Episode 308 of the Letters Page: Writers’ Room: F.I.L.T.E.R. #4

No fighting or fing around to fix this issue.

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Damn, that cover looks awesome.

I put less sugar in my tea than shows up in a can of pop! >:V Tea is a vehicle for sugar!

Okay, I was wondering about Steel Team 6 lol

Loving this ‘lots of Paiges’ idea.

British and quite fay, apparently!

Adam bringing up Sentennial XD

Ooh, Paige Huntley being the administrator is fantastic.

Adam and I said “Do and disturb” at the same time.

A 1 in a stat will give you a -5 modifier if I’m not mistaken.

More K.N.Y.F.E.s than you’ve had hot meals! Or golden guns!

How have I never heard anyone refer to close-quarters combat as CQC before? That sounds so much cooler!

Who came up with Virtuoso of the Void Jim Brooks? What a concept!

So thankful Adam did a morbin’ time joke.

Oh no, now I feel so bad for Man-Grove. D: Help him!

Don’t feel bad, guys, the actual comic was good.

Haven’t listened to this episode yet to know what context was meant here, but I do know they once joked a long long while back about a Disparation story where a Virtuoso version of Jim plays the harmonica.

they forgot that they already told the Ambuscade vs werewolf Haka story.
For those who don’t remember it ends with Haka in a silver net coming to at dawn with Ambuscade telling him that they were no longer a thing until he got his **** together

I laughed so hard at that. I understand them forgetting some lore they dropped here and there, but forgetting a whole episode is a new one.

You have not played a Metal Gear Solid game, then. That’s the only other place I’ve ever heard it, but it’s used extensively.

If he’s the Golden Gunman, he shouldn’t be a Virtuoso. But now I really want to come up with whole lines of alternate Void adepts. The Veterans of the Void, the Voyagers of the Void, etc.

October 2023, not as recent as I thought. But still new enough you’d think Adam would remember drawing the holographic cover.

The Golden Gunman, Vigilante of the Void?

Ahem.
“But I walk these streets, a loaded six-string on my back.”
—Jim “Bon Jovi” Brooks

Plus “Golden Gunman” seems like a well-enough Virtuoso name to me (after finally catching up with the episode). He can still play the harmonica, lol.

That said, they have floated alternative [somethings] of the Void before, so that’s also an interesting take.

I put in a vote for Honest Tea, now Just Ice Tea. It has just the right amount of sugar to be tasty without giving you diabetes.

I dunno, “Adept” isn’t a musical term either but the Argent Adept is a Virtuoso.

I assume the Golden Gunman uses a guitar, although as noted a harmonica is also an option.

I’d say out of our known Virtuosos, half of them have musical names, the others don’t.

(Though I admit to having had a minor chuckle at them having Anthony’s predecessor be “he” and have a male name, yet his codename is the Chartreuse Chanteuse. Probably because “chanteur” admittedly doesn’t rhyme quite as nicely.)

Not a lot of military or law enforcement folks in your friends circle, maybe? I hear it a lot from vets I know. They get a good chuckle over gamers who use “melee” to refer to CQC.

One of the alternate K.N.Y.F.E.s should be from Mordengrad and be called B.L.A.Y.D.E.

Brilliant Luminary Artificer Yielding Dangerous Experiments?

Generalized Universal Neutralizer

“he’s burdened by his existence”…aren’t we all

Time Will Tell is just a Chrono-Ranger variant where he’s Swiss and has a bow.