Yeah screw him and his crappy acting! AND MS.PAC-MAN IS CROSSDRESSING PAC-MAN!

@Moggle

The point is it's hillarious to laugh behind his back as chances are that was and comment that he expected EVERYONE to agree with him. Despite most of the people who watch his stuff probably do play alot of video games! It's OK to get pissed off when people act like pricks dude.

Kris S:
If you spend any time on IRC or with certain community member groups, Ryan Reynolds is rather well liked. IT's just that his remark is a little odd, considering his nerd fan base

...wait why is everyone so angry?

Don't we all agree videogames are a huge waste of time compared to: meet real people, go out, do sports, visit a museum, etc etc.

They're still awesome though.

He gets to fuck the hottest chick in the world. Hands down. So......... yeah. He's got a point. If not for these damn vidyagames, look what I could be doing.

Well, there is a lot of truth in what he says, if you can keep the knee-jerk reactions to claw his eyes out at bay. But like anything else, not ALL of them are a waste of time. But he also seems to think that playing videogames means you spend every waking moment playing, with little else? Those are the WoW players, and WoW isn't a real game...haha!

On the next episode of Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place this happens:

I officially hate Ryan Reynolds.

Artemus:
It's true. I agree that this story is not much. Look at my tag under the header picture: "Non-news". I wrote in a manner that I thought might be funny. I mean, Ryan Reynolds is an actor that I know a lot of guys like, especially gamers, and when he said this comment, it can be regarded as a jerk comment. That is how I interpreted it.

Of course, it has gotten me more comments than I ever expected (or have ever received), and offered a funny celebrity post on a light Thursday evening. Big deal.

Now, I agree with you that interesting and important stories get little fanfare. Well, why don't you start offering interesting commentary into those stories as opposed to commenting in, yes, a mindless article written in fun about talking head from the entertainment industry. I mean, I had a fantastic interview with the creator of Tetris. I broke some news in it about the future of the game, got linked to other sites, and generally pulled of, IMO, a AAA interview. I got 14 comments. Pretty much everyone of my interviews have been like that, and I am especially proud of those Q&As.

I expected that I wouldn't get that much attention then, and I expected this post to garner some attention, cause, well, these types of posts DO garner attention. Notice that I've done my best to stay away from much direct commentary on this article, cause, well, I didn't need to. You guys did all of the discussion, and carried things along long after I said anything. It's no longer just me.

Also, I think Dtoid has been pretty clear all along that, as a blog, we offer a wide gamut of articles. It's fair to say we can post this, right? Would you read nothing but thought provoking interviews and features? Probably not. So I think we can all relax a little bit, right?

Oh, I'm not offended at all by any of the comments I've seen on this post. As a matter of fact, this post is a great departure from the writing style I normally use, so I was really interested in the response I got. "Did I go too far? Or not enough?". Obviously, some people feel I was trolling, while other feel that Ryan Reynolds is alienating his fanbase.

That's why I made sure to get a link to the original post, and people can make their decisions there, you know? And as for the sensitivity of the community, I would have to say that generally anything gaming related, tend to be defensive. I mean, look at Jonathan Ross' Fanboy Fridays. It's just the way things happen to be. So there you go!

Sorry, Ben, this whole "make up your OWN minds" thing is a cop-out. The title itself is a complete and willful mischaracterization of what he said. Unfortunately, "Ryan Reynolds says games are a way to waste time" isn't as sexy and doesn't wind up the 12-year-olds and girl-fearers like the title posted.

Stories like this devalue Destructoid's reputation as credible journalists.