Happy Hour Three Stars
by trace
Consider this a random blog of no importance or entertainment value whatsoever. You've been warned. Needless to say (thanks to the gold medal draped on my avatar), I'm a yearly subscriber, and I love watching the subscriber-only Happy Hour live. There's a certain site's chat room I hang out in, and generally I have a damn good time watching the controlled insanity unfold while making the occasi...
Needless to say (thanks to the gold medal draped on my avatar), I'm a yearly subscriber, and I love watching the subscriber-only Happy Hour live. There's a certain site's chat room I hang out in, and generally I have a damn good time watching the controlled insanity unfold while making the occasional remark or three.
One comment I like to bandy about is saying someone at Whiskey's the "MVP" of the hour if something amazing's just happened. When Brad busted out unexpectedly good rap skills in Def Jam Rapstar, or Jeff dropped the most out-of-place Mexican accent in a Comic Vine Preview Theater, I was probably saying they were totally MVP of the night in the chat. It's my way of virtually standing up and yelling, "THIS IS WHY I PAID YOU PEOPLE. THIS." It's my appreciation for moments of greatness, if you will.
This MVP talk got me thinking. Granted, I was talking to myself, and this sort of thinking's why I record community quest stats and other practically irrelevant or unnecessary information, but stick with me here. I wondered if maybe I should go about making my MVP of Happy Hour declaration each week a bit more...well, official. Set in stone. Written in a blog no one reads. Just for the hell of it. So yeah, I'm probably doing that from here on out, either in blog format (on this site and/or another Whiskey site) or in status updates. I'll announce my personal MVP, and why in a brief statement that's not long enough to spoil anything significant, but enough to make it clear that crazy shit goes down on Fridays. I don't expect anyone to read or care, but hell, I need to write more often, even if it's just a sentence or three, and it'll be more incentive for me to catch every Happy Hour.
I change my mind pretty frequently during the rough hour this special video broadcast goes on, though, and one person as MVP each week doesn't lend itself well to useless statistics. However, the three stars system hockey uses? That totally works! Kind of! I'll name the MVP, and the second and third star based on who made me appreciate my investment in the site the most each week. This is all weird, overwrought, and highly unnecessary, but damn it, that's how I roll. I'll track this behind the scenes, and maybe have stats I'll break out occasionally on this very subjective matter.
So, that said, how about I post this week's honors?
PsEG's Three Stars for the October 15th Happy Hour
Third Star
Ana, for nailing a Russian accent out of nowhere on Comic Vine Preview Theater. Talk about bringing class to the joint, and breaking out a pretty good accent out of nowhere! Second Star
Will, for the most intense five second of Shakeweight use ever seen on the Internet. It's already in images and .gifs around the webs, I'm sure, and for good reason! The man is a beast. MVP of the Night
Tonight's MVP award goes to Vinny & Drew, who knocked out more insanity in the video front with spontaneous explosions, fire, and enough special effects to make the hour not only feel rightfully fucking insane, but highly amusing. I always enjoy well-timed insanity in live video editing, and this week, the back room nailed it.For future stats purposes (as if it matters), any video editing antics worthy or stars or MVPs will be charged to both Vinny & Drew, while any on-camera appearances by either dude worthy of merits will be charged to the individual.
Just to fill out some stats, I went back to past Happy Hours, and tallied up what I thought my three stars would have been for each night. Yes, I wasted that much time on this silly idea, just because the thought intrigues me.
Past Three Stars
9/17/10
MVP: Norm, for his Fushigi magic and terrible quadricopter flying, including at the only pole in the room2nd Star: Vinny & Drew, for putting Ryan on Brad's lap and a David Bowie clip during Fushigi madness
3rd Star: Brad, for trying to kill the quadricopter and almost Double Bradding™
9/24/10
MVP: Dave, for the birthday awkward reaction to an awesome birthday gorilla2nd Star: Brad, for amazing and unexpected falsetto rapping skills
3rd Star: Ethan, for the terribly racist Indian supervillain accent
10/01/10
MVP: Jeff, for his Mexican accent that brought down the house during Preview Theater2nd Star: Tony, for the horrible Catwoman clip and even worse Preview Theater accent
3rd Star: Will, for unveiling the giant Minecraft phallus with a bit of wordplay
10/08/10
MVP: Vinny, for hilarious singing during the Rock Band 3 training songs and decent pro guitar/washboard use2nd Star: Tony, for a terribly hilarious voice of Woody in Preview Theater
3rd Star: Jeff, for rocking the one-handed keyboard while nursing a beer
No clue if I'll blog about this at all in in weeks to come anywhere on the Whiskey Media network, but I might make the occasional mention of it, especially for stat purposes. Any future blogs about this will be a lot shorter, as well, now that the backlog and rationale is out of the way. I already think this idea's pretty stupid, but that hasn't stopped me before.
What you should gather from all this useless blathering: Happy Hour. It rocks.