#anyway these are just idle comments & mostly I am rabid for new essek content

[ariadne-mouse]

I'll be watching tonight's episode on Twitch but I am curious to see how things will operate on Beacon with it being a VOD rather than a stream, and potentially with the ad break cut out as well. While I can appreciate the intent & it is probably a whole other can of worms to host streaming [CORRECTION apparently the Daggerheart one shot was streamed live from Beacon - that's awesome!], I hope that over time they can figure out how to best sync up the initial airing between Beacon and their other platforms. Maybe stream first & drop the VOD right after. Call me crazy but I actually prefer the streaming experience with a mandatory break in the middle! And I enjoy all viewers being around the same timestamp so it's possible to peruse the main critical role tag without seeing something jumped ahead. And with the break cut out of the version on Beacon, it would be very easy in the second half for a block of viewers to be naturally 15min ahead even if no one is deliberately skipping forward. As such, I'll probably stay out of the cr tag tonight. Happy watching, whatever platform you're on!

#critical role #op #beacon.tv #thrilled for their platform launch but it does represent a change in how folks get that initial airing #i guess that's how it's been on dropout for a million years so like. not new territory etc #i remember when i was following the ravening war right as episodes dropped and it always felt a little weird to not be able to orient time #in other posts I was seeing in the tag on tumblr #you lose some of the immediacy of that group watch aspect #could you get it in the twitch chat still? sure but i am not going there lol #anyway these are just idle comments & mostly I am rabid for new essek content