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Whiskey Media: Happy Hour 04/15/11

It's the end of the week and we've got a full car heading over to Happy Hour.

Apr. 15 2011

Cast: Ryan, Brad, Alex, Matt

Posted by: Vinny

In This Episode:

Prince of Persia Trilogy

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Boom

Finally

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I stupidly missed it today

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awesome show guys

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ah yeah

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Woah, that was up pretty fast!  I missed it, so I'll get to watching that right now, excuse me.

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I love it when its up early! Also, sweet marquee

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I love this looking more and more like a TV show.


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@JeffGoldblum said:

" I love this looking more and more like a TV show.
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Yeah, it actually looks like a a quality show...what happened?!?!

also volume is way low for me at top notch on my macbook
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Nice!  Accidentally missed the show today.  Thanks for the timely posting!  Also, hurray for Ryan getting his!

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Sweet, missed the show today. Was thinking I'd have to wait longer to watch.

Great show guys!!

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OOh nice title card.

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Hey, I saw this. Chat was fun too. Good show guys.

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I really don't like the interviews/advertisements even when it's for something I enjoy.  I come to Whiskey Media for the critical thinking by its great employees, not to be shilled at again and again.

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I missed this live.  Man, really stepping it up with the fonts on the bottom thirds & the neon background.

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@TadThuggish said:
" I really don't like the interviews/advertisements even when it's for something I enjoy.  I come to Whiskey Media for the critical thinking by its great employees, not to be shilled at again and again. "
Yeah, that Ford thing on the screen sucked. It was even cut off, kind of there type of thing. Sucked.
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@Claude said:
" @TadThuggish said:
" I really don't like the interviews/advertisements even when it's for something I enjoy.  I come to Whiskey Media for the critical thinking by its great employees, not to be shilled at again and again. "
Yeah, that Ford thing on the screen sucked. It was even cut off, kind of there type of thing. Sucked. "
Opening interview with Echoes guy.
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@Dany said:
...on my macbook "
There's your problem.
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@TadThuggish said:

" @Claude said:

" @TadThuggish said:
" I really don't like the interviews/advertisements even when it's for something I enjoy.  I come to Whiskey Media for the critical thinking by its great employees, not to be shilled at again and again. "
Yeah, that Ford thing on the screen sucked. It was even cut off, kind of there type of thing. Sucked. "
Opening interview with Echoes guy. "
He hyped preorders. That might be cool in comic book land, but video game people laugh at this practice. While they buy it.
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I really don't like the music being on in the backround, great show though
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Is this sort of quiet for anyone else? I could barely hear anyone during the first segment.

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I like the new intro.

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Man I have to say all the happy hours without Jeff in a segment kinda suck...


btw Brad is so tanked during the pop segment.

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Good show.  Thanks for the Gears beta codes.

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Dear Christ, she has legs.

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I dont get the hate creme eggs get, they're amazing..... as well as starburst jelly beans 

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Norm cheated.

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All that background music was extremely distracting. It may be appropriate for a 3 minute tested segment but not a hour long show.

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The "HD" versions of PoP don't look that good at all. I remember the games looking better when I played them on the PC back when they first came out.

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i know this isnt a free one but with out the few free happy hours that they have done i would never have become a paying subscriber .... :D

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@TadThuggish said:
" @Claude said:
" @TadThuggish said:
" I really don't like the interviews/advertisements even when it's for something I enjoy.  I come to Whiskey Media for the critical thinking by its great employees, not to be shilled at again and again. "
Yeah, that Ford thing on the screen sucked. It was even cut off, kind of there type of thing. Sucked. "
Opening interview with Echoes guy. "
i don't really like comics, but nevertheless i still found the interview really interesting. It was really cool to hear people talk passionately about their mediums; i think the content trade-off made his requests for pre-orders acceptable. I really doubt that any money changed hands between the whiskey and the Echoes duder- a short plug at the end of a interview is a standard for the chat show style program WM seems to be trying to emulate. 

Each to their own i guess
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I don't think it's necessary to have background music just because other Internet shows do that.

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Audio levels were way off throughout the show.

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@K9 said:
" All that background music was extremely distracting. It may be appropriate for a 3 minute tested segment but not a hour long show. "
Yeah whoa whoa whoa...dont do that! this is almost exactly like the time background noises and music was put in the Hotspot, back at GS, and everyone went nuts! only this time, no one is going nuts...
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Dreamworks smirk! Thank God, I thought I was the only person who noticed it in every fucking animated Dreamworks movie.  


IT NEEDS TO STOP. 
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Do Americans not like Cadbury Creme Eggs (the highlight of the season) or something?

Also, screenshot at 21:12!

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Background music, I think the people at whiskey have some role models in showbusiness etc. which show has music in the background during interviews? the fuck...

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Well, I atleast did pre-order echoes. It looked liked it had a nice style and the story seemed like he had put a little thought in it.


Im not really a comic book guy only having read Sandman, Lucifer and two Star Wars graphic novels.
Maybe i'm just easily influenced hehe. 
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@Sanj said:
" Dreamworks smirk! Thank God, I thought I was the only person who noticed it in every fucking animated Dreamworks movie.  

IT NEEDS TO STOP. 
"
You're not the only one. I do believe it's an actual concept page on Screened.
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Very professional looking control room action this week, I like it!

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Love the new intro and the graphics, but quit with the music under everything. It's extraordinarily distracting and something I expect from terrible entertainment shows on E!, and not from Giant Bomb. There's just no reason for it.

Okay, thought I could continue watching, but couldn't make it past the first 3 minutes because of the music.
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As already stated in the chat "Ryan has some sexy legs"

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in relation to the HD collection having to reboot the disk: any dev making a HD collection go to Crystal Dynamics! (or whoever made the Tomb Raider Trilogy) b/c that is the only one ive seen that has a "Back to Launcher" option in the ingame start screen to back out and start one of the other  games

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the prince of persia: wait what. that "game" has been out for some time in europe. i saw it about a month ago in a store. 

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Cadbury eggs are the shit. You guys don't know what you're talking about.

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I'm liking the new clean look. Also, Comic Vine actually talked about comics, which was great.

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@Erlog said:

" Love the new intro and the graphics, but quit with the music under everything. It's extraordinarily distracting and something I expect from terrible entertainment shows on E!, and not from Giant Bomb. There's just no reason for it.
Okay, thought I could continue watching, but couldn't make it past the first 3 minutes because of the music. "

I think that reaction is a little extreme, but i am with you in spirit. It didn't distract me that much, the fantastic music that usually gets played during Tested segments or aftershow nonsense, that always makes sense. This doesnt really seem to fit. I understand, you guys want to have a more professional show, but honestly? the title card and graphics are enough.

The HH used to be my favortie thing of the week, but now it is very quickly declining from that. They got the formula down perfect for me ages ago! with every facet they keep tacking on, it gets more and more clunky and jarring...

Having said that. Happy Hour 04/01/11 was perfection
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Ryan, sextillion is a number. It's 1 followed by 21 zeros. 10 X 10 to the power of 12 is a trillion, 10 X 10 to the power of 15 is a quadrillion, 10 X 10 to the power of 18 is a quintillion, 10 x 10 to the power of 21 is a sextillion and so forth.

I knew it, Navarro is joining Giantbomb isn't he...

Also, Zebra Skirt Sara is my new fourth favorite Sara.

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@Death_Burnout: My complaint is probably quite a bit more pedantic than other users, but it's because of a specific reason. I'm a foreign language learner, and I like to watch Giant Bomb while I go through my daily study routine of more than 300 flash cards. This requires me to split my attention in a very specific way that I've trained myself to be able to do, and lazy techno under things just throws the entire thing completely off. It made me unable to pay attention to the words anyone was saying because my brain was paying attention to the music. It was like my brain was unable to ignore it, and it didn't fit with anything that was happening on screen. So to my brain it was just analogous to a guy above me in an apartment listening to loud thumping music while I'm trying to watch something. 

I know it seems harsh, but that's just how my brain reacted to it. I ended up just skipping to the Giant Bomb segment because there was no music there. I also am not someone that tends to complain about things on the internet, and I rarely complain or even post on Giant Bomb at all. The music made me unable to watch Happy Hour today, and that really annoyed me so I posted in order to register my disapproval. If they decide to keep the music then I'm fine with that, but it'll just mean I won't watch Happy Hour.

I'm not going to boycott the site or anything, but it would be a whole hour of weekly content that I'm unable to watch. I would like to be able to watch it. I posted to make sure someone at GB knows that there are users that can't stand that choice in production of Happy Hour. I'm not some sort of change-fearer either. I love the new I Love Mondays. I watch them now whereas I never ever did before. I love the new graphics and intros on the Happy Hour this week. It was just the music that bothered me.
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Comic Vine did really well this week. Sadly the rest of the show was ass.

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@Erlog:

Jeeze, why do you do flash cards and watch internet videos at the same time? Why not do them separately? I don't think the production people can be held responsible for the way your brain works.