Ever notice in top ten lists nowadays it always starts with number 1? Well real top X lists go in descending order, building up the humor and ending in climax! Going ascending is just backwards, you don't start with your best joke, you start with the worst so you build up and leave off with the best part. The only reason to start at 1 is laziness.
9. Uncreative
You only make a top list if you don't have any decent ideas for a new post.
8. Repetitive
Nobody makes a top list if they have something new to say, just the same old.
7. Repeating
Top Lists always repeat themselves and others, "Top Ten Cats in dresses", "Top Eleven Cats in Skirts", "Top 320 Cats in Women's Clothes"
6. Same old
yawn.
5. Wrong
Ever notice that the people who write the lists are just wrong? They should think like me!
4. Too many Items
Top 44403230952095290 pictures of cats wearing clothes! No. Just No.
3. Useless
More and more of the top lists don't even have anything to do with humor, they are serious posts. How does a bunch of quickly thrown together links to a million batch image processors help me? Just pick one that works well and recommend it if you want to help other people find one. Posting a top ten list does nothing besides make me avoid your site from now on.
2. Mindless
Nowadays people just find a bunch of web templates that match a theme, count them, and throw them in a post. It's amazing, some people nowadays won't even write a comment about them, how is that any better than google?
1. Overdone!
It was funny when it first started, but now that I get one every other time I stumble onto a page, it's just annoying!
So please, just come up with a different form already!
G4's trouble began a while ago when they merged with TechTV. I actually liked the channel for a short time, just after the merger and before they fired Kevin Rose (you know, the guy who went on to make little known sites like digg.com. In this period my favorite show was then known as The Screen Savers. I enjoyed the show because it was the first television show I had seen aimed for "techies." Instead of segments on how to turn on a computer, it had reviews of new hardware and the lower level technical calls were on whether to go with a lower RPM, but denser HDD or a higher RPM but lower capacity HDD. Hell, TSS was how I first learned about FireFox, back in the pre-1.0 days.
Nowadays, that is gone. Turn on G4 today and you'll probably get nothing about technology, or even video games. You'll have pro-wrestling or some Japanese obstacle course. Here's the schedule on G4 as I'm writing this article:
Time
Title
Description
1:30 PM
The Big Boss
BruceLee uses his karate chops and lightning kicks to make sure the whitesnow stays out of people's noses. When his cousins end up dead,...
3:30 PM
Cheaters
Illicit affairs and highly emotional confrontations caught on tape.
4:00 PM
Cheaters
Illicit affairs and highly emotional confrontations caught on tape.
4:30 PM
COPS
Florida- A Street Narcotics raid aimed at alleged drug dealers is organized;an airliner chrashes into the Everglades; a crack pipe is found in a...
5:00 PM
COPS
Boston - capture of two suspects, one of whom has attempted to swallow illegal drugs; woman arrested for narcotics violation.
5:30 PM
COPS
Boston - fire is opened on a knife-wielding man; four men dressed as Elvis injured during a stunt are aided.
6:00 PM
COPS
Adomestic dispute betwen a mother and young son is sorted out; analleged burglar is apprehended, an alleged carjacked is pursued.
6:30 PM
X-Play
X-Play Reveals the Hottest Videogames of the Summer
7:00 PM
Attack of the Show
Best of the Week
8:00 PM
X-Play
X-Play Reveals the Hottest Videogames of the Summer
8:30 PM
Cheaters
Illicit affairs and highly emotional confrontations caught on tape.
9:00 PM
COPS
Florida- A Street Narcotics raid aimed at alleged drug dealers is organized;an airliner chrashes into the Everglades; a crack pipe is found in a...
9:30 PM
COPS
Boston - capture of two suspects, one of whom has attempted to swallow illegal drugs; woman arrested for narcotics violation.
10:00 PM
COPS
Boston - fire is opened on a knife-wielding man; four men dressed as Elvis injured during a stunt are aided.
10:30 PM
COPS
Adomestic dispute betwen a mother and young son is sorted out; analleged burglar is apprehended, an alleged carjacked is pursued.
11:00 PM
Way of the Dragon (HD)
TangLung (Bruce Lee) must battle to protect his family living in Italyagainst mobsters who are after their land, ending in a showdown with aU.S....
1:00 AM
Attack of the Show
Best of the Week
Yeah... that's unique.. What was once a good source for technical news and discussion is now... Spike... At least they still have XPlay and AOTS (what was once The Screen Savers before they fired anyone who knew anything and appealed a different part of the average male). And it's not like the technical side is gone completely... right?
4Chan is now the hang-out for hackers? That's news to me. I always thought 4chan was where people went when they wanted child porn, gore, cheap laughs, adolescent insults, overdone MEMES, and the occasional trolling. But I guess I was wrong because if the almighty G4 says it's true, by god it must be true! Nevermind the huge distinction that has been made between white hat and black hat hacking, the difference between hacking and cracking, or who "e;hackers"e; grow up to be. Nope, a bunch of script kiddies run an auto-voting program to make Moot the most influential person on a relatively insecure poll and 4chan becomes a hacker haven.
In case you don't know, let me explain to you what a script kiddie is, a script kiddie is a person who in a bid for some attention, finds a program usually made by a black hat hacker and without any care as to how or why it works, uses to excess. These methods while disgusting, are inarguably effective and are all-in-all very easy to do.
So G4, please either learn a few basic lessons or just go die
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The correspondence chess player isn't here for now, until I find an installlation of it or figure how to install it manually. I plan to put a bunch more stuff in the arcade.
You'll notice the new entries up top, tBlog and WLM. tBlog is a MMS Blog, i.e. I can post by sending an MMS message. If there's any interest among the 3 or so people who'll read this within a month, I'll post a public one where anyone can post to it. There's also a web messenger to connect to WLM