Let’s add demon to the cocktail that is Mr Fixer
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Hot damn that cover art! 
Love them describing this as “LARPing a writers’ room”.
Didn’t have a lot to say about this one, but the story turned out cool and there were some great letters. 
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So glad someone asked about the Oracle of Discord and the Sandwich Bag because I’ve been trying to figure out how best to phrase that exact question.
Also, Dis-quarters
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If anyone wants to learn more about Journey to the West, there’s a video series that is informative, and hilarious.
Start here: Legends Summarized: The Monkey King (Journey To The West Part 1) - YouTube
(Actually, OSP is a pretty awesome channel in general.)
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Loved to hear Adam laughing heartily and being in good spirits this week, after how low-energy he’s tended to be in a lot of previous weeks. I’m not sure I agree with him about how the power dynamic has shifted to the worker, though; I think no matter how many people quit their terrible jobs, small-minded middle managers will still be on power trips, and evil millionaire corporate overlords will still mercilessly exploit their “human resources”. Nobody is ever going to actually change the system, or even admit that it needs changing, certainly not because of a social media trend.
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I really feel you keep reading way too much into Adam’s mood.
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shrug I just notice his speaking volume and tone of voice are different. Christopher is more consistently high-energy and enthusiastic, while Adam often seems tired and low-key. Possibly related to Adam having a kid, or to his being the job which seems more like “work” from most people’s perspective (not saying that what Christopher does isn’t sometimes hard, but a lot of his piece of the work seems more, let’s say, calculated to appeal to an extrovert, which he is).
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Adam is a naturally low-energy person, in general. He will often inject additional energy for the podcast recording, but sometimes we get him in a more natural (low-energy) state.
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In other news, after reading two of my letters in a row back when I started writing them, I haven’t had a letter “paged” again until this week (they’re all under various pseudonyms, not for any nefarious reason, but just because my creativity is constantly driving me to do a different “bit” with every letter). Not to toot my own horn, but I was proud enough of this latest letter that I had been kind of hurt by the thought of it not getting read, and had stopped submitting more questions for a while, except for re-submitting this one a second time to make sure it had been received, figuring that if it still didn’t show up, I could just give up entirely. But not only did they finally read the original letter, they also touched off an extensive discussion of their backlog.
So now I don’t feel ignored anymore, but I still wonder if it’s a good idea for me to write in any more questions, since it would only be adding to what it already clearly a severe backlog. (I do rather wish they’d quit with the “we’re not ready to talk about that yet”; teasing for future products only remains a valid marketing strategy for so long, before it just becomes a situation where disruptions to your business product are likely to derail those plans, and then all the teasing you did ends up being just a cause of things falling through the cracks and never actually being discussed.)
A thought I’ve had, which I would kind of loosely poll the community on: if I have a question which seems unlikely to get answered on the Letters Page (such as a fairly basic question about Haka’s personality which occurred to me years too late to appear in Haka’s episode, and thus might never get answered again unless they happen to do a Haka-focused Writer’s Room which touches on this particular personality facet), should I make a thread on these forums to post those questions and at least get the community’s opinion, if I can’t get a definitive answer from C&A?
Never say “never.”
There’s still Editor’s Notes in which they answer all sorts of questions. And even if they do a Haka Writers’ Room that doesn’t touch on that personality trait, I wouldn’t say it’s a longshot that it’ll get answered. But, if you want to pose it to us, I’d say go ahead.
I would say the same. I got some Oblivaeon questions in rather late, and it took a while for them to read it. Of course, part of my list of questions were probably spoiler territory, and haven’t yet been read, so…
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So as of November 2021, they had four questions left from 2017, two of which were from April alone
I hope at least those two finally got answers sometimes in the following three and a half ish years.
Ted Doggett, who is me, is also less than happy with the fact that the second Extremeverse story ever reinvented the members of Dark Watch into four villains and a hapless child. Hence why I’d rather focus on the heroic aspect of Fixer and wonder about his role in that setting. I actually think that the first three Xverse stories don’t cohere with each other at all, and ought to be considered separate timelines. The “real” Xverse is the one designed around the Prime Wardens; there should be a Legacy in that world who’s literally the president, with a different power for each of the fifty states, and a Setback who causes apocalyptic disasters instead of comedy pratfalls, but both are still heroes.
There is infinite space to explore, but other planets in the galaxy aren’t full of humans who come from familiar yet eerily altered versions of the world we know. So the cosmos is not an adequate substitute for the multiverse, not even if you can fly through space at faster than light speed with no real effort.
In contemplating the life coach question, they both apparently didn’t focus on the Fall of the Prime Wardens and the fact that Haka’s got a little well concealed smug condescension. I would definitely never want him as a mentor.
Oh wow, look at me being all prescient about a month before C&A “sold out” in a way that ended up bringing their doom…