Gamer's Week Chat with Gideon Yago on Xfire: November 18th, 2006
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[Xfire] dooleygee: OK....without further ado...Here is Gideon Yago! ---!!! YAY!!!
Gideon Yago: Hey everybody
Gideon Yago: Question: ©h1n€s3-Ю1v3b¥: how crazy are the events going on over there at the studios?
Gideon Yago: Well it's live TV so it gets kind of nuts. The fun stuff is where you get to talk to about 5 different musicians in a 5 foot radius
Gideon Yago: Question: Supercop007: ƒrozen: Hey Gideon, when did you start gaming?
Gideon Yago: pretty early
Gideon Yago: commodore 64 steez
Gideon Yago: lots of dig dug
Gideon Yago: Question: Fallen Angel: You interviewed many people in your lifetime, who was your favorite? Most disliked?
Gideon Yago: Um ... I tend to like talking to real people with real stories more than politicians or celebs 'cause they spew a lot of bullshit.
Gideon Yago: Best Celeb: Iggy Pop
Gideon Yago: Worst Celeb: Fucking StainD
Gideon Yago: like pulling teeth
Gideon Yago: Question: Cr0: How did you get to the point of MTV and the interviewing the President?
Gideon Yago: I got hired at 21 while I was still in college
Gideon Yago: and three weeks later I was interviewing Bush and McCain. I just rolled into a casting thing I was going out for a game show
Gideon Yago: Then just kept hacking at it at work, writing and pitching stories, learning how to produce
Gideon Yago: Question: Dark Chili: Do you like MTV or is it too pop orientated?
Gideon Yago: Let me put it this way ... it can get really frustrating at times. Like when something you really care about gets bumped for a Parental Control rerun
Gideon Yago: Question: dooleygee: Gideon, I hear you were once in a college band. Did they rock? What was their name?
Gideon Yago: Initially, the Matt Gilman 5. Then Fat Free Cookie
Gideon Yago: I think they're doing a behind the music on us ...
Gideon Yago: Question: -meth.synergy-: xbox 360 or ps3?
Gideon Yago: Right now Xbox 360
Gideon Yago: I don't have a PS3
Gideon Yago: But I lost most of the last two weeks playing COD3 and Gears of War
Gideon Yago: ©h1n€s3-Ю1v3b¥: How is next year's Game week gonna go? And is there going to be any other live gaming events on tv later on in the year?
Gideon Yago: They keep trying to outdo it year after year
Gideon Yago: I wouldn't be surprised it they throw a lot more time and effort into it
Gideon Yago: Question: Dark Chili: How do you feel that millions of teenage girls who watch MTV want to be your girlfriend?
Gideon Yago: Don't forget prison inmates
Gideon Yago: Lots of main from them too
Gideon Yago: Um ... honestly, I couldn't get a mercy fuck in high school so it's pretty ironic
Gideon Yago: Question: ƒrozen: This may be a bit personal, but do you have a girlfriend or are married?
Gideon Yago: I have a girlfriend of 4 years
Gideon Yago: Question: =LBK= Benki: What's your favorite MTV show?
Gideon Yago: 120 Minutes
Gideon Yago: Favorite one on now ... True Life
Gideon Yago: Question: Dark Chili: What is your favorite album?
Gideon Yago: Ah shit ... maybe Plastic Ono Band by John Lennon?
Gideon Yago: Question: ƒrozen: Do you have a Gaming Hero that say inspired you to start gaming?
Gideon Yago: My brother and I used to copy games of spy hunter and sell them at school
Gideon Yago: so maybe him
Gideon Yago: remember floppy disks?
Gideon Yago: where have they gone?
Gideon Yago: Question: Dark Chili: Do you think PC's have an effect on global warming?
Gideon Yago: Not as much as big oil companies and industrial plants
Gideon Yago: Question: Fallen Angel: What are your carrier plans for the future?
Gideon Yago: Well, I just wrote a film script that's going to be made into a movie this spring
Gideon Yago: Question: kopaka649: Do you watch a lot of tv?
Gideon Yago: Yeah but more on DVD's and TiVo
Gideon Yago: DVR
Gideon Yago: same thing
Gideon Yago: Question: Have you ever wished you had a "normal" office job in a cubicle?
Gideon Yago: It's actually suprising normal here most days
Gideon Yago: it's not like we all hang around in a hot tub full of Cristal tickle fighting the kids from Laguna Beach
Gideon Yago: Question: bubbletea254: What's your WPM?
Gideon Yago: Dunno
Gideon Yago: maybe 80
Gideon Yago: Question: =LBK= Benki: What is your favorite channel from any other TV Network?
Gideon Yago: HBO
Gideon Yago: totes
Gideon Yago: The Wire is my favorite show ever
Gideon Yago: Question: bubbletea254: How much time do you say you'd spend on the computer in a week?
Gideon Yago: More than I should
Gideon Yago: way more than I should
Gideon Yago: especially if we're editing, then I'm in the Avid like 16 hours a day
Gideon Yago: Question: Dark Chili: Were you a nerd in high school?
Gideon Yago: I grew up in queens, had purple hair, listened to Nirvana and worked in a record store
Gideon Yago: and read comics
Gideon Yago: most of the cool kids wore sergio techini jump suits or fubu and beat the shit out of me
Gideon Yago: i wrote a lot of term papers for other people to keep from getting my ass kicked
Gideon Yago: and I graduated a virgin
Gideon Yago: so you do the math
Gideon Yago: Question: ƒrozen: Blu-Ray or HD-DVD?
Gideon Yago: Blu-Ray for now
Gideon Yago: but it's like the PS3 v 360 question
Gideon Yago: i don't have much basis for comparison
Gideon Yago: Question: RED_Mike: what kind of computer do you have? what are it's specs?
Gideon Yago: MacBook Pro at home, the new 2x2Gig processor with an 80 gig harddrive
Gideon Yago: I mostly use it for writing and photo stuff
Gideon Yago: Question: WSS*HappyHardcore*stma: Gideon, what is your favourite food?
Gideon Yago: BBQ
Gideon Yago: easily
Gideon Yago: it's gonna kill me early
Gideon Yago: Question: Cr0: What advice do you give for people that want to get in show business like you?
Gideon Yago: Um ... intern and pick your battles. But fight tooth and nail for the shit you believe in
Gideon Yago: Question: Fallen Angel: If you could interview anyone who would it be?
Gideon Yago: Alive or dead?
Gideon Yago: Question: Dark Chili: How do you feel that people are getting into gun fights over a PS3?
Gideon Yago: We Todd Did
Gideon Yago: Not necessary
Gideon Yago: Question: who is the hottest person you ever interviewed? Do you ever get on air crushes?
Gideon Yago: er that was from dooleygee
Gideon Yago: Natalie Portman is amazing
Gideon Yago: and I have a crush on Anne Hathaway
Gideon Yago: And the Japanese girl in Babel holy shit
Gideon Yago: did you see that movie
Gideon Yago: damn
Gideon Yago: Question: RED_Mike: what is you daily routine?
Gideon Yago: Depends
Gideon Yago: When we're shooting stories we tend to try to cram as much as possible into a day, so you get up crazy early (5 AM ish) and just run around shooting, doing whatever you have to do get stuff on tape. Then crash past midnight
Gideon Yago: If you're editing it's usually 12 hour days 10-10
Gideon Yago: but it can sometimes go shorter or longer depending on your deadline
Gideon Yago: and then average days, preproduction days 9-6 or 9-8 if I'm taping the news
Gideon Yago: Question: Dark Chili: Do you think the Wii will have a drastic effect on the way we will play video games 200years from now?
Gideon Yago: Ask Eric Cartman
Gideon Yago: Science knows
Gideon Yago: Question: dooleygee: If you were not on MTV for the past 10 years what would you have been doing?
Gideon Yago: 7
Gideon Yago: feels like 17
Gideon Yago: probably writing
Gideon Yago: i almost joined the military
Gideon Yago: was gonna do OCS for the Naval Academy before I landed the MTV job
Gideon Yago: thought it would be a good way to see the world for 2 years
Gideon Yago: Question: Fallen Angel: What was the worst thing that happened during an interview?
Gideon Yago: George W Bush got reelected
Gideon Yago: Question: ƒrozen: If you could be the opposite sex for a day what would you do?
Gideon Yago: Take lots and lots of showers
Gideon Yago: Question: dooleygee: Where is the best slice of pizza in NYC
Gideon Yago: Grimaldis in Brooklyn
Gideon Yago: right by the Brooklyn Bridge
Gideon Yago: Or Lil Frankies in the E Village or Koronet's Uptown
Gideon Yago: Question: bubbletea254: Would you interview Kim Jong 2 if you had the chance?
Gideon Yago: Absolutely
Gideon Yago: if just for the fashion advice
Gideon Yago: Question: ƒrozen: What was your 'clique' in highschool?
Gideon Yago: didn't really have one
Gideon Yago: worked in a record store
Gideon Yago: dated a girl who worked in the video store down the block
Gideon Yago: um ... clerks?
Gideon Yago: Question: Dark Chili: have you ever been addicted to WoW or guild Wars or know someone who is?
Gideon Yago: Yeah, Stephen Totilo who writes for MTVNEWS.com is
Gideon Yago: also this kid Dave who ran the IT systems for the UN in Muzaffarabad Kashmir after the earthquake was on nonstope
Gideon Yago: er stop even
Gideon Yago: Question: bubbletea254: Can you give me some basic advice on how to get through my freakin freshman year in highschool?
Gideon Yago: No matter what they say to you, just remember they're on a slow death march to the middle
Gideon Yago: And college really is much much better
Gideon Yago: Question: ƒrozen: If you could be any super hero, which would you be?
Gideon Yago: I'm tempted to say SpiderMan cause he's from Forest Hills, Queens (my hometown), went to Columbia (my alma mater), is a journalist, and Mary Jane is smoking
Gideon Yago: But ... curveball ... I'm going Sandman (Gaiman, not the dude in the mask) or Dr. Strange
Gideon Yago: honestly
Gideon Yago: Question: Fallen Angel: Have anyone ever found out who you where while playing video games?
Gideon Yago: I've told people on Xbox live and they've never believed me
Gideon Yago: my Chrome Hounds clan
Gideon Yago: they were all like "yeah sure"
Gideon Yago: Question: Artem: who was/is your idol?
Gideon Yago: Tom Stoppard
Gideon Yago: That dude is off the chain
Gideon Yago: Question: -meth.synergy-: were you outraged that family guy said "fucking" on t.v
Gideon Yago: no
Gideon Yago: Question: RED_Mike: what is your favorite instrument
Gideon Yago: Piano
Gideon Yago: Question: RED_Mike: if you could spawn any weapon on ur desk what would it be?
Gideon Yago: Easy ... light saber
Gideon Yago: Question: sмιlεн: you fav webste?
Gideon Yago: I read goldenfiddle.com a lot
Gideon Yago: it's a really good blog
Gideon Yago: and idontlikeyouinthatway.com
Gideon Yago: also good blog
Gideon Yago: youtube
Gideon Yago: Question: =LBK= Benki: How many hours do you spend gaming in a day?
Gideon Yago: Really depends
Gideon Yago: some days I won't play at all and sometimes I'll lose whole weeks of my life
Gideon Yago: Question: MasterRen: What is your favorite online viral video?
Gideon Yago: Now or ever?
Gideon Yago: Um ... the initial flash All Your Base video, the Journey "Don't Stop Believin'" flash video with the killer licks bit
Gideon Yago: old stuff
Gideon Yago: the ebert and siskell outtakes are great
Gideon Yago: that mobile home salesman with the cursing problem
Gideon Yago: all classic
Gideon Yago: Question: ƒrozen: What was your most 'nooby'est moment?
Gideon Yago: the first day I played Chrome Hounds
Gideon Yago: It was bad
Gideon Yago: I was walking around in this thing that looked like a gerry rigged toaster shooting friend and foe indiscriminately
Gideon Yago: Question: LBK= Benki: What has been the most addictive and time consuming game you've ever played?
Gideon Yago: GTA Vice City
Gideon Yago: Question: DaFox: Do you speak any foreign languages?
Gideon Yago: My mom's German
Gideon Yago: and some spanish
Gideon Yago: my nickname growing up was el blanco que viva alla
Gideon Yago: Question: DaFox: What was the first gaming system you owned that started the craze? A commodore? A 2600? A gameboy?
Gideon Yago: I had them but I think it was really the first Nintendo system that bit me
Gideon Yago: Oh ... and for the record ... NINJAS!
Gideon Yago: seriously
Gideon Yago: is it any contest?
Gideon Yago: Question: ƒrozen: Console or PC? and do you belive that the PC gaming market is dieing?
Gideon Yago: Honestly, I'm more of a console guy
Gideon Yago: but PC games are usually way ahead in the quality department
Gideon Yago: i mean a console is just a shitty PC more or less
Gideon Yago: Question: DaFox: What's the weirdest thing you guys had to sign at a public appearance?
Gideon Yago: A baby
Gideon Yago: not just for anchorman
Gideon Yago: legit
Gideon Yago: Question: DaFox: Do you listen to much video game music? If so what are some of your favorite tracks?
Gideon Yago: Does the 8 Bit remixes of the last Beck album count?
Gideon Yago: where they plugged everything into a MIDI and then through a Gameboy?
Gideon Yago: Question: dooleygee: what do you like better real world 1-3 or real world now?
Gideon Yago: Real World 1
Gideon Yago: NYC Baby!
Gideon Yago: Question: Fallen Angel: if you where elected president of United states of America what would you do?
Gideon Yago: Cut the Pentagon budget in half, redirect towards education
Gideon Yago: tax top 1% of the population for an R and D for renewable energy
Gideon Yago: legalize marijuana
Gideon Yago: um ... check out the UFO stuff
Gideon Yago: that's just the first day
Gideon Yago: Question: DaFox: What old school game(s) would you like to see redone with new technology
Gideon Yago: Well they keep redoing Zelda
Gideon Yago: Altered Beast
Gideon Yago: MegaMan
Gideon Yago: Question: What was the one with the bionic dude who shot the grappling hook out of his arm?
Gideon Yago: Honestly more Ninja Gaiden
Gideon Yago: Question: DaFox: What are you playing currently?
Gideon Yago: Gears of War and COD3
Gideon Yago: Question: Supercop007: What do you think about the Mets naming their new stadium CitiField?
Gideon Yago: Sigh
Gideon Yago: I grew up 5 minutes from it
Gideon Yago: and it will ALWAYS be Shea to me
Gideon Yago: What are they going to do, change the lyrics to "Meet the Mets"?
Gideon Yago: Popcorn peanuts, all out at Citigroup Field ... so get on the train you'll have a hell of a day?
Gideon Yago: Question: Fallen Angel: If you had one super power what would it be?
Maybe the timestop thing that Hiro in Heroes has
Gideon Yago: Question: [=NA=] §àrgôn: Do you get to choose your own interviews and stories?
Gideon Yago: Yeah I pitch most of them
Gideon Yago: Question: sмιlεн: where do you see youself in 10 years time ?????????
Gideon Yago: Hopefully still working
Gideon Yago: Not sitting around with Duff and Jesse camp bragging about the good old days
Gideon Yago: not a lot of MTV people make it out alive
Gideon Yago: Question: Dark Chili: Do you think that the world is slowly losing its morals and becoming desencitized to tragic events and violence?
Gideon Yago: No
Gideon Yago: The World has always been immoral and violent
Gideon Yago: to think otherwise is to be naïve
Gideon Yago: Question: eVolutionX^JoeyFursman: where do you think you would be today without the job you currently have???
Gideon Yago: Way less famous ... which isn't saying much
Gideon Yago: dunno
Gideon Yago: Question: ƒrozen: Rehash of Chillis question: Silicon or Real?
Gideon Yago: only real
Gideon Yago: Question: {KP}Y2JBoy127: What celebrity have you been most excited about meeting?
Gideon Yago: Muhammed Ali
Gideon Yago: Bill Clinton
Gideon Yago: Lou Reed
Gideon Yago: Question: [=NA=] §àrgôn: If you could travel to any time period where would you go?
Gideon Yago: Hmmmm so many choices
Gideon Yago: Could I speak the language wherever I went?
Gideon Yago: Rome under Augustus circa 0 AD
Gideon Yago: Or Palestine to meet Christ
Gideon Yago: Northern India circa 1200 years prior to hand with the Buddha
Gideon Yago: late 19th century Paris
Gideon Yago: eh I'm cool with now
Gideon Yago: Question: =AoC= X-killer-92: If you reitred what would you do
Gideon Yago: Move to Hawaii
Gideon Yago: Question: ƒrozen: If you had a flux capicator and a working Dollorean car, what would you do with them?
Gideon Yago: Kill Biff
Gideon Yago: Volume 1 and 2
Gideon Yago: Question: {KP}Y2JBoy127: How did you get into the job you have now?
Gideon Yago: I lucked out at a casting
Gideon Yago: Question: sмιlεн: Ok not many ppl here no this but this is a good question : who are you ? i do not mean offence but i need to no =\\
Gideon Yago: I'm a correspondent and writer for MTV News
Gideon Yago: The less cute v2.0 of Tabitha Soren
Gideon Yago: Question: =LBK= Benki: What are your views on Borat and the Borat movie?
Gideon Yago: I liked it
Gideon Yago: the scene where they're buck naked running around had me laughing harder than I have in a while
Gideon Yago: and the ettiquette class
Gideon Yago: jesus
Gideon Yago: Question: [=NA=]CrashRoden: Have you ever collected anything in your life, and if so, what did you collect?
Gideon Yago: I collected rocks as a kid
Gideon Yago: I still collect vinyl
Gideon Yago: records
Gideon Yago: for playing
Gideon Yago: Question: avast ! Squatch |NoS: What words of wisdom would you give to aspring game developers such as myself?
Gideon Yago: Harvey Smith rules
Gideon Yago: And David Jaffe is hilarious
Gideon Yago: They both run shops in Austin
Gideon Yago: maybe try working for them?
Gideon Yago: But those two guys who did Advent rising ... they were super young when they did it
Gideon Yago: Ubisoft, David Jaffe, COD
Gideon Yago: Or Splinter Cell
Gideon Yago: whoops that doesn't make sense
Gideon Yago: redux
Gideon Yago: Question: ƒrozen: Who is your favorite game publisher, producer, and franchise?
Gideon Yago: Gideon Yago: Ubisoft, David Jaffe, COD
Gideon Yago: Or Splinter Cell
Gideon Yago: now it does
Gideon Yago: Question: kopaka649: if you wanted to change your name, what would you change it to?
Gideon Yago: Max Power
Gideon Yago: Question: Fallen Angel: can you get me a job at mtv?
Gideon Yago: You gotta intern first
Gideon Yago: Question: Dark Chili: did someone ask waht was the meaning of life?
Gideon Yago: The answer = 42
Gideon Yago: Question: ƒrozen: What nickname do you go by in-game, if any?
Gideon Yago: queens1978
Gideon Yago: my hometown and birth year
Gideon Yago: Question: [=NA=]CrashRoden: Have you donated to any organization? If so how much?
Gideon Yago: I donate a lot to Doctors Without Borders and Mercy Corps
Gideon Yago: the work they do in Darfur, Lebanon, Iraq, Indonesia ... fucking awesome
Gideon Yago: awe inspiring
Gideon Yago: Question: Dark Chili: I need to know this!!! "Is Linsday Lohan a crack addict? cause she looks like it... or has an eating disorder... pick one"
Gideon Yago: Fine
Gideon Yago: cause you keep asking
Gideon Yago: neither
Gideon Yago: she's actually really, really good looking in person
Gideon Yago: i'd never thought it either
Gideon Yago: like she was going to be all lizardy and cracked out
Gideon Yago: but she's got some thickness on her
Gideon Yago: she's friggin hot
Gideon Yago: what can I say
Gideon Yago: Question: M4-DoD: There has been a rise in the last few years in women and minorities in the US government. Colin Powell, Alberto Gonzales for example as well as Nancy Pelosi as the first ever US Speaker of the House, and the talk of Condolezza Rice and Hilary Clinton running for US President. Do you feel this trend will continue?
Gideon Yago: I'd imagine so
Gideon Yago: there's a lot more Irish and Italians and Jews in government than there were 100 years ago
Gideon Yago: US is constantly expanding and integrating
Gideon Yago: OKAY
Gideon Yago: LAST QUESTION
Gideon Yago: we've got to wrap it up
Gideon Yago: so come up with something good
Gideon Yago: I'm waiting
Gideon Yago: ...
Gideon Yago: ...
Gideon Yago: something killer
Gideon Yago: wanna go out on a bang
Gideon Yago: ...
Gideon Yago: ...
Gideon Yago: Question: DaFox: did you ever get your g4 powerbook back?
Gideon Yago: That's our winner
Gideon Yago: nope
[Xfire] dooleygee: okok
[Xfire] dooleygee: Thanks Gideon
[Xfire] dooleygee: This was one of the most fun chats yet!
Gideon Yago: Thanks for coming!
[Xfire] dooleygee: we have 5 hats to give away, so dont leave!
[Xfire] dooleygee: Also, Thanks to Gideon!!!
[Xfire] dooleygee: We rarely get such honest answers to questions...
[Xfire] dooleygee: I forgot to tell you that we post the transcripts!
[Xfire] dooleygee: :-)
[Xfire] dooleygee: Thanks to everyone for making Gamer's Week so awesome!!!
Gideon Yago: Ninjas!
[Xfire] dooleygee: I will let Splatteox hand out some prizes now
[Xfire] dooleygee: everyone should go play with the pros now...
[Xfire] Splatteox: The following 5 lucky participants have won a Xfire hat:
[Xfire] Splatteox: 5. Dark Chili
[Xfire] Splatteox: 4. DaFox
[Xfire] Splatteox: 3. ƒrozen
[Xfire] Splatteox: 2. Fallen Angel
[Xfire] Splatteox: 1. kopaka649
[Xfire] Splatteox: Congratulations to the winners! I will be PMing the winners shortly so do not sign off just yet and thank you everyone for coming out for the chat.