Abject Suffering

Episode 36: Horse Isle - The Secret Land of Horses

May 11th, 2014 | 36 mins 35 secs

Jenni from Video Games Taco joins us to answer the most pressing question of our time: "Is horses like cars but with meat?"

Episode 35: Samurai Ghost

April 27th, 2014 | 35 mins 37 secs

It’s strange but true, but customs that we attribute to a given locale often have shared roots. For example, did you know that seppuku and pumpkin carving come from the same, misguided place? Listen to the end to find out!

Episode 34: Harley's Humongous Adventure

April 13th, 2014 | 30 mins 5 secs

There are many ways in which a man can be small. Let's take stature as a given. There's also pettiness, deceit, closed-mindedness... All of these diminish us. What else diminishes us? Shrink rays of our own design.

Episode 33: Body Harvest

March 30th, 2014 | 28 mins 34 secs

In the long view, the Ninentdo 64 might be Abject Suffering, the system. In our initial estimate, the NES seemed like the most fertile and hateful ground... but the N64 is a remarkable moment in history where everyone's reach exceeded their grasp.

Episode 32: King of Dragons

March 16th, 2014 | 38 mins 3 secs

We're not proud, and we never said we weren't hypocrites. We also never promised to do things like "actually talk about the game we're supposed to talk about". That's your bad. You assumed that.

Episode 31: Episode 31: Ballz 3D

March 2nd, 2014 | 35 mins 57 secs

Squares. Circles. Tetrahedrons. The stately geodesic dome. Icosahedrons. Cubes. Hypercubes. Sentient cubes. BALLZ.

Episode 30: Cool World

February 16th, 2014 | 39 mins 57 secs

How does a person feel when they stare into the smoldering, waiting eyes of their creation? When it clambers for your attention... wanting love, wanting validation... wanthing to feel something, ANYTHING. That's how God feels about you ever day.

Episode 29: Yu-Gi-Oh!: Worldwide Edition: Stairway to the Destined Duel

February 2nd, 2014 | 44 mins 37 secs

Not everyone knows the creation myth for anime. One day in a peaceful village in Japan, a truck carrying a surplus of decimal places from the war overturned, spilling extra zeroes and permanently altering the population. What was once 20 was soon 20,000.

Episode 28: Stone Protectors

January 19th, 2014 | 38 mins 25 secs

What stones can't do is support an entire multimedia blitz with bad puns related to (ugh) rock and roll.

Episode 27: Scrapyard Dog

January 5th, 2014 | 45 mins 11 secs

In fact, the act of sharing a hot tub with a group of strangers is a form of communal Butthole Soup Making. So, think about that next time you're in a jacuzzi.

Episode 26: Michael Jordan: Chaos in the Windy City

December 22nd, 2013 | 35 mins 3 secs

We might secretly like sports. Or, at least, Gary might. One imagines him as a closeted basketball hound, feverishly building brickets for his Springtime Fever league, going in on office pools to see which squadrons will tame the orange bounce.

Episode 25: Captain Planet and the Planeteers

December 8th, 2013 | 35 mins 25 secs

Captain Planet takes a cut of the proceeds, and buys them all 40's of Old English to share. He sleeps in an unadorned firetrap apartment and no longer fears death.

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