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 397: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
April 5th, 2021 | 32 mins 27 secs
Truth time: Buffy is a blind spot for us.
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Episode 396: William Shatner's TekWar
March 29th, 2021 | 37 mins 10 secs
After all, the kids need to learn about TekWar sooner or later.
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Episode 395: Eternam
March 22nd, 2021 | 41 mins 40 secs
The words are funny, but the faces spewing them are nightmares.
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Episode 394: Dog's Life
March 15th, 2021 | 38 mins 30 secs
The wild swings that developers took on the PS2 are infinitely fascinating, and one that you don't hear too much about is Dog's Life.
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Mystical Fighters
March 8th, 2021 | 40 mins 4 secs
This mediocre brawler about Kabuki warriors fighting generic monsters doesn't provide much fertile ground for discussion, so we default to talking about tragedy and the ways out education failed us.
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Defenders of Dynatron City
March 1st, 2021 | 35 mins 18 secs
In a remarkable bit of serendipity, this game wasn't a hit because you couldn't hit anything in it.
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Episode 391: Lester the Unlikely
February 22nd, 2021 | 28 mins 17 secs
We all know the stereotypical traits of nerds. Thick glasses, nasally voice... narcolepsy?
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Episode 390: Dragon Riders: Chronicles of Pern
February 17th, 2021 | 37 mins 53 secs
It's a fantasy saga of high flying dragons and alien invasions where nothing at all happpens.
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Episode 389: Murder Dog IV: Trial of the Murder Dog
February 15th, 2021 | 35 mins 23 secs
This week's Abject Suffering is about an admirable joke game that asks the question: is it possible for a dog to be bad?
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Episode 388: Companions of Xanth
February 8th, 2021 | 49 mins 57 secs
When you're a kid with unlimited free time, and games are not plentiful and the internet isn't around, you end up reading a lot of questionable novels.
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Episode 386: Contra Force
January 25th, 2021 | 39 mins 30 secs
We all like Contra, right? What if we did it again but worse?
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Episode 385: Tyrian 2000
January 18th, 2021 | 40 mins
This kind of good PC shoot-em-up game takes your regular arcade shooter like Raiden and adds more story and a dash of humor.
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One
January 4th, 2021 | 38 mins 41 secs
Just so you're not disappointed, this isn't the PSX game that stars Bruce Willis.
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