Whiskey Media: Happy Hour 05/13/11

Although I need to watch these live, my newest tradition is getting up at the ass-crack of dawn on Saturdays to work on my portfolio as I watch the WMHH. It'll be bittersweet when I wrap up my portfolio so maybe then I'll watch 'em live. Great show gang!

I enjoyed the whole thing, but what was most useful this week was to hear about the costs for producing print material during the Comic Vine segment, especially the breakeven points for making a profit. My Dad's an author (novels and poetry on a small scale admittedly) so hearing the experiences of Jimmy Palmiotti was useful. Fortunately my Dad's brother in law is in the printing business, and any required artwork comes from a talented family friend, so that costs him very little at the moment. We found that if you ask a professional online publisher to print it, the costs escalate dramatically.

@Hailinel: @smiddy: @shakesvoltage:All valid points. I'm sure WM is aware there is a certain lack of interesting things to do with comics on a live show and have thought about ways to improve. I just wanted to get that feeling out there in an intelligent manner instead of the mess we see in the live chat. I support Comic Vine and what they are about, I just wish they could spice it up a bit.

cya Alex

Damn comic, God they're so boring.

I'm not trying to be a jerk, but I want to put my opinion out there. I think something different needs to be done with the Comic Vine segments.I don't mind them being on the show, it is the Whiskey Media Happy Hour after all, and I like the people, but their segments have never felt right. It doesn't move the same way as the rest and often comes off as awkward in a not fun way. Even the staff seemed bored during this week's piece. I'm not fond of any flat parts of the show, so I'll say the Giant Bomb wasn't great this time around either, but CV has been constantly dull since the Happy Hour's inception.Sorry, I don't want to whine, and I love and support these sites. I just feel like something better can be done to make this a more entertaining watch for everyone.

I want to set that damn baby on fire.

Absolutely no hate towards Klepik, cause I like him, but that joke is getting pretty old.

Oh man that "Shit still broke" segment is my new favorite thing on the Happy Hour. Laughed again for another good minute this time.

Oh and if they really gave away Ico and Shadow of the Colossus for free.. I think that might be my forgiveness price. ;-p

awesome happy hour.  thanks, guys :]

Even as a non comic book fan, I find the interviews interesting.  

Absolutely no hate towards Klepik, cause I like him, but that joke is getting pretty old.

I always mute it when people call in. Can't help it but it's cringe worthy

Absolutely no hate towards Klepik, cause I like him, but that joke is getting pretty old.

The GB talk was amazing! Excited for E3.

I enjoyed the whole thing, but what was most useful this week was to hear about the costs for producing print material during the Comic Vine segment, especially the breakeven points for making a profit. My Dad's an author (novels and poetry on a small scale admittedly) so hearing the experiences of Jimmy Palmiotti was useful. Fortunately my Dad's brother in law is in the printing business, and any required artwork comes from a talented family friend, so that costs him very little at the moment. We found that if you ask a professional online publisher to print it, the costs escalate dramatically.

Ahhhh, difficult times for the Will.  Bad luck havin Ryan there keeping him to task, and such self mastery needed in the onslaught of Norm's triumphant gloating.

Damn, and he already printed that pair of chopstick trainers with his Makerbot, what now can he do for revenge? Perhaps some bare wires on the power supply when Norm does his next blindfold build zen excersize, maybe coupled with a pool of spilled civet pellet coffee on the floor........yessssss.

Does anyone think that maybe the people who got the credit card info might not use the information for awhile?  Patrick sounded like he thought it was fine since no theft has been linked to psn yet. 

klepek is just distractingly cute.

Matt Rorie: "AHHAHAH WHAT A DUMB PUPPIE!"

Good show all, the Chan/Smith contest was fun!

Jeff's shirt brought back a lot of good memories from the Gamespot days :P

Jeff's shirt brought back a lot of good memories from the Gamespot days :P

I need to get paid membership so I can watch this every week but I can't afford it atm

Babs has this real staring-into-my-soul thing going on, can't break eye contact...

Clearly we should be constructing real buildings out of spaghetti and marshmallows.

klepek is just distractingly cute.

Norm was just a pile of sweat. Cannot wait to see Will in the suit. 

Sara and Jimmy sitting in a tree: Kay ei es es ei en gee...

Spaghetti and marshmallows... That's brilliant! I'm gonna make a geodesic dome and line up some condiment bottles and play Kitchen Bowling!

Enough with the "Shit is still broke" segment, if you can call it that. Also, ENOUGH WITH THE FUCKING PUPPIES! Now that Navarro is returning to the East Coast, they'll be no one to keep Rorie in check; I'll just mute his appearance when watching live.

I know it's lame to only have negative things to say, so I'll add: keep trying WM, your members are with you, we're behind you 100%, we can only go up!

Patrick seems like a cool guy.

I thought Alex was moving to New York?

Will probably could've won. At least got one comic book on. If he didn't roll it up. The weight on the top caused it to topple. 

The amount of enjoyment Norm get's from winning is insane.

So this is the origin of the penguin suit!

@johnymyko: so Jeff lost and is therefore not a trustworthy engineer?

I've gotta make some calls.

I just know that we all won in the end: