Episode 129 - Being a Geek is OK [Discussion]

[travislopes]

Huge Ocean, Duke Nukem Forever, New Tay Zonday, Vista is #1 Tech Disappointment of 2007, Fighting 5 Year Olds, Jurassic Park in Dubai, Student Arrested for Cutting Food with a Knife. Plus viewer e-mails with relationship advice and female pro-wrestlers.

Ask.com Extra Video (http://video.fmpub.net/diggnation/diggnation129ask.mov)

[forzeti]

Great episode, I loved the stuff at the end.

[bs0l]

stuff at the end? the emails?

[silentspyder]

Yea, that wrestling chick is tough. Here's the video I found of her with the shirt on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfFkDvXyWHw

[tangerine]

My mother had a coach's whistle.

My brothers and I had to be within ear-shot
for dinner at 7:30.


Good times.

[tangerine]

Female diggnation fan &
Internet super-freak

Like the boys said:
DO NOT SETTLE
Call it off.
It is not the perfect match.

Geek girls exist.
Find us.
We are wearing the diggnation shirts.
This is your future calling.

[therage800]

Anyone else notice the addition to the credits?

http://revision3.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=430&d=1198310827

[eddielee]

An awesome episode, especially the e-mails.

[dagosn]

You've got to love the tangents. Wrestling chick at the end was totally rad. :cool:

[minimanjapan]

the "kid" Alex is talking about during the chocolate rain story is Daxflame
http://youtube.com/profile?user=Daxflame

[vincent12234]

Love the episode this week, especially the end e-mail since I'm a huge into wrestling, so very cool, and just loved the episode.

[mooking]

Great episode, that ides of Alex sounded good about Vista skins for XP. I like Vista but had to go back to XP for gaming. Does anyone have any vista skins for xp links?

[orsenfelt]

Brilliant Episode.

I literally can't stop laughing at the fact they are seriously discussing the tactics and type of attacks needed to beat the shit out of swarms of 5 year olds.

[owlboy]

Am I the only one having problems downloading the episode off Itunes? It'll do a complete download but I don't have the file any where and it doesn't play

[bsg]

Brilliant Episode.

I literally can't stop laughing at the fact they are seriously discussing the tactics and type of attacks needed to beat the shit out of swarms of 5 year olds.

This was the funniest part of any diggnation episode for me. I have never laughed that hard at a show. Oh man. I'm currently capturing it for youtube as we speak.

[inland-empress]

Another girl gamer here.

I used to play duke nukem all the time back in the day but yeah, the trailer for the new game is a lil... eh.

[nolonx]

Being a geek is ok! You guys gave just the right answer to that guy.

Nice episode! (loved the 5 years old children test lol)

[owlboy]

Now I see what happened, someone didn't upload any of the video versions of the show to iTunes

[jasonp16]

i hope women are nicer to geeks after high school, becuse being a geek sure dosent help me right now.

[rkiga]

if vista is slow on your comp, read the comment i just made in the "do you use vista?" thread on how to speed things up especially for copying files
http://revision3.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12916&page=3

@mooking
there are 2-3 skins for xp that i really liked, all official or semi-official from microsoft. "royale (http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2005/5/8/248)", "royale noir (http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061029/royale-noir/#downloadlink)" and "Zune (http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2006/12/09/WinXP__Zune_Theme.aspx)". i think those all have multiple color sets. you can't have both royale and royale noir so probably skip noir. i always hated that green start button, so before i found royale i spent hours learning how to use reshacker, make and install custom themes--what a waste of time.

oh yeah it's probably pretty obvious to others, but the tay zonday video was for dr. pepper's new drink "cherry chocolate dr pepper". did nobody from the show read the description from the digg story? and obviously tay knows he's a joke, the goofy pictures of himself aren't him trying to be cool, they're just having fun with himself.

[jagtar]

i was waiting for alex to do his choclate rain impression...

[crugg]

Tay Zonday is real. No joke. The video they watched was done for Dr. Pepper. Tay has been on Jimmy Kimmel as well, along with other songs he has written. And yes his voice does sound like that in real life.

[brendon2020]

gotta disagree with kevin with leopard. Find leopard faster, not a whole lot but there is a general speed increase, with the same stability as tiger.
In the year and a half i used tiger i remember 4-5 cases that i needed to reboot due to instability, and most was me messing with shit. I find leopard just as stable because now I'm using apple's apps that offer integration as well as stability. Virtue desktops to spaces, iterm to terminal, etc and most use a ton less ram. I program in eclipse all day so hopefully java 6 will come out soon. I've got time machine running in the background, i haven't used it a lot, still use ibackup just incase.

[mooking]

@mooking
there are 2-3 skins for xp that i really liked, all official or semi-official from microsoft. "royale (http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2005/5/8/248)", "royale noir (http://www.istartedsomething.com/20061029/royale-noir/#downloadlink)" and "Zune (http://stevenharman.net/blog/archive/2006/12/09/WinXP__Zune_Theme.aspx)". i think those all have multiple color sets. you can't have both royale and royale noir so probably skip noir. i always hated that green start button, so before i found royale i spent hours learning how to use reshacker, make and install custom themes--what a waste of time.


Thanks for the help.

[agamotto]

The biggest disappointment that has lead many of my friends to put XP back on their machines is the 'interesting' things that happen with games under Vista. You know something is wrong with Vista when Oblivion runs faster and with more stability on a similar-spec box running Ubuntu w/Cedega than with Vista. Prager as a fluffer... ok, Sean Cody might be hiring :)

As an aside, has anyone noticed how in the last three years or so, computers just aren't as fun as they used to be?

The girl with the steak knife is a fine example of why I am so happy to be over 35. I didn't have to deal with school shootings, idiot adults who think pocket knives are assault weapons, or being driven to school because parents won't teach their children how to fight back.

[radzack]

TayZonday is a maxium douche-fag

[bigstupid]

i hope women are nicer to geeks after high school, becuse being a geek sure dosent help me right now.

If experience has taught me anything.... no.

[vanler]

Great episode, that ides of Alex sounded good about Vista skins for XP. I like Vista but had to go back to XP for gaming. Does anyone have any vista skins for xp links?

You can all ways try out Vista Transformation Pack (http://www.windowsxlive.net/?page_id=15) it won't look 100% like Vista of course but it's decent at doing so.

Really enjoyed this episode I liked the Fluffer joke at the end.

[darknessgp]

The biggest disappointment that has lead many of my friends to put XP back on their machines is the 'interesting' things that happen with games under Vista. You know something is wrong with Vista when Oblivion runs faster and with more stability on a similar-spec box running Ubuntu w/Cedega than with Vista. Prager as a fluffer... ok, Sean Cody might be hiring :)

Huh? What kind of "interesting" thing? I've got an X2 5600+, 4GB of DDR2, a 8800GTS 512MB, and running Vista Ultimate x64. And I haven't had issues like with Vista and Games. Perhaps it was your build or a specific game?

Also, I was kind of surprised by that story. I hadn't seen it on digg, but there is at least one major thing wrong with it. Vista came out in November of 2006. It shouldn't be in a story about "disappointments" of 2007. I use quotes, because the things listed are only disappointing because people hyped them up way too much. Take Mass Effect for example. Is it a bad game? No, it's a pretty good game. It's just people were hyping it up like it was the second coming of Christ.

[tbeseda]

Tay Zonday is real. No joke. The video they watched was done for Dr. Pepper. Tay has been on Jimmy Kimmel as well, along with other songs he has written. And yes his voice does sound like that in real life.

thanks for clearing that up. i was gonna have to do it, if no one else did.
his original video was legit, then hired by Dr. Pepper to do their promo. if kevin and alex had watched to the end they would have seen the HUGE product plug at the end.

[minutnudler]

Great episode guys. Especially liked the e-mail segment.
In Denmark, where i live, people are living like they're in the fucking 90'. Aparently being a geek is not okay here. But you know what. I don't care. You can't live your life acting like you're someone you're not. If people see you as an "uncool" person because you like tech, comic books etc. It's because they don't have enough self esteem to do something out of the usual themselves. Of the girlfriends I've had, none have been geeky. But i would never date someone who would want to hide a part of my personality.

[archytas]

Funniest episode I've seen! Though granted I only started at about 100... Very funny.