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Offline IceFire

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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
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Offline iamzack

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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
I'm glad I don't watch tv much. :\
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Offline General Battuta

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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
*facepalm*

SyFy?  seriously?  Sounds like elite speak's ill bred progeny.

Actually, um, they said the reason they picked it was because their focus groups said it was how they'd text 'SciFi'. So it made them feel 'more hip'.

 

Offline JGZinv

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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
I'd like to know the age of these "groups."
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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
I'd like to know the age of these "groups."

They cited the 18-34 tech-savvy demographic in that article, right?

 

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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
Thank goodness for SPACE channel.  It may be cheesy but its true to its roots!

I read in one of these forums that even Space is starting to get infected.

"from the people who canceled farscape to bring you tremors... "

Wasn't Tremors another one of those D rated movies Sci-fi did?
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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
I'll see your SyFy and raise you NASA TV.

...srsly, wtf.
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Offline Polpolion

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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
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The name Sci Fi has been associated with geeks and dysfunctional, antisocial boys in their basements with video games and stuff like that

God Dammit, that's part of what makes it awesome.

 

Offline Bobboau

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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
Wasn't Tremors another one of those D rated movies Sci-fi did?

actually Tremors was a fairly decent kevin bacon movie.
Tremors 2: aftershocks, was a moderately disappointing B movie.
Tremors 3: now they light there farts to fly (I ****ING **** YOU NOT!) was the abhorrent pilot to one of the most perfectly horribly shows to have ever been made.
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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
Thank goodness for SPACE channel.  It may be cheesy but its true to its roots!

Wait till they catch on and change it to the 5P4CE channel :P
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Offline Bobboau

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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
Actually, um, they said the reason they picked it was because their focus groups said it was how they'd text 'SciFi'. So it made them feel 'more hip'.

well then shouldn't they have changed the spelling to 'lame'. because I know that's how I spell it.
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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
I'm not sure I believe you. Sexism is pretty deeply ingrained in geekiness.

Ya lolz, girls should lsten 2 us bcause r brainz r biggerer.

Seriously though, Girls are pretty dumb. No wait, very dumb. Fortunately, I can make no claim about my gender being superior due to the simple fact that it seems like everyone is equally stupid these days. I hate to sound like you and Nuke but sometimes I think I'm the last standing bastion of intelligence with the exception of a few people.  :hopping:

Now, onto the topic at hand. Yeah, good idea, dis your core audience. Let's see how far that gets you.  :rolleyes:

 

Offline Mefustae

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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
I'm not sure I believe you. Sexism is pretty deeply ingrained in geekiness.
How so?

More often than not, geeky guys fall into the 'nice guy' category. The exact opposite to the frat boy ****wits that'll get a girl drunk before ****ing her because they don't have the balls to talk to a woman while she's sober.


 

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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
I hate to sound like you and Nuke but sometimes I think I'm the last standing bastion of intelligence with the exception of a few people.  :hopping:
I had that feeling once, but then my friends talked me down and we got Wendy's.
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Offline iamzack

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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
I'm not sure I believe you. Sexism is pretty deeply ingrained in geekiness.
How so?

More often than not, geeky guys fall into the 'nice guy' category. The exact opposite to the frat boy ****wits that'll get a girl drunk before ****ing her because they don't have the balls to talk to a woman while she's sober.

More often than not, "nice guys" and "frat boy ****wits" have the same attitude towards females. The difference is that "nice guys" are in denial, and that makes them condescending pricks.
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Offline Commander Zane

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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
"Nice guys" think of females as a walking hole to ****? :wtf:
Well...I guess I have seen the non-popular community of high schoolers act like they had bragging rights over it when I was in school two years ago.

 

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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
So this channel was created to show science fiction and now they want to distance themselves from science fiction because science fiction is bad, so why create a channel for science fiction in the first place??? ARRRGH!!
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Offline Mika

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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
Seriously, is it me being tired or getting crazy or what? Why do I find almost all of these current threads highly amusing to read?

SyFy? That really sounds like an STD. And blurs the original meaning also. But on the other hand, I haven't had TV for 8 years. Air Crash Investigations and Darkwing Duck on Youtube have satisfied relatively well my needs of entertainment when I need it.

Currently thinking if he should appear here as a borderline sexist or as a nice guy. Then again, I heard Mika is women's name in Japan. Oh hell...

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Offline NGTM-1R

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Re: Sci Fi is becoming SyFy.... more like syphilis
So this channel was created to show science fiction and now they want to distance themselves from science fiction because science fiction is bad, so why create a channel for science fiction in the first place??? ARRRGH!!

****ing Sci-Fi Ghetto.
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