All Episodes — Abject Suffering

Ep 161Abject Suffering 161: Pesterminator: The Western Exterminator

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<html>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.Links:<ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pesterminator:_The_Western_Exterminator" target="_blank">Pesterminator: The Western Exterminator - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERJHVHF8WT0" target="_blank">Pesterminator by Color Dreams Nintendo NES Gameplay Part 1 - YouTube</a></li></ul></html>

Oct 3, 201639 min

Ep 160Abject Suffering 160: Aero the Acro-bat

<html>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.</html>

Sep 26, 201631 min

Ep 159Abject Suffering 159: Animaniacs: Lights, Camera, Action!

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This raffle-winner episode about a terrible, outdated isometric collectathon comes with a SEVERE content warning for the last third of the episode...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

Sep 19, 201638 min

Ep 157Abject Suffering 158: The Ooze

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<html>The ultimate lesson of this tech-demo stretched to full game is "be yourself." Also, if any viscous substance crosses our doorstep, we'll immediately start talking about ejaculate.</html>

Sep 12, 201631 min

Ep 157Abject Suffering 157: Catechumen

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<html>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.Special Guest: Nick Glauber.</html>

Sep 5, 201642 min

Ep 156Abject Suffering 156: The Adventures of Rad Gravity

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<html>The only "rad" thing about this game is its name, but there might be something worthwhile here. Also, orbs. Orbs. Orbs.</html>

Aug 29, 201640 min

Ep 155Abject Suffering 155: South Park

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

Aug 22, 201653 min

Ep 154Abject Suffering 154: Warlock

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<html>Thus begins a strange new fascination.</html>

Aug 15, 201635 min

Ep 153Abject Suffering 153: Boogerman

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<html>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?</html>

Aug 8, 201633 min

Ep 152Abject Suffering 152: Backyard Wrestling: Don't Try This at Home

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<html>It's our most upsetting episode opening to date!</html>

Aug 2, 201634 min

Ep 151Abject Suffering 151: Sonic the Hedgehog Spinball

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<html>Up Next: The Christian spinoff, Sonic Sinball.</html>

Jul 25, 201641 min

Ep 150Abject Suffering 150: E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial

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<html>An infamously bad redemption. Thanks for being with us for 150 episodes!</html>

Jul 18, 201641 min

Ep 149Abject Suffering 149: Holy Diver

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<html>Evan Jones Thorne, you've been down too long in the midnight sea. Oh what's becoming of me. Ride the tiger, you can see his stripes but you know he's clean... Oh don't you see what I mean. Gotta get away... Evan Jones Thorne.Special Guest: Evan Jones Thorne.</html>

Jul 11, 201646 min

Ep 148Abject Suffering 148: Kids on Site

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<html>The Forces of Evil are bolstered as Fruit Man joins their ranks, with his demonic possession meat puppet Dizzy and their plaything Nuts.</html>

Jul 4, 201634 min

Ep 147Abject Suffering 147: Space Station Silicon Valley

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<html>In the warmth of Derek's reign, we must still suffer through this inventive, sublime, but outdated wreck of a game.</html>

Jun 27, 201637 min

Ep 146Abject Suffering 146: Buck Bumble

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<html>Bump to the boom to the boom to the bass, bump to the Praise Derek!</html>

Jun 20, 201641 min

Ep 145Abject Suffering 145: X-Men: Mutant Academy

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<html>Jeremy Greer joins us to talk about the least-inspired X-Men game since the NES one.Special Guest: Jeremy Greer.</html>

Jun 13, 201643 min

Ep 144Abject Suffering 144: Charlie's Angels

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<html>Basic brawler leads to banter about 'bate'n.</html>

Jun 6, 201633 min

Ep 143Abject Suffering 143: Iron Man and X-O Manowar in Heavy Metal

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<html>Did they think we wouldn't notice? They take this incomprehensible Z-tier superhero and group him in with everyone's favorite rascally tycoon... Despicable. The first half of this episode is business as usual. After the music, we talk about Captain America: Civil War at length. The dividing line for spoilers is clearly marked.</html>

May 30, 201644 min

Ep 142Abject Suffering 142: Lagoon

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<html>Muddy Waters, get out of my foundry!</html>

May 23, 201639 min

Ep 141Abject Suffering 141: Barbie Horse Adventures: Wild Horse Rescue

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<html>Superstar guest Jenni Polodna joins us to talk about new ways to open sardine cans, ASMR, and Wild Horse Rescue.Special Guest: Jenni Polodna.</html>

May 16, 201653 min

Ep 140Abject Suffering 140: Skeleton Krew

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<html>More "K"s than a Mortal Kombat fan konvention. Also, another isometrik klusterfukk.</html>

May 9, 201631 min

Ep 139Abject Suffering 139: Hudson Hawk

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<html>A love letter to falconry and harp.</html>

May 2, 201644 min

Ep 138Abject Suffering 138: The You Testament

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<html>A bold and unpredictable creative culmination.</html>

Apr 25, 201649 min

Ep 137Abject Suffering 137: Day Dreamin' Davey

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<html>Will Hughes of the AV Club joins us to talk about Christian Slater, and we spend a little time going on an incredibly mundane flight of fancy with a kid who came unprepared to school.Special Guest: Will Hughes.</html>

Apr 18, 201649 min

Ep 136Abject Suffering 136: Haunting Starring Polterguy

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<html>To install the Haunting screensaver, just should "Polterguy!" three times.</html>

Apr 11, 201627 min

Ep 135Abject Suffering 135: Duke Nukem Forever

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<html>At last we find it, a game that's not just underwhelming... but also actively evil.</html>

Apr 4, 201631 min

Ep 134Abject Suffering 134: Aerobiz

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<html>Brayton Cameron joins us to talk about the fast-paced breakneck twitch action of Aerobiz, featuring a demo for Koei's new breakout strategy jam: Nobunga's Ambition.Special Guest: Brayton Cameron.</html>

Mar 28, 201638 min

Ep 133Abject Suffering 133: The Three Stooges

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<html>The Attic Stooge is like a hot tub or pool. Even if you don't use it yourself, you keep it around for the resale value.</html>

Mar 21, 201633 min

Ep 132Abject Suffering 132: Eternity's Child

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<html>It's the longest we've ever stayed on topic as we talk about a reviled recent indie release, and its questionable creator.</html>

Mar 14, 201639 min

Ep 131Abject Suffering 131: Don't Go Alone

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<html>This game is good. So good that we spend our time taking quizzes about teen substance abuse.</html>

Mar 7, 201628 min

Ep 130Abject Suffering 130: Spot Goes to Hollywood

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<html>It's another explosion at the Asset Factory as mascots go on parade to pick up the wreckage. Do we all look like Spot to Dracula?</html>

Feb 29, 201631 min

Ep 129Abject Suffering 129: Nightmare Creatures

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<html>Discussion of this highly adequate proto-Bloodborne segues into nightmare therapy.</html>

Feb 22, 201652 min

Ep 128Abject Suffering 128: Faceball 2000

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<html>Listen in for Gary's most incredulous reaction to Kole yet.</html>

Feb 15, 201634 min

Ep 127Abject Suffering 127: The Terminator

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<html>Jim Crawford helps us build a hellcube of flesh in which to play painball.Special Guest: Jim Crawford.</html>

Feb 8, 201659 min

Ep 126Abject Suffering 126: Omikron: The Nomad Soul

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<html>In memoriam.</html>

Feb 1, 201637 min

Ep 125Abject Suffering 125: Rascal

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<html>The Rascal is a shit person of dark origins and darker designs. Don't let him corrupt your sweet baby boy.</html>

Jan 25, 201647 min

Ep 124Abject Suffering 124: SOS

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<html>Something terrible has happened, but we must soldier on as we did before. RIP Phillipe and Renaldo?</html>

Jan 18, 201644 min

Ep 123Abject Suffering 123: The R-Zone Zone

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<html>After some unfortunate happenings with the network, we are forbidden from doing any more episodes of Abject Suffering. But, with some re-tooling, we're happy to reveal our newest property: The R-Zone Zone.</html>

Jan 11, 201648 min

Ep 122Abject Suffering 122: Ribbit King

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<html>Let's talk about frolf and other fever dreams.</html>

Jan 5, 201642 min

Ep 121Abject Suffering 121: T&C Surf Designs

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<html>Gather 'round the table, one and all, and share in a slice of this mean, mean tube.</html>

Dec 28, 201537 min

Ep 120Abject Suffering 120: Alpha Mission

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<html>This never would have flown in Zelda Times.</html>

Dec 21, 201531 min

Ep 119Abject Suffering 119: LSD Dream Emulator

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<html>This week's episode is a serious contemplation of the competing merits of random content and authored content. No goofs this week, no ma'am.</html>

Dec 14, 201538 min

Ep 118Abject Suffering 118: Dunjax

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<html>This week, we Dunjax the Dunjax until the Dunjax Dunjax.</html>

Dec 8, 201538 min

Ep 117Abject Suffering 117: The Aidyn Chronicles

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<html>Remember that time in the 90's when we all had pica?</html>

Nov 30, 201534 min

Ep 116Abject Suffering 116: Wade Hixton's Counter Punch

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<html>Listen to two nerds be ambivalent about sports and punching.</html>

Nov 24, 201538 min

Ep 115Abject Suffering 115: Spelunker

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<html>This week, we call an audible and talk about Spelunker in one of our rare in-person episodes. Is the crown prince of kusoge as bad as everyone says?</html>

Nov 16, 201537 min

Ep 114Abject Suffering 114: Rap Jam: Volume 1

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<html>What's harder: Talking about sports, rap music, or staying awake? The answer may surprise you.</html>

Nov 9, 201534 min

Ep 113Abject Suffering 113: Mountain Bike Rally

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<html>Now we need to strike exercise games off of our list, although this did teach us about the futility of ever trying to control our actions.</html>

Nov 3, 201534 min

Ep 112Abject Suffering 112: Monster Party

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<html>What does Monster Party have in common with going to municipal water treatment plants and living in a spooky RV? NOTHING.</html>

Oct 26, 201539 min

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