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

  • 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.

  • Exquisite Suffering 14: 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand

    October 1st, 2016  |  55 mins 37 secs
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    50's parents were killed by a helicopter decorated like the Joker.

  • 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.

  • 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    This raffle-winner episode about a terrible, outdated isometric collectathon comes with a SEVERE content warning for the last third of the episode...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.

  • 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."

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Episode 155: South Park

    August 22nd, 2016  |  53 mins 36 secs

    It's a game that will make you physically ill, and ideologically queasy!

  • Episode 154: Warlock

    August 15th, 2016  |  35 mins 18 secs

    Thus begins a strange new fascination.

  • Episode 153: Boogerman

    August 8th, 2016  |  33 mins 29 secs

    Of all the games to break the top 10% of things we've covered for the show, how in the world is "Boogerman" one of them?

  • Episode 152: Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home

    August 1st, 2016  |  34 mins 18 secs

    It's our most upsetting episode opening to date!

  • Episode 151: Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball

    July 25th, 2016  |  41 mins 15 secs

    Up Next: The Christian spinoff, Sonic Sinball.