G4's untimely demise: A eulogy

  Hello lovely nerdlings. I write today to discuss my feelings on the recent news of the intended cancellation of Attack of the Show and of X-play and the future re-branding of G4 the channel that was there for us before we knew we needed it.

  To say this upsets me is a bit of an under statement. I loved G4 since I first discovered it in my sophomore year of high school. That was about 2005 and the first show I saw on it was this crazy piece of fantastic in where a man traveled around the different MMO universes that were popular then and ran into kooky characters and had funny adventures. It was called Portal and I immediately fell in love with the entire channel. Shows like Blister, Pulse, Cinematek which just showed sweet cut scenes from video games. Filter, G4tv.com, and the list goes on of all the amazing programming that existed back then. I would leave my TV on  that channel for hours and hours because it was a constant confirmation that there was a whole group of people who were just like me and got what I was into and why.

  But as we all know that version of G4 wasn't long for this world and the changes came quickly and harshly. At first it was cool, the merge with techtv gave G4 X-play with its campy goofy sense of humor and award winning reviews I ate that up. But then all the programming I loved started to fall away thanks to the change in channel presidents that occurred.. It started replacing my shows with Cops and Cheaters and stupid crap only self-hating uneducated nerds would trouble themselves with. But I held on because at the end of the day there was Attack of the Show (formerly screen savers) and X-play. The heart and soul you might say but then they either lost or threw away the hearts of those shows with the loss of Adam Sessler (arguably the greatest name in video game journalism) and Kevin Pereira the hilarious tech genius. I don't fear for those gentleman, its obvious they knew enough to abandon a sinking ship but I weep for the network that used to be. It is not my G4 anymore and it hasn't been for awhile. But god it burned brightly in its time like a Nexus 6.

   So now they have cancelled the two last bits of that glorious time and are turning the channel into an "upscale sophisticated men's network".   FOOOLS! Who does that appeal to? Nobody is going to watch that! ...whatever they will soon learn a harsh lesson and that lesson simply is

Nerds Do It Better