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The New School Geek Cynic
Self confessed geeks unite! This blog from the UK is brought to us from another proud "new skool geek" who isn't afraid to voice his opinion on the hard hitting issues like, what's on television and why it sucks, 3d engine performance on recently released first person shooters and poorly documented Internet Explorer CSS bugs.
Popular culture is all important for geek kind, and our author lets us into his tech bubble to share his thoughts and ideas on the modern world. Written with true geek egoism, we are enlightened in the Mac vs PC debate and our authors favorite films of all time. I'll give it to him, he has good taste and a good reviewing style. Again, I wish this blog had more regular updates.
One post in particular struck a chord with me perhaps due to my newly found role as TWR reviewer - "Mindless Blogs" and I quoth "I have a question for these people... WHY THE F**K DO YOU THINK WE GIVE A S**T?!!!" That's a very good question. A good blog will make us give a s**t, whether we want to or not!
The design is clean and well presented with easy to read text, but the guy is a seasoner web designer so your eyes are in good hands. The New School Geek Cynic is a well written blog for all lovers of popular culture and is not UK-centric either. Worth a visit and with more frequent posts, worth a re-visit.
This site was reviewed on 2005-12-14 by dylan.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
dylan felt that The New School Geek Cynic deserved a rating of 3.5.
The New School Geek Cynic(TNSGC) is a fairly clean looking weblog with a banner at the top that looks kind of sucky. "Sucky" is a technical word that us professional reviewers use that means the thing we're looking at is not very good. A common example of usage might be "That Nebyah writes some pretty sucky reviews."
Anyway, the author, NSG, has what he describes as a personal weblog, and before you all decide to just switch over to another channel let me interject here and say that there are very few posts of the "I think Cadburys chocolates are great" variety. There is absolutely no mention of relationship difficulties, or pet cats or any of that mindblowingly tedious stuff.
Rather what you're going to find here is game reviews, movie reviews, TV show reviews, and some rants, mixed in with the occasional diversion into website design issues he may be having, or the merits of Cadbury chocolates. (And by the way NSG I am totally with you on the subject of mindless blogs.)
I cannot comment on the accuracy of his reviews, since I have not seen any of the movies or shows he mentions, or played any of the games. However the reviews seem to be well thought-out, and the writing is good enough, and entertaining.
The design is pretty standard Blogger fare, which is fine by me. As long as it doesn't interfere with the content I really couldn't give a toss about design. And anyway who the hell do these airy-fairy arty types thing they are, dammit. The web is for text, and all of this awful graphics stuff is just a massive bandwidth wasting con designed to hide the fact that most sites have no content whatsoever.
Ok, so here's the thing. As a personal blog it is not very personal. As a movie review weblog it has far too many game reviews, and vice versa. So who should read it? If you want to read reviews of movies and TV and games... but then why not just go to IMDB for movies, and one of a million specialist game sites for game reviews?
I'm inclined to think that NSG needs to pick a topic, but what the hell do I know.
This site was reviewed on 2005-12-14 by nebyah.
They felt this site belonged in the Personal category.
nebyah felt that The New School Geek Cynic deserved a rating of 3.25.
2 reviewers gave The New School Geek Cynic an average rating of 3.3750
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