You can skip the first 40 minutes as all they talk about is his fabulously handsome chin, they move on to his roman nose after that and start describing his delectable ears 101 minutes in. Part 2 next week should get on to his classically sculpted physique.
Prepare your ears for fantatic listening pleaseure and go here for today's episode.
You might be scarred from the experience though.
AHHHH!
I got my question on the podcast!
Awesome!
They separated my letter for some reason and skipped over some I submitted though those skipped parts make sense for the most part.
I am sad they did not ask my question, not because it was a good question but because I signed it Moreaustickman.
This was a good episode, I don't think I learned anything multiverse shattering from it but it was the most fun I've heard in a while.
I enjoyed then going blow for blow on the MAinstay/Stuntman team up for 20 minutes. So pointless but lots of fun. They are such Fan boys.
That was a great episode. I'm pretty sure I was laughing through the whole thing, and Mainstay being Ansel's biggest fan and the whole road warriors thing was so awesome. XD
Road Warriors was amazing, I would have never expected any of that.
Also John Hunt, The Hunter, and Night Hunter... So much cheese I had to share it, and get dirty looks from everyone who assumed those were my jokes and not someone elses.
Though, now I do need to ask, why did Ansel need to die? The Chrono-Ranger episode made it sound like he showed up before the trap was sprung and stopped Ambuscade from killing a hero. This episode makes it sound like Chrono-Ranger showed up after Ambuscade's trap was defeated by Tachyon... so what would have happened had Chrono-Ranger not interfered?
I'm defintely submitting a question about this
This was a fun episode, I hadn't even expected that. :D I usually write Ambuscade off because he's such an easy villain, but there's really a lot to enjoy about his character.
I remember in the Chrono Ranger episode, Ambuscade had a dead-man switch. Maybe it was less about Ambuscade and more about the Wagner Mars base? Preventing the rest of his bombs from taking it out completely?
Or maybe it wasn't about that event at all, but that was when Ambuscade could have been killed without anyone knowing. Like, perhaps he was "fated" to succeed in killing a hero who would've been needed to prevent the dark future, and what better time to eliminate him than when everyone already thought he was dead?
Ambuscade is one of those characters who's both such a jerk but also such a hilarious dork that you can't help but love him anyway.
Plus, I mean, he is pretty cute. Not going to dispute that.
Not so much after the OblivAeon event. Pretty cruel on the writer's part for Tactics and RPG for once.
Yeah, guess someone else will have to take up the mantle of "Best Looking Guy in the Sentinelsverse" now…
Interesting though that this is one of the few cases of the Tactics and RPG end results splitting based on a character's choice rather than the time shenanigans.
Let's face it: that's probably Benchmark.
Who is also an actor as it turns out.
Apparently if you're a good-looking guy in the Sentinelsverse you're destined to be a performer of some kind.
He's the new standard!
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I'm not liking the anti-leporid attitudes in this episode...
I'm a little disappointed nobody asked about the time Haka defeated Ambuscade without even knowing there was a fight going on. That's a story I really wanted the details on.
I actually think the profane zealot is the best looking person in the SotM universe
Everyone knows a stylish cloak makes you look more awesome.
A stylish coat over a stylish cloak? That's a bit much. The Cult of Gloom probably would frown over a fashion statement like.
We've got the Wiki updated for this episode.
No no, silly, I was saying the stylish cloaks give the Gloomies a leg up on the attractiveness scale since there aren't a lot of heroes (or other villains for that matter) with stylish cloaks.
I didn't get that, either. Maybe he was told he was supposed to kill Ambuscade, but he was really there to save him? Was CON conning him? Or was someone conning CON?
Or maybe Jim found a nonviolent way to save the timelines, by accident? After all, he never really knows what he’s affecting or why.
That accident was OblivAeon
My impression was that OblivAeon was most definately not nonviolent.
Depends upon the viewpoint of a given reality.
I still think there's something unexpectedly weird and creepy about CON after the Chrono episode. Was CON just guessing all this stuff since that's what Unity/Fixer/AA programmed them to do? Were they going on actual historical records? Did someone or something else start giving CON orders somehow at some point?
Could have been Biomancer, we do know there was a dupli-ranger fleshchild at some point who interacts with CON.
Which was never mentioned in the Chrono-Ranger episode, so we'll have to wait til Biomancer's episode to hear more about that possibility,
Where is that information from? Nothing on the card Clone Ranger seems to indicate working with CON.
The flavor text of that card heavily implies Clone Ranger is in Con's bunker somehow.
Ok but the statement implies Clone Ranger worked with CON which we don't know. All we know is they have at least one interaction.
CON doesn't interact with anyone, to our knowledge, outside of Chrono-Ranger.
The one exception to this we know of from before Oblivaeon is the Clone Ranger card, which implies the Fleshchild of Chrono-Ranger ends up in CONs Bunker or at least has some interaction with CON.
Going from this, if I had to make a wild guess about someone changing CON or manipulating CON to darker ends, such as changing the bounties from monsters to kill this person, then we have two suspects.
A shadowy figure we have no clue of their identity of their existence.
Bionmancer, who we know sends a Fleshchild to CON and is clearly evil, creepy, smart, and generally plans long-term.
It's a long shot, but its the only target I can see right now
We will see whenever they get to the Biomancer episode. I expect that one will have impact on various stories since Biomancer seems more inclined to manipulate from the shadows rather than take on anyone head on.
I have so many questions about Biomancer.
Like how his flesh powers work (since he can clearly replicate people's powers to some degree; Tachyon's speed, Tempest's weather manipulation, even Argent's Void sensitivity), or what his end goal even is for using them since his deck is pretty vague on that call.
For a wild guess on Tempest and Tachyon, it's as simple as DNA. To make a fleshchild he needs a DNA sample, probably blood. Tachyon's DNA was altered by the accident that gave her powers, Tempest's abilities are entirely because of his race. Both of them would therefore have there powers if cloned from the correct DNA sequence.
Argent Adept though could not work like this, unless we fall into the mess of considering the musical talent required for contacting the void to be a biological factor. And that is a morass I don't feel like touching. Much easier to assume Biomancer is a good enough wizard to pull power from the Void. Dangerous, but other magical beings have done it before and he would be more channeling it into the Carbon Adept, so he would be relatively safe if terrible things happened to it.
This was my favorite part of the podcast, and I wish it happened more often. Often when I ask about "What happened in [blank] event?" (like when I was asking about Ansel arresting the Wraith) that's the type of stuff I'm looking for. I get that, with 40+ "years" of lore, they can't do that for every episode, espeically the bigger events like Vengance, but I'm happy we got that here.
Also, happy they read my question so everyone known that I got that pin removed with no downside what-so-ever. If I learned anything, it's that dealing with mystical disembodied voices is alwyas good. I guess Christopher was just a little worried cause I already freaked him out a bit as Spite.
It was good and it makes me wonder what stories with the Sentinels they will delve into. They seem to have connections with a lot of the misfits of the Multiverse.
It's a two-pronged thing; being both sensitive to the Void and good with music. And Biomancer clearly can't replicate mental powers; he had to do a mind transfer to replicate Unity. (And the flavor text on the Carbon Adept states that the fleshchild is "out of tune".)
Your explanation makes sense, though, even if it raises more questions. (Also now that I think about it, this all goes a fair way towards explaining why Golem Unity has to cast her bots from hit points.)
I just like Biomancer; he's fascinatingly creepy. (I can just imagine Christopher & Adam's "Egad, what is wrong with you?" reactions now.)
Oh yeah, Biomancer is going to be a fun episode, I also love the idea that, really, Biomancer rarely interacts with the rest of the world. He's just in his lab, being creepy and doing experiments and then occasionally he heads to the surface for a thing or two and causes a massive ruckus whenever he does.
Biomancer is also one of the very few long-lived characters who has any inclination to stick his (creepy) nose into superhuman things, so lots of potential there. We may even find out the secrets behind why Biomancer is teaching us about shapes. ;3
My guess is that his symbology on his clothing is one of the 4 elements charts. I've seen a lot of different versions that delineate Earth, Air, Fire and Water and his looks vaguely familiar with at least a few of those symbols, plus he probably has an Alchemy background considering his nemesis the Scholar.
But, that's just a shot in the dark. Could be a lot of different things
>_>;; I know it's probably classical elements symbology (reminds me of what was used in The Fifth Element for instance)... I was echoing the running gag the Twitch folks make whenever Biomancer shows up.
(I reiterate my lament of needing to learn how to make my jokes more obvious...)
When it comes to the Carbon Adept, I think the baton he weilds possibly helps out with some of the void control.
Sorry, I caught the joke, but I do think we don't know the exact nature of the symbology which is what I was answering.
I have a bad habit of seeing a serious question behind a joke and breezing right past the humor.