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Except he’s the geek, the hanger-on, the money man, so nobody does.

Gawky and bespectacled but with the brio of a scrapper, Pearlman was dressed like a quintessential sports geek: black-and-yellow Pittsburgh Pirates hat and Pittsburgh Maulers shirt, the latter a long-gone professional football team.

The crotch-scratching crowd doesn't love a geek and they especially don't like someone merely posing as one.

Quan's natural effervescence, however, gave his characters an energy and spirit that defied the expectation that these geeks had to be timid or socially awkward.

DeepSeek shot to fame last week as AI geeks lauded its latest AI model and people began downloading its chatbot on app stores.