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Posted by ailurophobic (Member # 8343) on :

Did anyone else catch that, or am I the only person sad enough to watch G4 in the middle of the summer?

It annoyed me a little bit about how they spoke of the Ender sequels, but I haven't played Advent Rising, so I can't really comment on that.

Posted by Lupus (Member # 6516) on :

G4 is the antichrist that killed tech tv. Though, they did leave xplay intact.

So nope, didn't see it. [Razz]

Posted by ailurophobic (Member # 8343) on :

I preferred ZDTV over TechTV and GamespotTV > Extended Play > XPlay.

Kate Botello was there before Morgan, and she seemed a lot more.. into games than Morgan. Donno. Morgan just doesn't strike me as much of a gamer. (Though it's nice to see us chick gamers represented out there. XD)

Posted by Orson Scott Card (Member # 209) on :

Am I the only person who has no idea what G4 is? Is it like, half of G8?

Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :

It's a cable station dedicated to video games and other geek hobbies.

Posted by ailurophobic (Member # 8343) on :

I read that as "geek hobbits."

And yes, I suppose it could also be half of G8.

Edit:

"Advent Rising is a third-person sci-fi action adventure with a story co-credit that goes to Orson Scott Card. Card is a well-known author whose credits include Ender’s Game, one of the most respected science fiction novels of the last 20 years. Apparently, times are tough though, and he has to extend his name to things like this instead."

http://www.g4tv.com/xplay/features/52053/Advent_Rising_Review.html

Pffffffft. *angry face*

[ July 11, 2005, 11:00 PM: Message edited by: ailurophobic ]

Posted by Verily the Younger (Member # 6705) on :

Wow, an entire cable station dedicated to entertaining intellectual, socially awkward Homo floresiensis? Score one for multicultural tolerance. [Cool]

Posted by ailurophobic (Member # 8343) on :

Hey hey hey hey! .___.

.. it's on satellite, too!

I think it's a great thing that I'm a gamer who's socially accepted at school!

Posted by IanO (Member # 186) on :

Come on. Nobody likes "Attack of the Show"?

Posted by ailurophobic (Member # 8343) on :

Haha!

Well.

G4 is a guilty pleasure of mine. Yes, I like Attack of the Show, but I liked Call for Help better.

Posted by RynoW1 (Member # 8365) on :

I have a confession...much to the shagrin (sp?) of my wife. Attack of the Show is on my Season Pass list on Tivo so I record every episode. ONLY because I want to become more of a computer geek than I am and the show has some pretty useful info. I just have to fast forward though some of the fluf.

On a similar note..any word on an Ender's Game video game? I've searched and searched but I can't seem to find anything that OSC has said on the matter.

Posted by Gosu (Member # 5783) on :

The only Ender's Game video game I've heard of is the one you can download and play on your TI-89 and TI-83 Plus graphing calculator. And they aren't good at all.

One of them is where you're the hegemon and have to take over the world.

......it's a calculator.....