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Abject Suffering

This is a podcast that"s nominally about bad games. In reality, every Monday, Gary Butterfield and Kaye 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 some dumb nonsense. Public RSS Feed: https://www.patreon.com/rss/80117?show=1702263

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Episode 498: Bio F.R.E.A.K.S.

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2023/03/27

To maintain order, the Secret Games Commission (SGC) is formed to organize tournaments deciding which organization gets to control all of Neo-Amerika, leading to the creation of Biological Flying Robotic Enhanced Armored Killing Synthoids (Bio F.R.E.A.K.S.) serving as the champions for each participating organization.

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38:36

Episode 497: Lawnmower Game: Zombie

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2023/03/20

Comedy Podcast: Games. With graphics by Factory of Assets.

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39:45

Episode 496: Purple Saturn Day

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2023/03/13

I've never heard of this holiday before. I guess it's for celebrating mini-games?

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32:47

Episode 495: Hell's Kitchen

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2023/03/06

This episode is fuckin' RAW! If you ever wanted a weird CGI Gordon Ramsey yell at you in a lifeless void, oh man, do I have the game for you.

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40:23

Episode 494: Heir of Zendor

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2023/02/27

It turns out "Zendor" is what your grand uncle called "debt". What I'm saying is you just inherited a lot debt.

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32:29

Episode 493: KRUM: Edge of Darkness

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2023/02/20

Come KRUM!

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36:08

Episode 492: Strange Flesh

Abject Suffering ·

2023/02/13

Wine, sodomy and the lash. Or something like that I'm assuming. I'm not saying it is porn but I sure felt embarassed accidentally googling it at my day job.

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37:09

Episode 491: Litil Divil

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2023/02/06

Inside of you are two wolves. One is a Litil Debil. The other, a Litil Angle. Who will you listen to?

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45:58

Episode 490: Blob Wars: Metal Blob Solid

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2023/01/30

You know, it's probably about time we give freeware Linux games a shot! Ew. Nevermind, let's go to Chili's.

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35:57

Episode 489: Wacky World of Miniature Golf

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2023/01/23

Nobody knows why, but people in the 90s thought if golf video games had comedians in them, maybe that would connect with the kids? Anyway, Eugene Levy fails to convince the boys that this golf is all that whacky.

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40:47

Episode 488: Bionic Commando (2009)

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2023/01/16

Bionic Commando is one of the best games for the NES. Taking away your jump and forcing you to rely on predictable swinging physics was (and is!) a novel concept, matched by a delightful semi-serious, semi-goofy tone and exquisite level design. So you can imagine how high hopes were when a sequel was announced. Well, that was a mistake.

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35:51

Episode 487: Tootinis

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2023/01/09

Tootinis is a game that feels like a student project that ended up getting a little money behind it. Very little money, mind you. So we're fully in "Please Be Cool" mode because all these people did was make a weird kids' game with baffling characters and a very funny intro. Additionally we talk about what Totino's Pizzas become when they enter your mouth, the new garage that Kole saw, and Gary's glimpse at our cold metallic future.

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35:23

Episode 486: Magician Lord

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2023/01/02

Magician Lord is an okay arcade game about a transforming wizard. That's not what's important, however. What's important is that we know that 2023 will be the year of the Buff Wizard, Who May or May Not Be a Frog Man. It's imperative that we embrace and hype this early so we can make it happen. Extremely ripped wizard. Possibly a humanoid frog. Strong as hell. Lots of lightning. Lovingly rendered buttocks and genitalia. Let's make it happen, people.

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42:22

Episode 485: Corpse Killer

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2022/12/26

We've spoken on the charms and pitfalls of FMV video games before, and we're happy to report that Corpse Killer falls well on the charms side. It's a dead basic lightgun game, making Terminator 2 look like Time Crisis, but it also has ridiculously over the top acting and a bonkers story. So instead of laying into it for too long, we talk about how it's driving us crazy that someone out there is trying to make people care about Avatar.

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45:27

Episode 484: City Connection

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2022/12/19

City Connection is a fun arcade maze chase that takes place in a world where everything's the same, but cars jump for some reason? So we talk about the dangers of being so competitive that you scream about Bingo, and also cap things off with a vexatious Burger King anecdote.

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39:56

Episode 483: Kiss: Psycho Circus - The Nightmare Child

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2022/12/12

First off, it's podcast malpractice that we didn't make this entire episode about the video for the KISS song "Psycho Circus". (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWIW6Ti0PbE) That's on us. We weren't even that distracted by the ho-hum Lithtech shooter that is KISS colon Psycho Circus colon The Nightmare Child. We just got very wrapped up in the concept of KISS itself, which basically amounts to Insane Clown Posse for boomers. This is also part two of our inadvertent duology of "Our Carnival Isn't Like

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34:13

Episode 482: Bad Day on the Midway

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2022/12/05

The image of a person with an eyeball for a head is very good. That's the nice thing we'll say about the Residents. But Bad Day on the Midway underlines some fundamental problems we have with them, since it's unpleasant to look at and listen to, and not to a very interesting artistic result. You poke around a demented carnival amusement park learning about mentally ill people, killers, and racists... and then it just ends, regardless of how you play. More power to you if you're down with the

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35:28

Episode 481: Seymour Goes to Hollywood

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2022/11/28

Who is Seymour, and where is he going? What does he want when he gets there? We can only answer one of these questions, but we barely care. Seymour catfished us, saying it was a game about a little potato man, only for us to learn that it's actually another horrible Dizzy game with the serial numebrs filed off.

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Episode 480: Simon the Sorcerer 2

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2022/11/21

Simon the Sorcerer is a rude teen who likes boobs, doesn't know what's happening around him, and never stops talking. This, his improbable second adventure, draws him back into the fantasy world because he can't stay out of containers designated for clothing. Is there zero joy to be had in a Simon the Sorcerer game? We don't know. But this one just never... stops... talking. Why should a joke ever end? It can just keep going. That's what we call value.

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39:44

Episode 479: The Looker

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2022/11/14

It's time to do a mini-WOFF! about one of the funniest games we've played recently: The Looker. It's a candid and scathing parody of The Witness, taking place on a very similar island, and having you use a pen to solve placemat mazes while listening to faux-deep audio recordings. We stay on topic throughout this one and spoil quite a bit, so consider going and playing The Looker for yourself (https://store.steampowered.com/app/1985690/The_Looker/). It's free and it's about 90 minutes long.

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