Ep 48 of The Letters Page discussion- Cosmic Settings

My God, this podcast is full of stars.

Here

And half of them have coffee 

Oh hey, I have a question answered this episode! I forgot about it entirely!

Well I have a question for the Tempest episode which I feel is getting more and more hyped.    I just hope that one doesn’t disappoint.

I don’t think any of them HAVE, so I wouldn’t worry about it.

Also, for the record, I LOVE the longer episodes. The way I see it, the more content, the better.

I still feel the Setback episode was underwhelming as they cut his story overview rather short.  

I wrote in letters as The Cult of Gloom, Omnitron P.I., the Dok’Thorath Tourism Board, and An Angry Taxpayer. One for each enviroment.

They read the best one, I think. Just goes to show you can never tell what will make it on air. Great episode.

I agree! The longer the podcast, the more commutes I can enjoy far more than I should.

Wait, you’re Cult of Gloom AND Omnitron P.I.?

Yes, among some other less noteable letter writing names.

Yay, both my letters got in! Though they skipped the bit where I ask about the Mars base's name (I'd thought it was a reference to Wagner of 'Ride of the Valkyries' fame).

Also LOLed at Adam's "Nah, I'm just gonna watch him burn."

We need more letters from An Angry Taxpayer. :D

It was good to get some more in-depth news on the Endlings. That's still probably my favorite environment ever, it's just got so much personality.

Also, to celebrate Adam's recovery from his Doom Sickness, this happened.

My whole world has come falling down.  

Also its worth noting that they didn't do the hiding of non-Greater than Games property names or people this time.

Mentioned both D&D and Jack Kirby without anything silly.  

I’m sure it’ll come back. 

And Stan Lee.

I think it's because of how directly an homage to Jack Kirby the Enclave is. Like, other stuff is referenced or shouted-out to in a joking way, but I get the sense that the Enclave is more of a direct love-letter to his art.

Who's to say that Jack Kirby and Stan Lee weren't working for Sentinel Comics in that universe?

Now look here pal, I aint got time to be flapping my gums about what those bozos in the long underwear get up to while driving up insurance rates. Or about how those two pencil necked geeks got the numbering wrong on their flimsey funny books that they print in China. 

Though Archie Bunker in the Sentinels universe is funny to me, so maybe

Dear sweet entropy, I hope not.

There were more non-shm'd references than just that! They're slipping! D: The trademark police will get them!

Did we know the red skin means mutant thing , the way C & A reacted it felt like it was common information. I had noticed that the red skinned thorathians seemed to be in charge, ( that fact is party of a theory I have about Skyscraper that I fear) which is why I asked about a caste system.

I don't recall ever hearing it before. We've really only seen a handful of Thorathians, of which, what, four? Are red-skinned. (Voss, Sky-Scraper, Tamar? and the lady from the environment military card.)

They have mentioned before that some Thorathians, like Portja and Voss, are mutants with powers, but I don't recall them specifically mentioning red skin.

Are you a new listener?   Some jokes may drop for a bit but they always seem to come back.  

Dear Lord of Order,  let this joke be reborn!

Seriosuoy don’t get why it gets so much hate. It’s silly and stupid but not like it eats up 90% of the episode.   I know some people really don’t like all the metajoke questions from the likes of the Cult of Gloom and such but I think the podcast would be a lot less entertaining without it 

I liked the joke back when they were more creative in how they altered the brand names. Even Denny's and IHIP was still pretty entertaining.

As for the Thorathian deal, for me it was more a feeling of oh yeah, there really isn't a reason why humans should be the only species in the galaxy to have races. (Or racism, for that matter.)

Interesting that it means Sky-Scraper may effectively be a Defector from Decadence, though, to borrow the TV Tropes term.

And the Metajoke stuff hit its peak when someone sent in a letter with an entire page of "not related to SotM metagag" preceeding the actual question.

The "OMG, can't say a name" was slightly amusing at first (and yes, IHIP and Lennys still are), but the "Smoctor Schmoo" shenanagins often makes it hard to tell what they're even referring to.  And it's a little jarring, because there's no actual reason for it.

I’d rather let them do their schtick and I’m sure the silly trademark obscuring will come back up.   As to Smoctor Schmoo specifically that one is on Matchstickman.  

That's what I thought that Skyscraper was a member of the dominant red skinned thorathians who joined the resistance. But that's not necessarily true now, the resistance could have bred her and trained her from birth to work for them

Amen. Although I don't mind and actually enjoy Shmoctor Shmoo and the like, my favorites were back in the days of Toditos and Tony Bobbins. And probably other one that didn't start with T.

I didn't do it alone, I had help from a typo.

This episode had a feel of listening in on a late-night college discussion. Especially the bit debating what is an Endling and how does Jansa pick. But also the justification for space exploration stuff. Speaking as someone in the space industry, Christopher, trying to justify space exploration with more exploration is a losing proposition! Unfortunately, I don’t have a winning strategy, either.

Wagner Base sounds to me a lot like McMurdo Station in Antarctica. I would love for us to have something like that!

I do want to make clear, as the person who wrote the angry taxpayer letter, i am all for space exploration and do buy into it.

I enjoy when they talk to each other about how their world works. It give insight on they make stuff up and what their might set is when they create things. It also show that the creator doesn't always agree on things and end up coming to a middle ground. I need to relisiten to the letter page. I am starting to forget details about it.

There is a picture from (i think) Antartica where a Penguin calmly walks up to a group of scientists and asks to science and If that image alone doesn't justify the exploritory station nothing will,

Oop, Found some Sauce, not a lot of factual information but it is, to quote my cousin, "Totes Adorbs."