I was under the impression having a 60" tv got you ipoon anyways. I get neither so I wouldn't know.

Ethan Halko!

@Xavoc: Actually harshing on misogynists is a great way to score chicks.

mildretard

Personally, I'd rather just save my dignity and not be on the show to begin with. I can afford the gadgets, and the getaways, and the woman. It just takes planning.

Xavoc

the TV cost a lot less then the girl.... but still I will take the girl :)

JackMatt

@ErrantHero:

That makes more sense. No Bunnies...

Ham_Sandwich

@opedog: Suuuuuure.
@PC+Mac Coexist: Comment of the day right there!
@kickassy: You deserv it!

StopTheLHC

@mildretard: Would that make you the spineless "nice guy" who whines about dicks getting the women he wants to date?

He made a joke about something that all men joke about, have seen, and likely experienced. Kind of like when you see a man opening the car door for his woman. Either the woman is new, or the car is.

Cheeel dawg.

Xavoc

yeah, without a guaranteed booty call, me takes the gadget no contest.

WITH a guaranteed booty call, she'd have to be REALLY hot to make me give up a 60 inch screen. I mean, you can get (so I've heard) really hot poon down in Tijuana or over in Manila for 100-200$ (less if you're even semi decent looking) so who amongst us would shell out 1000-5000$ for a hot night of hot sex with a hot chick? I'm not that rich yet, for sure.

And if I were, I wouldn't be needing no damn contest/tv show to get the hot chicks, they'd be stuck on like flies on feces.

banmojo

Assuming I comprehended the article correctly, this really isn't a girl vs. a gadget. This is a paid-for weekend vacation (with you existing girlfriend or wife or mistress) vs. a gadget.

They're not supplying the girl. They're supplying the vacation.

Vegas vs. ipod? Hawaii vs. 52" LCD?

I have a wife and all the gadget I need. I'll choose the vacation since I hate planning vacations.

ErrantHero

@yogibimbi: Guess you two don't have high enough standards in women.

When it comes to Geeky women the math tends to fall as such: Hot, Sane, Intelligent. Pick two, the government keeps the third.

There are occasional exceptions to the rule, but don't try to be "that guy" who believes his is the exception until it actually is.

Me? I picked a woman who worships the ground I walk on, is hot, intelligent, owns more games than I do, and has her own pinball machine... She's still working on that sane part, but getting there and I'm getting great at patching holes in drywall.

Xavoc

@PC+Mac Coexist: Um, I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess you're that you're a dick.

mildretard

@cre8design:

Nor will it complain about lipstick marks on your collar.

Ham_Sandwich

Let's see... Girl for a weekend, that really isn't interested in you as a person, because she's being paid to be your date, or a physical object you'll get to keep.

Hrm...

@xcharliemx: Doesn't that depend upon what kind of gadget it is?

Xavoc

@PC+Mac Coexist: thus speaks a truely wise man

yogibimbi

A 60" TV wont bitch about coming home drunk with a speeding ticket.

cre8design

oh Evangeline Lilly...why'd you go with that hobbit????

we could have been great together....

:)

jcrockerman

@aeroworks: well, 'hot girl getting paid to be with you' - that's a pretty adequate definition of prostitution, actually, except for the hot part, maybe, but maybe there are some nicer ones somewhere; actually, in Milan I have seen at least one who looked great and not even half dumb.
But maybe I am not really qualified, as my experience in those matters is 0.0

yogibimbi

I'll trade you my night with Jessica Alba for ..... your I Am Rich iPhone app.

kickassy

Either gadget or girl, they're both essentially the same. They're awesome when you first get 'em, you get to fool around with them day-in and day-out, and in a few months you gotta replace 'em with something newer and better.

PC+Mac Coexist

If I wasn't married, fuck ya, the girl. What is a 60" TV worth, compared to a weekend getaway. Then I could take all kinds of pictures of me with the bikini clad girl and send them to my friends and lie about how lucky I got. Actually, I probably wouldn't even have the guts to embarass myself on TV like that.

Ham_Sandwich

Girl hands down unless I have a strong feeling that the girl might have a very poor personality.

As far as I know, I don't know know a gadget that proves fun and make babies (human babies, not some cyborg bs).

UltimateIdiot

hey, come on guys, you can't seriously believe that you will get any booty with one of those women over the weekend or whenever when it's all prearranged by Playboy TV. It's Playboy, after all, and not pimp TV Inc. All they sell you it's an illusion.
It's just tease, tease, tease (extra points to anybody who can continue those lyrics;-), so gimme the gadget, please.

yogibimbi

Hmm, date with a hot girl that's getting paid to be with you which you will never see again or a gadget. ill take the gadget.

aeroworks

There is no guarantee that the woman will even like your stink, so you might as well take the gadget and watch p0rn on it.

SinAmos

The question which we're all wondering........do we get to have sex?

With the girl, not the gadget.

xcharliemx

Let's trick the system so we can get both

FinalFantasy7

that is a tough one!...ummmmmm...cant i have a lesser date and a lesser gadget instead of a hot date or a hot gadget :P

urbanturban666

What? Are there people out there who can't get both? At the same time?

mildretard

@opedog: Gah! Wasn't... If I wasn't married...

Geeeeez. That's not Freudian or anything...

opedog

Do you get to keep the gadget?

Jiert

If I was married: Girl.

Yeah, I'm sure of it.

Girl.

opedog

*pokes Giz server again*

Xavoc

@all. Quick off topic joke. Why does divorce cost so much?
Because its WORTH IT. (I am also, and it was worth every penny.)

Curves

@Xavoc: Nice try. Now if you'll excuse us, me and Curves need to take a little walk and enjoy some autumn foliage.

mildretard

It's reality TV so if she put out it makes for good viewing. They can let you know what's going on with out showing. You might be able to guilt her into sleeping with you. Play it up for the cameras. Wishful thinking I suppose. Try and get the camera crew to talk her into it if you the lucky contestant.

BiZarRroBALlmeR

@Xavoc:

i have thrown out 2 20 yard dumpsters of ex-wife crap, and will in all likelihood need a third.
however, now that the kids are gone, my house is nice and quiet, and none of my socks have come up missing.

good trade off, i think

godwhacker

poon or gadget, hm....poon or gadget...hell i'll just take gadget and my HD porn...more realistic then the girl either way!

aznplayer213

gadgets need electricity, and have a on-off switch.

girls, on the other hand........

i keed, i keed

godwhacker

@EBone: You never actually ever hear/see about the experience these people had on their "free vacation valued at $_LargeSum" and the headaches/hassles they had do you?

Xavoc

@Lizard_King: Eh, I purposely live with as little extraneous crap in my life as possible to begin with, and only date people who believe in the same.

In my divorce I lost half my crap, threw 3/4 of the remaining crap, and honestly never felt freer in my entire life. Especially since it meant she took all of her crap (In which she had 200% more crap than I to begin with.) with her.

Xavoc

It's paid vacation or gadget. You have to supply the girl yourself. That said, I'll take the gadget. My wife and I can pick out our own vacation, or we can make our own with the right gadget.

EBone

@mildretard: What he said isn't actually misogynistic. The inverse applies to women dating men as well. While crassly worded, it expresses the point at which love/sexual attraction between people stops being so much of a chemical process and real life sets in and many people panic for change to regain that brain chemical high of a new relationship.

Pretty much it's the point at which you know you made a poor choice in who you're dating, or you choose to knuckle up and start the work, of making a relationship work.

Xavoc

Unless the babe was at my beck and call every time I had an erection, I'd go with the gadget.

As awesome as it would be, and as legendary as you would become after being with someone from Playboy, I think the long term awesomeness would come from the gizmo.

ReynaldoRiv

Let's see...picking the gadget lets me keep my current gadgets and wife, plus this elusive mystery gadget.

Picking girl loses me the wife and half of my belongings.

Surprisingly, still a hard decision.

Lizard_King

@Xavoc: Fleshlight FTW!

xcharliemx

I see it's that time of the day again for Giz.

Xavoc

@mildretard: Indeed you are correct. ;)

Curves

@godwhacker: How did our mutual friends put it (as a couple mind you), "Dude, it looks like Disney & Precious Moments threw up on your mantel."

Which, doesn't seem that harsh until you know that the mantel was 12.5' wide and 3' deep...

Xavoc

Damn that's a nice TV.

Kaiser-Machead's WALL-E fetish

*again with the poking*

Xavoc

Well if the girl really is Evangeline Lily...then hell yeah the girl..i love that woman...but anyways i am pretty sure everyone would pick the girl...except if it is rosie o donnell or something like that...

Mike918

@Curves:
being single promotes better behavior.
that's why my first wife and i get along now.

@Xavoc:
i don't blame women as a whole, either. it's a math thing, you can't bring stuff into the house 3 times a week, and not get rid of anything.
that's how you end up in the 3 20 yard dumpster club.

godwhacker

To kind of second PC+Mac's thing, do I get the gadget back after I eventually get sick of the girl?

badhatharry

@Xavoc: Actually, not attached to anything I can't carry or ride away with. I lead a pretty simple life.

Lizard_King

@godwhacker: Eh, I don't blame women as having too much crap, just my ex wife. She came from a family of pack rats and really I should have seen it coming.

As someone whose ADD is heavily set off in a negative way by clutter/extraneous crap. It really didn't help.

@mildretard: You're welcome to her, that is, if she wants you. I'm not pandering to attract anyone, so no need for "nice try". Misogyny is a hatred of women, his statement would also have to be interpreted as a hatred of gadgets in order for your call of misogyny to apply. If he hated women, he wouldn't date them. Now, he could hold a patriarchal view that women are somehow inferior to men, but that's not really the same thing as misogyny, unless misandry is the same as believing that men are inferior to women.

@Curves: I referred to mine as the best diet I've ever had. An expensive 165 lbs of dead weight shed from my frame.

Xavoc

Thats a tuff question, I have called of work and rearranged schedules for both on more times then I care to admit. I guess I'm greedy like the time I camped out for a Wii with my girlfriend and had another friend hold our place so we could go do inappropriate things in my car.

lordofthetoast

@Xavoc:

sounds like my mom's obsession with china bells, and that never-ending x-mas collection (area 51?)

godwhacker

Evangeline Lilly. Whatever floats your boat....

I'll take Christina Hendricks, thank you very much..

Diskoboy

Both options will empty the wallet :/

JuiceDaddy

Do you get to keep the gadget? Because giving a man a 103" plasma, but then taking it away at the end of the weekend is more cruel than any pain a woman could inflict.

GeekyNerdGuy

@PlayerX: aaaaaaaaaaahhhhh how cute. I think I'm going to puke and shit white daisies. You need to switch to another gadget site.

cre8design

I've already got the best girl in the world sitting on my couch. Free TV, anyone?

PlayerX

Gadgets never cheat on you. Unless your new Vista PC bsod's on you the first time you turn it on.

anothernord

Wow there are a lot of very entertaining posts here! I didn't realize how much drama such a simple question could drum up.
I believe my favorite is by @Xavoc: "When it comes to Geeky women the math tends to fall as such: Hot, Sane, Intelligent. Pick two, the government keeps the third." Very well put sir! Unfortunately I believe that this also tends to trend into the normal population of "non-geeky" as well.

whiteknight

i would pick a gadget because I deserv it!

Kupaka

Why would I pick the girl when clearly the trip would involve dealing with a girl who would most DEFINITELY not be interested in me. The opposite would probably also be true.

Take the gadget and know you saved yourself a lot of headaches.

(If she is the right girl, you two can secretly exchange numbers celebrate your collective cleverness in getting BOTH!)

Kharnellius

@opedog: Hahaha, that made me laugh.

unibrow4o9

i dont get men.
i will always choose the gadgets over someone especially if spending time with that person is only for a limited time.

c'mon you have to think long term commitments here..

Amiash is inquisitive

@Xavoc: That may be the best way Ive ever heard that put, and it makes so much sense... In the end though remember Sane and Intelligent is the better choice, as Mr.White would say, you can't fix stupid.

LividChihuahua

I'd take Kate out on a date for sure.

zed0

If they provide the girls there probably not going to be as fun as you wish, so the gadget would be more entertaining, if I get to choose the girl, well... I don't think she'd mind if I got a free 60in HDTV, and shed probably prefer staying home and watching movies that going somewhere. Yes I know that's weird but I don't fall for the normal girls.

LividChihuahua

Taking someone I know on a vacation would definitely be pleasing, and more fulfilling than the alternative. If I were to take the stuff, I'd just realize how terribly my life revolves around vicarious experiences rather than meaningful personal relationships...

Pi-face

Gadget. No question.

LeMadChef

I don't really like either, and I'm into women. Can I just get the vaycay by myself? That would be awesome :D

jinnarh

@yogibimbi: You're happy when I'm on my knees,
One day is fine, next is black,
So if you want me off your back,
Well come on and let me know,
Should I Stay or should I go?

Con Seannery

Do I get to fuck her?

michaelleung

Do gadgets give you orgasms, cook your food, or clean your clothes? I don't think so. I'm choosing my wife. Not to mention having 2 salaries instead of one allows me to buy more gadgets.

Think this through before you answer.

addiktion

@xcharliemx: you probably not. maybe someday you will.

krom

Wasn't there an old Robot Chicken episode with the nerd guy having to chose between, I think, Scarlett Johansson and a GBA?

Numerous

It seems like the girls get the advantage after reading the description of the show.

In each episode, a bachelor will be introduced to three women--presumably with some connection to Hugh Hefner--and must immediately pick two to continue the game.

The threesome will go on a date, and at the end, the guy will choose one girl to be his solo companion for the evening. After a few hours together, he must decide if he is going to enjoy an awkward exciting weekend getaway with the stranger, or give her up and leave with some potentially cool gear.

Where does he get to spend time with the gadgets?

Y2KGTP

Sanity is overrated.

MarlboroTestMonkey7

@MarlboroTestMonkey7: Sanity is a one-trick pony. All you get is one trick: rational thinking. But when you're good and crazy, the sky's the limit!

- The Tick

OMG! Ponies! Deservs It

You can always buy the junk later, the gadget I mean. How many times in your life would you have a chance to spend the weekend with a playboy bunny? You'll remember that for the rest of your life even if you don't get any, you'll quickly forget that 60 inch TV 5 years after it dies.

Lupison

Step 1. Choose the girl.
Step 2. Take somewhat scandalous photo(s).
Step 3. Sell em to tabloids.
Step 4. Cash in.
Step 5. Buy awesome gadget.

Kareem King

God, I hate reading Jason Chen's articles... is it me, or does he seem to have a problem writing to coherent sentences in a row?

The CNet article is much more coherent. (And Jason obviously didn't read the whole thing, since his supposition is totally wrong.)

As to the show... you start the evening with 3 Playboy models, then pick one. At the end of the night, you get to take her on a weekend vacation. Or you get to pick door #2.

TomXP411

@TomXP411: 'to coherent sentences in a row?'

Dot dot dot, Tom.

Michael

@SinAmos: A very wise man.

Michael

No contest really... Chicks rule. There is not a gadget known to mankind that beats the company of a gal.

MistyDeevoy

I would take the gadget, sell it, and take my girl and relatively cheaper gadget of the same Class and have 'em both. Braindead, if you ask me.