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Sep 18, 2012
I think many have made the point so I'll just pile on it: the juxtaposition between Real Wil and the characters.
Another reason why good-guy-plays-evil-guy is such an attractive one is the desire to get back at the evil guys but not with pure evil. I'm mostly familiar with Fawkes and Evil Wil Wheaton and underlying in those characters is a true sense of humor about what they do and how they do it. I perceive their motivations as evil and self-serving but the motive of gaining anything, while present, is dominated, thwarted even, by a desire to poke holes in the opposing characters. The evil makes you snicker.
Evil deflation of your opponent is a different evil than evil destruction.
Answering a FAQ: "Why do you play so many evil characters lately?"
Every actor has a particular type they can play well, for some reason or another. It doesn't necessarily have anything to do with who we are in real life, but it's just what we do well. Example: Travolta is amazing as the Lovable Loser. When he's in Welcome Back Kotter and Saturday Night Fever i...
I actually love the not-touch policy, not because I'm averse to touching but the salute thing is proper in the fun atmoshpere of a con for the simple fact of making something up that you wouldn't do in real life. Why shake hands? You can do that all the time in your normal life. It's a con, do something different, no other reasons necessary.
Is it really only 2 days until GenCon? Yes. Yes it is.
On Wednesday, I'm heading to GenCon in Indianapolis. I had a great time when I was there before, and I'm looking forward to attending this year. Here's what you need to know, from GenCon: Wil will be signing autographs in the Autograph Area of the Exhibit Hall, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday mo...
The point is the power rush you feel for doing something other can't do anything about, subverting that person's intentions. As distasteful as it is, the intended germs probably won't survive or stay on much in the post-lick handling.
Is it really only 2 days until GenCon? Yes. Yes it is.
On Wednesday, I'm heading to GenCon in Indianapolis. I had a great time when I was there before, and I'm looking forward to attending this year. Here's what you need to know, from GenCon: Wil will be signing autographs in the Autograph Area of the Exhibit Hall, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday mo...
My son actually loves the bleeps, he can't not laugh at them.
New Tabletop! Say Anything with Matt Mira, Jonah Ray, and Josh Cagan!
Casual party games are a great infection vector for introducing tabletop gaming to our non-gaming friends. For experienced players, they're also fantastic palate cleansers between games of Puerto Rico and Power Grid. This week's new Tabletop is a really fun, quick, easy, and profoundly silly par...
It depends, seems like a bit more work but not very complicated. I'm trying to make sure my kids will have memories.
Summer memories never fade away
It’s been so hot the last couple of days, I haven’t gone outside for more than a few minutes until the sun’s gone down, and even then walking down the middle of the street still feels like a furnace. Trading the blazing heat of a parking lot for the cool, dry air conditioning of a store is bliss...
Among most of my friends I just reference Wheaton's Law and they know what I mean.
Happy Birthday.
Happy Don't Be A Dick Day!
When I gave my 2007 PAX Prime Keynote, I said Arcades were more than just magnificent geek Shangri-Las, filled with all sorts of video games and pinball machines. They were a vital part of my generation’s social development. If I beat another kid in a two player game and taunted him mercilessly...
On another note, my son watched the Munchkin episode for the 4 time yesterday and Gloom for the second.
Amber Benson, Meghan Camarena, and Michelle Boyd join me for GLOOM on #Tabletop
This week's new episode of Tabletop is online for your happy funtime enjoyment: If the embed isn't working, or you want to see this in glorious SUPER MEGA HD, I've got you covered, because I love you. A few notes: * We have no control over the ads that run during Tabletop, so it's likely that y...
There should be a game called Rules and Regulations Nazis. It has 5 books of each 300 pages with rules. If you find one of the other players breaking a rule, you can kick him out of the game. The last one standing wins the game and will be crowned The Wesley*
Yes, I had to go there with Wesley Crusher. How could I not. That he is one of my favorite TNG characters needs no mention.
Amber Benson, Meghan Camarena, and Michelle Boyd join me for GLOOM on #Tabletop
This week's new episode of Tabletop is online for your happy funtime enjoyment: If the embed isn't working, or you want to see this in glorious SUPER MEGA HD, I've got you covered, because I love you. A few notes: * We have no control over the ads that run during Tabletop, so it's likely that y...
I'm going rfb over this.
There's a new episode of Radio Free Burrito
These puppies want you to listen to Radio Free Burrito. So from time to time, I make this stupid podcast called Radio Free Burrito. It's this thing that I do because it's creative and entertaining to me, and is an easy way for me to amuse myself and hopefully share some interesting things ...
The only Shakespeare I really enjoy is King Lear. I never got into 1984 whereas I loved Brave New World.
What didn't help when a classmate did a presentation on 1984 it always started with a variation of "it is science fiction, but". Always. I love(d) SF. It made me biased against the book.
Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional
I read this great post on John Green's Tumblr, titled Famous Novelists on Symbolism in Their Work and Whether It Was Intentional: "Reading is not a game of Clue; books are not a mystery that you have to solve by putting all the pieces together. That’s not the point. Find the meaning you want to...
You could consider a Talisman special outside the normal 2 week format. Still, that might take a lot of your time, I can understand you not doing it. At least for the forseeable future I wouldn't change the format, it is solid gold. As it is now you have the perfect balance for involved games that you can get non-geeks (and kids) to play. They are great for an evening without utterly dominating it. Game geeks could go from dinner till sunrise, other people not so much.
It's a new Tabletop! Castle Panic! Yaaay!
Things I love: Tower Defense games. Cooperative games. My friends Yuri and Tara. My new friend Andre. Oh, look what happens when we combine all of these things:
Thanks for the episode.... Now I have to buy Castle Panic....
I already have Tsuro and Munchkin (which we played for the third day in a row now), yesterday I tried but failed to buy D&D (which makes the future shoplist Munchkin original up to 4, and Munchkin Bites plus expansion - together with Cowthulhu, which I have, this covers all the Munchkin translated into Dutch - and D&D).
Friday we watched the CP episode, after which my son wanted to watch the Munchkin episode again. Tabletop is ruining my life! :-P
It's a new Tabletop! Castle Panic! Yaaay!
Things I love: Tower Defense games. Cooperative games. My friends Yuri and Tara. My new friend Andre. Oh, look what happens when we combine all of these things:
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Jun 15, 2012
Same kind of thing happening here.
In which we play Munchkin on Tabletop with Steve Jackson
If you've been reading my blog for a few years, you may remember when I played Munchkin with my kids in 2008: I'm going to speak in geek to people who have played Munchkin: Neither of the kids would help me, and I kept getting the Truly Obnoxious Curse, so I was having a hard time gaining level...
My son laughs himself silly at every bleep :-)
In which we play Munchkin on Tabletop with Steve Jackson
If you've been reading my blog for a few years, you may remember when I played Munchkin with my kids in 2008: I'm going to speak in geek to people who have played Munchkin: Neither of the kids would help me, and I kept getting the Truly Obnoxious Curse, so I was having a hard time gaining level...
It's a two-way-street. I get so much out of what your doing. The way you go about things make people, without even realizing it, look for non-mainstream, broaden their horizons. I mean it.
I already had it lurking in me but people like you awoke the support-independent-artists-and-local-heroes persona that was hiding in me. I show my kids stuff they otherwise wouldn't have come across.
In which we play Munchkin on Tabletop with Steve Jackson
If you've been reading my blog for a few years, you may remember when I played Munchkin with my kids in 2008: I'm going to speak in geek to people who have played Munchkin: Neither of the kids would help me, and I kept getting the Truly Obnoxious Curse, so I was having a hard time gaining level...
Tabletop and the Flog are regular watches for the kids and I. I bought Tsuro and Munchkin is up next. I'm member of a local game club where we play everything that suits our fancy. Mainly table-top wargaming but we have a big stack of board- and cardgames. I take my kids there too.
Geek and Sundry is one of the Youtube channels that turned me from TV watching to the more personal content*. The app on the Xbox helped because we can watch it on the big screen (medium-sized actually but 43" is big enough for me).
My rediscovery of you started with the Gnomodex talk on IT Conversation. From there I saw you get back in the saddle. I'm still proud to be the first Burrito feeder and when I told my son about getting a personal e-mail from you telling me that and asking for permission to name me, and being on the roll call in episode 18, my son wanted to see the mail and here the episode. Thanks, Wil.
* YouTube is what I watch these days (plus my BBT DVDs). Geek and Sundry, some Twit.TV, Beast of War (gaming of all kinds), videos of live performances of the bands my friend play in, Minecraft vidoes, you name it. There is so much good stuff ranging from quality to amateur level, from regular scheduled to irregular, it is so much better than normal TV channels. So very much better.
In which we play Munchkin on Tabletop with Steve Jackson
If you've been reading my blog for a few years, you may remember when I played Munchkin with my kids in 2008: I'm going to speak in geek to people who have played Munchkin: Neither of the kids would help me, and I kept getting the Truly Obnoxious Curse, so I was having a hard time gaining level...
Good one, sent it in a mail to myself to add it tonight. I was looking for independent movies. Almost all my music is independent, non-copyright, donate/pay-what-you-want/pay-x-or more and I'm looking for that in movies too. Maybe this is what I'm looking for.
an example of the usefulness of bittorrent for entirely legal purposes
I frequently find myself in an unpopular position in the entertainment industry: I believe in network neutrality, I don't believe that piracy is the end of the world as we know it (I particularly don't believe that a download or file shared automatically equals a lost sale*) and I don't believe ...
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May 14, 2012
Those are great torrents. I've put them on mine too.
an example of the usefulness of bittorrent for entirely legal purposes
I frequently find myself in an unpopular position in the entertainment industry: I believe in network neutrality, I don't believe that piracy is the end of the world as we know it (I particularly don't believe that a download or file shared automatically equals a lost sale*) and I don't believe ...
Call me crazy but Kubuntu 12.04 is exactly what is being shared on my torrent. And Prettylights, came with uTorrent with the express intent of being shared. That's all.
an example of the usefulness of bittorrent for entirely legal purposes
I frequently find myself in an unpopular position in the entertainment industry: I believe in network neutrality, I don't believe that piracy is the end of the world as we know it (I particularly don't believe that a download or file shared automatically equals a lost sale*) and I don't believe ...
Tabletop is such a great show. I hope it'll run forever. The whole Geek and Sundry thing has drawn me in too. I completely stopped watching TV (I have BBT on DVD) but G&S got me back. My kids watch it with me (you'd be amazed how much they pick up with their limited knowledge of English - which btw is way more than mine at that age) and it makes my happy that I can show them other things than Nickelodeon and such. They are always asking me "Is there a new Tabletop, is there a new Flog".
A picture from Tabletop
One of the best times I had this season on Tabletop was playing Fiasco with John Rogers, Alison Haislip, and Bonnie Burton. I won't spoil anything, but I will tell you that Will Hindmarch, Jason Morningstar, and I teamed up to write an original playset for the show, and we'll be releasing it ...
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Mar 18, 2012
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