And yeah, his kid seems like a bit of a dweeb!
During dinner tonight, my cell phone rang. Caller ID said "Restricted."
"Male or female?" I said to Otis.
"Female for a buck," he said.
I flipped open the phone. "Hello?"
"Hey Wil, it's Ryan."
"Hey Ryan! Hold on a sec." I turned the phone away from my face and looked at Otis. "Ship it!"
He grimaced and reached into his pocket as I won yet another prop bet from him. (I've played a tiny bit of poker while I've been here, and I'm probably stuck fifteen bucks total, plus the disaster of Martini-fueled blackjack on my birthday. If it wasn't for Otis spewing money to me on prop bets, I'd be really stuck. As it is, I'm even on the whole trip, and I may actually be a little bit ahead.)
"What's up?" I said.
"Mom wanted me to call you and find out if it was okay for me to play Vice City. I think it's okay, because I'm seventeen and everything, but mom said she wasn't sure and wanted me to talk to you about it since you've played it."
Ryan is an incredibly mature and responsible person. I know that he understands the difference between reality and video games, and I'm actually more concerned about the time he spends playing them, than the content of the game.
"Well," I said, "you're seventeen, so you're able to buy yourself tickets to rated 'R' movies, and Vice City isn't any worse than, say, Scarface or Goodfellas, but hold on a second and let me think about it, okay?"
"Okay," he said.
I put the phone to my chest, and explained the situation to the table. Oh, and now would be a good time to point out that we were in a *very* nice restaurant where I wouldn't take a call if we weren't way in the back, against the wall with no other diners around us.
"Does he know that it's not okay to hit beat a hooker with a baseball bat and get his money back in real life?" My friend Ryan said.
"Good question," I said. I put the phone back to my ear and said, "I have to ask you one question: if you pick up a hooker in real life, is it okay to hit her with a baseball bat to get your money back after she gets out of your car?"
"Well, since hookers are empty shells and not real people," he said, "then yes. Yes. It's okay to whack her with a baseball bat."
I relayed this to the table and added, "I think he's mature enough to handle Vice City."
"Tell him that he he also has a future career in Hollywood," Ryan said.
Why I read Wil Wheaton's blog
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Why I read Wil Wheaton's blog
I'm sure I'm not the only one on VV who reads WWDN, but I figured I'd share this story from it that I got a good chuckle from and pretty much sums up why I read his blog. He's got a great writing style that can capture moments really well.
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That would be Joss WhedonMomopi wrote:Isn't that the guy who wrote fireflies or something?
There could have been a friend named Ryan as well. He mentioned discussing it with "the table" which I would take to mean that there were multiple people there.Swedish Dorf wrote:He needs an editor though - he confuses Ryan and Otis
I know this guy from pokerblogs, he is apparently a well known figure in that circle of ppl.
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As some of you appear to not know, Wil Wheaton was Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I'm kind of embarassed that I knew that and some of you didn't. The only way to cleanse myself will be to go down to the local high school and beat up some nerds at lunch.
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Isn't Wil Wheaton one of the main characters in "Stand By Me"? If it's the same kid, he also did voices for GTA: SA & EQII
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If I told your Michigan football friends about this you'd be kicked out of the tailgate parties!Sylvus wrote:As some of you appear to not know, Wil Wheaton was Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
I'm kind of embarassed that I knew that and some of you didn't. The only way to cleanse myself will be to go down to the local high school and beat up some nerds at lunch.
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Re: Why I read Wil Wheaton's blog
Why I don't read Wil Wheaton's blog :/Dregor Thule wrote:I'm sure I'm not the only one on VV who reads WWDN, but I figured I'd share this story from it that I got a good chuckle from and pretty much sums up why I read his blog. He's got a great writing style that can capture moments really well.
And yeah, his kid seems like a bit of a dweeb!
During dinner tonight, my cell phone rang. Caller ID said "Restricted."
"Male or female?" I said to Otis.
"Female for a buck," he said.
I flipped open the phone. "Hello?"
"Hey Wil, it's Ryan."
"Hey Ryan! Hold on a sec." I turned the phone away from my face and looked at Otis. "Ship it!"
He grimaced and reached into his pocket as I won yet another prop bet from him. (I've played a tiny bit of poker while I've been here, and I'm probably stuck fifteen bucks total, plus the disaster of Martini-fueled blackjack on my birthday. If it wasn't for Otis spewing money to me on prop bets, I'd be really stuck. As it is, I'm even on the whole trip, and I may actually be a little bit ahead.)
"What's up?" I said.
"Mom wanted me to call you and find out if it was okay for me to play Vice City. I think it's okay, because I'm seventeen and everything, but mom said she wasn't sure and wanted me to talk to you about it since you've played it."
Ryan is an incredibly mature and responsible person. I know that he understands the difference between reality and video games, and I'm actually more concerned about the time he spends playing them, than the content of the game.
"Well," I said, "you're seventeen, so you're able to buy yourself tickets to rated 'R' movies, and Vice City isn't any worse than, say, Scarface or Goodfellas, but hold on a second and let me think about it, okay?"
"Okay," he said.
I put the phone to my chest, and explained the situation to the table. Oh, and now would be a good time to point out that we were in a *very* nice restaurant where I wouldn't take a call if we weren't way in the back, against the wall with no other diners around us.
"Does he know that it's not okay to hit beat a hooker with a baseball bat and get his money back in real life?" My friend Ryan said.
"Good question," I said. I put the phone back to my ear and said, "I have to ask you one question: if you pick up a hooker in real life, is it okay to hit her with a baseball bat to get your money back after she gets out of your car?"
"Well, since hookers are empty shells and not real people," he said, "then yes. Yes. It's okay to whack her with a baseball bat."
I relayed this to the table and added, "I think he's mature enough to handle Vice City."
"Tell him that he he also has a future career in Hollywood," Ryan said.
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OH CRACKLE AND POP!*~*stragi*~* wrote:Why I don't read Wil Wheaton's blog :/Dregor Thule wrote:I'm sure I'm not the only one on VV who reads WWDN, but I figured I'd share this story from it that I got a good chuckle from and pretty much sums up why I read his blog. He's got a great writing style that can capture moments really well.
And yeah, his kid seems like a bit of a dweeb!
During dinner tonight, my cell phone rang. Caller ID said "Restricted."
"Male or female?" I said to Otis.
"Female for a buck," he said.
I flipped open the phone. "Hello?"
"Hey Wil, it's Ryan."
"Hey Ryan! Hold on a sec." I turned the phone away from my face and looked at Otis. "Ship it!"
He grimaced and reached into his pocket as I won yet another prop bet from him. (I've played a tiny bit of poker while I've been here, and I'm probably stuck fifteen bucks total, plus the disaster of Martini-fueled blackjack on my birthday. If it wasn't for Otis spewing money to me on prop bets, I'd be really stuck. As it is, I'm even on the whole trip, and I may actually be a little bit ahead.)
"What's up?" I said.
"Mom wanted me to call you and find out if it was okay for me to play Vice City. I think it's okay, because I'm seventeen and everything, but mom said she wasn't sure and wanted me to talk to you about it since you've played it."
Ryan is an incredibly mature and responsible person. I know that he understands the difference between reality and video games, and I'm actually more concerned about the time he spends playing them, than the content of the game.
"Well," I said, "you're seventeen, so you're able to buy yourself tickets to rated 'R' movies, and Vice City isn't any worse than, say, Scarface or Goodfellas, but hold on a second and let me think about it, okay?"
"Okay," he said.
I put the phone to my chest, and explained the situation to the table. Oh, and now would be a good time to point out that we were in a *very* nice restaurant where I wouldn't take a call if we weren't way in the back, against the wall with no other diners around us.
"Does he know that it's not okay to hit beat a hooker with a baseball bat and get his money back in real life?" My friend Ryan said.
"Good question," I said. I put the phone back to my ear and said, "I have to ask you one question: if you pick up a hooker in real life, is it okay to hit her with a baseball bat to get your money back after she gets out of your car?"
"Well, since hookers are empty shells and not real people," he said, "then yes. Yes. It's okay to whack her with a baseball bat."
I relayed this to the table and added, "I think he's mature enough to handle Vice City."
"Tell him that he he also has a future career in Hollywood," Ryan said.
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urgy gayer than face and ncaa football 07Sylvus wrote:OH CRACKLE AND POP!*~*stragi*~* wrote:Why I don't read Wil Wheaton's blog :/Dregor Thule wrote:I'm sure I'm not the only one on VV who reads WWDN, but I figured I'd share this story from it that I got a good chuckle from and pretty much sums up why I read his blog. He's got a great writing style that can capture moments really well.
And yeah, his kid seems like a bit of a dweeb!
During dinner tonight, my cell phone rang. Caller ID said "Restricted."
"Male or female?" I said to Otis.
"Female for a buck," he said.
I flipped open the phone. "Hello?"
"Hey Wil, it's Ryan."
"Hey Ryan! Hold on a sec." I turned the phone away from my face and looked at Otis. "Ship it!"
He grimaced and reached into his pocket as I won yet another prop bet from him. (I've played a tiny bit of poker while I've been here, and I'm probably stuck fifteen bucks total, plus the disaster of Martini-fueled blackjack on my birthday. If it wasn't for Otis spewing money to me on prop bets, I'd be really stuck. As it is, I'm even on the whole trip, and I may actually be a little bit ahead.)
"What's up?" I said.
"Mom wanted me to call you and find out if it was okay for me to play Vice City. I think it's okay, because I'm seventeen and everything, but mom said she wasn't sure and wanted me to talk to you about it since you've played it."
Ryan is an incredibly mature and responsible person. I know that he understands the difference between reality and video games, and I'm actually more concerned about the time he spends playing them, than the content of the game.
"Well," I said, "you're seventeen, so you're able to buy yourself tickets to rated 'R' movies, and Vice City isn't any worse than, say, Scarface or Goodfellas, but hold on a second and let me think about it, okay?"
"Okay," he said.
I put the phone to my chest, and explained the situation to the table. Oh, and now would be a good time to point out that we were in a *very* nice restaurant where I wouldn't take a call if we weren't way in the back, against the wall with no other diners around us.
"Does he know that it's not okay to hit beat a hooker with a baseball bat and get his money back in real life?" My friend Ryan said.
"Good question," I said. I put the phone back to my ear and said, "I have to ask you one question: if you pick up a hooker in real life, is it okay to hit her with a baseball bat to get your money back after she gets out of your car?"
"Well, since hookers are empty shells and not real people," he said, "then yes. Yes. It's okay to whack her with a baseball bat."
I relayed this to the table and added, "I think he's mature enough to handle Vice City."
"Tell him that he he also has a future career in Hollywood," Ryan said.
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Re: Why I read Wil Wheaton's blog
Wil Wheaton has become a favorite of mine for various reasons. Lately, I've read several audibooks narrated by Wheaton, notably, Ready Player One by Ernest Cline which any person that has fond memories of gaming in the 80's and of the 80's in general should read immediately. Great book. If someone asks, I'll repost the audiobook, even if I don't like you.
I posted this story from Will Wheatons blog on the RP1 thread:
Will has come a long way since Stand by Me and his role as Wesley Crusher on STNG.
Here's another cool story of his from a convention:
http://kotaku.com/wil-wheaton-tells-a-n ... -486019434
I posted this story from Will Wheatons blog on the RP1 thread:
Will has come a long way since Stand by Me and his role as Wesley Crusher on STNG.
Here's another cool story of his from a convention:
And finally what I actually made this post for. Here's a video of him describing what it means to be a nerd at a recent convention:On Saturday, a young woman walked up to my table with her husband and her two children. She handed me a typed letter and told me that she knew she wouldn’t be able to get through what she wanted to say to me, and would I please read it.
I unfolded it, and read her story. When she was a young girl, she had a serious complication due to her Lupus, and her doctors told her that she would never walk again. She had a photo of me, though, that she took with her to physical therapy every day, and the therapists would hold it up for her and encourage her to walk toward it — toward me — while she recovered. She made a promise to herself, she said, that she would walk again some day, and if I was ever in her town, she would walk up to meet me. At the end of her letter, she thanked me for being there, so she could *walk* to meet me.
I looked up at her through tears, and she looked back at me through her own. I stood up, walked around my table, and put about fifteen feet between us. I held my arms open, and asked her to walk over to me. She began to cry, and slowly, confidently closed the distance between us. I embraced her, and we stood there for a minute, surrounded by thousands of people who had no idea what was going on, and cried together.
“I’m so proud of you,” I said, quietly, “and I am so honored.”
We wiped the tears away, and I sat back down to sign a photo for her. I looked at her young children. “Your mom is remarkable,” I said, “and I know you don’t get it, because she’s, like your mom? But you have to trust me: she is.”
The kids nodded, and I could tell that they were a little freaked out by the emotion of the thing, even if they didn’t understand it. They looked at their father, who said, “Mommy’s okay. Mommy’s okay.” That made me tear up again. Mommy was okay, and she is a remarkable woman who defied the odds and her doctors, and *walked* up to meet me. I’m still overwhelmed when I think about what that means, and how I was part of it.
http://kotaku.com/wil-wheaton-tells-a-n ... -486019434