Abject Suffering
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About the show
This is a podcast that's nominally about bad games. In reality, it's about the horror of daily life, GameFAQs Gold, strange combatants in the battle of Good vs. Evil, and a singular patriarch known only as Crick. Every Monday, Gary Butterfield and Kole Ross choose a game at random from the titles submitted by listeners, play it, and venture off on a freeform discussion that winds between the topic at hand, and the absurd.
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Episodes
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Episode 165: NotGTAV
October 31st, 2016 | 50 mins 55 secs
Slight discussion of a super British anti-game quickly gives way to an anxious therapy session about the 2016 US election. You've been forewarned!
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Episode 164: Gremlins 2: The New Batch
October 24th, 2016 | 49 mins 17 secs
We recorded this one in case of emergency, since our great godfather died on Columbus Day
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Episode 163: Gender Bender DNA Twister Extreme
October 17th, 2016 | 50 mins 57 secs
Gotta say this will be a weird one, Syrg. It's a dicey thing to talk about, hopefully we treat the subject matter with a respect that is completely lacking in the original product.
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Episode 162: Fun 'n' Games
October 10th, 2016 | 43 mins 43 secs
Prepare for a game that's better than Mario Paint, if your metric for quality is "number of animal sounds available for music composition".
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Episode 161: Pesterminator: The Western Exterminator
October 3rd, 2016 | 39 mins 27 secs
From behind you, you hear a wheezing rasp. Before you can turn, you feel the rush of air. You know he's standing there, wagging both his finger and his hammer. As though to confirm the inevitable, you make the last movement you'll ever make. You wheel around. It's Kernel Kleanup. You've been deemed inpure. Oblivion awaits.
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Exquisite Suffering 14: 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand
October 1st, 2016 | 55 mins 37 secs
exquisite suffering
50's parents were killed by a helicopter decorated like the Joker.
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Episode 160: Aero the Acro-bat
September 26th, 2016 | 31 mins 57 secs
It's an also-ran on the level of Sparkster and Bubsy, an attempt to cash in on the mascot craze with the ugliest hero imaginable. It's Aero, the Acrobatic Bat.
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Episode 159: Animaniacs: Lights, Camera, Action!
September 19th, 2016 | 38 mins 41 secs
This raffle-winner episode about a terrible, outdated isometric collectathon comes with a SEVERE content warning for the last third of the episode... specifically for people who get squeamish about eye stuff.
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Episode 158: The Ooze
September 12th, 2016 | 31 mins 32 secs
The ultimate lesson of this tech-demo stretched to full game is "be yourself."
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Episode 157: Catechumen
September 5th, 2016 | 42 mins 9 secs
Nick Glauber joins us this week to talk about a misguided Christian FPS that's so bad, it makes us physically ill and destroys our computers.
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Episode 156: The Adventures of Rad Gravity
August 29th, 2016 | 40 mins 14 secs
The only "rad" thing about this game is its name, but there might be something worthwhile here. Also, orbs. Orbs. Orbs.
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Episode 155: South Park
August 22nd, 2016 | 53 mins 36 secs
It's a game that will make you physically ill, and ideologically queasy!