This time with Christopher and Paul
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āPizza cutter: all edge, no point.ā I am stealing that. I tend to use āgrimderp,ā but this could switch it up.
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God, do I love GenCon live episodes. 
Trevor and Jenny went way, way above the call of duty for this one!
I also really love everything based around Paul being on this show. Itās lovely having him here every now and then. I wonder if they could ever do one with him and Adamā¦
For instance, you can tell that Paul has seen things, because he knows that both a Potatoverse and a Cornverse are possible.
Wow, Toditos came from the very first episode? Good on Nimbus for remembering that, thatās amazing.
Imagine knowing youāre a fixed point and just not caring.
Fan theory: The āfinalā Legacy power is absorbing/merging with a singular entity/ascending to singular entity-hood, and they become Wellspring, always having been Wellspring, and go back to the start to begin the process anew.
Outside noise never comes through on the recording as loud as you think it will.
Yeah, that was great. Love the amount of audience participation this year.
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I love when they get Paul to answer questions about future content, more than anything. Itās one thing now knowing whatās going on, but something else entirely confidently answering about things that none of us know. Especially when itās 50/50 shot.
And I narrowed the red suit guy down! I think Jeysie may be on to something with Robert Johnsonā¦
Are time loops progressive? Or does every new version of Wellspring get a new singular power?
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@skywhale has a good point. A time loop seems more like a Preservation thing than a Progress thing.
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Fun fact: I had a reputation in one of my classes for making really evil quizzes. This may have been why the final two questions in my game show were intentionally tricky ones.
Also, man, I wish yāall could hear the evil laughter I had when people were thinking Visionary was the answer for the time travel one.
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Perhaps that is how new universes (multi-verses?) are born? The one that becomes all?
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I just love Nimbusā unbridled confidence there.
Christopher: āWait, that was in episode one?ā
Nimbus: āYes.ā
Is it true? I have no idea! I mean, Iām sure it is, because those were the days of constant āshmwhateverā jokes, but it would be kind of funny if he just bluffed his way through that whole situation on the strength of confident insistence. 
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Villain who would have fun at a convention - Adhesavist
āYou need glue to fix your damaged miniature or diorama?ā
āYou need glue to fix your cosplay outfit?ā
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He holds everything together
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The more I think about it, the more Iām absolutely sure he was correct. Not only were the shm- jokes more prevalent back then, but they sort of established the whole idea of āWe canāt say real product names on airā right off the bat.
Also, it was Doritos, and not Tostitos, that created Todditos. XD
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I met this guy at the convention. He gave me a business card.
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Belatedly adding my claps to the applause for Nimbusās question-answering appearance. That was a great way of putting a voice to the name.
I donāt think Iāve ever appreciated Paul more than this episode.
āItās where you explain an existing thingā¦ā
āNnnnno.ā
āItās where you donāt explain a nonexistent thing?..ā
I also love the idea of Legacy adopting Omnitron. I mean, Omnitron-4 is basically dumb enough to pass itself off as a baby, instead of growing into a big factory. āWah! Wah! Beep Boop! Are you my mommy?ā Felecia might be naive enough to fall for that, especially if her father was taken out of the picture early and she had to grow up fast, not being able to mature properly and have enough common sense to see this situation for the obvious trap it is.
āTHIRD BASE!ā Iām so glad someone got that in there.
āIf we do not all stick together, then we shall assuredly all stick separately!ā
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The concept of a swap between Guise and Legacy makes sense to me specifically because Joe King was a Legacy fanboy; it seems like the kind of scenario that some sort of genie wishing ring could bring about. If we go into Joeās delusional comic-reader-vision and see the False Metaverse heās envisioning during this episode, it would be about the original boom in comic books being about the more Disney-esque lines, instead of the Action Comics route that both our world and the True Metaverse went with (I forget what the Metaverseās equivalent to Action Comics was). We know that in our world, Looney Tunes and the like were a concept more in the cinematic world, and their comic book equivalents werenāt that big, but in Joeās little genie fantasy, he imagines the False Metaverse as having a goofy cartoon character named Guise who becomes as popular as Legacy ever did, having surrealistic shapeshifting adventures which create the entire superhero genre as being sillier and trippier than its real world version. And then all the subsequent comic book heroes follow more in Guiseās mold, with Wraith as a wisecracking detective who snarks her enemies into submission, Tachyon as a ridiculously over-the-top wacky-science story vehicle, and Lt. Tyler Vance as more of a bungling cautionary tale about what soldiers shouldnāt do while fighting abroad, with a Rube Goldberg contraption of a Bunker suit thatās constantly breaking down. (The various Prime Wardens kinds of core-set heroes are harder to spin in this fashion, so Iām gonna stop here.) Eventually, the readers of the Freedom Four title (no Absolute Zero in this universe, since heās too sad of a character to be turned into a cartoon) got tired of the constant slapstick nonsense of the superhero genre, and created a āparodyā title starring Paul āLegacyā Parsons, an earnestly homespun and heartwarming slice of Americana which became wildly popular throughout the 70s and 80s and 90s, and only in the late 90s and early 2000s did the differing vibe of Guise-style and Legacy-style stories gradually converge into a more nuanced and interconnected comic book universe. Tragically, this made that universe too much like the canonical one, so they were both destroyed.
(And then of course I check out for the game show section, but thatās okay since Iām busy writing the whole above paragraph.)
It depends on whether itās a Groundhog Day kind of a time loop thatās intended to resolve itself by iterating until it reaches a desired conclusion, or a static time loop that will never break unless an external force gets involved. The latter is anti-Progress, but the former is just a different approach to getting Progress accomplished, where instead of the timeline progressing in a straight line and having lots of random branches off to the side, itās instead a bunch of attempts at finding the way forward, and all the ones that donāt succeed are erased. I tried to explain that in a metaphor involving trees, but it didnāt pan out, so hopefully the bare explanation makes sense as-is.
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Personally I would speculate that granting power to Legacyās child would work if Legacy adopted and raised a baby, but would not work if Legacy adopted a seventeen year old and was their legal guardian for three months. I think it probably requires some amount of skin contact, and definitely takes multiple years of emotional bonding. So that probably rules out most robots. If Felicia married Omnitron-X and Omnitron-X built Omniton-11, that might work, because X definitely has emotions. But if Omni-Unity assimilated Felecia and then had her assimilate Setback, I donāt think that would make Setback Feleciaās child. Nor could Omni-Beacon build a new T-Rexbot and give that Legacy powers.
Iād guess that Wellspringās equivalent to Oblivion Shards is the atomic energy of Feliciaās eye beams.
So Voss expended most of OblivAeonās power, specifically what was left of Archaeonās power, which originally created the multiverseās non-shattered timelines, and essentially built a smaller multiverse around just the one universe, within which thereās no splitting as far as we know.