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Something Awful on G4TV

Posted by Zonk on from the isn't-everything?-rimshot dept.

Reader Mantorp wrote in to mention an article over on Something Awful (reader beware) discussing the good and bad points of everyone's favorite video gaming channel, G4. Except for not mentioning Icons (which I view as a variable but generally good program), they nail the channels pros and cons dead on. From the article: "I almost wrote an update like this when the merger first happened, but it would have been purely reactionary. The resulting channel needed time to ferment for better or worse, and luckily for you it got much worse because my only backup article idea was a fake guide to an NES game based on the Herman Melville book Bartleby The Scrivener."

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  1. Beggin' thah Colonel's Pardon... by Golias · · Score: 2, Informative

    but wasn't "Bartleby the Scrivner" just a short story?

    (Oh, and a shout-out to those of you who caught the "Go Go Gophers" reference... Now there's a show which will never again see the light of day! My childhood memories of Saturday mornings brim over with laughter at shockingly politically correct depictions of Native Americans.)

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  2. Re:Pretty much agree.. by frikazoyd · · Score: 5, Informative

    I'm sure what he meant was "Adam Sessler is the fucking man, but has to play the part of a retard now that he is on G4TV and works with Morgan Webb, just to make her look smart".

    Trust me, when Adam Sessler was solo (or with that other hot chick back when the Dreamcast was still around), the show rocked and I hated to miss it. I think it was Gamespot TV then. Then it changed names to something weird, then it changed to X-Play and started sucking like a Dyson.

  3. You don't need G4 to get The Screen Savers anymore by klausboop · · Score: 2, Informative

    Don't forget that (as previously reported on /.) The original Screen Savers bunch are doing weekly PodCasts now. If you were a fan of the original screen savers show, you're sure to enjoy the podcasts, which they call it TWIT: This Week in Tech.

    http://twit.tv/ should be the permanent URL, but is still under construction as of this posting. http://leoville.com/blog/index.php/TLR/comments/th e-revenge-of-the-bleep/ works right now.

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