Sorry to be blunt, but you need to aim your exhortations to be nicer at the people I listed who are being hostile, accusatory, aggressive, disrespectful, derailing threads, etc. and not at the person making justified grievances about that not-nice behavior. Since that frequent double standard/misaiming of exhortations to be nicer was the entire reason I made that statement. 
Realized I didn't actually give my opinions on the episode.
I enjoyed it. There were plenty of good nuggets of info and story(which hopefully makes those who didn't like the last Settings episode feel better). I thought it was funny how there were more questions about Zhu-Long than his temple(the supposed focus of that part of the podcast :P ). I'm guessing since they did such a nice info-dump on him, we won't be getting a Zhu-Long specific episode. And I'm okay with that, to be honest. I'm sure there's plenty more we haven't learned about him, but for now I think we're satisfied on the topic.
On the matter of "Stalling":
It's C & A's podcast. They can scheduel it however they see fit. They want to give us specific info before the episode on X or Y? Fine by me. And if they are in fact ACTUALLY stalling? Oh well. Here's to maybe getting some more 'storytime' style episodes because of it. I love those.
I have to agree with Jeysie on this one. You have your right to express your opinion, but if it results in derailing a thread then please either find a relevant thread or make a new one. Thank you. :)
Yeah, there was a lot of good stuff here.
I liked finding out that apparently Madame Mittermeier and Biomancer are frenemies. Feels like there's a lot of good potential there in the RPG timeline especially.
The mysterious figure that saves Baron Blade, hmmmm.
Finding out about Anubis' poor wife 
and that Anubis is apparently only doing half his job.
The relationship between Lovecraft and Sentinels.
The implication with Void shenanigans that Tactics continues to leading to a dark and terrible place.
Yup. Plenty of tasty threads to pick up and take a yank at when the full shebang of the RPG comes out.
Ah, and thanks for reminding me about Anubis. I'm REALLY CURIOUS now to see if someone will get the other relic now that OG Anubis isn't around to keep it out of someone else's hands…
I am willing to bet it will be a player party member until we get a book telling me no. Or because C&A are sadists she will have wound up in the Miststorm universe.
While Anput ending up in the Miststorm universe would be bad for Anput, I'm not sure if it would necessarily be bad overall. I mean if any universe needs a goddess healing the sick and injured and watching over good people, it's the Miststorm universe.
Okay, so now I really want a Madame Mittimiers/Night Circus crossover.
I have no idea what would happen, but I'm pretty sure it would be fantastic either way.
That's what they want you to think Jeysie. So when they break the cutie it's all the more horrific... Also because I keep forgetting to ask has anyone been back and checked the Baron Blade ep to see about wild clone / very much younger sister conspiracy theories?
Isn't it heavily implied that A. Baron Blade has a son/daughter/offspring-of-some-nameless-abomination, and that B. The figure that saved him from MMFFCC is said child?
I may be reading too heavily into this but I thought it was pretty clear.
~Komori
I was going to come here and add to @Demiher0's comment by mentioning how Baron Blade's whole deal with Beacon echoes the fact that Blade apparently had a child in the Final Wasteland timeline, but now I've been sidetracked by thinking @starkenburg_ale...'s theory might just be really brilliant along the same lines.
I think it was a decendant of Baron Blade that was mentioned in the final wasteland, or did they say child? I mean decendant implies he had a child but it could be the great-great-great grandchild that featured the breaking the moon in the final wasteland.
Oh no your right that it’s it’s an implied so very heavily. I am just in my own little world crafting crackpot theories. But the question no one is asking is who is the mother?
You bet I have! Here is my transcript of the relevant exchange on this topic from the BB episode:
Kurt (Question): I don't remember any mention of Blade having children or is he perhaps faking his death to stage a return to evil?So, yeah. I definitely think that the young person who rescued Blade was his child.…
Christopher: So the yeah Baron Blade doesn't have any children… that we know of–
Adam: Right
Christopher: --in this time–
Adam: That we know of.
Christopher: That we're, right. ...Baron Blade faked his death...
But here's a thought: does Baron Blade know that he has a child?
Good thing I asked that exact question in a letter immediately after the Final Wasteland episode!
I made a bunch of comments about MMFFCC in a new thread, because I couldn’t find this old one on my own! Thanks to Rabit for digging it up for me.
Strangely given my love of Egypt, I had no comments on Anubis stuff, but when we get to the Discord realm, I do have one thought: the makers of the Animated Series would DEFINITELY have been the origin of the stupid hair dryer voice.
Also a thing they didn’t say about Claustrophobic Delusion is that for Captain Cosmic, the threat of falling off the bridge into empty space wouldn’t be very disturbing, because he flies around in space all the time, his fear of not having ground under him would have been overcome within days of him starting to adventure around the galaxy. What would be less familiar to him is the idea of NOT having infinite freedom of movement in all of a trio of 360 degree rings around all his axes. He’s not in danger of falling off that bridge, he’s confined to that bridge, which would indeed seem claustrophobic by comparison.
I then proceed to do some yelling at my podcast device screen about the rather awkward and vague description of the Nexus of the Void they do, when it’s right there how they can describe properly…they even mention Insula Primalis! The void is like LAVA. Lava is melted stone; Void is melted reality. It is the underlying elements of reality, melted and jumbled together like liquid molecules of a normally solid substance; that explains why it’s dangerous, it explains why it shifts biomes around itself, it even explains why there are dangerous creatures in it (Ruin is essentially an Extremophile, only instead just being like a bacterium adapted to extreme heat, it’s a Xenomorph-style ultimate survivor which thrives on the primal unmaking power of the Void).
By contrast to Void being melted reality, which can solidify into musical magic the way lava solidifies into obsidian (I almost wrote ObsidAeon), I would say the Realm of Discord is more like shattered reality; instead of bubbles of a recognizable biome oozing together and blending at the edges, Discord is more like complete or incomplete pieces of reality which are still solid, but don’t fit together like they should, and grind against each other and have sharp edges.
My commentary on Zhu Long is mostly best kept to myself, but I will say that one easy explanation for why he’s ambiguously Japanese or Chinese or Tibetan is that he’s from like twenty thousand years ago, and those were not distinct cultures at the time, or at least we can say that’s true because there isn’t a surviving historical record to claim otherwise. In real life, katanas and shurikens and ninjutsu in general were all invented by actual Japanese people in the 1400s or whatever, but who knows, in the pages of Sentinel Comics, one of Zhu Long’s henchmen went to Japan in a black ninja suit with a katana and some shurikens, tried to stab a daimyo and was caught by his yojimbo, and the daimyo looked at this stealthy stabby person’s kit and went, “say this is a good idea” and that’s where Japan started having those things. It’s a good enough answer for comic books.
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