And it's not like they haven't done this before. Omnitron and Omnitron-X aren't really the same person even if they come from the same place. Neither are Visionary and The Dreamer.
"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"
I too want to hear all the things about Space Dad (and, er, Space Uncle?), since we don't really have a whole lot about Captain Cosmic as a person yet other than "cheerfully British". Also that he's a heroic lawyer. (Note to self: Ask what branch of law he's most trained in.)
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
Yeah, I think that is one of the coolest parts of the Letters Page, we get a lot more look into the personality of certain characters.
Sure, we knew a little about The Wraith, but I would never have guessed she fears crossing the line because she doesn't know if she'll be able to find her way back. I had never associated that with her before. Or AZ being the most philosophical of the Freedom Five and on and on. These are insights we just couldn't get any other way, and I love them
Also, his Xtreme variant has the best dialogue. :D
I think the truest tragedy of them talking about the Prime Warden members seperately is that we likely won't get much XTREEEEEEME content until the group episode. Seriously, I love the tongue-in-cheek nature of these promos.
Yeah, I think that is one of the coolest parts of the Letters Page, we get a lot more look into the personality of certain characters.
Granted, even after their episodes there's a few characters where we still don't have much of a handle on their personalities. *looks disappointedly at Nightmist and Argent Adept*
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
Yeah, I think that is one of the coolest parts of the Letters Page, we get a lot more look into the personality of certain characters.
Granted, even after their episodes there's a few characters where we still don't have much of a handle on their personalities. *looks disappointedly at Nightmist and Argent Adept*
True, but we still got something.
Argent is "like a man working on four master's degrees" that makes him harrowed, highly focused and yet distracted at the same time. He's insecure about what he does know, assuming others have more knowledge about what is going on because he still has so much to learn. He prefers resolving conflicts without fighting, and preserving life when possible in the case of that Portal Fiend egg.
It's all stuff I didn't know about him before that helps flesh him out.
Same sort of thing with Nightmist, especially since she was the "plucky daughter sidekick" of a detective for years, learning to rely on provable fact and denying magick and the arcane. I don't know if we knew that before. She's also immersed in her studies, but less frantically than Argent. She seems like she's confident in what she knows (taking on a student in Lillian) while still realizing how much bigger the world of magic is.
I know exactly what you mean. And i love the letters page, though I think my favorite episode so far was definately Haka. We got so much further into the character of the man than some other episodes, though that could be because his powers & background are simpler on the surface. Loved the whole "it's never the Haka show" that... Adam(i think) mentioned. Can't wait for the next letters page! ^.^
Then again I could be biased about the Haka episode they answered SoO many of my questions.
Something I am curious to know: why is the Letters Page so shy from brand names? In comparison other podcasts I listen to (eg Secret Cabal, Dice Tower) do not shy away from brand names at all.
Is this because of the 'type' of podcast? Letters Page deals with its own IP and should therefore tiptoe around other IPs, whereas the aforementioned podcasts deal with the review of IPs belonging to others.
Prefers smooth peanut butter, but loves crunchy numbers.
Especially since it plays into the Sentinel Comics Publishing universe being its own thing. Can't have the same names in that version of our world; where's the fun in that?
Someone on Tumblr recently described the Letters Page as "two dudes talking about their OCs and making bad puns for an hour and a half" and I was like, "Yeah and people love to listen to it; Christopher and Adam are kinda getting to live every creator's dream right now as a result, aren't they?"
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
McBehrer is the sole winner of this game... And McBehrer, I would step carefully should you find your way down dark alleys. More than one vote said simply, "McBehrer must die."
Hey, folks! I was just looking at the schedule for November, and I realized that Adam and I are going to have to be recording all day tomorrow and Friday. We leave next Tuesday morning to go to Philadelphia for PAX Unplugged, and then the week we get back is the week of Thanksgiving, which Adam is traveling during. So! Here's what we have to record before we leave:
Urban Settings: Megalopolis, Freedom Tower, Rook City, San Alonso, Maerynian Refuge, Mordengrad
Blood Magic: Blood Countess & the Court of Blood, Bugbear, Hermetic
I already sent in some Megalopolis and Blood Magic questions (at least I hope the latter made it in, as I accidentally sent it through BaconReader's built-in browser instead of my usual browser), so I just gotta finish writing down my Biomancer thoughts. :D
Edit: And there goes that letter too... whee!
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
If it makes you feel better, I can write letters with a bunch of questions and then still realize I forgot something. (Like when you tell Twitch you were off writing letters with lots of questions about [x] and Twitch is like "Did you ask about [thing y] for [x]" and you're like "uh... well... I should have, oops".)
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
And we should still tag those followup questions with the character name, not "Editor's Note" or "Followup" or anything weird, right? I'm never sure if I should be going for the deck/character, or the episode it's going to be on, like with the Urban Settings...
Yeah, I felt a little confused, so I tagged my Megalopolis question as Megalopolis but labelled my Blood Magic questions as Blood Magic because my letter was mainly about blood magic as a general concept...
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
Yeah, just always tag your questions with what it's about. Baron Blade questions should be tagged "Baron Blade". Megalopolis questions should be tagged "Megalopolis". And so on and so forth.
"Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Random question: If there was an editor's note style question where it was more about a topic about how it relates to multiple characters, is it better to ask individual questions for each hero, or group them together under with a tag under that topic?
I have a serious question about puns/one-liners and can't decide the best way to submit it.
Something I am curious to know: why is the Letters Page so shy from brand names? In comparison other podcasts I listen to (eg Secret Cabal, Dice Tower) do not shy away from brand names at all.Is this because of the 'type' of podcast? Letters Page deals with its own IP and should therefore tiptoe around other IPs, whereas the aforementioned podcasts deal with the review of IPs belonging to others.
They discuss it in detail on their Intellectual Property Podcast :)
McBehrer is the sole winner of this game... And McBehrer, I would step carefully should you find your way down dark alleys. More than one vote said simply, "McBehrer must die."
And it's not like they haven't done this before. Omnitron and Omnitron-X aren't really the same person even if they come from the same place. Neither are Visionary and The Dreamer.
"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"
- Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
Thank you I think the point has been beaten in on me at this point.
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
Heh, sorry for the pile on. X3
I too want to hear all the things about Space Dad (and, er, Space Uncle?), since we don't really have a whole lot about Captain Cosmic as a person yet other than "cheerfully British". Also that he's a heroic lawyer. (Note to self: Ask what branch of law he's most trained in.)
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
Also, his Xtreme variant has the best dialogue. :D
Yeah, I think that is one of the coolest parts of the Letters Page, we get a lot more look into the personality of certain characters.
Sure, we knew a little about The Wraith, but I would never have guessed she fears crossing the line because she doesn't know if she'll be able to find her way back. I had never associated that with her before. Or AZ being the most philosophical of the Freedom Five and on and on. These are insights we just couldn't get any other way, and I love them
I think the truest tragedy of them talking about the Prime Warden members seperately is that we likely won't get much XTREEEEEEME content until the group episode. Seriously, I love the tongue-in-cheek nature of these promos.
Granted, even after their episodes there's a few characters where we still don't have much of a handle on their personalities. *looks disappointedly at Nightmist and Argent Adept*
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
True, but we still got something.
Argent is "like a man working on four master's degrees" that makes him harrowed, highly focused and yet distracted at the same time. He's insecure about what he does know, assuming others have more knowledge about what is going on because he still has so much to learn. He prefers resolving conflicts without fighting, and preserving life when possible in the case of that Portal Fiend egg.
It's all stuff I didn't know about him before that helps flesh him out.
Same sort of thing with Nightmist, especially since she was the "plucky daughter sidekick" of a detective for years, learning to rely on provable fact and denying magick and the arcane. I don't know if we knew that before. She's also immersed in her studies, but less frantically than Argent. She seems like she's confident in what she knows (taking on a student in Lillian) while still realizing how much bigger the world of magic is.
Man, I love these characters SO MUCH!
I know exactly what you mean. And i love the letters page, though I think my favorite episode so far was definately Haka. We got so much further into the character of the man than some other episodes, though that could be because his powers & background are simpler on the surface. Loved the whole "it's never the Haka show" that... Adam(i think) mentioned. Can't wait for the next letters page! ^.^
Then again I could be biased about the Haka episode they answered SoO many of my questions.
Haka does sem to be the moral compass of the Multiverse, doesn't he? I definitely have much more respect for him after his episode.
Is the Google form linked in the OP still active - is that what I should use to submit a question? Or is there a better way?
"You've got to kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight." B. Cockburn
The link to the form is this https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd9aq1Kv7Y1eObnBj4fqhQzwI3rYfAKEyuzYzgyowNZKQxeRg/viewform and can be found on the Main Letters Page site at http://theletterspage.libsyn.com/
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
That seems to link to the same form as the one I used from the first post. Thank you!
"You've got to kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight." B. Cockburn
Something I am curious to know: why is the Letters Page so shy from brand names? In comparison other podcasts I listen to (eg Secret Cabal, Dice Tower) do not shy away from brand names at all.
Is this because of the 'type' of podcast? Letters Page deals with its own IP and should therefore tiptoe around other IPs, whereas the aforementioned podcasts deal with the review of IPs belonging to others.
Prefers smooth peanut butter, but loves crunchy numbers.
It’s a running gag. https://twitter.com/gtgchristopher/status/917736533066731520
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
Especially since it plays into the Sentinel Comics Publishing universe being its own thing. Can't have the same names in that version of our world; where's the fun in that?
Sentinels is hardly the only property to do this anyways: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Yatter
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
That's hilarious. XD
And all I can think is, "Are hardcore users of the site known as Yattermen?"
Someone on Tumblr recently described the Letters Page as "two dudes talking about their OCs and making bad puns for an hour and a half" and I was like, "Yeah and people love to listen to it; Christopher and Adam are kinda getting to live every creator's dream right now as a result, aren't they?"
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
Yup, sounds about right. And I've been enjoying it so far. :)
If you had a podcast of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby discussing Marvel Comics, you could describe it exactly the same way.
BurningStickman7 on Steam.
My first novel: "Brothers of the Curled Isles"
The C-Team Podcast
I think I would add "bad voice acting" to the list, but fairly accurate
I see nothing wrong with that description.
McBehrer is the sole winner of this game... And McBehrer, I would step carefully should you find your way down dark alleys. More than one vote said simply, "McBehrer must die."
McBehrer confirmed to be Biomancer!
-- Trajector
Hey, folks! I was just looking at the schedule for November, and I realized that Adam and I are going to have to be recording all day tomorrow and Friday. We leave next Tuesday morning to go to Philadelphia for PAX Unplugged, and then the week we get back is the week of Thanksgiving, which Adam is traveling during. So! Here's what we have to record before we leave:
Whoof! That's a lot of stuff.
Anyway! Please send us your questions on those things ASAP!
"Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Geez you guys won’t have any energy for other stuff after all of that. Guess I’ve got some letters to write.
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
I already sent in some Megalopolis and Blood Magic questions (at least I hope the latter made it in, as I accidentally sent it through BaconReader's built-in browser instead of my usual browser), so I just gotta finish writing down my Biomancer thoughts. :D
Edit: And there goes that letter too... whee!
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
I never know what questions to send in until it's too late anyway. D:
Same, and then I face-palm when I realize there were obvious questions I defintely should have asked.
If it makes you feel better, I can write letters with a bunch of questions and then still realize I forgot something. (Like when you tell Twitch you were off writing letters with lots of questions about [x] and Twitch is like "Did you ask about [thing y] for [x]" and you're like "uh... well... I should have, oops".)
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
You can always ask follow-up questions! That what Editor's Notes are for!
"Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
And we should still tag those followup questions with the character name, not "Editor's Note" or "Followup" or anything weird, right? I'm never sure if I should be going for the deck/character, or the episode it's going to be on, like with the Urban Settings...
Yeah, I felt a little confused, so I tagged my Megalopolis question as Megalopolis but labelled my Blood Magic questions as Blood Magic because my letter was mainly about blood magic as a general concept...
"If life gives you lemons, make a lemon cannon."
Not always the best at social skills; I apologize in advance. I don't apologize for any corny and morbid jokes, though.
Resident Argent Adept and Biomancer fangirl, be forewarned.
Yeah, just always tag your questions with what it's about. Baron Blade questions should be tagged "Baron Blade". Megalopolis questions should be tagged "Megalopolis". And so on and so forth.
"Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Random question: If there was an editor's note style question where it was more about a topic about how it relates to multiple characters, is it better to ask individual questions for each hero, or group them together under with a tag under that topic?
I have a serious question about puns/one-liners and can't decide the best way to submit it.
Maybe you could tag that "The Publishing Universe" or "The Writers" or "Sentinel Comics?"
If it can be broken into questions about individual characters and tagged that way, it would be best. Otherwise, "Other" is good.
"Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I sent in a letter, but then wasn't sure if I tagged it, is it best to resubmit, or just hope for the best?
Pydro was providing a letter searching service a while back. Try shooting him a PM.
"Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?"
- Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
They discuss it in detail on their Intellectual Property Podcast :)
Is'nt that the one they release on the 7th Sunday of every month?
Only if it falls on a Tuesday.
Yes but they always release an episode on Febuary 30th
As long as the Moon loses her daughter.
I have a question that’s more of a general cosmic setting question than one of the particular environments, what should I label it?
Misc (Cosmic Settings) maybe?
McBehrer is the sole winner of this game... And McBehrer, I would step carefully should you find your way down dark alleys. More than one vote said simply, "McBehrer must die."
McBehrer confirmed to be Biomancer!
-- Trajector
"Cosmic Settings" is a good label for that!
"Your goodness must have some edge to it — else it is none."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Time Travel episode will be recorded this coming Monday per twitter https://twitter.com/scletterspage/status/951959594695299072
Crush your enemies, drive them before you, and laminate their women! - Guise, Prime Wardens #31
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