Ep 46 of The Letters Page discussion- Captain Cosmic & Infinitor!

Two hosts and two characters discussed this week, coincidence?

Yes.

Listen to the whispers of OblivAeon here.

I don't know if I typed it wrong or if it just didn't translate, but it should have been Schmoctor Schmho.

Perfect timing! I discovered the podcast at PAX Unplugged via a bookmark given to me when I bought the RPG Starter Set, and yesterday finished every episode. i awoke today with nothing to listen to at work, and was going searching for something when the notifcation for this popped up on my phone!

Christopher and Adam, you have saved me from having to find something less wonderful to do for a few more hours!

Probably didn't translate the pronunciation right – "ho" doesn't automatically make a "hoo" sound.

Yeah, that's definitely a "Schmoe" to me. :B

It'll be interesting to see if that plug for the forums gets us any new followers. I would've figured everyone listening to the podcast is here already. <.<

So this was pretty fun! Lots more world-building than actual character story, I think. I mean, the way Infinitor's story plays out in the podcast is more less what we already knew from the game, but more info about Cap was good if nothing else, and of course we got tons of great Oblivaeon goings-on. Now I just have to decide which of Inifinitor's first two appearances is the best one to set that fanfic I started writing last year. :V

Nope. I'm not here for one.

Nice reveals about Oblivaeon here.I also liked the fact that infintor and Nigel were different characters initially, it adds flavour to the SCPU I was surprised that there was only one Heroic Infintor event. I thought maybe he hung around for a while before losing control again

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought it was Ermine.

I thought it was originally Ermine but some other threads pointed out it was Tachyon.  

Yay, I was right about Infinitor being a Scion-in-progress :D

Not sure why Adam calls me "Bruce," though. At least, it sounded like Bruce?

Edit: Nah, he said "Burning Stickman," he just said it quick and the words ran together.

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The banter...

So... much... Banter...

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It's fun, but...  the calling a help center bit was too much for me.

I was kind of amused at someone thinking Infinitor was fangirl bait (not really any of the Sentinels character I'd pick for that title), but even more amused at Chrono-Ranger being Adam's type of cute guy, though I won't exactly disagree.

Also all the shipping questions in the episode. Glad I'm not the only one who thinks Space Dad is cute. Also glad that Christopher agrees with me that most of the time when people hate people, it really truly means they actually hate that person. (Srsly, so many personal pet peeves for that particular shipping trope. :P)

Still side-eyeing Argent and Tempest a bit now for apparently just leaving poor Cosmic out somewhere in space so that the Void Guard has to pick up the slack.

Edit: Yeah I noticed the Idealist project bit too; my precious psychic child's idea just sounds better and better. :D

Also it should be noted to TakeWalker and others that there's actually a lot of people over on Reddit and Steam who have actually been trying to get accounts here (including the poor Cult of Gloom) and have yet to be approved.

No offense to C&A, but if the podcast is going to point people over into signing up for the forums here, the process kinda needs to be stepped up a wee. (I know getting my own account approved back in the day took basically forever too...)

Oh, the banter was great this time!

And I noticed another tease about that Argent Adept/Idealist project that I think Jeysie asked about once. It sounds like it's going to be a big reveal; I have to imagine it'll be a mission reward or something in the Oblivaeon scenario.

This endcap of the episode was by far my favorite

"Is this how you speak into a microphone? It's been so long, I can't remember!" He just sounde so worried, it was just too funny to me...

I was kind of surprised this was the most shipping question heavy episode.

@Princess Cool: Clearly no woman can resist a British accent, a boss jacket, and a stylish beard.

Technically you guys are protected by The Schmoctor

Schmoctor Schmwho is just the name of the show. 

I grew up in the years between Classic and New Schmwho so the human Schmoctor Schmwho played by Scheter Schusing is Canon to me

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I thought that was the best part (of the banter)! For Tachyon, press 2... beep boop beep.

Honestly, I really like the episode, and the shameless forum plug just boosted my opinion of it. The shipping questions were pretty great, and if I wasnt straight, I would definitely go for (PW) CC

Finally got to listen to the episode... aaand i screwed up Christopher's name in one of the questions....Now, I must, "you know, go to the box, for two minutes, by myself and feel shame."

And then you get free.

Unfortunately, Matchstickman's question had a typo in it and stated that "Schmotor Schmo" was protecting the UK. 

We couldn't figure out what that was, hence our confusion. But Schmoctor Schmoo makes sense now!

Proof that the joke may have gone a little too ahead of us.

I do hope someone informs Christopher one day that it's pronounced "PROF-it-a-ble" and he keeps putting the emPHAsis on the wrong sylLAble. <.<

I believe you'll find that to be an acceptable way to pronounce the word in question.

We're putting all of our eggs into the brooding and cloaks basket

Gotta have the best though.  Beards have power.  

I do not, sir.

I do not in the least.

Speaking of pronouncing things, I never knew it was re-quit-al and not re-quite-al.  Did anyone else think the same?

I mean, there's a lot to be said for that combination [glances at Dark Conductor Argent Adept], but the British accent and awesome jacket, tho… uhm, let me get back to you, this requires some internal debate.

I'm staying out of the pronunciation debate; I often mangle my own words.

Looked it up. No, it is not. Nor is “requital” pronounced that way.


When I wrote my “shm shm” question, I took great pains to spell everything phonetically. And I was very gratified when Christopher failed to get through it without chortling.

Just think of it as profiteroles and Captain Cosmic Acquittal. That fits him nicely!

I understood what you were aiming for Matchstickman. The fact I live in the UK and grew up watching old and new versions of the show probably made it easier. 

Throwback Thursday to when Christopher and Adam were original with their brand stealing, such as Toditos and Tony Bobbins.

You should find that person who liked infinitor then, they'll probably make a good fit.

I never really looked closely, but yeah, I sure would have thought it was Ermine, too.  The goggles are Tachyon's original HUD goggles, which she's pictured as wearing very rarely–just in 3 cards, one of which has motion blur, one of which is in profile, and one of which is in extreme close-up–and you can never see her eyes through them, whereas you can see Ermine's through hers.

It just occurred to me that it's odd that Captain Cosmic can apparently make transparent portions of his constructs.

I think we’ve stumbled upon the reason why Christopher places the emphasis in profitable on the second syllable…

It’s a Freudian slip revealing the fact the GTG uses all of its profits (that aren’t reinvested into some new venture) to buy profiteroles!

Paul, at the GTG staff meeting last week: “Ladies and gentlemen, with the success of Spirit Island and Laser Ryderz, Q3 2017 was very good for us. Prepare to put your gym memberships to good use…”
Jodie rolls into the meeting room on a forklift, with the forklift carrying a full pallet of profiteroles.

Headcanon'd!

I feel a little bit bad, but the most absolutely fascinating and interesting part of this episode has got to be the stuff with Galactra. The majority of the story this time around was pretty much business as usual and stuff we already knew, but Galactra is just so fascinating.

She demanded power from the Cosmos and a passing Singular being of Passions (need to figure out who this is) just gave her a bunch of power and said "go have fun", and one of the first things we see her do is "I like this moon, Imma gonna take that, bye" which is just... what do you even say to that kind of personality. I love it so much.

Actually, another thing, I'm not a big comics person in general, and this episode really helped me think about and appreciate how long some of these "Events" end up being in terms of publishing. A year of publishing for a single event just isn't something that I'm used to thinking about, and that's kind of eye opening.

That brings up another question, where do you keep a moon after you steal it?

Why don’t you ask Gru? I’m sure he knows…

Imagine you're reading a book that(excluding mini-series) dosen't have a set ending point, and the author releases a new (very tiny)chapter every month.

Best way I can think to explain it to those that aren't comic readers.

I assume that you just add it to the collection of moons you have rotating around your planet.

Galactra Reminds me of the Shmreen Shmanten Villain Star Saphire. I do like it and I will totally ship her and CC. (besides the whole leaving him stranded in an off-planet/ CC absorbing her energy.).

So we have Fautless, OblivAeon, Passion Person(?) and Wager Master as Multi-Dimensional Beigning. I wonder who else they have. I love those stories in Comic. Silver Surf is great when he is doing just that.

They said seven villains turned heroes for OblivAeon, so it suddenly seems obvious to me that Benchmark was originally a heroic Revenant, who would have been a full deck villain before Kismet replaced him.

Interesting that they hardline rejected the Galactra ship here, given that they clearly changed their mind later. The concept of a love triangle wouldn’t remotely work for Infinitor, he’s far too crazy and tormented to even reciprocate if Galactra straight up threw herself at him. But I love the idea of such a nemesis relationship, so I will pretty definitely make a homebrew set of hero, villain, and loose cannon neutral with this dynamic in mind, at some point (and not here, obviously).