Wil Wheaton Drops Dungeon Column

[DonTadow]

i strongly disagree.

i goto the middle first.

diaglo "ain't ashamed to admit he likes the centerfold" Ooi

Hillarious... hey that's not a bad idea. Your perversion may have led to something. How about abattlemap in every issue that folds out like a centerfold.

 

[WizarDru]

Actually, forget I said anything.

 

[Henry]

He could find a way to do it in an insurance underwriting forum. He's got mad skillz that way!

Don't test him (Diaglo, I mean); Gary Gygax, who wrote the Original D&D (1974) game, did insurance sales for a time. It's like candy from a baby.

 

[DonTadow]

Backpeddle?

As stated, his comment that he was leaving the magazine for bad mail is well, non news. Him actually doing something about it, would be interesting.

I could have state, "Now if he said he was going to hunt down people like in the Jay and Silent Bob films, that'd be interesting."

I could have said a thousand things to indicate that his column bored me and that his 'leaving' message bored me.

However, I stand by what I said.

How many of you wouldn't be interested in it? Would you go, "Man, that's boring. I wish he'd just leave the magazine because some people didn't like it."

I remain the eternal cynic.

Irony, this non-news has racked up 7 pages of discussion in two days. Man I"m glad you're not an editor of anything newsworthy.

 

[GVDammerung]

Something that is being overlooked here, I think, is that, setting aside the characterization of the anti-Wil Save comments, Erik appears to have found something in the anti-Wil Save comments sufficiently meritorious to go to Wil Wheaton and ask him to adjust the focus of his columns. He did not have to do this. Neither has he indicated that he "caved in" to a "vocal minority."

Wil Save appears to have died for the exact reason its detractors identified - it was not appropriate content. Erik appears to have realized this at some level and thus asked Wheaton for a change. Wheaton determined he could not comply and resigned the column.

A viciously vocal minority did not kill Wil Save. The detractors appear to have contributed, as did Wheaton’s personal situation, but they also appear to have had a point sufficient to have Erik ask Wheaton for a change, which catalyzed the situation.

 

[JoeGKushner]

Irony, this non-news has racked up 7 pages of discussion in two days. Man I"m glad you're not an editor of anything newsworthy.

Ah, but how many of them are "down with Downer" or "Joe Kushner is a jerk" response threads as opposed to, "Man, this sure is news!"

 

[EricNoah]

And yet it seems like a number of people got the impression you wish he'd commit suicide.

Gotta say, Joe, that was my reading of it too. You had me scared there for a sec! I appreciate your attempt to clarify.

 

[reveal]

Gotta say, Joe, that was my reading of it too. You had me scared there for a sec! I appreciate your attempt to clarify.

What attempts to clarify? Clarification is trying to explain what you meant when you wrote. Sans one post, all I've seen are "that's not what I meant; you can't read" comments.

 

[Jdvn1]

What attempts to clarify? Clarification is trying to explain what you meant when you wrote. Sans one post, all I've seen are "that's not what I meant; you can't read" comments.

For one, he said he didn't wish the death of Wil. That's a plus.

 

[JoeGKushner]

For one, he said he didn't wish the death of Wil. That's a plus.

Run Jdvn1, you're attempts to 'back peddle' for me will only wind up getting you flamed.