GenCon is a gaming convention held every year in Indiana. Naturally, this means people go there for one reason and one reason only: to be preached at. Recognizing this, GenCon organizers threatened to move future events out of state as a response to a recent anti-abortion bill.
Some chud named Tim Waters (who I guess is a professor? Weird) wrote an op-ed in the Washington Post arguing that maybe instead people who go to gaming cons would prefer to focus on, y'know, gaming. That maybe turning every single event into a place to advance an agenda doesn't make for a healthy society. That maybe people play tabletop games to ESCAPE from the real world. All in all it's a pretty tame op-ed that only the truly deranged could find offense over.
Enter Wil Wheaton.
Wil, who you may remember from getting absolutely wrecked on r/drama back when it was good, is completely, utterly, indescribably butt-blasted over this article. Apparently suggesting that people may want to go 5 minutes without having DNC talking points shoved in their face is LITERALLY FASCISM YOU GUYS. If we don't bombard you with progressive politics 24/7 then everyone might as well be wearing a Klan hood. Showcasing just how little self-awareness he has, Wil even calls the author a fragile crybaby because apparently self-reflection is also fascism.
Seriously, guys, PLEASE go read the op-ed and then Wil's response. The dis-proportionality is mind-blowing, and frankly I think Tim Waters needs to be offered a mod position here immediately.
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Wheaton once cried on social media that the infamous SHUT UP WESLEY scene and ensuing meme gave him PTSD over the years and I cannot think of anything more hard soy than that.
Child actors, not even once.
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It's not child actors. Mickey Rooney was a good actor as an adult. Roddy McDowell was great in serious roles on TV in the 1960s. Heck, Clint Howard is weird-looking and he's done great work all his life. The problem is that WW is a massive cute twink who couldn't accept that his greatest success was as a kid in Stand By Me and he should settle into a comfortable life taking advantage of that. Instead he's just constantly moping "I deserve more (except I don't because I'm white!)". If he didn't have the worst, most loathsome personality of anyone on the planet he could have a perfectly fine living as an actor right now.
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I wonder if him intentionally destroying all nerd culture is his revenge for the way he was treated as an annoying child actor. Nerd Soros origin story confirmed.
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