I'm a little confused, because the artwork in the show notes IS typically the card art. Apostate's show notes are the one of the few times we've gotten totally new art in the show notes instead, and I totally loved it.
The art in the show notes is the current Oversized villain artwork for Apostate and I know that is artwork Jeysie has not seen since it’s not in the video game.
He doesn't wear a pinafore either.
Ah! OK, now I understand Lord Flash Fire's question better. XP Sorry about that, dude.
With the heroes, at least, it pretty much depends on what hero/variant is being discussed, since it's pretty much split between new/old/indifferent for me. Have a feeling the villains will probably be the same way.
I love just about all of the background portraits in the digital version and wish we had them as pics available outside the game, though.
Yeah, I caught that too. Plus, the way the Host is described makes me think of Spren from Stormlight Archive.
Christopher talking about the host as gelatin reminded me that jelly is one of those words that means somehting different in the US. I always forget that, and now I'm going to have to rethink every mention of The Void...
Yeah.
We have gelatin or jell-o, which is that weird jiggly stuff you make fruit salads/molds with.
We have jelly, which is fruit spread made with fruit juice and pectin that sort of has the consistency of gelatin but is more spreadable.
Then we have jam, which adds the actual pulp from the fruit into the mix to make it more fluid and thickly spreadable.
And then there's preserves, which is jam with large pieces of fruit! Lest you think us barbarians. :B
It's like the Inuit having a billion words for snow, except in this case it's Americans and words for things with sugar in them.
The gelatin here is jelly, and any of the spreads are jam. Or marmalade, if it's made from citrus.
Oh right, we have marmalade here too, because, you know, words for sugar.
Maybe we should make a crib sheet of all the Americanisms in the podcast or game. I know over on Reddit someone asked a while back what the difference was between IHOP and Denny's.
Denny's has the surreal online marketing stuff. That's all I know
Denny's is kinda surreal in real life too, by virtue of being the kind of place you tend to end up at when it's 2AM and you're on the way home from whatever road trip thing you were doing all day and you're starving and it's either that or some fast food burger joint and the diner sounds more appealing. So it ends up being a very liminal space kinda place in general. Not horror movie, exactly, but weird dreamlike "this movie was made on drugs but is otherwise mostly benign" sort of movie.
I ended up there after a lot of barbershop concerts in particular.
While IHOP is more of the kind of breakfast place you go to because you actually specifically sought out to go to IHOP.
I've heard it said that:
You don't go to Denny's. You end up at Denny's.
Much like Steak & Shake or Waffle House, Denny's falls into that category of restaurant for which you only have two reasons to go:
1) You are in an altered state of mind due to some substance and there's nothing to eat in the house/apartment/etc.
2) You've recently completed some exerting, late-night activity with a partner and require sustenance.
I feel like both the Dark Watch and the Prime Wardens probably end up at Lenny's a lot. (The Southwest Sentinels prefer local cheap Mexican food joints instead.)
That's probably their preference, but that's not where you take a tween when you finish beating up some bad guys at 3 in the morning. I can easily imagine treating her to IHOP in that case.
WOAH. WOAH. Don’t talk sh*t on Steak and Shake! It’s REALLY GOOD.
That's what jam is? I thought it was just another word for jelly.
Technically speaking yeah, that's the difference. Compare apple jelly to strawberry jam for probably the most noticeable distinction between the two concepts.
To bring this around to the original topic, if the Host is gelatin, and the Void is jelly, I wonder what compares to jam. Or marmalade.
Now I feel like Lenny's and IHIP must be strange nexuses of cosmic power in the Sentinelsverse considering how many mystical forces keep ending up as breakfast substances.