Abject Suffering
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Show overview
Abject Suffering has been publishing since 2013, and across the 13 years since has built a catalogue of 661 episodes. That works out to roughly 440 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a weekly cadence.
Episodes typically run thirty-five to sixty minutes — most land between 35 min and 44 min — and the run-time is fairly consistent across the catalogue. The publisher flags most episodes as explicit, so expect adult themes or strong language throughout. It is catalogued as a EN-US-language Leisure show.
The show is actively publishing — the most recent episode landed 2 days ago, with 19 episodes already out so far this year.
From the publisher
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
Latest Episodes
View all 661 episodesAbject Suffering 661: Titenic
Abject Suffering 660: Xenophage Alien Bloodsport
Abject Suffering 659: Sunset Riders
Abject Suffering 658: Bioforge
Abject Suffering 657: White Van Racer
Ep 656Abject Suffering 656: Haven: Call of the King
E<html><p>Haven: Call of the King is a PS2 platformer that doesn’t want you to think it’s a platformer. It wants you to think it’s anything and everything all at once. That’s why they don’t want you to call it a “platformer”, they want you to call it a “FreeFormer”. Which is… hey listen, we’re really sorry about this one, a lot of the episode is dedicated to trying to figure out how to get Gary a wheelbarrow. We fucked it up. Give us a chance again next week.</p></html>
Ep 655Abject Suffering 655: AAAHH!! Real Monsters
E<html><p>Nickelodeon was at the height of their powers in the 90s when they decided to start throwing more and more Nicktoons down the chute. This led to them trying to capture the grotesquery of Ren &amp; Stimpy without any of its transgression. Thus, Aaahh!!! Real Monsters was born, a show about monsters who live in a dump trying to learn to scare humans. This predated Monsters, Inc. by several years, but still feels derivative of that movie!</p></html>
Ep 654Abject Suffering 654: Amazon Trail
E<html><p>The Oregon Trail is a simple game, but it’s timeless. The Amazon trail is complicated and involves time traveling magic panthers, and nobody has thought about it in thirty years. There’s a lesson there. Additionally, there are lessons in hiring contractors to fix your bathroom, and lessons about how the Liar’s Dividend has made public defecators of us all.</p></html>
Ep 653Abject Suffering 653: Special Report
E<html><p>This is a sequel episode to Abject Suffering 619: Wild Woody.</p><p>Look, we totally intended to record an episode about a video game. But sometimes you’re at a discount grocery store and you stumble across the deal of a lifetime. How many lives could you change with $100?</p></html>
Ep 652Abject Suffering 652: McDonalds Changeables Game Experience
E<html><p>It’s time for another McDonald’s episode because they released a new game on the sly when they brought back the Changeables Happy Meal Toys. You know, those little toys that are like Transformers but the “disguise” form is food that scientists labored over to make sure you’d eat it forever.</p><p><a href="https://chg30296.happymealdigital.com/" target="_blank">This game is basically nothing</a>, a little Flash-like web game platformer. But this new toy drop has wildly expanded the McDonald’s cosmology, and that must be addressed.</p></html>
Ep 651Abject Suffering 651: Twisted Metal: Small Brawl
E<html><p>Look out! It's tiny Sweettooth! He's going to run us over in his tiny car!</p></html>
Ep 650Abject Suffering 650: Donkey Kong 3
E<html><p>This episode is about a Donkey Kong sequel that's about a man who kills bugs. Kaye also talks about schlepping her cats across the country and Gary uses a bathroom in a haunted house.</p></html>
Ep 649Abject Suffering 649: Dangerous Dave's Risky Rescues
E<html><p>The Dangerous Dave games are a series of PC platformers that acted as a precursor to Commander Keen, except with a redneck aesthetic and hyperviolence. This entry is hard, but not terrible, so we talk about how modern Helltimes have rendered thinking about having superpowers unpalatable.</p></html>
Ep 648Abject Suffering 648: Beast Wars: Transformers
<html><p>Beast Wars: Transformers is an ugly show, and the PlayStation game based on it is even uglier. It’s a little bleak to consider that the cheap animation of the 80s cartoon is the best that these robots would ever look. So instead, Gary proposes a new sex move called “Trick or Treat”, and we work out the logistics of how to pull it off.</p></html>
Ep 647Abject Suffering 647: Bad Dudes
E<html><p>It’s honestly weird that we haven’t already covered the NES version of Bad Dudes, a game with an infamous intro and horribly choppy handling. So Kaye brings it as her vanity pick, and we talk about how bad times have also made ALL of us into Bad Dudes.</p></html>
Ep 646Abject Suffering 646: Friday Night Funkin'
E<html><p>Friday Night Funkin’, a rhythm game credited with keeping Newgrounds relevant in the 2020s, is actually pretty good. The music works better than the visuals, and the fan community is really… enthusiastic… but there’s not much to hate here. So instead we talk about Gary’s trip to San Francisco, where he got mindfreaked.</p></html>
Ep 645Abject Suffering 645: Love is... in Bloom: The Flower Shop Garden
E<html><p>Love Is… is a very sad and weird comic strip about naked eight year olds who are married and like being really bossy about what is and isn’t love. The game is nothing, but we cannot bring ourselves to stop diving into the comic’s archive to boggle at what was once (and apparently still is?) acceptable.</p></html>
Ep 644Abject Suffering 644: Minority Report: Everybody Runs
E<html><p>Minority Report: Everybody Runs is a licensed tie in game to a movie where ladies lay eggs that tell the future. Since this is a perfect fit for us, we talk about what precog powers would do to our lives, and Kaye talks about preparing for her upcoming move.</p></html>
Ep 643Abject Suffering 643: Biker Mice from Mars
E<html><p>The Biker Mice from Mars was an also-ran in the Turtles boom of the early nineties. Its premise was exactly what the title implies, and it relied on the idea of bikers being a lot cooler than they actually are. But given any chance to talk about the Turtles, we dig into the missed potential in not focusing on the TEENAGE part of TMNT.</p></html>
Ep 642Abject Suffering 642: Panic!
E<html><p>Panic! isn’t really a game, it’s a mouse training program with some context-free visual gags. Faced with the possibility that disliking this makes us sticks in the mud, we talk about why this presentation is a disservice to the very necessary emotion of whimsy.</p></html>