I wouldn't ever have this place shut down. I may no longer be any kind of "Pokemon fanatic", but the people I've met here have impacted my life one way or another over my nigh ten year tenure. There are absolutely countless memories involving sheep, fans (as in the object that moves air), n00bs, randoms, Elitists, muffinmen, silly online drama, marriages, etc that I would personally like to see preserved until the end of time. A lot of those memories are preserved here, in the archives, as I no longer have the computer that the majority of the quotes and such were saved on. I think that if there was a prospect of TPM shutting down, I would attempt to take over Kevin's role. Though I'm sure someone could do it much better than I, if I was the only one volunteering to do so, or only the first, I would happily take on the responsibility.

TPM is a milestone for the internet, whether anyone actually realises it. I would venture to speculate that it is in the top ten of longest-existing forums in the history of the internet. No reason to shut it down now.

However, if for some reason TPM was shut down, I would go on living as I have since my less-than-permanent departure from the sanctity of these forums. I would survive, keeping in touch with some of the members, past and present, that I still talk to occasionally.