Syfy? NatGeo?! wtf?

[medierra]

Last night I watched a good show about the Amazon on "NatGeo" and then a few minutes ago I was looking at a side-banner on a website for that new Caprica show on "SyFy".

Is it just me or do those name changes seem unnecessarily douchie? I mean common... does everything need to cater to hipsters and personalities from the TV show Jersey Shore?

Not that I have anything against hipsters or douche-bags. I mean, many of my friends and family probably fall into one of those categories and I can appreciate a little douche-baggery now and again. But there is a time and place for it. Common... NatGeo?! really? Kind of loses a little bit of integrity for me.

Oh btw, we're changing the game of our game to "G-Dizzle"...

[Renevent]

That last line made me literally laugh out loud..."G-Dizzle" :D

I was complaining about this very same crap to the wife the other night...especially the NatGeo thing...makes me think of Natty-Ice and other cheap beer, not quality nature based programming.

It really feels like all the integrity is gone. We used to watch a lot of Court TV...which is now TruTV...I mean...wtf??? And it's more than just a name change...they used to have really nice informative shows on there...now it's just reruns of Operation Repo all day :furious:

[jiaco]

While G-Drizzle is great, I think that would only appeal to the English.

For America, you need something like GymDon

[Malpheas]

LMAO @ Calvin and Hobbes type monologue.

Laughed so hard.

[eisprinzessin]

They cannot stop, while they have still customers. That's their way of telling you: "We have run out of ideas. Leave us alone, so that we close our business." :p

[Rhis]

I'm just glad I don't own a TV.

[Malpheas]

And while I own a television, the only thing it comes on for is watching DVDs; or playing old console games. Ah youth.

[jameswhite1979]

On the matter of NatGeo here in the UK they appear to be selling out and have now put their name against house fragrance products...Shame

[gdansk]

SciFi was bad enough, but this I find appalling. Apparently, so must the Polish... (http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/18/)

[context]

I can get NatGeo, National Geographic Channel isn't really easy to pronounce all the time. But syfy seems totally without a point. (other than to come in the news because you are changing your name into something stupid)

[andreyy]

Syf is the short form of 'syfilis', in Polish, which means (surprise!) syphilis.

Syfy is the plural form. So yeah, that name sucks.

[Llama8]

Has someone been indulging in the Joss Sticks & Whale Song a bit too much?

[TECHNOmancer]

Okay, so the game's going to be named G-Dizzle. Does that mean the character selection screen gives players the option to choose between homies and dawgs?

TECHNOmancer
(T-mer?)

[Malpheas]

Ah, PC friendly euphemisms.

Cheers,

Malizzlephizzle.

[radio_babylon]

Last night I watched a good show about the Amazon on "NatGeo" and then a few minutes ago I was looking at a side-banner on a website for that new Caprica show on "SyFy".

Is it just me or do those name changes seem unnecessarily douchie? I mean common... does everything need to cater to hipsters and personalities from the TV show Jersey Shore?

Not that I have anything against hipsters or douche-bags. I mean, many of my friends and family probably fall into one of those categories and I can appreciate a little douche-baggery now and again. But there is a time and place for it. Common... NatGeo?! really? Kind of loses a little bit of integrity for me.

Oh btw, we're changing the game of our game to "G-Dizzle"...

for what its worth, the reason "sci-fi" changed their name to "syfy" is because you cant trademark or copyright a common usage term like "sci-fi"...

[VeggieBoy]

My dad just spent a butt load of money on a new Samsung LED TV for our living room, and plans on buying a 3DTV (they're in the works), yet I rarely see him watching TV. I DVR a lot of stuff, and its great, but yeah... My TV watching equates to all of 5 hours a day, and my dad only watches "NatGeo", News, and sports. Our TV watching doesn't warrant a TV, especially when networks are becoming SyFy.

What does SyFy equate to? Syins Fycshun?