"the 2 stands for 2 in the morning" - Robin Williams
A guy bumps into Robin Williams on the sidewalk conversation goes as follows:
"Hey Robin - do you still play online games?"
"Oh way too much!" he said.
"What are you playing these days?" I asked
"Battlefield 2 - the 2 stands for 2 in the morning."
"Oh really? What class do you like?"
"Hmm?"
"What class do you like to play as?"
"Oh - the sniper. I'm always the sniper!" he said enthusiastically.
"Well I'll watch out for you"
"Well you can try - but by the time you see me you'll be dead!!"
http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000183072155/
[Edit: ooops, the better link => http://thearchies.blogspot.com/2005/12/mork-me.html ]
Will video game playing become the next poker, Cabala, yoga, authoring children's books... for celebs?
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Robin Williams apparently has always been a huge video game fan. In some research (for an article I'm writing), I discovered that he used to call up certain members of the Infocom staff in the middle of the night, begging for hints for their games. That was back in the text adventure days, so he's been kickin' it electronically for decades now.
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Well, you can already run into Curt Schilling in EQ and Dave Chappelle in WoW, so I wouldn't be all that surprised if BF2 was attracting the celebs, but Robin Williams?
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Also wasn't there something recently about whats-her-bimbo seen in public with an Xbox 360... Paris Hilton I mean. =)
I now know Robin is hardcore (from reading that article), but maybe he'll set things in motion for all the celebs to 'come out'.
The other link in the joystiq article which links to an old interview with Robin talking about getting addicted to computers and the net... made me worry for him if he ever got playing WoW.
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If I remember right, comedian Dave Chappelle is a huge WoW player which might explain what happened to the never finished third season of his show.
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And let's not forget about Elijah Wood.
Somehow it seems appropriate that Frodo is a gamer...
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Thats great, now we have two ritalin kinds playing BF2.
Williams plays DoD too.
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I remember some snippet of one of those "Late Night" shows where Robin Williams said he played Quake. He's awesome. That right there is enough to forgive him for Patch Adams.
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Robin Williams and David Bowie supposedly played Ultima Online.
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
Robin Williams made Mrs. Doubtfire and he has the same birthday as me. That alone makes him awesome.
Vin Diesel is also a huge gamer and regularly plays D&D.
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I remember reading somewhere that he still gets together with the boys for regular Friday night games. Now thats my kind of gamer.
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Quite literally.
Now that made me snicker.
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Dammnit, Mex beat me to it but yeah, back in the day Robin Williams appeared on Letterman or the Tonight Show and talked about Quake and described deathmatching. So he's an FPS OG. Give the man his propers!
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I also remember reading about Robin Williams being a gamer, something about being up till all hours of the night and playing Quake. Infocom though? That's oldschool.
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I think you just killed this thread.
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Let's not forget that on Vin's first day of pre-school, he consumed 8 bottles of glue.
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Vin Diesel can divide by zero.
And the actual link is here.
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You guys ever read the Chuck Norris facts list?
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Vin Diesel owns a life-size Pez dispenser, but instead of candy, he inserts cinderblocks and uses them as croutons in his salads.
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Quintin_Stone wrote:
lunabean wrote:I met Robin Williams at E3 one year and saw him at Gencon getting Warhammer 40k stuff. HE's a gamer.
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There were some better ones on there too.
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