Over the last week, I finally cleared my podcast backlog and dove head-first into Dropout TV. I’ve seen tons of great clips, heard many great things, and wanted to get into the channel for a long time, but I’ve been in a position where I wasn’t really spending a lot of time watching things. I had a massive video game backlog, so most of my non-video game media consumption was listening to podcasts while driving, working out, doing chores/cooking, and playing video games. Something I could enjoy while my attention was moderately occupied elsewhere. Now that I have more attention to give and fewer video games to give my attention to, I loaded up my tablet, logged into the account I share with my sister, and started watching Dimension20 from the very beginning. Sure, I could have watching Fantasy High: Freshman Year for free on YouTube, but I figured I might as well use the account while I’ve got it. I’ll also admit that I dragged my heels on starting any new actual-play visual media because I got super burned out on Critical Role and have never really gotten hooked on any of the other video-centric actual play shows despite really wanting to. I was worried the same thing would happen here.
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