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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A podcast about psychoanalysis, politics, pop culture, and the ways we suffer now, featuring Abby Kluchin & Patrick Blanchfield
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Quarantine ends up being a very bad Doom clone, but instead of DoomGuy, you’re DoomCar, and you can only see five feet in front of you. And its snarl of lore is just too boring to pick apart. So instead we ask… what was the deal with the Three Tenors, and do you think you could take them in a fight?
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625: Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum
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Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum advertises itself as a lost NES adaptation of the Garbage Pail kids line of collectible trading cards. In reality, it’s a modern game made by talented devs who make games for NES hardware. And it’s pretty fine! But there are so many Garbage Pail kids to talk about, so we spend most of our time…
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Beware the wrath of AFTRA.
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Quarantine ends up being a very bad Doom clone, but instead of DoomGuy, you’re DoomCar, and you can only see five feet in front of you. And its snarl of lore is just too boring to pick apart. So instead we ask… what was the deal with the Three Tenors, and do you think you could take them in a fight?
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Today we asked if Bloodlines is fun. The answer: No. :)
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115: Standard Edition Volume 2 Part 6: Studies on Hysteria, Part VI: Katharina Teaser
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Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Abby and Patrick read the shortest, strangest, and arguably saddest entry in the Studies on Hysteria – the case of “Katharina.” This case history sees Freud on Alpine vacation and approached by a local girl suffering …
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Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about Borderlands 4, Silksong, No Case Should Remain Unsolved, and much more! The Grind: Ben: No Case Should Remain Unsolved. Moxie: The Division 2. Silksong. Kaye: Silksong. Dennis: Silksong. Borderlands 4. I Am Your Beast. The Multiplayer: Favorite game quotes and/or barks. The End Boss: Silent Cleaning markets c…
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The First Annual Everything To Guppy Push-up Competition
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This reskin of a Goemon game is kind of fun and interesting, despite its problems. But the discovery of Cowboy Kid's amazing American cover art leads us into a deep well of appreciating the Gay Cowboy trope as a celebration of having fun with the guys. The "Life at the Outpost" video is required viewing.…
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This reskin of a Goemon game is kind of fun and interesting, despite its problems. But the discovery of Cowboy Kid's amazing American cover art leads us into a deep well of appreciating the Gay Cowboy trope as a celebration of having fun with the guys. The "Life at the Outpost" video is required viewing.…
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This week we do two major dungeons, each with differing levels of quality. First, we seek out the Ankaran Sarcophagus at the Giovanni Mansion, which is empty as a tomb. But we can't open it! So we find an archaeologist captured by the Society of Leopold. Other Segments: Clan Chapbook: Giovanni Chronicles of Darkness: The Society of Leopold What do …
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What's an upstart lawyer who's suddenly flush with cash from a perfectly legitimate retainer with a new client? Become someone's doppelgänger to spite them, and put on the best publicity stunt Albuquerque has ever seen!
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114: Fashion and Psychoanalysis feat. Valerie Steele
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Abby and Patrick welcome Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, to discuss her new book, Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis, and the exhibition of the same name that opened this week. What does “fashion” mean, and why are so many psychoanalysts and cultural gat…
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Kaye, Ben, and Moxie talk about Silksong, Schedule I, the Mewgenics gameplay reveals, and much more! The Grind: Kaye: Silksong. Moxie: Silksong. Ben: Schedule I. The Multiplayer: What non-boss enemy always gets you? The End Boss: Mewgenics gets release date. Pacific Drive: Whispers in the Woods expansion is going to be very folk-horror.…
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Outer Wilds is a cozy adventure game about the thrill of exploration and the triumph of curiosity. You walk in the footsteps of a long-gone civilization to find your way out of a deadly time loop, ultimately triumphing and being reborn. The game's expansion, Echoes of the Eye, takes a bit of a darker tone. You explore an artificial world haunted by…
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This one's a treat for all the Aussies out there! A*Mazing was Australia's most beloved kids' game show in the 90s, featuring a tiny bit of competitive video game play between very easy trivia and searches for hidden objects in an obstacle course. And the entire thing was presided over by one of the most critical childrens' show hosts we've seen in…
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Future Will here.
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Todd hates slime. He hates it when things get goopy. So he went to a planet full of it to exact his revenge. We, however, are indifferent to slime, and also think this game isn't too terribly bad. So we talk about the dead-end economics of the slime-content, and carousels for some reason.
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Todd hates slime. He hates it when things get goopy. So he went to a planet full of it to exact his revenge. We, however, are indifferent to slime, and also think this game isn't too terribly bad. So we talk about the dead-end economics of the slime-content, and carousels for some reason.
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This week we wrap up Chinatown with a little science experiment... performed on us. Our quest for the Ankaran Sarcophagus has led us into the underworld of the Kuei-jin, who want to subject us to something called the Belmont Protocol. Additionally, we do some standout side quests, with one massive addition from the Clan Quest Mod. Other Segments: C…
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113: The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema, Part III Teaser
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Subscribe to get access to the full episode, the episode reading list, and all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/OrdinaryUnhappiness Abby, Dan, and Patrick conclude their viewing of Sophie Fiennes’ and Slavoj Žižek’s A Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006). It’s the last stretch of the film, the part where Žižek tries to bring everything together, and i…
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Kaye, Ben, Jala, and Moxie talk about Metal Gear Solid Delta, Heartworm, SPRAWL, and much more! The Grind: Jala: Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc. Alterium Shift. Cyclopean: The Great Abyss. Trine 5: A Clockwork Conspiracy. Kaye: Metal Gear Solid Delta. Heartworm. Picross. Ben: PAX West. The Fate of the Fellowship. Moxie: SPRAWL. Fallen London. The…
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Bob Mackey of the Retronauts joins Kaye this week to talk about Majora's Mask, whose pitch is that you only have three days to save the world, but you have as many three days as you want. This is the bleaker and more ambitious sibling to the beloved Ocarina of Time, and it's a standout title in its own right even if it's (wrongly, in our opinion) d…
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Shame.
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Abject Suffering 625: Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum
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Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum advertises itself as a lost NES adaptation of the Garbage Pail kids line of collectible trading cards. In reality, it’s a modern game made by talented devs who make games for NES hardware. And it’s pretty fine! But there are so many Garbage Pail kids to talk about, so we spend most of our time…
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Garbage Pail Kids: Mad Mike and the Quest for Stale Gum advertises itself as a lost NES adaptation of the Garbage Pail kids line of collectible trading cards. In reality, it’s a modern game made by talented devs who make games for NES hardware. And it’s pretty fine! But there are so many Garbage Pail kids to talk about, so we spend most of our time…
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Let's get to know our friend Ignacio a little bit. Our friends, the Kettlemans, have gotten into a bit of a bother and Ignacio might know where they went. He was the last one to see them before they went missing, after all.
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