it was to get them to not pop off a round at you…
Be well, Mighty Hunter, and thanks for it all.
Well well welll… I’m married with a cute child (2 years old) and still LOVE… LOVE Wow. I just do not spend all my free time on it. I’m more a casual than a harcrore player and I still enjoy the game, maybe much more than those who spend a life theorycrafting and forgetting about real-life stuff.
We all know that BRK will *hardly* forget Wow forever. He’ll do what he can to enjoy his son and his wife but he was too addicted, really too much (the game, the blog, the podcasts, the columns on other websites, the toys, the t-shirts, …).
Patch 3.1 is hitting the live servers today. I can feel the pain in BRK’s head. I can really feel how much he would love to be with us…
Me and my BigRedKitty spirit beast will miss you, you may be a member of the alliance, but you are as great as the mighty Grom Hellscream him self.
Aka’Magosh BRK, may the Lok’vadnod be sung in your honor you my friend.
Side note: closing BigRedKitty.net and “redirecting” people on another blog (still owned/updated by BRK) makes everything look like “ok I’ll try to keep closer to my family but not without blogging as soon as I can…).
Can’t you just focus on WoW from time to time and have fun with it, without having to update blogs, columns, sell t-shirts, sell toys, making theorycrafting and more? You would save a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT of time for both WoW (a game you love) and your family.
The solution to problem/s is not hiding away: face it and moderate yourself, still having pleasure with Wow. No need to force yourself throwing away a passion. Just cut the excesses and keep playing (when you can).
I think WoW offers a ***LOT*** of fun when played just occasionally. It makes small updates/patches awesome and fun. It kills the “boring” factor. It makes daily quests fun. In 3.1 we’ll get new stuff that you could easily explore and play from time to time… no need to “dedicate” to the game like you did before.
Thanks for allowing us access to your own blog!
I was looking thru PVP screens the other day, and smiled when I found one of me standing next to you while I was healing AV.
Definitely gonna keep that screen.
Good luck, I’ll miss ya BRK.
I guess I’ll off the lights… GG
god… err…. elune bless
/click
iam a fan of Brk and i havent visited his website for a while can some one kindly xplane why he left his website again ? ill try to read and cach up
3.1 !!!!!!!! /Pulls hair out.
Does it itch yet Dan?
3.1 ! ALL HELL HAS BROKEN LOOSE !
We need you Danny Boy!
Oh Danny boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side
The summer’s gone, and all the flowers are dying
‘Tis you, ’tis you must go and I must bide.
But come ye back when summer’s in the meadow
Or when the valley’s hushed and white with snow
‘Tis I’ll be here in sunshine or in shadow
Oh Danny boy, oh Danny boy, I love you so.
And if you come, when all the flowers are dying
And I am dead, as dead I well may be
You’ll come and find the place where I am lying
And kneel and say an “Ave” there for me.
And I shall hear, tho’ soft you tread above me
And all my dreams will warm and sweeter be
If you’ll not fail to tell me that you love me
I’ll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.
I’ll simply sleep in peace until you come to me.
ty for everything you ever shared with us
i learned so much from you about hunters
GL mate!
Best of luck with your family. I think it’s more than fitting that the last achievement earned during your playtime was “Epic”… just like all things BRK.
*Walks in turns on Lite *FLICK* – Mumbles under his breath Who Turned off these damn lights and Yells!* HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I may not know you personely but as a Dwarf it feels as though I did. 
Stay Safe. and God Bless 
oh please dont tell me they moved??? I dont understand why they would move. When all of the work that has been put into this place has created an atmosphere of rest relaxation and hope. What will we do now? First BRK leaves us.. and now Our home is being torn down.. Oh The Horror… the insanity…. will there be no end to our tiereny.. *Mitzcholf* *Drops to his Short chubby lil Knees* and Sobs like a Gnome who lost his wrench, Cries like a mage who lost there Mojo, Tantrums like a pally without a Mace, throws Stuff like a Warrior on ROIDS, Pockets the salt and Pepper Shakers like a Rogue, Scrambles to gain composure like a Lock who lost his Minion. *SIGHS* and turns with head slumped down and walks towards the Door *Snif Snif* Looks Back one last time. Turns off the Light *ccccclllicckkkk* Thank You BRK You are
one of a Kind, We will always be here waiting for you to visit and say hello
Mitzcholf of Exodar
These light will never go off…
Female troll hunter Atra and her grey armored boar Nagra from Stormreaver EU wants to hug and and kiss and salute the grrrreat BRK! May your eyes be sharp and aim true.
We love you mon!