WIL WHEATON
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WIL WHEATON is an American actor, blogger, voice actor, and writer. Wheaton is a real-life geek. He's been blogging since the medium started in the early '00s, posting on everything from his computers to his personal life. Follow to keep up with our blog.
WIL WHEATON
1M ago
Okay, so. I'm developing this Star Trek Lower Decks fan fiction I call The Wedding Crusher ..read more
WIL WHEATON
2M ago
I haven't actually listened to a full album in a really, really long time. Like, other than Pink Floyd records, which must be listened to in their entirety, always (I will not be taking questions at this time), it just hasn't occurred to me to listen to, say, all of In Utero ..read more
WIL WHEATON
4M ago
On my Tumblr thingy, someone asked:
I know it’s been a bit since you were in school, but as someone who is about to go to university, do you have any tips?
I wanted to share my reply:
It is such a huge privilege when someone your age asks an Old like me for advice. When I was young, I thought dudes in their 50s were lame and had nothing to offer. Now that I’m one of those dudes, I understand what a gift it is when you ask me to share my experience. I hope this helps you a little bit.
Make time to meet your professors during their office hours.
You don’t have to go have a deep conversation ..read more
WIL WHEATON
4M ago
Josh Marshall writes:
Donald Trump threatens the entire existence of the American republic. He is able to do this because the Supreme Court he created is assisting him in doing so. It is a corrupt Court – on which more later. It overturned a central right for half of our population. It routinely mixes and matches rationales, jurisprudences, logics to arrive at the end point of transforming America into their extremist vision. We’ve heard that yesterday’s decision was a terrible decision, an extremist decision, that it changes the American experiment fundamentally. No disagreement with any of ..read more
WIL WHEATON
4M ago
For years, a whole bunch of my friends kept telling me that I needed to meet Todd Stashwick, because we would be fast friends who share a ton of extremely nerdy interests. Todd is the dungeon master for an ongoing D&D campaign a few friends are part of, and he runs these really great one shots set in a world of his own design, called The Dark Age of Theer.
Our paths never crossed, I think, because they are parallel to each other, and there wasn’t ever a reason that they would link up … until Todd was cast as Captain Liam Shaw in Star Trek: Picard. For Ready Room, I get to watch all the fin ..read more
WIL WHEATON
4M ago
It was Thanksgiving 2022. We went to our kids’ for the holiday, and because I’m a dad who loves his children and family more than anything in this world, I totally forgot I was in my 50s and thought it would be just fine to play badminton with my boys.
Turns out it wasn’t. After the thrill and adrenaline and fun of playing a game I’m terrible at with my adult children who didn’t take it easy on me even a little bit wore off, I started feeling pain and weakness in my shoulder. By the following morning, it had spread to my elbow. When we got back home, my wrist had joined in on the action.
Somet ..read more
WIL WHEATON
5M ago
On my Tumblr Ask Me thingy, someone asked if I played online games.
As it turns out, I’ve been enjoying a wider than usual variety of games, and was just this week thinking about posting a little blog about it. So I answered:
I am so old, my formative experiences with video games were all single player. When multi-player online arrived, it was text-based MUDs (I helped run one, when 28.8 was fast) and that was all the social interaction I ever needed.
Put another way, I prefer my gaming to be quietly alone, or couch co-op with one of my kids. I have found every single online multiplayer gami ..read more
WIL WHEATON
5M ago
This is another one of my garden metaphors.
Last summer, a volunteer sunflower showed up in the garden. As I do with all feral plants, I left it alone, but made sure it could grow and thrive. It did.
When it finished growing, I collected its seeds, and spread some of them around the yard. Some of them grew into flowers, and I collected some of their seeds. I kept them in a safe place, until the ground was ready to receive them earlier this season.
I planted those seeds into my actual garden, and I have tended them with the rest of my plants. Sunflowers, I have noticed, don’t really want or nee ..read more
WIL WHEATON
5M ago
Earlier today, I posted this on my Facebook:
I feel like most of you already know this, but for those who don’t… the last movie I did before I retired is a little indie horror thriller called Rent-A-Pal.
I am proud of this movie and proud of my performance in it. I don’t talk about my acting work a lot, but I just found out that it’s been added to Amazon Prime Video in the UK, and wanted to share that.
Here’s our Wikipedia page, with more information and various links.
Rather quickly, a number of people said some version of “Wait, you retired? How did I not know about that? Why?”
I guess I h ..read more