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...the gaming thing that looks like like "love" in Advanced Squad Leader?
Oh, wait...
Ok, I get it. Sorry.
Game on: GenCon info, chapbooks, and dice. Lots and lots of dice.
I leave for GenCon in about 3d12 hours. While I'm not thrilled about getting up at 4am on Thursday, knowing that the reward for dragging myself out of bed at areyoufuckingserious o'clock is three days of gaming and geeking makes it all worthwhile. I'm blessing dice, taking pictures, and signing ...
I had to buy one... see you at GenCon in it!
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...
Dude, that's the way we've been feeling about GenCon for the past 40+ years...
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, this is why I keep reading your stuff... you're an excellent writer!
there and back again
Someone, I think it was Shane Nickerson, recently recalled the apocryphal advice given to people who choose to come live in Los Angeles: this city sucks, so if you're going to live here, you should at least love what you do... I got into Hollywood at 11 yesterday morning, and came back out at 7:...
So does that mean that you have a new agent for voice acting work, or did the previous one realize the error of his ways and beg your forgiveness?
the weight is the gift
I can't say anything specific about the job, but I got to be a voice actor again today, working with people I love, on a show that I love. While we were all in the booth together between acts, waiting to hear from the director about our pickups, I took a moment to look around and appreciate whe...
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