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Your idea is simply an evolution of this. I win.

Back when AOTS was still watchable, they had on a beatboxer/live mixer called Kid Beyond. I was quite impressed, but I've never seen him live or really do much else outside that quick set. There's some videos of him over at Youtube if you're WMV-Impared and cant's check out his website.

About the same time, actually. Taco was on Screen Savers in mid-November 2004, while Keven Rose supposedly launched Digg November 1, 2004.

Let's not forget The Screensavers, either. They did a submerged-PC with hydrofluoroether way back in 2002.

It seems to me like using HFE is a much better idea than using machine oil... it's not a solvent, it's as biologically safe as water, and it's not dangerous or difficult to dispose of. Of course, it's probably more expensive, but with a sealed case you probably wouldn't ever have to change it, either. And because it evaporates like water, and it's got a low viscosity like water, parts inside would almost certainly be easier to work with.

Back in 2004 Kevin Rose demonstrated DefendAir Radio Shield paint on The Screensavers. It sounds like the same kind of paint.

On this list of lamest 360 Achievements http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/674028/The_1 7_Lamest_360_Achievements.html, they list one -- worth 0 points -- that a gamer acquires for quitting 10 online games. Every game should have something like this, so a serial quitter's assmunchery is on his gamercard for all to see. I'm lame to middling in practically all online games, but I'll stick it out to every humiliating end.

Not a justification, just a note that X-Play gave it a 5 out of 5.

Then again, supposing 85 hours into a game that was rated Teen there is some nude ninja combat (M-rated)

Do you mean like a naked cartwheeling Raiden in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty ?

Here is X-Play's feature on how to save the series:
http://www.g4tv.com/pile_player.aspx?video_key=122 68M

From a reviewer's perspective, the 3D Sonic titles are brought down primarily by technical problems and secondly by a lack of focus on what makes the Sonic series unique. Once you resolve that, I believe the series can be further enhanced by track-relative controls (as opposed to camera-relative) and the introduction of quick time events for complex maneuvers.

First of all, its not gruesome death, just the loss of an unneeded appendage. Second, its not just that I don't agree with Jack Thompson - the man is disgusting in his conduct.

http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/blog/post/6292 72/Jack_Thompson_vs_Adam_Sessler.html

I like this one.

Was http://www.g4tv.com/startrektos/episodes/5354/Devi l_In_The_Dark.html that the one?

Why would people continue to want a PS3 given the complete shortage of games for it.

Not only that, but even the Wall Street Journal, had a main fold front page story (in print) on how the Christmas shopping season was dissapointing, with the exception of the Nintendo Wii and HDTV sales.

And, in the G4 TV program, they have only given one 5 star rating for the entire PS3 lineup - the PSP is doing much better, of course.

Maybe they'll be replicated like the plague and the whole ship will become addicted!!! OH NO!!! http://www.g4tv.com/startrekthenextgeneration/epis odes/5156/The_Game.htmlThe Game episode.

Yes, a fact that he "heard on the radio" with no citation or supporting evidence given whatsoever. A fact that also disingenuously refers to "the PS3 lines" even though the statistic given is based on pre-orders.

I heard it on KUOW, the local NPR station. I can't remember what "show" it was, I was waking up at 9 after having been up until 3 playing the Wii. It was a national NPR news feed. The reference to lines was also from coverage on CNN. I also watched G4 on cable for game-day and release coverage, from The Show, from that review thing with Adam whoever and whatshername, and some other thing they do. I also checked Comcast's On Demand G4 game reviews and cheats they posted Saturday.

So I don't like wasting my time posting links. Sue me. If the truth hurts, deal with it. But don't blame me. I'm not the media.

Nice nerd-fu, but do you remember the episode name?

Uh no. USB2 is crap at handling throughput. I wish I could remember where I saw it, it was ars technica or hothardware or something,

Sony isn't going to use force feedback vibration because of their suit with Immersion so calling it the anything-shock without changing the feedback to being an actual shock would be out of the question.

They also saw the buzz that Nintendo was creating with their accelerometer based revolution. So a quick implementation of this into their current controller designs gives them a new tout-able feature (ooh... the Sixaxis) and a lame excuse about why they can't implement vibration. Sorry, we had to remove vibration from the controller because it interferes with the motion sensor despite the fact that the Wii-mote will have both. Actually the Wii remote can rumble both sides giving it two vibration motors as opposed to just one in the Gamecube; maybe they should call it a "DualShockWiiMote" :)

Anyway, I'm glad that Sony was able to quickly implement accelerometers to make the Sixaxis controller. I would've hated to hear the alternatives coming from Sony's marketing department...

"Bundled with the Playstation 3 is the exclusive DodecaClick3 controller. It has a whopping twelve buttons which is much more than at least one of our competitors. Imagine the games that can be created tot take advantage of this."

Although now I kind of do like the idea of kids yelling "Mommy! Mommy! I want a DodecaClick!" Hold on a sec while I trademark that... :)

I thought you meant Ethernet over Power(notice the overwhelming demand bit). Ethernet doesn't have any inherent powering, although it has some unused wires you could in theory use to power a device, but you would need to some funky stuff. Probably a bit ambitious ;) But anyway, I'm looking forward to devices that use EoP since most electronic devices in your home--tv, vcr, dvd player--already need a power plug so might was well piggy back off of that to feed HD. Also some great home-automation features seem really practical with that setup. My whole point is that wireless is most practical for mobile devices and what's the point of watching HD on a 2 inch screen? HD stays wired.

Kevin Pereira was his co-host and still hosts the show.

http://www.g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/features/53663 /AOTS_hosts_Kevin_Pereira_and_Olivia_Munn.html

You can still catch Kevin Rose on the web on a podcast called Systm.
http://www.revision3.com/systm

Let me guess. He used toothpaste.

And oh what it does for Winona Ryder's figure!

Haven't these people ever heard of Blipverts? It might be as effective to have people zoom through the commercials as see them "live".

Amen.

Btw... Nice preaching. G4 should hire you.

Personally, I think it's because we all secretly admire how Snake manages to be cool in spite of a mullet and a little math teacher mustache.

It all depends on which generation you're talking about...

Actually, they did make drives that used multiple beams. My friend had what claimed to be a 72x CD-ROM drive that used this technology. I guess it didn't really catch on so well, though, as I don't think I've seen any of these in the stores lately and I think Zen Research is out of business. Well, at least their website is dead.

that was Cinematech, here is the Schedule http://www.g4tv.com/cinematech/schedule/index.html

This has been reviewed on IGN and G4TV, among others... way back in 2005.

And it's not your average game. More like math and reading "brain teasers" (no Mario involved).

Agreed, I'd never heard of this company before. What does it take to post stuff on the Internet, like maybe in some of the foums where people talk about these ROMs?

Really, I'd buy old ROMs on a CD for my MythTV, if I only knew where!

Interestingly enough, we get this G4 TV channel with our deprecated Comcast cable. On it, was a show called Icons, which had two great episodes that really caught my eye -- one looked at music-related games like Parappa the Rapper and DDR, and the other episode was on the Intellivision, which I thought was really neat, having had one. Intellivision Lives!, is this the way to success for old game companies?

I know a lot of people are concerned about Big Brother, but my response to that is, if you are not doing anything wrong, why should you worry about it?

How about one worrying about them doing something wrong with all the information they get?
It happens, quite frequently too. Just look at the RIAA suing deceased grandmothers.
But of course, they're *drumroll* the law enforcement and never makes mistakes...

See http://www.g4tv.com/icons/episodes/4174/Ralph_Baer .html.

I don't believe this is the whole thing though. I remember him rambling on about how he wanted in BloodRayne to tell her story of where she came from, and that's why it's nothing like the game. And very seriously wanting to continue telling her story through time...the next era being Western. He was dead serious. Also, there is an article telling of the adventures the original screenwriters for Alone in the Dark and their encounters with Uwe Boll. Damn funny, and shows how nuts the guy is! Read it here.

Yoshi did this on the July 19th, 2000 episode of The Screen Savers. I didn't google it very hard, but I came up with this link.

http://forums.g4tv.com/messageview.cfm?catid=59&th readid=515423&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=&STARTPAGE=4 At that URL is my rant why Satan Online entertainment and its leader doesnt give a crap.

... You can go to CNN and see very straight-laced, spell-checked, fact-checked summary of the day's events. Or you can go somewhere like Slashdot ...

Sure, check out this review:
http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/50198/Re view_Network_Music_Players.html

http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/47422/The _Virus_Hunter.html

Tournaments, Sponsors, Coaches... we're almost there. When will we get a station to televise gaming competitions with half-decent in-game footage and literate (let alone charismatic) announcers, preferably hosted by people who aren't retarded?

You are right, there have been no innovations in gaming in the last two years. And those are just the ones off the top of my head. Stop following the marketing hype crowd and look around for yourself.

To make some of you whiners happy, the BYTEmark fiasco happened in 1998, under Jobs' command, so he can be blamed:

http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/3631/iMac _Benchmarks.html ...and not in 1995.

This means that, at launch, I will be able to use my old wavebirds, which I consider to be the pinnacle of controller design, to have a full compliment of controllers without having to lay down an extra $150-200. It's always irked me that it costs so much extra to get the controllers needed for the best experience in multiplayer games like Smash Brothers, and I'm glad to see that Nintendo is making their system backwards compatable in this way.

chip n dip? Did you mean Slashdot?

The things you learn from the old hands... Thanks for the tip. This is the kind of stuff which probably should have made it into the Wikipedia...

Interesing Malda quote, which fell out from that research: "You can go to CNN and see very straight-laced, spell-checked, fact-checked summary of the day's events. Or you can go somewhere like Slashdot..."

http://www.g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/2354/Intr oducing_the_Surf_Guru.html

http://www.g4techtv.ca/
http://www.g4tv.com/

Notice the "Copyright G4 Media" on both pages. Hmm.

Notice how they have almost the same shows. Hmm.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G4_Media

Notice that the American company has a 30% minor ownership in the Canadian version. Hmm.

Notice the fact that the Canadian page says "Call for Help - coming to the US!" Hmm hmm hmm.

Why, yes! It's the same show! From the same production company!

Anyone who's given Mr. Laporte money has given money for the production of "This Week in Tech," which is a podcast, and has nothing to do with his television shows. HELLO.

So you just run along and heat your retards, 'kay? Whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.

A videogame network could be so cool with such little effort. Have people playing multiplayer online games and just televise it with maybe some commentating. Hell I'd flip it on to watch a cool deathmatch or Mario Kart or basically anything *other* than what is currently on G4. And the chance to get to play and have it televised would be pretty neat for gamers.

They actually already have this. It is called Arena, and it is actually pretty boring. First of all, all the teams have stupid names like "fragkillaz100" that makes them seem like idiots. Secondly, the specific multiplayer games they participate in are kinda boring to watch. They're so slow that they have to edit out a lot of the game time and just provide you with highlights. If they ever did a Street Fighter III or Guilty Gear battle I would be ecstatic, but I've never seen them do anything besides FPS or racing games.

Maybe now G4 will be less based on re-runs.

Yes, I hope so. Nothing like watching X-Play only to find out it's Adam and Morgan letting you know when the PSP is going to be released. Reruns of review shows do not work very well at all.

I guess they are bringing back that Leo Laporte guy soon to do Call for Help. http://www.g4tv.com/callforhelp/index.html and Barbed Wire Biscuit looks pretty cool.

I do wish that would let people send in video auditions for the new host of Attack of the Show. Some of us don't live in New York or LA and we might make a good host. I'm here in the middle of Texas and didn't have the means to audition in person. Oh well, I'm going to have my wife apply to be the new fragdoll. At least they take email resumes.

That would make sense if it weren't on the ballot this year.

Thanks for the idea. I think I'll go put out a mod for Barbie's Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue now! According to the site (which requires cookies), it should get pulled from shelves just for being so very bad.

...remember when the news about a video game network came around?