http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/ Joystiq Comments for PAX 07: The Wil Wheaton keynote, just for geeks http://www.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.joystiq.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/Aug 24th 2007 8:21PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/Aug 24th 2007 8:31PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/
Sorry if none of my post made any sense, I'm tired and am having trouble constructing coherent sentences.]]>Aug 24th 2007 8:32PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/
Everyone I know that has a Wii stopped bragging about it a year ago when they realize that theres not much substance to the games.]]>Aug 24th 2007 8:42PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/
I know it's the only videogame my parents have voluntarily played (and enjoyed, even!)]]>Aug 24th 2007 8:53PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/Aug 24th 2007 9:22PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/]]>Aug 24th 2007 10:14PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/
Other than that a close friend of mine has a Wii, it's his brother's and his brother's wife's as well, and when they moved it was boxed for a couple weeks because they had no desire to play it. And when we had a friend group reunion for 3 days straight (massive gaming for 3 days with little sleep at his house), we only used it to be SSBM. In fact all of us are just waiting for brawl, and have little to no interest in any other game for the Wii, despite having played quite a few already myself.

It's a fad, it's a fad, a highly successful, buzzworthy fad. Every real life encounter with the system so far has told me this. These are just 2 cases I can provide close to me, but other than that I have talked to 5 others that I know on a casual level about it, and they all say the same types of things. Meanwhile the folklore demo made me shit my pants in excitement, and really felt like a return to good console rpgs.]]>Aug 25th 2007 7:20AMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/Aug 26th 2007 3:32AMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/
I'll not be able to play much cause of budget and time so i can easily see Super Paper Mario (not out yet in Europe), Super Mario Galaxy, Metroid Prime 3 and SSBB taking me well into June of 08 at least.]]>Aug 24th 2007 8:45PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/Aug 24th 2007 8:52PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/So you think it's awesome because your parents play it? In my day, anything being embraced by parents or authority figures was automatically uncool. What's wrong with you kids today?

P.S. "Every Atari 2600 game on a USB key?" WHOA, HARDCORE. Especially since they're all freely distributed (you can get them on www.atariage.com) and they literally take up a WHOPPING 9 MEGS.]]>Aug 24th 2007 9:16PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/
The young teen Wil Wheaton who played one of the worst characters in Star Trek history

or

The older Wil Wheaton milking his 80's fame and showing up at any nerdfest that will throw him a few bucks

I can't decide....]]>Aug 24th 2007 9:34PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/Aug 24th 2007 9:46PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Ted Koppel is a respected journalist.
Edward R Murrow was a respected journalist.
George Plimpton was a respected journalist.

Wil Wheaton is a has-been child star turned blogger.

There is a world of difference.]]>Aug 24th 2007 9:59PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/Aug 24th 2007 10:23PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/Comparing him to other reporters in different fields is nonsense.]]>Aug 24th 2007 11:30PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/
Excuse me, your fail is showing]]>Aug 25th 2007 4:40AMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/
I love video game, I love video game mags, and I love video game blogs. I don't think they are real journalism though because I understand what that term means. It is a school of though and a higher echelon of performance that must be recognized.

Just because you write current affairs stories and have the published does not make you a journalist.

Grow the hell up and learn what it actually mean. You are confusing the media with journalism. They are not the same thing. Take some time to understand what you are talking about.]]>Aug 25th 2007 7:09AMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/Aug 25th 2007 7:24AMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/Aug 24th 2007 11:01PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/Aug 24th 2007 11:29PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/
Can I get a peek at those plans?]]>Aug 25th 2007 1:02AMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/
However, this speech has convinced me of one thing: Wil Wheaton is awesome. And I will have to respectfully disagree with anyone who says otherwise.]]>Aug 25th 2007 7:42AMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/Aug 25th 2007 5:32PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/Aug 25th 2007 6:12PMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/Aug 28th 2007 1:14AMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/
"I love video game,"

um, that would be, " I love video games" as in plural. Unless you love that ONE video game, mmm let me guess by your ravings it would be "ET" for the atari 2600.

" I don't think they are real journalism though because I understand what that term means. It is a school of though "

A school of though? Is that your school? How many kids went to that school, i am very interested so I can avoid that state entirely, lest my head explode from the bad grammar and misspelling that must be overflowing into the streets. Also it would be "I don't think they are real journalists" or "I don't think that is real Journalism", not what you wrote, or vomited I really can not tell at this point.

"have the published " Guess you meant have THEM published but that would be nitpicking. Sort of like being some trolling lamer complaining about a person who's knowledge is contained from the single TV show he watched starring said person.

Now before anybody get their panties in a bunch, FYI I don't love or hate Wil Wheaton. Is his character on STTNG annoying? for the most part yes. Especially when viewed through the looking glass we call history. But just as most TV shows (Star Trek the classic series being a prime example) from the sixties were very cheesey to me in the late 70's and 80's it didn't make them bad. Just the product of a different era.

Back to the lesson.

Wil Wheaton is a published author.

http://www.eruditor.com/books/name/wil_wheaton.1225274.html.en

Wil Wheaton is a respected blogger in the geek community. Anyone who has read any of his blog entries knows that hes a pretty damned good writer and he definitely knows his geek history etc.

He's one of us for the most part, except that some still are jealous that he got to hang out on the bridge of the enterprise while we struggled through high school, You know who you are.

Oooh, almost missed this one.

"If anyone writing for anyting could be called a journalist"

Anyting?

Look if english is not your first language, I can understand that. But when you are ranting about how Wil Wheaton is not a Journalist (and you should really crawl out of the 80's here, the word has expanded and it applies to more now here on the tubes) then you should really, and I mean "REALLY" try to use a spell checker at the very least on your post before hitting that button.

Gavin BTW ( that stands for By The Way just in case you were not aware) if you have any books or samples of your writings please by all means share them with us.

Now because this is a free world, Let the flaming commence.

Hugz
TimT

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Missed a question mark on my question about how many children attended that school.

I was trying to be so careful too. :(

TimT]]>Aug 26th 2007 8:57AMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/
I am my own worst critic.

"Anyone who has read any of his blog entries knows that hes a pretty damned good writer and he definitely knows his geek history etc."

That would be "He's a pretty damned good writer" as in "he is". Dumbass!

TimT

]]>Aug 26th 2007 9:02AMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/
But I forgot the most important item that proves that pretty much all bloggers are journalists (no capital J actually, says so in the dictionary).

Main Entry: jour·nal·ism
Pronunciation: \ˈjər-nə-ˌli-zəm\
Function: noun
Date: 1828
1 a: the collection and editing of news for presentation through the media b: the public press c: an academic study concerned with the collection and editing of news or the management of a news medium
2 a: writing designed for publication in a newspaper or magazine b: writing characterized by a direct presentation of facts or description of events without an attempt at interpretation c: writing designed to appeal to current popular taste or public interest

I think the most valid entry here is

c: WRITING DESIGNED TO APPEAL TO CURRENT POPULAR TASTE OR PUBLIC INTEREST

Sorry for the caps but I think that pretty much says it all. Blogs are very clearly designed to appeal to the most current popular taste and they are definitely of public interest.

TimT
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When you make fun of someone because his/her English isn't as good as yours, you come off sounding like a nitpick. Its the "internet" -- its this thing where people from around the world can commune over the things that really matter (Wil Wheaton). Some people on this "internet" -- guess what?! -- don't natively speak the same language you do.

A little less condescension would be appreciated; but if you feel you must, there's a little something called pith you might want to look into.

-Jeff]]>Aug 28th 2007 11:25AMhttp://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/24/pax-07-the-wil-wheaton-keynote-just-for-geeks/Aug 31st 2007 7:13AM