" God, are you people morons or what? Look, I'm no fan of his work (I hated him in Star Trek TNG) but he is a high profile gaming celebrity for geeks. You know, that vast majority of gamers which most of you here pretend not to be aligned with. You know, the kind of people who work hard at menial jobs so that they can go to CONs and play D & D on a regular basis and be the geek army which validates our market with high turnout numbers to these CONs where game publishers market aggressively. The kind of people I have nothing to do with personally. That said I know who they are and how important Will Wheaton is to them because he is a nexus between Star Trek geek-star and visible-to-the-public gamer. The so called journalists were looking for answers which they could have found on fucking Twitter. They shouldn't have asked him what they probably already knew and he was insulted by the stupid question. He is a public figure who has made his politics well known in quotable terms more than once. Any fucking proper journalist who knows wtf they are doing should be mindful of that when addressing a public figure. It's as simple as that. They weren't and he was offended by their stupidity and said as much. Their stupidity reflects poorly on his work to make his political views known; he's been quoted before, so when someone asks him what they should already know it either looks like they don't know who they're talking to or worse, his opinion isn't worthy of their time. In short they mishandled a public figure and then proceeded to do so further, which further raised his ire. I realise that a lot of you are young and naive but that doesn't excuse you being a bunch of fucktards when it comes to basic journalism in the process of getting a sound (or in this case twit) bite. It also doesn't excuse for going LOLOL LOOK AT THE ANGRY MAN because you don't fucking understand why he's angry. Try getting off that diet of shitty reality TV and Lady Gaga music and realise that there are standards and practices which people have to live by if they want to call themselves journalists. Not everything is the internet equivalent of bumfights. Jadeskye, I'm sorry you even tried. :/ "10$ bucks says that this guy is wheaton in disguise.
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