Inside TechTV/G4 404
An anonymous reader writes "Former G4TechTV employee, Dan Huard, blows the whistle on G4. In the last half of his article, he states that TSS manufactured questions and used 'ringers' to ask their questions on the show."
Woah Woah Woah (Score:5, Funny)
Uh oh, (Score:2, Funny)
Hmmm...Let's see (Score:3, Funny)
Next.
That article was so mind numbing... (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously though, I agree with the other comments; mistakes have been made and now consequenes must be suffered...kudos to Dan!!
Re:basic questions (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, I knew some people had weak constitutions, but that is ridiculous.
The stripper hostess is really a tranny. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:New channel idea? (Score:3, Funny)
All you TSS old timers reading this -- and I know you are -- harken to nxtr. This could have legs.
Re:Woah Woah Woah (Score:5, Funny)
Spooky face (Score:1, Funny)
Re:New channel idea? (Score:5, Funny)
It'd be pretty funny to watch, but not for the reasons that you're probably thinking.
The actors would be handed scripts with spelling errors and completely erroneous information. 90% of the time spent reporting any story would be a "panel of experts" comprised of anybody who's willing to call in. The seats on the set would be modelled after RMS in such a way that an erect, hard cock will be pushed into the ass of anybody who sat down (think: inverted bar stool). Anything and everything MS would be immediately criticized in favour or some pre-alpha-quality open source variant that compiles but doesn't do what it's actually supposed to do.
Oh yeah, and every third show would be a rerun of something already aired that day.
Re:Is that really of significance? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:New channel idea? (Score:2, Funny)
Tune in at peak times, and you'd just get a "service unavailable" test-card.
Every-so-often the picture would be off to the left by a couple of inches - though tuning to another station and back again would usually fix this.
They'd claim to be broadcasting in widescreen, but a closer look would reveal 240 line monochrome
Re:Not surprised. (Score:3, Funny)
Well, obviously you've never tried the new enriched uranium pop-rocks.
Re:Woah Woah Woah (Score:2, Funny)
Actually, [imdb.com] I [imdb.com] beg [imdb.com] to [imdb.com] differ [imdb.com], sir. [imdb.com]
Re:Not surprised. (Score:5, Funny)
Like the Easter Bunny, Santa Claus and Superman? Here's a hint: TechTV barely got slashdot viewers, which says as much about TechTV as would a brutal and bloody art show failing in Manhattan, a butt naked supermodel catching no eyes on her jog through a remote all boys' boarding school, or the resurrected corpse of Ayn Rand walking into a Princeton lit class preaching the virtues of capitalism and watching the students walk out of the auditorium.
Let's be honest. The average Nintendo Power carries more content than a week on that deservedly dead channel, and just because G4 actually somehow manages to be more awful doesn't mean that TechTV was in retrospect any fucking good at all.
All that's left is good-looking, young hosts
Well, I'll give you young, but if you're really sitting on the internet pretending that you use the TV to look at pretty people (let's not even get into whether you believe anyone is being fooled) then someone ought to point out the WB to you: their schedule is just as vapid, and the people are a hell of a lot prettier.
But I read Smallville for the articles.
Response... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:New channel idea? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Dan's Account (Score:5, Funny)
Kevin did once. Right after the TSS purge, he linked to Dan's post on what had happened and commented, "Just shows what people will do for a company they love. On an unrelated note, I'm calling in sick Monday." At the end of the entry, he added a "quote of the day": "Every time Chi-lan takes a live call, God kills a kitten."
I don't blame you for not seeing it, though, it was only on Kevin's site for about two hours before he removed it without comment.
Re:Woah Woah Woah (Score:2, Funny)
Of course reality is real. Don't we all eat bugs for breakfast, stand on poles for hours on end to see who has the most endurance, have dozens of beautiful women competing to marry you, vote out jerks from our teams, and win a million dollars if we're the last one to survive the latest round of layoffs?
Re:So who hired that producer? (Score:3, Funny)