PA interview on CNN

nearlysober

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/29/geek-out-penny-arcade/?hpt=Mid

Was on the front page earlier today, thought for sure there'd be a thread on this already but a search for 'CNN' turned up squat.

Nothing very groundbreaking discussed, good to see the guys get some big press though.

Druhim

that's a total fluff interview

Lucky Cynic

I like how there is no mention of Child's Play.

Canada_jezus

"gamer culture"

No but honestly the interview is a bit shit

Druhim

it's basically an interview by someone who doesn't really know anything about who he's interviewing

Lucky Cynic

Druhim wrote: »

it's basically an interview by someone who doesn't really know anything about who he's interviewing

Ted Turner is doing interviews at CNN again?

Sars_Boy

CNN: Video games?

PA: Video games.

Faricazy

nice to see the stockinterviewphoto.jpg still going strong

Beef Avenger

Sars_Boy wrote: »

CNN: Video games?

PA: Video games.

this is blowing my mind

Sars_Boy

that photo is pretty much perfect

Nocturne

Yeah the questions are pretty terrible, but their responses are hilarious. The entire thing is tongue-in-cheek, and I giggled quite a bit.

Edit: At least the first half or so is.

Volucrisus Aedrius

I love that PA made that photo specifically to go out in press releases to make fun of the retarded caricatures the media had been putting out about people who play video games.

Zombies Tossed My Salad!

The comments are almost youtube bad

Canada_jezus

I agree the photo is pretty nice, but honestly too many people are going to just look at it and go "thats retarded"

Nocturne

I mean seriously:

Do you think that geeks today are more accepted than before?

Jerry: Even if it were true, I would resist it. I don’t want to be accepted. I want to retain my street credentials. There are lots of geeks, and certainly geeks can communicate with one another, but ... do we have an openly geek Senator? Is there a Senator that can speak fluently about Daleks? Maybe not.

I would say that Michael and I are being beat up less. It hasn’t completely abated. It still happens on occasion. But I would say that… the beatings are less severe.

What do you think is the difference between a nerd and a geek?

Jerry: I think being a geek is cool… A geek has an ownership of their geek nature.

And nerds?

Jerry: They don't. It’s my hope that my nerds become geeks via a natural process, that they learn that their inherent nature isn’t something they need to feel ashamed of. I feel like 'nerd' is the epithet, and 'geek' is the inside term.

Mike: Is that like what's written on a tombstone?

Jerry: Mhm. Here lies, you know, Nerd.

How do you geek out?

Jerry: We geek out constantly. I'm geeking out right now. I'm talking to CNN.

They are taking terrible questions and giving hilarious answers. I enjoyed that.

VALVEjunkie

Zombies Tossed My Salad! wrote: »

The comments are almost youtube bad

was just about to post this

Volucrisus Aedrius

I also love that "youtube comments" are the new litmus of terrible internet postings.

I'd like to be witty and come up some kind of scale for how many "youtube comments" an awful post is worth but its a mathematically unsound proposition.

Infinity, multiplied by any number, is still infinity.

Tossrock

nearlysober wrote: »

http://scitech.blogs.cnn.com/2010/03/29/geek-out-penny-arcade/?hpt=Mid

Was on the front page earlier today, thought for sure there'd be a thread on this already but a search for 'CNN' turned up squat.

Nothing very groundbreaking discussed, good to see the guys get some big press though.

Editor's note: Geek Out! posts feature the latest and most interesting in nerd-culture news. From scifi and fantasy to gadgets and science, if you can geek out over it you can find it on Geek Out! Look for Geek Out! posts on CNN's SciTech blog.

UnbreakableVow

WORST. GAME REVIEWER PIC. EVER.

I read you're guys column via a friend, and man...a bit too much geek for my taste. The Writing is also out there, like someone simple trying to sound important. I give you guys prop for your success and your game tastes...BUT, you're still too geeky for most gamers. I enjoy games, for over 30 years now...but I still have a life outside games.

You guys don't give off that impression and I'm not so sure that's truly a cool thing, even for a Geek.

Zombies Tossed My Salad!

His geek rating is over 9000 GigaWheatons!

UnbreakableVow

I like that geek is apparently a proper noun

Tossrock

burn it all down

Framling

Volucrisus Aedrius wrote: »

I also love that "youtube comments" are the new litmus of terrible internet postings.

I'd like to be witty and come up some kind of scale for how many "youtube comments" an awful post is worth but its a mathematically unsound proposition.

Infinity, multiplied by any number, is still infinity.

Wait, wait, how does this work? Are "youtube comments" measure of terribleness? I'm thinking there's two ways you can go with this.

One: a youtube comment scale, where a post's quality is rated on a scale from 0 to 1 youtube comments, with 0.0 being an acceptable, quality post, and 1.0 being the worst possible post. A bad post might be 0.3 youtube comments, a terrible post might be 0.7 youtube comments.

Or two: one youtube comment is the indivisible quantum of post quality, i.e., the only way to have less than one youtube comment of quality in a post is to have 0 youtube comments, which would just be no post at all. So maybe a good post is like a billion youtube comments. A gigayoutubecomment.

Rolo

Volucrisus Aedrius wrote: »

I also love that "youtube comments" are the new litmus of terrible internet postings.

I'd like to be witty and come up some kind of scale for how many "youtube comments" an awful post is worth but its a mathematically unsound proposition.

Infinity, multiplied by any number, is still infinity.

Can anyone explain why youtube now orders comments not by the order they were posted in but apparently according to who you may be responding to? Not are the conversations retarded to begin with, they're also impossible to follow.

L|ama

yeah they recently changed the reply system, not sure why. My guesses are:
1) Decrease server load
2) Make conversations impossible to follow in order to deter commenting

My money's on 2.

Big Red Tie

i love that picture
gabe isn't that into it, but tycho really sells it

Volucrisus Aedrius

God damn, Framling. <3

Big Red Tie

what are you framling some kind of Geek?

DarkPrimus

I didn't bother checking the CNN link but I am gathering the picture of them is the "Tycho holding 360 controller backwards and Gabe with a PSP" picture that they use for articles like this.

Umaro

I am geeking so hard uuuuugh I'm gonna blow I'm gonna blow.

VALVEjunkie

DarkPrimus wrote: »

I didn't bother checking the CNN link but I am gathering the picture of them is the "Tycho holding 360 controller backwards and Gabe with a PSP" picture that they use for articles like this.

oh yes

if you do read it dont bother checking the comments

DarkPrimus

VALVEjunkie wrote: »

DarkPrimus wrote: »

I didn't bother checking the CNN link but I am gathering the picture of them is the "Tycho holding 360 controller backwards and Gabe with a PSP" picture that they use for articles like this.

oh yes

if you do read it dont bother checking the comments

The only things I ever read the comments for are my own YouTube videos, and I get maybe one new comment a week.

Actually one of my oldest videos apparently qualifies for ad revenue or something, anyone know how that works?

The Geek

UnbreakableVow wrote: »

I like that geek is apparently a proper noun

Yo.

VALVEjunkie

DarkPrimus wrote: »

VALVEjunkie wrote: »

DarkPrimus wrote: »

I didn't bother checking the CNN link but I am gathering the picture of them is the "Tycho holding 360 controller backwards and Gabe with a PSP" picture that they use for articles like this.

oh yes

if you do read it dont bother checking the comments

The only things I ever read the comments for are my own YouTube videos, and I get maybe one new comment a week.

Actually one of my oldest videos apparently qualifies for ad revenue or something, anyone know how that works?

youtube makes it a "featured video" and gives it ad space at the top of the list and every time someone views it you get cash (like a fraction of a penny or something)

I think

Chi City describes it waaay better in one of his vids that I cant be arsed to find right now

Henroid

That photo is NEVER going to get old. <3

Kudos to Mike & Jerry for at least giving worthwhile responses to stupid questions (they exist). And I agree on the whole lack of Child's Play questioning. It's like CNN doesn't know anything!

Ivar

I saw the word "charity" in there somewhere, but the interviewer completely ignored it

Ivar

VALVEjunkie wrote: »

DarkPrimus wrote: »

VALVEjunkie wrote: »

DarkPrimus wrote: »

I didn't bother checking the CNN link but I am gathering the picture of them is the "Tycho holding 360 controller backwards and Gabe with a PSP" picture that they use for articles like this.

oh yes

if you do read it dont bother checking the comments

The only things I ever read the comments for are my own YouTube videos, and I get maybe one new comment a week.

Actually one of my oldest videos apparently qualifies for ad revenue or something, anyone know how that works?

youtube makes it a "featured video" and gives it ad space at the top of the list and every time someone views it you get cash (like a fraction of a penny or something)

I think

Chi City describes it waaay better in one of his vids that I cant be arsed to find right now

Is it a featured video that he gets paid for when people see it?

Henroid

Ivar wrote: »

I saw the word "charity" in there somewhere, but the interviewer completely ignored it

Likely because he didn't give a shit and was just going through the motions.

"Bob, we've got an interview lined up with these two guys."
"Who are they?"
"Some nerds or geeks, whatever, running a website. Here's the questions."
"Ugh, fine."

VALVEjunkie

Ivar wrote: »

VALVEjunkie wrote: »

DarkPrimus wrote: »

VALVEjunkie wrote: »

DarkPrimus wrote: »

I didn't bother checking the CNN link but I am gathering the picture of them is the "Tycho holding 360 controller backwards and Gabe with a PSP" picture that they use for articles like this.

oh yes

if you do read it dont bother checking the comments

The only things I ever read the comments for are my own YouTube videos, and I get maybe one new comment a week.

Actually one of my oldest videos apparently qualifies for ad revenue or something, anyone know how that works?

youtube makes it a "featured video" and gives it ad space at the top of the list and every time someone views it you get cash (like a fraction of a penny or something)

I think

Chi City describes it waaay better in one of his vids that I cant be arsed to find right now

Is it a featured video that he gets paid for when people see it?

maybe? fuck I dunno

here lemme check

VALVEjunkie

okay yea heres the vid I was talking about

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0bGs-hhenI

and no, it isn't a featured vid

apparently none of his videos are

Ivar

Henroid wrote: »

Ivar wrote: »

I saw the word "charity" in there somewhere, but the interviewer completely ignored it

Likely because he didn't give a shit and was just going through the motions.

"Bob, we've got an interview lined up with these two guys."
"Who are they?"
"Some nerds or geeks, whatever, running a website. Here's the questions."
"Ugh, fine."