Well, after a rigorous 30-ish minutes of live streaming performance, followed by several snorts of bourbon, a steam, massage, shower, another steam, another shower, a blood transfusion, a huge sashimi tray, and a quick goat sacrifice (followed by another light steam / shower), I’m ready to hear some feedback on our live online show tonight.
Besides the incredible glare coming off my forehead — not to be taken lightly, I know, but easily solved next time with a huge trucker’s hat — what else do you have?
I’ll mostly be a sympathetic dope vis-a-vis tech issues, but they WILL be read by smarter people… people who can help, and not just nod understandingly. Anything else? Things that a non-skilled man in a trucker’s hat might address?
(Or would a ten-gallon cowboy hat work better to prevent glare?
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105 responses so far ↓
1 Hugh on Jan 15, 2009 at 10:58 pm
I’d like to file a complaint. My complaint is, I forgot about it and arrived 40 minutes late, and when I got there, you weren’t still doing it. Please change this next time, and be doing it whenever I arrive. Thank you. God bless.
2 Penguin on Jan 15, 2009 at 11:07 pm
My apologies if this is just my issue, but I had the audio go out on the riff and the Q&A – both times about 20 seconds or so before the end of the transmission. The video kept going to the end, though. The volume slider would also disappear with the audio. Anyone else experience this?
3 Tony on Jan 15, 2009 at 11:15 pm
Hey Bill, you guys were great! I really enjoyed this short and I’m looking forward to the next Live performance.
I had a minor issue with the sound: It didn’t cut out for me (I think) but it was off sync by a couple of seconds during the pre- and post-Riff. It seemed to be okay during the Riff, mostly.
4 Wesley Stamper on Jan 15, 2009 at 11:25 pm
First off, congratulations! The three of you sounded just as good live as you did on the recorded version.
I can’t imagine anybody having anything but praise for the performance side of things.
I hope that, in future performances, you won’t let yourself be intimidated by the girl-pants of your co-stars, and that you will, in fact, dominate *them* with pantaloons forged from the stuff of myth and legend!
I’m thinking Geranimals, but BIGGER
The chat could have been longer, but that’s just nitpicking.
On the technical side, I’d like to be able to turn the chat box *off* so it’s not eating up RAM.
It was like my first experience with the pit at a punk show. A bunch of neo nazis bashing kids around. NO Way was I going in there.
5 Bill Corbett on Jan 15, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Yes Tony, my wife reported the exact same thing re sound. Mostly all right during the riff, but a little off for the Q & A.
I blame Kevin.
6 Neb on Jan 15, 2009 at 11:29 pm
It worked without a hitch for me: yay! Great job, everybody. Made me laugh a LOT. Don’t worry about the bandage or “shiny foreheads” for crying out loud. You guys are such good performers that we wouldn’t have noticed the above if you hadn’t expressly drawn our attention to it. So don’t do that. We love you.
Kevin’s pants, though. That’s another matter.
Anyhoo…nothing funnier than teen angst, I always say! Easy pickin’s for the likes of you’all.
Riff on!
7 Bill Corbett on Jan 15, 2009 at 11:29 pm
Will do, Hugh. Just beam your thoughts directly into my cerebral cortex, and we’ll be good to go.
8 mekail on Jan 15, 2009 at 11:30 pm
I loved the “did you know” bits before everything started.
I really enjoyed it. The riffs were great but the audio a bit low-fidelity. When the lights were up, the production quality had a webcam feel but the faux-shadowrama worked pretty well.
The chat window seemed awkwardly placed and contributed about as much as you would expect 1000 random peons on the internet typing memes at each other would be.
A microphone was on between the movie and q+a so we got to hear kevin talk about snugness and mike’s laptop.
The audio died for me before the end as well. Mike had just mentioned his publisher hating his books.
9 jfruh on Jan 15, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Is there a recorded version for those of us who were too lame to tune in during the actual LIVE! broadcast to watch? Maybe it could have YOU WERE LAME in huge letters above the video window for punishment.
10 Kim on Jan 16, 2009 at 12:08 am
Argh! This is exactly what happened to me! I thought perhaps it was just my crappy browser that’d been screwing up all day but maybe I was wrong.
As far as the performance goes, you guys were great…sans the minute or so total that I missed, but I’m going to assume your greatness continued despite the fact that I was incapable of listening.
11 Eddie Colton on Jan 16, 2009 at 12:13 am
I was thinking you should just record all Rifftrax this way. The sound was just as good as those really expensive shotgun microphones you wasted money on.
Also, thanks for dressing up for the event.
12 the Dug on Jan 16, 2009 at 1:01 am
Kevin’s manpris notwithstanding, the whole experience was really fun. We were a little disappointed that Bill didn’t mention the iRiff that we will get around to submitting very soon.
Our audio was fine, but our video kept stalling. Still very watchable, and I hope you keep doing these.
13 Bullwinkle on Jan 16, 2009 at 1:24 am
It was fun to watch you guys riff live. My thoughts are A) Wasn’t the aspect ratio off on the short when it was shown on the widescreen tv? It’s a pet peeve of mine I suppose. B) What would it be like to use a video projector to get a larger image so you guys don’t look so cramped up there? Perhaps since we were just kind of watching the back of you three gentleman’s midwestern heads, you could stream the short directly and add in ya’lls audio.
14 Brian O. on Jan 16, 2009 at 1:45 am
Next time wear funny hats, or perform as ninjas. Everything’s better with funny hats or ninjas.
15 BEMaven on Jan 16, 2009 at 3:05 am
My dial-up connection and steam-powered Mac made watching the show pretty much impossible.
But I heard that women were throwing their underwear at the screen.
16 Jack B on Jan 16, 2009 at 3:14 am
Excellent performance! If you hadn’t pointed out the band -aid I wouldn’t have been able to see it though – the lighting was a bit bright at the beginning. The audio was a bit low quality. I could do without the chat room – the messages whipped by too fast to read anyway. No sync issues here though, and it didn’t drop out for me.
You might want to have someone look at your servers for the commerce site – right after the riff I tried to buy the short and got web pages with MySQL errors about “too many connections.” Took about 5-10 minutes before I could get a transaction through.
17 Barry on Jan 16, 2009 at 3:28 am
I hereby ask the same question.
18 Houndstooth Mind on Jan 16, 2009 at 4:38 am
It was funny and I will definitely turn up for future (paid?) events. Sound was a bit off sync in the beginning. I would also like to put in a vote for some sort of TiVo’d version for those of us who can’t make it to the live event.
19 Houndstooth Mind on Jan 16, 2009 at 4:48 am
I forgot to add I also loved the pre-show slide show!
20 Tork_110 on Jan 16, 2009 at 4:51 am
There wasn’t, but I think there should be at the next Rifftrax Live.
21 Ninjew on Jan 16, 2009 at 5:03 am
Bill, you don’t have to wear a hat. That luminous glare off your forehead made it easier to figure out which one was YOU. Basically, the moving blur unfettered with large quantities of wildly flowing hair – had to be you.
Over all, this was a fine and enjoyable experience. I was actually able to “time-shift” this and see it complete later (as I arrived home at 9:18pm EST), and had a good ol’ bellyachin’ guffaw after I saw it!
The audio quality was fine during the riffs (although the “wind guards” weren’t quite doing their jobs, as plenty of quick exhalations were audible), and like others mentioned, the sync was off during the pre-post show chat stuff.
The only technical things that need adjusting:
1) Lock focus on the camera. Whenever the movie would fade to black or cross-fade, EVERYTHING went out of focus, and then snapped back. A tad distracting.
2) The chat function did not work at ALL around here. Did plenty of refreshing of the page, and even used three different browsers, but the chat function never connected.
I blame Kevin.
Either that, or you guys just didn’t want to talk to me…
Again, excellent job!
Oh, and now that I think about it Bill, instead of wearing a hat, you might consider wearing a gold painted lacrosse mask on the back of your head. This way there’ll be no question as to which one is you.
22 Tork_110 on Jan 16, 2009 at 5:08 am
Where did you get those questions that you read after the show? Were they from the rifftrax forum? I wasn’t expecting to compete with that during the Q&A session. Although I don’t blame you with the way the chat went.
Anyway, you need to hold the live show a little earlier so the Q&A session won’t be past your bedtime. And I hope you guys to do “A Touch of Magic” at some point.
I can’t wait until the next live show. That worked out great.
23 TJ Prostitute on Jan 16, 2009 at 5:14 am
That was classic in the making, guys! I laughed myself to sleep last night. Smoothly executed and hilarious, and the Q & A was not too bad either. Well done Mike, Bill and Girl-Pants Murphy!
24 chrismartindeed on Jan 16, 2009 at 5:54 am
The short was certainly funny and educational.
But after watching it, I still felt… well… sort of… kinda self-conscious… you know.
25 Spooky Janelle on Jan 16, 2009 at 6:02 am
It was a great show, although I had issues with the sound as a lot of others seem to have had. I’m really looking forward to more of these.
And I appreciate the fact that Kevin didn’t show up in a dress…but were the manpris some sort of odd compromise between a dress and pants?
26 Racer™ on Jan 16, 2009 at 6:05 am
Great show guys. No real complaints from me, though I was worried, me living in Denmark being an issue with the connection, but everything was great.
I felt nauseated trying to keep up with the chat, and then I found myself not paying attention to what you guys were saying. Next time I’ll ignore the masses and only listen to my three favourite dictators. HUZZAR!
Skål!
27 Michaela on Jan 16, 2009 at 6:34 am
…And his girly pants.
28 Michaela on Jan 16, 2009 at 6:37 am
I happy to report that my viewing went off without a hitch! A fantastic maiden voyage into the world of live online riffing .
In conclusion:
WAMA CHEETIM.
29 Ben on Jan 16, 2009 at 6:41 am
Dang, I knew I forgot something I wanted to see last night. I think my mind was overwhelmed by the constant bombardment of news coverage of that glider that landed in the Hudson.
30 Gummo on Jan 16, 2009 at 6:54 am
Great show, Bill!
I’ve bought all the Rifftrax shorts, and this one ranked right up there with the best of them. Something about a live performance adds that little magic “x” factor to the proceedings.
Some minor tech foul-ups with the sound, but mostly it went off very well. The chat box was useless, though. Distracting. I full-screened the presentation when you guys were on, which made the proceedings a bit fuzzy, but it was worth not to see that annoying chat box.
More of these will be greatly appreciated and enjoyed!
I hear that there will be no more Film Crew DVDs – is that true? if so, too bad — Wild Women of Wongo is one of our faves!
31 Houndstooth Mind on Jan 16, 2009 at 7:09 am
Oh yeah, my big screen was a bit fuzzy too. I’m also wondreing if it would be possible to have several smaller chat rooms next time.
32 Houndstooth Mind on Jan 16, 2009 at 7:11 am
I said it before and I’ll say it again, Murphy has great gams!
33 BoB3K on Jan 16, 2009 at 7:13 am
Great riffing! My audio was fine but the video was grainy and stuttered–it was no problem here, but I wouldn’t want to watch a full-length “real” movie riffed this way.
As for specific comments, I’ll just pass along those that my 3 yr old son gave:
As we watched the pre-show slides (which were very funny) my son asked to watch something and his mom told him that we were waiting for the show to start. As we continued to watch he would repeat, “Mom, we’re waiting for thes show to start.” Once it came on and the short began and the riffing was in full swing, he said, “Mom, we’re waiting for the show to start.”
His favorite line: “A dog crapped in his hair!”
34 Walter on Jan 16, 2009 at 7:26 am
It was very fun. It was cool to actually see you do it. My family was yelling back to me because I was missing The Office, but I’m really glad I watched this instead. Thanks for the laughs.
35 oddstocks on Jan 16, 2009 at 7:26 am
Hi, I also experienced a ~second delay between sound and picture. The picture during your before and after was a bit jumpy – could be my DSL.
Everything else was lost on me. The side-chatting was so distracting (I really should’ve blocked it, but I was fascinated by it-couldn’t help but wonder whether folks were really watching the short) I couldn’t concentrate on the film, and I don’t remember any of the riffs. I’m sure the chatting was fun for the participants, but…don’t you want the focus to be on your product?
36 Walter on Jan 16, 2009 at 7:27 am
It could be like Diggnation crazy.
37 zack on Jan 16, 2009 at 7:33 am
Great job, guys. LOVED it.
I’ll second/third/whatever the issues with laggy sync of audio during the presentation, but it wasn’t unwatchable by any means.
The performance was top notch and I look forward to more of these events in the future.
38 Bill Corbett on Jan 16, 2009 at 7:45 am
“His favorite line: “A dog crapped in his hair!””
Guest-written by Noel Coward, so of course he enjoyed it.
39 Laura on Jan 16, 2009 at 8:06 am
It was interesting…. The chat was kind of fun, but it had over 1000 people in it. Like I said a few times now, it was hilarious to see the look on Mike’s face as he tried to read it all. I’d suggest maybe only allowing people who PM’d one of the moderators to be able to chat, as well as having an account of ustream. Or having a three-five second delay between each post made my a person to reduce the spam.
I’d say even if it’s a little out of sync, that’s good because at the least the video isn’t lagging off. Some times when something is perfectly in sync, it lags quite a bit.
40 Laura on Jan 16, 2009 at 8:07 am
Oh, and Bill, your mic was a bit loud. I know you’ve been working with mics for a long time, but it works better if it’s a little bit below the mouth.
Yes, I am a professional at mic using.
41 Tork_110 on Jan 16, 2009 at 9:13 am
The chat was filled with only people with ustream accounts. It was even crazier before Conor showed up.
42 Laura on Jan 16, 2009 at 9:16 am
Yeah, but a delay between posts would’ve really helped
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43 Michelle on Jan 16, 2009 at 9:19 am
Wonderful, hysterical riffing. Bravo and well done and all that. My only suggestion is that you leave Kevin’s mic “hot” until he is finished speaking. Clearly, he was in the middle of voicing a staggeringly important thought when his mic cut out. We can only hope that he will rise above this affront and grace the world with the issue of his cerebration, “That oughta hold the little [mic dies].”
44 Ryan on Jan 16, 2009 at 9:24 am
I completely agree on the aspect ratio thing. I hate it when people do that on widescreen TVs.
45 Erik on Jan 16, 2009 at 9:28 am
We’ll be looking at this today – luckily the site seemed to come back pretty shortly afterward, but alas, that’s a pretty bad user experience.
Thanks for the info.
46 Erik on Jan 16, 2009 at 9:29 am
We took some questions from the chat, as well as our forum and Facebook page.
47 Erik on Jan 16, 2009 at 9:33 am
A couple of correctiosn:
- You DID have to be a member of uStream in order to chat in the main #rifftrax channel.. but this still meant 50-60 people chatting at once.
- Mike was not reading the chat room, I was moderating it and sending him specific questions. We also had some questions we took from Facebook and our forum in case any of those didn’t work out
48 Mstmompj on Jan 16, 2009 at 9:57 am
Mstson and I both enjoyed it immensely, but especially the post-riff Q&A.
I hope the short makes the next shorts DVD (a much better format IMO than something living on my computer), which I will eagerly buy when it’s out.
49 Beautiful Houndstooth on Jan 16, 2009 at 10:11 am
LOL I think that was a little homage to Buffalo Bob of the old Howdy Doody show. Back in the days of live TV I believe he got in trouble when he thought his mic was turned off after a performance and he said “That oughta hold the little bastards” in full earshot of millions of innocent viewing kiddies.
50 Beautiful Houndstooth on Jan 16, 2009 at 10:28 am
What Facebook? Rifftrax has a Facebook profile?
51 AJ on Jan 16, 2009 at 11:29 am
I enjoyed it, but I did have trouble with visual and audio a bit too, it kept freezing on me. Still, what I caught was great and so are you guys!
I’m actually more concerned about your head and the toaster fork incident. Are you ok? xx
52 Laura on Jan 16, 2009 at 11:31 am
When it first started (with around 200 or so people) you didn’t have to have an account.
And
to the Mike not looking at the chat room.
53 Ken Banks on Jan 16, 2009 at 11:35 am
Great job by everyone! I immensely enjoyed the entire performance, laughing uproariously at least once or twice. The Q & A was nice, too, but perhaps a tad short, and maybe not quite enough Q?
Just keep doing what you’re doing! You do it better than anyone, and this fan can’t thank you enough.
-Ken
54 NanoRiffite on Jan 16, 2009 at 12:08 pm
On technical issues: There needs to be an option to split the video and the chat-window. Some people may only want the video. Also, at least for me, the chat window works better if I have it running in a separate browser window than the video.
It would help to have the chat window be wider. Someone kept trying to help out by telling people how to setup an IRC-ish window via
http://www.ustream.tv/IrcClient.swf
I eventually got that to work (after several attempts where I kept getting the wrong web page), but that meant I had *TWO* chat sessions open. One via the nice, wide IRC-client window, and one being the chat window on the web page which I had to have up to see the video.
With the wider chat window, the lines don’t wrap as much and it’s easier to keep up with the busy traffic. And a chat room is bound to be busy if you have two thousand people in it.
55 NanoRiffite on Jan 16, 2009 at 12:12 pm
On the video window, can’t you do whatever you want wrt the size and dimensions of the video? Could you have the short shown in it’s normal size, and then have your video image include a dimly-lit area under the area where the short is showing, and then have your silhouettes in the dimly-lit area?
Just a thought.
56 NanoRiffite on Jan 16, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Personally, I thought one of the funniest things about this event was that people started showing up over two hours early for a 15-minute short!
57 NanoRiffite on Jan 16, 2009 at 12:16 pm
Great. We were trying to pretend that didn’t happen. Now he’ll go back to being all self-conscious about it!
58 NanoRiffite on Jan 16, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Wrt Kevin’s book: Maybe he should check out some smaller publishing company, which doesn’t have any connections to the movie industry. Something like http://www.pragprog.com
That’s partially in jest, but you could follow a similar model. Make a PDF of the book “Why Hollywood Sucks”, and then sell that through the rifftrax store. Or something. Pragmatic Programmers have this setup where they custom-generate the PDF’s, so the PDF includes the name of the person who purchased it.
59 NanoRiffite on Jan 16, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Oh, yeah, one more suggestion based on this. Given that this live rifftrax-ing can pull together a few thousand people, it might be nice to have a longer “event”. Any thoughts about maybe doing multiple shorts for a single event?
60 Racer™ on Jan 16, 2009 at 12:25 pm
Just looked at Rifftrax’ channel at Ustream.tv.
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rifftrax
Looks like you can use the popup link for a nice chat free window.
http://www.ustream.tv/videoplayerpopup/channel/290589
61 NanoRiffite on Jan 16, 2009 at 12:29 pm
Somewhere in the past, some company (AOL?) had the concept of chat “theaters”. As you entered the chat, you ended up in a “row” with maybe 25-50 other people. Everyone in a single row could see the sends of other people in that row, but not of people in other rows.
And then there was some special command to “yell down” questions to the moderators, and if the moderator picked your question then everyone in all rows would see your question.
62 Bill Corbett on Jan 16, 2009 at 12:40 pm
It was indeed an homage to a famous urban legend, which turns out to be non-true according to Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/radio/bastards.asp
Shorter version: Kevin lied.
63 Bill Corbett on Jan 16, 2009 at 12:42 pm
“Given that this live rifftrax-ing can pull together a few thousand people, it might be nice to have a longer “event”. Any thoughts about maybe doing multiple shorts for a single event?”
Many thoughts along those lines. We’ll be pow-wowing about all possibilities now that we know that technology works, more or less, despite me being too loud and too shiny.
64 NanoRiffite on Jan 16, 2009 at 12:58 pm
I also thought the pre-short slide show was a great idea. it helped fuel jokes in the chat room!
65 NanoRiffite on Jan 16, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Hmm. I had popped up the separate window for the video at one point, but now I forget why I gave up on that. That might have been before I got the IRC-client to work right.
66 Houndstooth Mind on Jan 16, 2009 at 1:17 pm
I say why not self publish. Seems to me this site’d be an excellent place to hawk books as well as riffed trax. Heck I’m fixin’ to self publish and I never even had a hit show!
67 Laura on Jan 16, 2009 at 1:17 pm
Why would Kevin lie to us? What, is the government lying now, too?
68 Erik on Jan 16, 2009 at 1:18 pm
Sorry – hate to end your fun
But it was pretty hard even for me to read it sometimes, the way comments were just flying past. It definitely needed the help of someone fielding questions from the “audience.”
69 Erik on Jan 16, 2009 at 1:19 pm
I am going to ask the uStream people about that – I remember those types of moderated q&a’s, and I’d love to be able to do that. But I think this time we might try to leverage Twitter in some capacity for the questions. Stay tuned as we find out more.
70 Houndstooth Mind on Jan 16, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Yeah I Google it too after I typed my response. Mom always told me it was Buffalo Bob but we all know how moms are.
71 AmandaGal on Jan 16, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Thanks for doing this guys. It worked great for me. The site seemed to drop off the face of the earth for a bit after the event went down.
I was told in the site’s chat that you could split the window. I think someone suggested this earlier, but it would be nice if everyone was linked to the “video” and “chat” because a few people were having memory issues with both running in the same.
72 AmandaGal on Jan 16, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Ebooks are HUGE these days. I suggest Mike should make an ebook with his not funny book too.
They are great, spur of the moment type purchases. People I know who are less famous than Mike or Kevin have made a fortune schilling them.
73 Brian O. on Jan 16, 2009 at 3:31 pm
I’m guessing someone pissed off Streamy the Stream Sprite. “Nooooo streams! Ha ha ha!” *bweepoo*
74 Brian O. on Jan 16, 2009 at 3:32 pm
No no no, that was Prince William and his bodyguards at a fancy dress party.
75 karen on Jan 16, 2009 at 3:41 pm
i missed it-it should be archived for later viewing(Freebie!) and then also a bit longer for Q&A. pop it up onto youtube or such for peeps to see.
i did like it from what i DID see.
76 Steve-O on Jan 16, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Here’s a little feedback aimed directly at the techie types. Bill, feel free to let your eyes glaze over and skim ahead to the next post. (Great riff, by the way!)
I had absolutely no technical issues with the streaming, which is a bit of a shock, as the computer I watched on usually has problems keeping up even with buffered video.
I did at one point have the ustream chat open in a separate browser window, but I had to shut it down after a bit because it was bogging down my system. I also noticed performance improve considerably after I shut down the RiffTrax live window and pointed a browser window directly at the streaming video.
My recommendation for future iterations would be that you allow people to close the chat app altogether from the main page. My guess is that some of the people complaining of stuttering or intermittent connection loss might have had a better time of it if they hadn’t had the chat to contend with.
In fact, you might be best served to not include the chat on the live page by default. Allow viewers to open chat by clicking on a link, then open it in its own window. That way they can resize it so there’s some chance in hell of actually reading the drivel that’s streaming by, though I have no earthly idea why anyone would want to do that.
77 Teren on Jan 16, 2009 at 3:51 pm
I tried several times to get on but it kept telling me there was something wrong with the site. As I could easily get on tonight, I’m assuming the site was overloaded at some point or some other problem. Very disappointing.
78 NanoRiffite on Jan 16, 2009 at 3:53 pm
Well, after a rigorous 30-ish minutes of live streaming performance, followed by several snorts of bourbon, …
And here I thought you’d be going for bacon vodka:
http://www.browniepointsblog.com/2008/01/20/homemade-bacon-vodka/
79 Kim on Jan 16, 2009 at 3:59 pm
Does this mean I’m going to be tormented by Satan’s number 2 minion until I am perpetually spewing out the wonders of internet streaming?
80 AJ on Jan 16, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Toaster forkings are a very serious condition, you know!!
81 Lindhorst on Jan 16, 2009 at 5:09 pm
I was there about an hour previous and had joined in on the chat which quickly came to what has to have been the darkest hole of despair a chat room has ever been, especially during the Q and A where the only chance you seemed to have for your question to be picked was to spam it wildly as much you could.
Obviously this was a first and I’m sure a lot was learned but a more structured live Q and A where questions could be sent to a moderator then passed along would be much more helpful I believe.
82 Insert Coin(s) to Continue on Jan 16, 2009 at 5:25 pm
The live show was fantastic. I know this statement isn’t novel, but you guys really are very funny. It was nice to see the onscreen chemistry again. You guys really played off of each other well.
Surprisingly, the technology worked fairly well. I lost audio at times and there was a bit of lag, but it was nothing compared to many of the live streams I’ve seen in the past (Sony’s press conference at E3 2006 on GameSpot comes to mind … actually, forget I ever said that)
83 Jmaes on Jan 16, 2009 at 6:07 pm
I missed Disembaudio.
84 Shelly on Jan 16, 2009 at 6:51 pm
It was probably just my connection, but I had a problem with the sound on ustream. The stream + sound would stop completely for a few seconds every now and then, then start where it left off. At the end, though, the video was running without sound for possibly an eternity, but maybe just a couple minutes. So if Kevin said something else about his girlpants during that time frame, I missed it, and I’m pissed.
Other than that, it was wonderful. Also, my crush on Bill is massively ridiculous. Forkstab wounds and all.
85 Coderjoe on Jan 16, 2009 at 7:04 pm
The chat part is actually just Internet Relay Chat (IRC), which you can connect to with pretty much any IRC client. To be able to talk in the chat, though, you will need to connect with the name you use on ustream’s website, and send a /PASS command with your ustream account password.
86 Erik @ RiffTrax on Jan 16, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Hi, are you referring to the RiffTrax site? We’re aware that the site went offline for a few minutes after the show, but I wasn’t aware that it had gone down before then. Can you give me an approximate time you tried to logon?
You can always view the next show from our uStream channel, as well: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rifftrax
87 Erik @ RiffTrax on Jan 16, 2009 at 9:28 pm
They were – I was scanning the chat and sending the questions that I deemed “worth” to Mike via an Instant Message.
88 Erik @ RiffTrax on Jan 16, 2009 at 9:29 pm
worth = worthy, of course.
89 Stacia on Jan 17, 2009 at 2:34 am
The live show was great, and I was jealous of Kevin being able to wear capris in the dead of winter. Lucky bastard.
I had sound delays as well, but they came and went. It seemed like the audio would bog down every so often, causing the delays.
As far as chat went, it sadly wasn’t particularly worthwhile. Not your fault, of course, but the fault of a few really obnoxious people coupled with something like 3500 people in chat at once. I think if chat had been turned off until Q&A time, with a moderator stating chat was just for Q&A, that might have been better than subjecting poor Erik to the torment that is reading the whole chat just to find a few questions.
90 Stacia on Jan 17, 2009 at 2:35 am
It’s impossible to not crush on Bill. I know. I’ve tried.
91 Neb on Jan 17, 2009 at 2:18 pm
I vote for moderated chat, as well. I scanned the chat at first, but it was so annoying I quickly moved my window over to hide it. I have no patience for that many people saying nothing in particular of interest. Call me stuffy, I’m ok with that.
92 NanoRiffite on Jan 17, 2009 at 4:06 pm
I think the chat room only got up to 2000 people, while the count of people watching the video was well over 3000 (quite possibly over 3500, I didn’t watch that number too closely).
Yes, the audience was rambunctious and noisy. What else would you expect from crowd of Rifftrax/MST3k fans? An audience of polite people who never talk during a show? People who raise their hand and wait until called upon before speaking? In a riffing crowd?
Admittedly the chat was total chaos with that many people talking at once, but turning it completely off would taken away some of the fun of the live event. We need to be able to break up into smaller groups.
Hmm. Another good idea on top of that would be if people could say whether they wanted to be in a “quiet row” vs a “boisterous row”. Hmm. Interesting idea.
93 brainyheather on Jan 17, 2009 at 7:35 pm
MORE BILL CORBETT!!! I think those other two are eyeing your lemon drink…
94 TeeJay on Jan 17, 2009 at 8:26 pm
I especially loved the silhouette of Kevin’s hair on the screen during the short…
Awesome show guys. I anxiously await the next one – in fact, I’m so excited, I can hardly contain myself.
95 rebisaz on Jan 18, 2009 at 9:12 pm
I just wanted to say that I thought the live show was excellent, I loved it *and* the Q&A afterward, and I’m really happy that y’all are planning another one. I hope it happens more often, great work! Thank you for the laughs, I’m pretty sure they help me keep my sanity.
96 Stacia on Jan 19, 2009 at 2:13 am
See, I don’t think there was any riffing going on, and if there was the chat window scrolled so quickly very few could have seen it. All I saw were people complaining about each other or random MST3K/Rifftrax/CT issues.
Maybe just encouraging riffing is all that’s needed, or a bigger window so things could be read. I don’t know how anyone could watch the short AND read a chat room with thousands of people in it at the same time though.
97 Ambitiously Stupid on Jan 19, 2009 at 10:05 am
The live show was perfect. But there was no mention of Cinematic Titanic in the Q/A. Also, there was no mention of Bill Cosby, The statue of Liberty, Gilligan’s Island, Hubcaps, Paper Clips, or Bill Nye the science guy.
98 Houndstooth Mind on Jan 19, 2009 at 12:49 pm
Could the lagginess have been camera related? Sometimes folks on You Tube mention that their videos have sound lag because of their cameras.
99 rebisaz on Jan 19, 2009 at 1:05 pm
Nail on the head, Ambitiously Stupid. I am really getting tired of them ignoring Bill Nye the Science Guy like that.
100 NanoRiffite on Jan 19, 2009 at 6:51 pm
There were some riffs going by, although not many during the short, and probably zero during the Q&A part.
I complete agree that an unmoderated chat with 1,000 people is pretty painful. But if we were split into groups of 25-50 people, then I think it would add to the fun to have chatter going on among the smaller groups.
That probably will be a fair amount of work to do right, and can’t be done for this upcoming event, but it would be nice to do if Rifftrax runs many of these events over time.
101 BathTub on Jan 19, 2009 at 9:17 pm
He did the gag on the Film Crew website too.
102 Kzinistzerg on Jan 26, 2009 at 9:02 am
Well, I liked it. My suggestion for you guys is that if you know that you want to talk to certain people, log onto an external chat. My friends and I just made a Skype conference call and talked to each other, since it wasn’t worth it for them to come allll the way over to my house just for a short.
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