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The Screen Savers Reunited
HABITcky writes "Leo Laporte, Patrick Norton, Kevin Rose, and Robert Heron have gotten together and recorded their first podcast of The Return Of The Screen Savers (ROTSS) It's a 56kbps MP3Pro file weighing in at around 14MB. Join them for 34 minutes of Skyping fun as they discuss driving in the dust, cell phones, Kevin's new webcast, Systm, and the demise of TechTV. They plan to make this a weekly broadcast."
...first podcast of The Return Of The Screen Savers (ROTSS)...
In TFA it's called Revenge of the Screen Savers.
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- Archimedes
I only watched Leo Laporte on The Site. That was back in the early days of MSNBC when they actually tried to do something different.
In those days the motto for The News with Brian Williams was "It's not your father's news program". Then before you knew it, MSNBC was too conservative to be your father's news channel.
If you can get Canadian cable, you can catch Leo on Call for Help. Almost like the Screen Savers, and Amber is hawt.
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
Laporte's original TV gig, TheSite, was even better. See more here
TheSite was one of the first shows on MSNBC when it first came on the air. Unlike the other shows on the network, it was produced by ZDTV (long before they had their own channel). It was more classy, more professional, and yet seemed more interesting than anything on ZDTV/TechTV/G4.
Too bad it was canceled 2.5 years later, before most people had even heard of MSNBC, let alone the show itself.
http://www.demonoid.com/torrents/download/HTTP/966 02/RevengeoftheBleep.www.Demonoid.com.torrent
G4 did have it, they decided to 'tweak' it until it became the unwatchable incarnation that is now called "Attack of the Show"
"Plans are for fools! Oglethorpe, the plutonian (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)
It's cutscenes, FMV, trailers, and whatever else from old games, new games, upcoming games, etc. Mostly cutscenes and intros. Not many trailers.
That's not to say any of it is actually GOOD, because damn little of it IS good. It's just that it's not merely trailers for upcoming games. Nitpicking.
Yes, Arena is the show where you watch other people play games. Arena is a microcosm of what's wrong with G4: anyone who plays video games or computer games would most likely prefer to PLAY the games themselves rather than watch SOMEBODY ELSE play the games.
If they have time or the desire to sit there and watch other people play, either they're too broke to buy games (great advertising demo: the poor and broke!) or they lost the TV remote and can't change the channel, OR they're stuck in a hospital bed with broken limbs and can't change the channel.
I deliberately configured my office so I cannot see the TV when I am working at my computer. I used to leave Tech TV on just as background noise all day long. Can't do that with G4 because it's too boring. Instead I tend to leave the Science channel (whoo! Slightly better than G4 anyway), NWI (bye), or my DVD player screensaver running.
Sig for hire.
I'm listening to the podcast right now and I'm hearing product reviews about noise cancelling headphones, cell phone companies and talk about other tech products that I'm interested in. Straight up talk and no bull without regard to what the 'suits' say they can say about this product or that product. What could be better or more interesting than that? I'll listen to further broadcasts.
Enjoy your Karma, after all you earned it. Feel your Karma Joe, feel it burn.
What about Kat http://www.catschwartz.com/. She was good to spank off to. Especially after her nudes surfaced on the 'net.