Abject Suffering
Why are you doing this to us?
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 57: Fish Dude
October 5th, 2014 | 27 mins 30 secs
Listeners essentially listen to a podcast, and audio program released over the internet, about an ostensibly bad but actually good video game for the Gameboy called Fish Dude.
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Episode 56: The Rocketeer
September 28th, 2014 | 31 mins 26 secs
BREAKING NEWS: Babe Ruth sinks a fly ball right into the cerebral cortex of Joseph Goebbels in this alternate universe where balls are the new phallic symbol.
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Episode 55: Fist of the North Star
September 21st, 2014 | 32 mins 4 secs
Gather 'round and hear a tale of how two guys can't decide why they don't like anime.
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Episode 54: Hydlide
September 14th, 2014 | 26 mins 58 secs
Cat*fish [kat-fish]: noun. 1. any of various fishes having a fancied resemblance to a cat.
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Episode 53: Chex Quest
September 8th, 2014 | 36 mins 41 secs
GENERAL MILLS MEMORANDUM: All Staff. For several fiscal reporting periods, we've all felt the systemic pressure on the Chex brand that arises due to the close relationship between the corn-square vertical and the dairy vertical.
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Episode 52: Bébé's Kids
September 1st, 2014 | 31 mins 8 secs
Job Posting: NEEDED - Tone Lōc Lookalike (or: Lōcalike). Does not need to sound like Tone Lōc, I will cover the auditory portion of the ruse. Need to handle infestation of Bébé's kids at my theme park. Will pay in funnel cakes and ride vouchers.
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Episode 51: Psybadek
August 25th, 2014 | 30 mins 28 secs
Text found on a flyer of a Bronx corner store: "HEY, YOU KIDS. DROP YOU'RE CYBADEKS AND STOP CONTRIBUTIN TO THE DEGRADATION'S OF SOCIETY. THE NEXT CYPADEK I SEE IS GOING RIGHT IN THE GARBAGE" and then the rest is torn off.
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Episode 50: Bad Mojo
August 18th, 2014 | 38 mins 48 secs
Fortune, and good mojo, have ordained that our 50th episode be about a good game that one of us actually played to completion!
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Episode 49: Darkwing Duck
August 10th, 2014 | 29 mins 27 secs
Script Treatment: Duck Generations. EXT. -- DAY: Donald, Scrooge, Darkwing, and Jason Alexander waddle into a liquor store, shades perched precariously on their bill. Each squawks incomprehensibly, as if trying to out-fury each other.
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Episode 48: Toys
August 4th, 2014 | 28 mins 34 secs
Hey Robin Williams: You cool, dawg? Can't quite settle on a single voice there. We're on to your "spaghetti against the wall" garbage. Black preacher? So played, and kind of racist. Nobody actually remembers when you were any good at anything.
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Episode 47: Dudes With Attitude
July 28th, 2014 | 33 mins 2 secs
We were walking the perimeter of the Crick estate, shoring up the tree line and clearing brush. Michael kicked aside some beer cans, and chuckled quietly to himself. "What's so funny?" I asked, wiping my brow to keep the sweat bees at bay.
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Episode 46: Master Chu and Drunkard Hu
July 21st, 2014 | 25 mins 54 secs
Mark another tally up on the "Canonical Worst Games" wall. Odds are good we're going to clear this pantheon out. One day a hard rain is gonna come, suffering style.