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I was so happy to find out that Jim Darkmagic wasn't a fluke and yes, Mike is hilarious no matter what character.
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Yeah Wheaton was trying a bit too hard.
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I would have liked the Darksun stuff better if there were more meat to the story. They never really explained what the hell was going on.
I'd love to play some Darksun sometime. The first ever role-playing experience I had was through a MUD called Armageddon that I am sure is based on Darksun or shares inspiration from a common source.
I didn't watch the clip so I don't know how he acted there, but generally I wouldn't say that was a good description of him. He's a pretty nice guy, and not a jackass.
Beyond that I have no real opinion on him.
@Kal: To be fair, he's on a stage with Mike, Jerry, and Scott.
That's a tough group to keep up with joke-wise.
Though like I said, I thought he was pretty good up there.
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but he is not very entertaining to listen to
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I also liked his "I'm not confusing player knowledge with character knowledge raawwrrr" joke
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I also didn't like how he got indignant at that one guy who simply asked how Wil had contributed to "gamer culture" and Wheaton flew off the hinges at him for the perceived insult.
I am indifferent about Wil Wheaton the person and suspect I'd like him just fine if I met him personally but Wil Wheaton the celebrity is more than a little bit obnoxious.
Maybe it's because I was never more than an occasional, passing fan of Star Trek.
I don't think anyone is really insulting him, or saying anything without reason. I think most people are just saying he's kinda annoying in that video and well it's true. He could be my best friend and I'd say the same thing.
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The only experience I have with Wil Wheaton is I think he came up to a booth at SDCC I was helping run and shot the shit with one of the guys there who I guess he knew, and I didn't realize it was him until he left and someone else mentioned it. He was pleasant during this exchange. The End
Also the Dark Sun game felt really short because I think they were doing a preview adventure they got ahead of time. Would like to see/hear more of that!
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Mr. Wheaton: [weirdly incredulous, as though he had never appeared on Numb3rs in his life] You did not!
Me: Yeah I did. You were playing an evil comic book collector who was trying to sell a forged copy of "Ultra-World #1."
Mr. Wheaton: Okay, maybe you did.
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Wil screaming at the acid is really the only thing that interferes with my enjoyment of that. It's not the shouting per se, it's just that I frequently listen through headphones and it's so much louder than the rest of the action that I'm either scared out of my wits or temporarily deafened.
I think Wil reads these boards, I've never met the man, but he seems like a nice guy. That's a very strange thing to write given that I've never met him in person. I suppose that reading his blog and watching him act candidly in PA stuff leads me to believe that. He's pretty great with his step-kids, to the point where I really don't think he considers them to be his step-kids, just his children. I think he's a little socially awkward like many people on these forums, so I certainly won't be the one to cast the first stone.
In my book he's good people, I hope to meet him one day and buy him a pint of Guinness.
[edit] Listen to him read some of his stories on YouTube. To me, he can tell a good story and narrates them wonderfully.
I occasionally listen to the nerdist podcast with Chris Hardwick who is a long-time friend and former roommate of Wil and Wil was a guest on one of the most-recent episodes. It's one of the the first times I've heard him have a real sense of humor about himself.
He did admit to being an angsty teenager and had an interesting story about his last season on Star Trek and how they kinda dicked him over.
So if you're reading this Wil, sorry for calling you a jackass.
They busted him down from lieutenant so fast
EDIT: He had an opportunity to be in a movie, and to allegedly prevent him from doing it they wrote him into a TNG episode that was shooting on the same day, only to write him out of it immediately before the shoot.
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