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Unfortunately the damage it did was devastating. I was a teen in the 90's and this shit is the reason I'm just now delving into D&D for the first time in my life.
Just in time for Halloween: the animated Dark Dungeons
If you're of a certain age, you may remember the infamous Jack Chick tract Dark Dungeons. For those of you who don't, here's the tl;dr from the Escapist: Dark Dungeons is possibly the most widely distributed piece of anti-game propaganda in the history of gaming. It was first produced by Chick ...
Do you think you might have time to make the podcast about how you and the lovely Mrs. Wheaton met sometime this year? You've been promising it for ages. :D
good evening (and good night)
"I want to have a date tonight. Do you want to have a date tonight?" Maybe I should have passed her a note that said "check yes or no" but after fifteen years together, I often think of these cute and clever things hours after the fact. Anne looked up from her magazine. "I like having dates with...
Why do I have the vision of Wil laying in the middle of his office floor making dice angels, laughing hysterically, while Anne, with hammer and nail, is busy boarding up the door?
Testing the theory that one can not have too many dice
Just before I went out to GenCon in August, I wrote: I have one request, which I hope isn't unreasonable: I'd like to test the theory that you can't have too many dice. If I see you at GenCon, would you give me one gaming die? I'll bring home as many as I get, dump them all on my office floor, ...
That damn grey space suit always looked like it was on backwards.
Wesley Crusher's Sweet-Ass Motherfucking Bouffant
When I was a teenager pretending to fly a spaceship, I got to do a lot of really cool things with a lot of really cool people. The price of admission to this wonderful world, though, was the most annoying hairdo I've ever experienced in my life. I called it Wesley's Helmet Hair, because it did n...
Firstly, don't scare us like that, I got this news from reddit first and the link there didn't give us the relief of your final sentence, I was almost in tears, man.
Second, LOVE THAT HAT!!!
Do you know when you the w00t will be in Portland again? I'm planning a trip out that way and it would be the highlight of my year to see you marvelous geeks.
In which I am a HPOA
I'm working very long hours on Eureka, so I don't have a lot of time or energy to post more than silly things on Twitter, but I did this over the weekend, and I wanted to share: The w00tstock organization wishes to post the following photo correspondence from “Wil”—which is most certainly not a ...
I picked up the Fragile Things audiobook after you said how much you'd liked it on Twitter, it was amazing, as are all his books.
I love Neil's books, but his audiobooks are simply wonderful. He has a fantastic voice for storytelling.
A Little Summer Reading
Yesterday on Twitter, I joked: "Trying to read a book about Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle, but whenever I look for it, it moves."The book I was talking about it called Uncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science It's wonderful, and I highly recommend...
I'm starting to think the D20 you roll for "Awesome" just might be loaded.
never forget your roots
While walking through Comicon three or four years ago, I stopped to look at one of those booths that's filled with a hundred different T-shirts. Somewhere among the various superhero crests and clever nerd phrases and obscure sci-fi homages, I saw a fairly simple design: an Atari joystick, sitti...
Wil, I've been going through a really rough time over the last year or so, but since finding your books/blog/podcast I don't feel so bad, and I'm confident things will get better. Reading through your archive really inspires me, so much so that I've started writing again after more than a decade. Thanks for sharing your life with us.
*manly bro-hug*
From the Vault: unpublished and unfinished scene from a grocery store
I'm working on repairing and restoring WWdN (don't get too excited or update your bookmarks just yet, my blog will live here no matter what), and while I was cleaning up duplicate blog entries, I came across several unpublished drafts of posts that I decided were too personal to publish, too unf...
I've always thought "No, but I am sleeping with his wife!" would be a brilliant response.
From the Vault: unpublished and unfinished scene from a grocery store
I'm working on repairing and restoring WWdN (don't get too excited or update your bookmarks just yet, my blog will live here no matter what), and while I was cleaning up duplicate blog entries, I came across several unpublished drafts of posts that I decided were too personal to publish, too unf...
D*Con is the same weekend as PAX Prime, I think it'll be really difficult to drag Wil away from it. :(
Sunday at the 2010 Phoenix Comicon - Super Happy Funtimes, Eureka, Meeting Stan Lee
This is the last of three posts about the 2010 #PHXCC. If you're looking for the other two posts ... you know, I'm not going to link them for you, because I think that would insult your intelligence. You know how to find them. Sunday: I woke up Sunday feeling like Monty Python lied when they sai...
Aww, now don't Fawkes and Codex make just a darling couple.
in which another secret is revealed...
Spoiler alert: If this interests you, you really want to listen to Radio Free Burrito Episode 28.
I'm really starting to hate that I moved from Oregon to Florida. There's just so much cool geek stuff on the west coast.
w00tstock 2.x is this weekend
Okay, how awesome is that poster? Rich Stevens designed it for us. A T-shirt version will be available at all the 2.x shows, until we sell out of them. So it turns out that w00tstock 2.x kicks off tomorrow with 2.0 in Seattle, and 2.1 on Saturday in Portland. I've been so busy with so many...
The final exchange with Sheldon had me seeing a bit of Floyd Hansen in Evil Wil Wheaton. Do you ever worry that some people might confuse geek idol, family man, and generally nice guy Wil, with Sociopathic, Arch-Nemesis, relationship ruining to win at bowling Evil Wil?
P.S. Nice bowling form BTW.
The Wheaton Recurrence
It's Sunday afternoon as I write this. I can't publish this manually, because if I've read my call sheet correctly, I'm currently playing Dr. Isaac Parrish on Eureka. If we're on schedule, I'm working in a scene with Erica, Colin, and Neil. If my experience on the show so far is any indication, ...
I'd imagine he'd be right cheery, what with all the good Canadian beer he'd be killing his brain with.
Eureka!
I'm heading up to Vancouver later this week to shoot an episode of Eureka! The SyFy (I know they're my new employers, but it still pains me to write that) Channel put out the following press release this morning: Actor, author and blogger Wil Wheaton of the popular television series Star Trek: ...
I'm thinking we should start a letter writing campaign to get Wil the SyFy trifecta. Eureka is taken care of, now we just need to get him on Caprica and Stargate Universe.
Eureka!
I'm heading up to Vancouver later this week to shoot an episode of Eureka! The SyFy (I know they're my new employers, but it still pains me to write that) Channel put out the following press release this morning: Actor, author and blogger Wil Wheaton of the popular television series Star Trek: ...
I so very much wanted to go to PAX, but alas I couldn't get off work. It sounds like such a wonderful event.
Though I am mildly worried that it may be too overwhelming, I've never been to any con. Yes, I should be stripped of my geek badges and sent out to the desert for being in my 30's and never going to any cons, but I'm trying to rectify this. Is PAX too much for a beginner, or will I be just fine?
Congrats on not getting sick.
in which wil feels homesick
One of the themes of my PAX keynote was Welcome Home, which everyone who had been to a PAX before could understand. For the first timers, though, I wanted to help them understand exactly why it is we say that, so I said: All of the things that make us weird and strange in the real world? Those ...
Wil, I think you need a new voice on your staff. I suggest a large, muscular, Italian-American named "I'm Wil-FRAKKIN-Wheaton and DON'T you forget it!" to act as a bouncer and through out that punk ass bitch Voice of Self Doubt and all his douchebag friends.
Congrats on finishing, wish I could be there to watch you perform it.
In which I finally finish writing my PAX East keynote
The last two months have featured sleepless nights, 10-hour work days, and constant battles with the voices of Self Doubt, You Suck, Why Did You Agree To Do This, You're Boring me Zoidberg, and They're All Going To Laugh At You. But a little earlier, when I finally got to turn this: into thi...
PAX-SUN is the greatest idea on the planet. Followed closely by wootstock Florida edition. HINT HINT!!
In which I finally finish writing my PAX East keynote
The last two months have featured sleepless nights, 10-hour work days, and constant battles with the voices of Self Doubt, You Suck, Why Did You Agree To Do This, You're Boring me Zoidberg, and They're All Going To Laugh At You. But a little earlier, when I finally got to turn this: into thi...
I won't chime in on the merits of "professionately", but I would like to profess that "unprofessionate" is completely cromulent and has already been added to my vocabulizations.
Alright Brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you. But let's just do this, and I can get back to killing you with beer.
I've put myself pretty much on lockdown until I finish writing my PAX East keynote, because my brain really isn't making it easy to convert my concepts and ideas into a proper presentation that is both thoughtful and entertaining. I've given myself next Wednesday as the ultimate deadline, becaus...
I'm flabbergasted that no one has yet mentioned that HIDEOUS rug!
The nerd periodicals and literature are great, and the snacks make me want a nosh, but then I look past all that and see that terrible carpet *shudder*.
And Wil's feet remind me that I need to get a new pair of Chucks. :D
The Cooper-Hofstadter Coffee Table Proof
(Image by me. Click to embiggen. Please link to this post if you reuse it.) As I walked from the comic shop set down to the bowling alley set today, I passed the set for Leonard and Sheldon's apartment, which is in the center of the stage. I gawked at it the way you do when you're a fan of th...
As a certain balding, fat, yellow, guy we (should) all love would say, "WOOOHOOO!!"
Any idea, if this will be a Series 3 episode or are they working on Series 4 now?
Evil Wil Wheaton returns to The Big Bang Theory
Well, it's official. Evil Wil Wheaton is going back to The Big Bang Theory! From TV Guide Magazine: Geeks everywhere will be happy hear that Star Trek star Wil Wheaton will be returning to hang out with TV’s hippest nerds on The Big Bang Theory. “We were very excited when Wil Wheaton appeared...
Could that song possible be more full of win?
I THINK NOT!!!
I'll check my magic 8 ball.
Yeah, it's saying "Bazinga FTW" I think it agrees.
Evil Wil Wheaton returns to The Big Bang Theory
Well, it's official. Evil Wil Wheaton is going back to The Big Bang Theory! From TV Guide Magazine: Geeks everywhere will be happy hear that Star Trek star Wil Wheaton will be returning to hang out with TV’s hippest nerds on The Big Bang Theory. “We were very excited when Wil Wheaton appeared...
Hi, I'm Cal, and I've never seen Akira. Man I suck! I'll remedy this immediately, (I love NetFlix! Don't you?)
Oh and Wil, "Tetsuo gets off my goddamned lawn" made me waste precious beer. Lesson learned, don't be drinking Ruination while reading Wil's blog.
The future is not a straight line. It is filled with many crossroads.
If you're of a certain age, do you remember the first time you saw AKIRA, or any of the Dirty Pair or original Macross cartoons? Coming from a steady diet of Hannah Barbera cartoons, it was like trading a transistor radio for a high-end stereo or seeing the grand canyon with my own eyes. The cin...
Nah, that's what happens when you stand too close to the warp nacelles.
for those of you wondering what time it is...
(Thanks to my friend C., who made this when I needed a bit of cheering up.)
I totally agree that games can far surpass the narrative qualities of movies. There is something so powerful about being part of the story rather than simply watching it.
I've been really disappointed with RPGs for consoles, for me role playing was always about playing with a group. Single player RPGs, even ones with NPC parties, always seem to be lacking. Also character creation has been a big part of my enjoyment of gaming, and you usually don't get that from video games.
Some games have the character creation that I love, like Oblivion and Fallout 3, but they don't have the any multiplayer, which is kind of important to me.
About the only games that seem to contain the aspects that I enjoy are MMORPGs, but I have my problems with them, I can't justify monthly subscriptions for games that I don't play regularly.
I've really been considering DAO, but I'm worried that I'll feel the same about it as I did about Fallout 3, and stop playing it after about 4 hours due to sheer frustration.
regarding the matter of video games v. movies
I had the house to myself last night, so I could watch whatever nerdy DVD or DVR'd movie I wanted, as loud as I wanted. I've been talking about re-watching the Lord of the Rings trilogy (extended editions, of course) for a couple of months, but when I finally had a chance to get started, I ended...
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