Here are five things I want you to know:
- My friends, Kumail and Emily, wrote and produced a movie called The Big Sick. It’s about how they met and fell in love, and it’s wonderful. It’s a great date movie. It’s funny, it’s heartwarming without being saccharine, and it’s a true story! It’s a little indie movie, but it’s holding its own against big summer blockbusters, which is awesome. I want everyone to see it because it’s a great film (it should absolutely be considered during the award-o-rama season), but also because the way the studios work, it’ll only stay in theaters if it continues to outperform expectations. So please go see it, and tell your friends about it. (Those of you who are old enough to remember the early MeFi days will know where I got my linking style.)
- Yesterday morning, Anne woke me up twenty minutes before my alarm did, because she needed me to hear the noise our air conditioner was making. It couldn’t have waited until I was ready to wake up, when I was starting to come out of my deep sleep cycle, because it was making a noise similar to putting a handful of ball bearings and some broken glass into a blender. It turns out that the motor blew out during the hottest three days of the year so far, because I am a fucking idiot who forgot to change the ten dollar air filter (in my defense, we did the math on the calendar and realized that Anne was in emergency surgery when I should have been changing it, so I may have gotten the reminder from my task list a whole second before I dismissed it forever). It was so hot in our house, things in our pantry were melting. I’m grateful that we had eighteen hundred dollars in a sock just for such an occasion, and by the time the sun had done its worst, it was repaired. So consider this your reminder to go look at your air filter and change it, if necessary.
- I played games for the first time in months yesterday. My group was dealt a TPK when the last two members moved away in January, and I haven’t had anyone to play with. At first, I was happy to take the break, because gaming has been my job for the last four years. But as time went by, I became acutely aware of how significant gaming is to my life, my joy, and my reason for being. Tabletop is complicated for me, (and, honestly, Board Game Subreddit: maybe it just isn’t the right snow for you and you don’t need to rage at me about every single episode we do) and while I’m grateful as hell for everything it’s done to promote the hobby, the way Legendary has handled the fourth season and the relentless shitting on it and me by random internet strangers has taken its toll. I’d been so consumed by the things that made the show a bummer this season, and I’d been unable to play games for the sake of playing games for so long, I completely lost sight of how much I love gaming, how proud I am of our show, and the good it has done not just for my life, but for the thousands of other people who have shared their stories with me. So when we played Lords of Waterdeep and Splendor yesterday, it was like coming out of a fog of sadness for the first time in at least half a year.
- I’ve been listening to a lot of Bob Marley recently, and just this morning I came across a record I didn’t know about: Dreams of Freedom (Ambient Translation of Bob Marley in Dub). If you enjoyed the ambient tracks or the dub reggae I played on Radio Free Burrito, you have got to check out this record. It’s beautiful.
- Speaking of RFB, I had an episode about 3/4 finished two weeks ago, but I really just hated it so I sent it to the land of wind and ghosts. I know that I’m overdue to release a new show, but I didn’t appreciate just how challenging it is to do a weekly podcast that isn’t about current events, or features interviews. I feel like I have to go to this mental box to find stuff to talk about, and recently it’s been empty and sad (HEY JUST LIKE ME HA HA THAT IS A JOKE AND NOT REAL AT ALL EVERYTHING IS FINE I AM FINE HA HA HA). So rather than force something that I think is shitty garbage that sucks, I’ve just been waiting until I have something worthwhile to make.
So that’s five things I want you to know on this lovely Sunday that’s way too fucking hot. What do you want me to know?
EDIT OH SHIT I FORGOT I WANTED YOU TO KNOW THIS ALSO BUT SIX THINGS I WANT YOU TO KNOW IS WEIRD TITLE SO I’M NOT CHANGING IT: I am honored to be a guest on this week’s Lovett or Leave It podcast.
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I want you to know that you are important to people. I appreciate your humor and your openness in sharing your depression. It helps me cope to know others are dealing with the same issues. We may not always succeed but we keep trying. Thank you.
I know understand what you are saying about gaming being your job and it being mixed up with negativity. I just want to add my voice to the chorus of thanks for all you do. Gaming brings our friends and family together, we find games through you and your show/posts. You silliness to speak about your mental illness and your struggles gives a loud voice to those of us that struggle and makes us feel less alone in the world. Your marriage is an inspiration to those of us that work everyday for our loves. Your open fandom love gives us space to open up about ours. Your love of the pittbull face spreads knowledge and helps dispel fear of a breed.
Basically, big loves from a big fan 💜
Autocorrect fail…. *willingness not silliness…..
I want you to know I’m sorry tabletop season 4 wasn’t as much fun and that my husband and I love the show and use it as our gaming inspiration. Seriously. We didn’t have a gaming cabinet before the show. Now it is there and FULL.
I want you to know that I’m a 45 year old mother of a 16 year old son who loves games, and more than once I’ve turned to your show to figure stuff out so I can play with him – it means the world to me that you’ve put a medium out there that everyone can access and appreciate! Bringing families together over games is HUGE and wonderful. Please ignore the critics and know that you’ve made a truly great thing.
You may not be trying for mom of the year, but i’m just gonna nominate you anyways, kk?
I want to know if Chris ever got you that Spock merit badge I promised you, cause I think I might have an extra one lying around here if he didn’t. And I think a Spock merit badge is exactly what you need to cheer up.
There is no way being a month or two late changing a filter blew up your AC. Correlation is not causation. But you already knew that.
Here are five things I want you to know, Wil.
I really hate how Legendary has handled Tabletop this season. It feels like it’s been taken away from us and dangled on a fishing line to make us use Alpha. I have nothing against Alpha on principle, but what’s being done with it just gives me the skeeves. But I still love Tabletop and deeply appreciate how hard you worked on making it.
I’ve been replaying Dragon Age: Origins lately as a comfort thing. It feels good to be the master of my Taint.
Another video game I’ve been playing is Apotheon, a gorgeous indie Metroidvania action-platformer with a lot of hidden nuance to the combat and intriguing use of Greek mythology. Highly recommended.
In the tabletop realm, I’m GMing my longest-ever running D&D campaign, which makes me feel really good. It’s a D&D 5e game based on the Golden Age of Piracy and the work of Tim Powers (specifically On Stranger Ties, a fantastic pirate fantasy that Pirates of the Caribbean took all the wrong lessons from). The group is really great and I’m super pumped about how the story is going.
You’re my hero, and you always will be. Live long and prosper, my friend.
Your attitude and openness about your own mental health is refreshing. I saw you at Destination Star Trek 2016 in Birmingham, UK but was too nervous to stand in line because I didn’t want too sound like a gushing fan boy. I just honestly want to say thank you for entertaining me and for sharing yourself with us. Your book Just a Geek was gifted to me by my husband and became something of a beacon in the dark for me. We share the same birthday, though I’m 10years your junior. Hope yours is a good one this year. My father-in-law is dying so not quite sure if I’ll bother with my birthday this year. @curiousgeek82 (aka Gavin)
The Big Sick was already on my list of movies to see, largely after seeing you rave about it, but now that I know more of the story behind it (and inside it?), I’ll definitely go see it ASAP.
I love the latest Tabletop! I played a beta version of Misspent Youth years ago and watching you guys play it is bringing it back to me from the corners of the fog-shrouded carnival that is my memory, Fun game!
That’s all I want you to know right now.
I miss seeing pictures of your pets. Love your posts and am happy things appear to be going better.
I post pictures of the pets on my Instagram almost every day! You can go get your fix right now: instagram.com/itswilwheaton.
Ha! I was thinking wait, am I imagining all these pictures of Wil’s pets, or is he somehow not posting enough pictures for Marie?? Not that there is any such thing as too many pics of those adorable animals, mind you.
I think it is because I dropped off the mailing list while ill and finally noticed😝
I want you to know I love how excited you get about things that are important or interesting to you. And I love how you’re open and honest with yourself. Both the excitement and openness/honesty are things I remind myself about when I’m full of self doubt and wondering if maybe I should knock it off and ‘act my age’. No, I’m a goofball and a bit of a spaz (okay, sometimes a lot of a spaz) even though I’m nearly 50 and that’s perfectly okay, that’s who I am. I’m the kind of spaz who thinks it’s funny to ask someone she admires to sign a picture she took of a scooter and you’re the kind of friendly, open person who laughs and goes along with the admittedly stupid idea. Thank you for being you.
I have enjoyed the new episodes tremendously. I can only apologise on behalf of the thousands of entitled idiots out there and remind you that they are a vocal minority… and if they aren’t, they bloody well should be. I don’t like all the games you play on the show, but the ones i do, i generally buy. so yeah, thanks for that. my wallet hates you. 🙂
Things I want you, Wil Wheaton to know:
1) your posts manage to cheer me up or at least let me know I’m far less alone in the world than it feels. (You and Anne 👏)
2) I can’t wait to see The Big Sick
3) we had a great block party here yesterday and for someone who usually hides at parties (me), I chatted and had a good time. I made a great lentil salad with fennel and that fab potato salad from the silver palate cookbook with mint and garlic. Also I made a berry buckle from the NYTimes site. Cooking often is my “happy place.”
4) my eldest daughter is going to an AstroScience camp tomorrow and we’re very excited about it
5) I love Tabletop. Thanks for introducing my family to so many great games.
Sorry about the A/C but I’m glad you are enjoying games again. We like your podcasts. Don’t be so hard on yourself.
I spent my 39th birthday yesterday with the sunniest Irish day in existence exploring Giants Causeway. Today went back to full typical weather for the Cliffs of Moher.
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I have stellar video of some asshat stealing my mail on July 7 and I can’t do a goddamn thing about it right now.
Our guides name is Will and he is forever telling dad jokes.
I’m geeked for you to spend your birthday in the U.K. too.
I love that I can now identify your awesome husband in pictures, and now I can see that C has his eyes, which makes me happy.
He loves that too!!!
“What do you want me to know?” – That Tabletop and Titansgrave are 2 of my favourite things that have appeared on YouTube. And that I (for one) understand that the reasons I can’t watch them as soon as I would like are outside of your control and I don’t blame you at all. Getting salty about free entertainment is just a little too entitled for me.
Keep up the good work and take your own advice: “Keep Playing Games!”
I want you to know that you are appreciated. Even by total strangers. You are kind and you deserve positive things.
Depression sucks and it is so hard to remember what once made you happy… it is easy to get lost in that world of sorrow and fog.
I have been struggling with this pretty hardxcore for the past year – finding myself homeless and broke on the other side of the planet while trying my damndest to get myself and my immigrant husband “home” to the United States. Then Trump showed up and just made everything so much harder.
But we didn’t give up. We buckled down and worked hard and we made it! We’re now in the States, still poor as hell and trying our best to carve out a new life for ourselves. It has been hard and frustrating and I have been so very depressed.
Then a friend of ours gave us an old TV and I found your shows on one of the few free to air channels we receive (Table Top and Titansgrave), and my God it has saved my depressed little soul. It has made me laugh and forget my struggles and I thank you so much for that.
Gaming is such a joy. Please don’t listen to the naysayers. Doing what you love inspires others to do the same. 🙂
All the best,
-S
Tabletop got me into gaming and now I have far too many games and listen to far too many gaming podcasts – but still come back to the joy that is tabletop on a regular basis. My dream is a tabletop episode of you, tom vasel, Eric summerer and Quinns from SU&SD
But ignore the haters, tabletop rocks and should be on mainstream TV!
I want to add my voice to everyone else’s. I have 8 & 12 year old daughters, and not only do I enjoy tabletop for myself, but it has been an amazing resource. I have bought a bunch of games that we love to play after seeing them on your show.
Here’s what I want Wil Wheaton to know:
1) I’ve been following your blogs and projects (outside of Trek) for damned near 15 years now, and you’re never not engaging. Do I always agree with you? Nah, but grown people can do that shit.
2) I appreciate the time you take to address mental illness. My wife and I both have issues, and we’ve found that it makes life so much easier if you approach it without stigma. It makes getting help easier, and my own frankness on the subject (which you helped inspire) led at least three of my old co-workers to get help they needed.
3) I have spent so much money on games thanks to you. So much. I understand that the last couple of seasons of TableTop have been fraught, to say the least, and I know I likely won’t ever see another season with you continuing with your vendetta against good dice rolls. However it goes, you inspired some great moments with family and friends.
4) My kids absolutely love you.
5) The obvious love between you, Anne, and the kids is an inspiration. You’re doing it right, sir.
You remind me of something I heard a long time ago. “You might be the juiciest, most perfect peach but there’s still going to be someone who hates peaches.” Don’t let the haters get you down.
Tabletop has been such an influence on my family’s life. My daughter has grown up with it and we have more fun game nights with friends because of it. Ignore the shitters. You did some great work there.
I have friends and family members who live with depression, and telling this story helped them.
So who am I to rule out that it might help you too.
Please, don’t delete it right away. If you don’t want to read it now, keep it and read it later.
(Before I start, imagine sitting in a comfy leather chair next to a crackling open fire with a cigar in one hand
and a tasty Scotch in the other.)
Once upon a time there was a boy. He grew up, sheltered from harm, thinking that nothing could destroy his way of life.
He exceled in gymnastics, martial arts, skiing, horseback riding, ballroom dancing – at whatever he set his mind to.
Years passed in which he experienced love, loss, sadness, happiness, alcohol poisoning, drugs, sex, and whatever else kids
get to know becoming of age.
On a beautiful day, the smell of parting spring in the air, he sat in the cockpit of a glider, waiting to get the ok for
his first flight alone. Finally it came. The glider got pulled into the air. Released from the cable, the boy, not
really a boy anymore, finally was free. At least that’s what he thought.
Shortly after being totally alone in the glider he felt warmth creeping up his arm. It started to get warmer, got hot,
until the scorching pain reached the neck. Panic set it.
Screaming, despair, everything faded into blackness. He came to, still not able to see, realizing that he was still
in the air. At that point a fundamental truth became crystal clear: either he could land the plane somehow, or he would die.
At no point in his life was he so in control of his future. In this single moment he realized that the outcome depended
solely on him. He never felt so alone.
He willed himeself to see, screaming, pain taking over again, he landed the plane.
The next few days were rather foggy and he woke up in a hospital. A different hospital than the one he was initial admitted to.
Paralized, from head to toe.
(Don’t stop reading. The story has a point – and a happy ending.)
After a few days his parents, who were both doctors and coming back from vacation from somewhere out of the country,
were visiting their son. The entire situation seemed hopeless, especially since the 17 year old saw his father cry for the
first time. Only months later he learned that the doctors told them that their son would never ever leave the bed again.
While friends, relatives, and teachers were visiting, he still felt alone. So alone, imprisoned in a body that wouldn’t
respond to his bidding.
Time passed and he started to understand that there are only 2 options: give up or fight for a better future.
Luckily he had support from family and friends that a lot of people lying next to him did not have.
He was stuck in the neurology ward where constantly people were dying of brain tumors. As harsh as it might sound, he
was glad knowing that he’d not die in the foreseeable future.
The diagnosis was an aberant vessel, which ruptured, bled into the spinal cord and destroyed the nerve tissue.
Well, not that much fun at the age of 17, not really fun at any age. Nevertheless, he had people who supported him.
His school’s principal asked, if he wanted to graduate with his classmates and he accepted the challenge.
After a few months he was released from the hospital and spent another few months at a rehab center.
There, more there than anywhere else, he learned that friends and family were everything.
On December 23rd, when he was allowed to go home for 5 days, his room mate was released for good. But exactly at that time
his room mate’s wife left that guy and took their 2 children with her. At that point, the boy, definitely not a boy anymore,
understood how much family and friends are worth. He was crying for hours, but happy that he was not alone.
Months later he was released from rehab. He spent 3 weeks at school, where friends were carrying him with his wheel-chair
up and down the stairs, and he graduated with the rest of his class mates.
He studied mathematics and computer science at the university, got a job, where he traveled all over
Europe. He was the only one in his country specialized in this area, thus well known by many companies and branches of
the government.
Years after his experience at the hospital/rehab, he started a few rather extreme hobbies, like car racing, and was training with people
from the well known BMW challenge series.
About 10 years ago he moved to North America and he’s no longer depended on a wheel-chair. He’s happy how his life turned out
and he’s grateful for all the friends and family he got.
What I’m trying to say is that you, Wil, have a loving wife and 2 sons (as far as I can tell from your tweets) and whenever
you feel down, you can rest assured that they will pick you up. You have to let them.
One can only be so strong. There’s no shame in being lost, finding your back is what counts.
Nothing is more important than people who are there for you.
I learned for myself that intelligence can be a problem. And I do have the strong feeling that you’re far too intelligent.
We can’t understand how the world behaves as it does, especially knowing that it would be so much better, if it
turned as we wanted it to.
I’m pretty confident that this boy also had depression and doubt, but he also had friends and family who made it clear that he’s
not alone.
Games are awesome (thanks for the in-passing advice about Pandemic on JCC 2017).
The smell of fresh-cut hay is soothing.
The sound of birdsong is amazing—especially when you start to figure out which birds make which sounds and supply silly anthropomorphic suggestions for what they are saying.
The taste of leaf of mint that is growing wild is like a stolen sweet.
It’s way too fucking hot.
The Bob Marley/Bill Laswell Dreams of Freedom album is superb. If you like that, you might like what he did with the Miles Davis electric era on “Panthalassa: The Music Of Miles Davis 1969-1974 Reconstruction & Mix Translation By Bill Laswell”,,available from all good record shops.
Oh wow this is profoundly relevant to my interests! Thank you!!
You got me back into gaming after a fifteen year hiatus. After college, life took over, like it does. A long train of bad experiences and extremely poor choices in friends put me in a really bad place, for a really long time. It’s only been the last few years that I really feel like me again, and that I’m truly enjoying life again. Board games, and pen and paper RPGs played a huge role in that. I don’t think I would have rediscovered this part of me again if I hadn’t started reading your blog, listening to RFB and watching Tabletop.
Thank you for everything that you do. You, and your family, are an inspiration.
I want to thank you for a little bit of insight into the life of another geek. I will be looking into checking out your friends movie it sounds pretty good. This weekend I watched Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children with my Peculiar Children and it was actually pretty cool. I had never heard of this movie before but it was directed by Tim Burton and those are usually pretty good movies. It’s worth checking out if you haven’t already. That totally sucks about your AC, I don’t know why people like summer so much it is way too hot for my taste personally. I’m glad you guys could get it fixed. I absolutely love your show tabletop. I had no idea there was that many amazing board games out there in the world. Thanks to your show I have started collecting board games I’m up to 20 or so now with no stopping in sight. Every Saturday now my kids and I go to my mom’s house for dinner and a family game night. It’s amazing to see the strategy used by my kids and how much fun we are all having. I want to say thank you so very much for introducing all of this family fun into our lives although I can’t say the same for my bank account( these things get expensive :P) I’ve started to post a lot of pictures of the games I have on my Instagram (thedappergeek4) feel free to check it out anytime and see what a difference you’ve made in my life personally. As for all the people shiting on table top and you they can go fuck themselves because tabletop has been nothing but amazing! I think my favorite episode so far has been Steam Park. That game has shot to the top of the list of games I need to buy and not only that the guests you had are some of my favorite musicians. That’s the kind of music I listen to on Pandora and it helps me feel better when I’m feeling down. Okay that’s all I got for now. I eagerly await more tabletop and all Wil Wheaton related things. You were one of my favorite people to watch. I hope you have a really good rest of the day / week / year. All the best to you and yours.
Hey, thanks for making stuff. Every time you do, be it a new podcast, blog, table top, audio book you make the world better. Even the complainers live a fuller life because of you.
Hi Wil- I’m a faithful blog reader, but this is only the second time I’ve commented. I’ve known about your Tabletop series for a few years now, but though I have several friends who rave about it, I’d never thought watching people play board games would be my jam. Less than a month ago, one of your season 4 episodes popped up in my Youtube “what people are watching now” area, and I figured what the hell. I like most of what Wil has to say and the person he comes across as in his blog and social media accounts, I’ll watch an ep to support him. And then I fell into the Tabletop wormhole, and only emerged out the other side (having bought several of the games along the way and added many more to my wishlist) after having binged every episode from every season, some more than once.
So the reason I’m emerging from the silent corner of the interwebs in which I’ve been lurking is to say, I’m sorry Tabletop S4 has been ass for you in some ways. I wanted you to know if it wan’t for this season, though, I might not have gotten into it at all. Which would have really sucked for me, especially since I was teetering on the edge of falling back (again) into (another) depression, and watching Tabletop brought some lightness and happiness and fun into my life and pulled me a few steps back from the edge. That’s probably not proper compensation for the misery you’ve endured, but maybe it helps a small teeny tiny? So anyway, thanks. I really value your blog, and your art, and your nerdiness, and you. I’m glad Anne’s doing better after the Big Scary, and I hope things just keep looking up for both of you.
I’m homeless. Due to a death in my family, I lost my home. My 21 year old son and I are living in a tent in a friend’s backyard. I have been everywhere looking for help. There is none for us. I am disabled. My son is working, but he has to commute so far, it is almost not worth it. We have no family. I am extremely depressed.
I’m enjoying the heck out of the current season of Tabletop and consider it well worth the wait! And it’s obvious you had nothing to do with (and no say in) how Legendary chose to handle Tabletop’s release, because that’s not how you treat your fans. I think a lot of people realize this but we’re not as vocal or loud as the angry internet mob. Thank you for making Tabletop, Wil! I love the show!
Wil, you do so many wonderful things for all the various communities in which you participate. Thank you for everything, always.😊
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These are 5 things I want you to know about ME. 🙂 <3
These are 5 really great things! 🙂
Thank you.
As for #3, while I understand your frustrations (and I really, really do), Tabletop means an awful lot to my son and I. I got a divorce at the end of last year and my son and I are reinventing our relationship. Games and geek stuff has become an important part of that. Last week we drove up to Denver for Comic Con (wished you were there), and listened to Redshirts on the way up, and Ready Player One on the way down. I know there are times you must feel like you’re spitting into the wind. Try to remember some of us got your back.
#2 … I live in New Mexico, land of evaporative (swamp) coolers. While I don’t begrudge you the a/c, trust me, it could be a LOT worse. 😉
Oh! And while we were in line for a panel, my son was reading his Kindle. The guy in line next to him exclaimed, “Where did you get Wil Wheaton’s autograph!?” That was pretty awesome for my teenager 😀
I just remembered something I want to tell you (which I think I also tweeted about, so I apologize if I’m repeating myself): I’m listening to the audiobook of Cory Doctorow’s Walkaway and it’s cemented you and Amber Benson as two of my favorite audiobook readers. (I was sad when I got to the part of the novel where SPOILER happens and knew you wouldn’t be reading any more.)
Ooh, is it really good? I haven’t looked for an audio of that one, but if Wil and Amber are reading it, it’s going on my next to get list.
I really like it. The book is much like Cory’s other novels, but bigger, more epic, with a large cast of engaging characters. It’s written from the point of view of different characters, and each character’s POV is read by a different person, which gives you a personal take on each of the main characters and a different view of the other characters.
5 things I want wil wheaton to know.
I want you to know that Tabletop is responsible for our 2 to 3 times a month game night and for the games I play randomly with my kids.
I want you to know it is OK to not give us what you think is an inferior product and the delay that causes is perfectly fine.
I want you to know that there are legions of fans that read/watch your things and appreciate them without responding or commenting.
I want you to know that we see when you are not ok and it is OK to tell us that just as you want us to tell you when we are not OK.
I want you to know that your speaking freely is one of the reasons I and many others find it easier to speak of our troubles whether with a professional or a spouse or even a random geek on the Internet that starred in one of our (my) favorite movies and one of our (my) favorite TV shows.
TV Crimes is amazing and I hope you and Mikey can fit more into your schedules.
William James Sidis had an estimated IQ of 325 at the age of 9. Early to ripe, Early to rot. He died at 45 or so in NYC. Mental collapse. In a nutshell.
I’m writing a series entitled BEYOND SIDIS. Prepare for a knock knock Wil.
Dude, I just wanted to poke my little face in here and say how much I fucking love Tabletop, and you 🙂 (not in a creepy stalkerish way, but a much respect kind of way).
I started watching them a couple of years ago when I was looking for a game and just got hooked.
I ended up meandering over to Critical role and instead started a D&D game with a group of mates who are now best mates as only D&D once a week for 2 years can bind people. All of which I owe to you and Tabletop. 🙂
So anyway, there’s no way you’re still reading this ramble, but I’ll just finish by saying you’re a good bloke, doing good things for people who need this sort of constructive creative influence and inspiration.
Keep going! Haters gonna hate.
So much respect,
Nick
I want you to know that my sister asked me to go see the Big Sick with her and I’m going to go after this next Supernatural con at which I’m vending, but it adds something to my motivation that it’s your friends’ story. I also want you to know that I agree, even when you love what you’re doing, or love the universe you work, sometimes things happens and it sucks. people are still omg what a great fun job you have! Yes it’s those things but it is still hard as hell too.
I’ve been enjoying Tabletop myself, and while I hope you continue it, I completely understand why you might decide not to, given the constant issues it seems to be having, especially this (legitimately irritating) effort by Legendary to try to use it as a crowbar to get subscriptions to their streaming service. I’ve been patiently waiting for it to come to YouTube. I’m actually curious if it’s going to affect the ability of the show to get games for the next season, given that this was apparently sprung on a lot of people.
Also, thank you for speaking frankly about mental illness, like you always do. I recognize that not everyone has the self awareness and internal, well, lack of shame about what they can’t change, to speak openly about what their problems are, and encourage people to get the help they need. As a part-time trans woman, it’s something that I’m still working on, and while our specific problems are different, they both require acknowledgement and a sad fighting against society that wishes to label things as “all in your head” and “why the hell do you do this treatment, here, try this not helpful non-treatment instead”.
Hi Wil,
1. Enjoy your work be it reading or acting. Is it harder to be yourself ( a la BBT) or inhabit a character?
2. I’m old, 72, having a pretty good life but sometimes find myself wondering more about what happens when we die.
3.Not happy about our government these days, local or the one in DC.
4.Have 1 husband, 4 children, love them all, ditto 3 grandchildren, and the coming great grandchild.
5.I like to paint landscapes, read Stephen King, watch TV, and cuddle with our two cats.
I’m a big fan of tabletop and what you do, but as someone who has followed your blog for several years it’s clear that it drains you and takes the fun out of it for you. I’d be fine if this was where the show ended. Food for thought though: maybe you could look at expanding your twitch activities. Story time has been a blast since January and it seems that most of the Internet dicks aren’t attracted to it. Maybe you could arrange a game night with some people once every month or two and either just stream it or get some help to cut out together. Obviously it wouldn’t be at nearly the same production level, but maybe it would be good for you and the viewers that don’t have it out for you. Just some casual game playing with some guests but without the marathon pace and restrictions.
Wil, I’ve seen the trolling and it’s ridiculous and way over the fucking top. It’s nauseating, and I’m sorry you have to endure it.
Thank you so much for making TableTop. You’re the best.
Probably won’t help for me to say it, but I love Tabletop. We play games as a family BECAUSE of TableTop, usually with titles we learned about because of Tabletop. I wish you felt better about this and a lot of other things.
By a wild coincidence, today is the day I, too, need to change my air filter, even though we just got back from a week and a half away from home. Fortunately we got in early, and so have a lot of time to play catch up and gear up for the coming weeks.
5 things I want Wil Wheaton to know:
1) I have thought you were wonderful since 26 years ago when I saw Stand By Me for the first time, and that feeling has only grown stronger as I’ve followed your blog, read your books, and watched your shows, because you are ‘real’, and that is rare.
2) My ‘Games I Want’ list has grown only because of TableTop. I don’t know why people feel the need to complain about something that’s for free on the interwebs, but your show makes me laugh and has encouraged me to play MANY more games.
3) I only started reading Neil Gaiman because of you. Thank you.
4) No need to apologise for a delay in RFB, nor is there a need to explain. It’s totally ok 🙂
5) Play more games!
Thanks so much for reminding me that I needed to clean my filter for my A/C! Totally forgot and got that taken care of. 🙂
Just wanted you to know (if you don’t already) that the episode of Whose Line that you taped forever and a year ago is scheduled to air (at least according to my tv schedule)) Monday July 10. I’m sure it may have aired somewhere else already but the world turns a bit slower here on in my stomping ground of extreme northern California (ie…about 300 miles north of San Francisco.) Very exciting! Looking forward to (FINALLY!) seeing how your experience with that show turned out!
Our very best gaming friends moved away this year too. It sucks a little bit, but my husband and I are searching out all the good 2 player games and enjoying that. Reinventing our gaming group too. Unexpectedly (as I wasn’t into D&D at all) we love Pathfinder Adventures Card Game. So a shout out for that and anyone else looking for a fun 2 player.
And it sucks to be a creative person making awesome things and have the “powers that be” ruin them for you. Had that happen to me too. You’re still making awesome things, just not in the energizing amazing way you know they can be because someone is putting a damper on that for you. I get it. We love Tabletop. I am sad that it is less cool for you than for the audience.
Well you asked and I need to somewhere to get this out. My husband of 16 years texted me on Friday to tell me he was leaving me and our daughter because he was tired of being a husband and father and he wants to go bar hopping and sleep around. I don’t know what to do with myself. I feel broken and worthless.
You might be broken, but you are not worthless, you are worth everything to your daughter, now more than ever. It gets better. Promise. Also, if I’m being honest, fuck that guy. He’s a dick.
Thank you. It’s nice to hear something positive. I appreciate it.
What glamrockgirl23 said. It’s not your fault your husband is an asshole.
Thank you so much, sincerely. You guys don’t even know me and you took the time to give me some kindness when I desperately need some. Thank you
I completely agree with glamrockgirl23. It’s going to be hard and painful, but in the end, you’ll be better off without such a selfish asshole. (I speak from experience on this)