Times Square livestream reactionblogging
Jan. 1st, 2021 11:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brin_bellway[mild cw: illness]
Well, I say "live". It was mostly hovering around a 2:20 delay, and never less than 1:30 or so. We held our own countdown in the living room at 11:59:50, and then a couple minutes later we watched theirs. At least it didn't crash outright at 11:59 this year: they're getting better. Someday they'll catch up with the quality of TV broadcasts, and hopefully it'll still cost a lot less then.
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Remember that post about the indescribable emotion you get when you receive your official NASA hand-sanitiser swag? I'm feeling that emotion by proxy about the official Times Square New Year's Eve party's sparkly pink-and-purple masks.
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I was surprised they were *having* a party, since I'd heard it was "closed to the public". I never caught the bit where they explicitly explained what was going on, but judging from some of the stuff they mentioned in partygoer interviews about "heroes" and "nominations", I *think* they held a raffle restricted to vouched-for essential workers. Which is an interesting way of doing it.
(If you won, you got a socially-distanced box in Times Square for your household to hang out in.)
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You now have the context to appreciate this wonderful hilarious clip:
though the inflatable dancer should have had a painted-on mask
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"Maskless lead singer with masked backup dancers (specifically, dancers wearing a uniform where the mask is clearly designed as part of the uniform)" feels heavily loaded with symbolism, but symbolising *what* I'm not entirely sure.
Well, I say "live". It was mostly hovering around a 2:20 delay, and never less than 1:30 or so. We held our own countdown in the living room at 11:59:50, and then a couple minutes later we watched theirs. At least it didn't crash outright at 11:59 this year: they're getting better. Someday they'll catch up with the quality of TV broadcasts, and hopefully it'll still cost a lot less then.
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Remember that post about the indescribable emotion you get when you receive your official NASA hand-sanitiser swag? I'm feeling that emotion by proxy about the official Times Square New Year's Eve party's sparkly pink-and-purple masks.
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I was surprised they were *having* a party, since I'd heard it was "closed to the public". I never caught the bit where they explicitly explained what was going on, but judging from some of the stuff they mentioned in partygoer interviews about "heroes" and "nominations", I *think* they held a raffle restricted to vouched-for essential workers. Which is an interesting way of doing it.
(If you won, you got a socially-distanced box in Times Square for your household to hang out in.)
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You now have the context to appreciate this wonderful hilarious clip:
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"Maskless lead singer with masked backup dancers (specifically, dancers wearing a uniform where the mask is clearly designed as part of the uniform)" feels heavily loaded with symbolism, but symbolising *what* I'm not entirely sure.
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Date: 2021-01-01 04:18 pm (UTC)Re: livestream quality and whether it was going to crash outright:
I assured everyone that even if the *entire* Internet access went down, I had an offline copy of the Dougie MacLean cover of "Auld Lang Syne" for that exact reason. We played the offline copy a few minutes after midnight: no sense in making YouTube do it when we have the data right here.
I said a few years ago that "playing 'Auld Lang Syne' on your smartphone through the official YouTube app" felt like a very Correct way to ring in a mid-2010s New Year. "Playing 'Auld Lang Syne' on your smartphone through an offline music-player app you got from F-Droid" feels very appropriate for the early 20s. Here's to getting results, whether God likes it or not.
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Date: 2021-01-01 06:52 pm (UTC)I know that faux-crowds have been a thing all year, but I missed out on most of it, except for the stuffed animals at baseball games.