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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corinth" data-source="post: 980967" data-attributes="member: 497">I have G4 on for a few hours every day, so I'm familiar with the channel's content.  Here's a few things to remember:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This channel just passed its first anniversary on the air, so they are still working out the kinks.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">As a young channel, there's a hideous amount of repeats over a given week.  This was really bad until just after the first of this year; now there is regular new content added to the channel.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The shows to watch are: Pulse (weekly newsmag, new shows on Friday evenings), G4TV.com (weekly chat show, pairs with Pulse, new episodes every week), Arena (Clan-on-Clan LAN gaming, still suffering from host turnarounds, regular but not frequent additions), Cinematech (FMV show w/ a variety of themes; my favorite show on the channel; regular content additions) and Cheat! Pringles' Gamer Guide (cheat code show).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">The shows to avoid are: Portal (MMORPG show that acts like a soap opera), Judgement Day/Electronic Playground (both shows featuring Victor Lucas, doing some reviews of games and products; can get better coverage in print and online and without the annoying co-star/producer Tommy Tallawhatsits), Players (celebs being annoying gamer geeks; recent ones are oh-so-slight improvements).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Take Or Leave: Filter (well done count-down show w/ a cute host; it's the host and the presentation that sell what would otherwise be a sucky show), Sweat/Blister (a sports and action gaming pair of shows that do reviews and previews of games in their genre focus; the former's hosts are okay, while the latter's is an annoying twat; shows are okay, but skippable).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">G4's official website is worthy of bookmarking if you want to get into one or more shows; the online broadcast schedule alone is worth it out of sheer convience but the forums suffer from bad moderation--as in, not enough--and an overload of bad avatars and .sig files (both are way excessive).  The chat room is a big way to connect with G4TV.com and Filter relies on its online Filterater for its show content.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">G4's infuence is already huge and growing very fast; print mags and game publishers adopted the network early on and are big on exploiting it for their ends, which G4 is happy to allow for it justifies G4's existence.  G4 exists to bring gamers to publishers as consumers to advertisers; this is not necessarily a bad thing.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Ronilyn Reilly is hot. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></li> </ul></blockquote>

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