Anime Sickos

The Sickos come bearing eleven killer sketches that will make you hoot and laugh and go nuts. Join us as we travel through time, meet god, become Michelin reviewers, count cards, and more. If you don't listen to this, go to hell! Sketch Timestamps: Austin Powers - 00:00:58 G-Man #1 - 00:06:03 Square Enix Name Consultants - 00:11:28 G-Man #2 - 00:15:20 The Sickos Become Michelin Reviewers - 00:20:07 The Sickos Pray to God - 00:23:57 The Sickos Count Cards - 00:29:36 Peter Francis Geraci Sketch - 00:30:43 Tom Tells "The Aristocrats" - 00:33:32 The Tower of Babel - 00:38:03 The Sickos Go To Couples Therapy - 00:41:37

Are you freaks happy? We come from the toilet battered and bloody bearing armfuls of insane and stupid posts that are very funny to think about. Come listen to us caper and howl. Is this not what you love?

Shevvy from the incredible comedy sensation Crawfish Comic goes guesto mode! We go nuts over how much we like Shevvy's work, and they explain the ethos and philosophy that leads to comics where a whale says "im a whale and even i think this is crasy." Culture today is a diseased mutant thing and Crawfish Comic is a beacon of purity and it kicks ass, this ep rules

The Sickos eulogize the best cartoonist to ever live, Akira Toriyama. Rest in peace king. Your art will live forever, and future generations will understand that it's cool when guys wear genie pants with curly shoes

We welcome Josh Boerman from the Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast. We discuss immersive sims, the value of good criticism, trying to make a living off creative work, and whether or not they still make Spree (the candy from Halloween). You can find The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast at https://www.worstpossible.world/

The Sickos do a classic two-segment episode. First, we return to our tier list of Every Game Mechanic and rank a bunch of these suckers. Then, we return to our tier list of—wait that can't be right

Turns out books are not homework, but instead stuff a weirdo wrote down for fun. We go nuts about Moby Dick, Don Quixote, and the works of Don Barthelme. Whoever said this stuff was dry needs to shut up

The Sickos moan about guys who have fallen off. Some fear to do this. We have the courage to do what they won't.

Grant Howitt, a game designer who rules, joins the Sickos (plus Gwynn and Allie from Modesty City, Sicko Shock 2, and Shuffle Quest) for a one-shot game of GOBLIN PUNKS, an RPG where you are shitty goblin teens fucking around. Will we be able to disrupt the community car wash and become goth? Listen and see asshole You can get Goblin Punks here: https://gshowitt.itch.io/goblin-punks

Everywhere you look someone's trying to sell you da sludge, and they usually succeed! AI? That's da sludge. Layoffs? Sludge. Airplanes where the walls fall off? Sludge. Some of these folks have replaced their hearts and brains with gray goop. Anyway enjoy the podcast

We unveil a classic new recurring segment in which the Sickos sort every single game mechanic into a tier list. This will definitely not take a long time and will result in a perfect tier list that will help future game designers make every game be flawless. Also, we discuss how we love our induction cooktops which are a type of cooking Anbernic.

Folks, your Sickos are old and dumb and don't know what's hip now. When we watched the Game Awards it was like we got clockwork oranged. Music is scary to us now. But don't worry: we are actually extremely wise and smart. Turns out when you're in your mid-thirties you have a perfect brain

We're back from our break. Joe had a baby, did you hear about that? That's part of why there was a break. Anyway, we talk about the baby (he is cute) and then Tom yammers about how his travel plans were ruined because he forgot that there are big parties on December 31st

Guest hosts Sara & Tom McHenry watched the big plagiarism YouTube video and now we are harrowed by the nightmarish threat of "void people," empty automatons who eerily imitate the motions of a human being and are somehow rewarded with more money than we'll ever make! It's rough out there folks!! Here is the awful video Sara mentioned: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYqu359oY6o Here is the Hbomberguy video we are talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDp3cB5fHXQ Here is the supplemental Todd in the Shadows video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6_LW1PkmnY Here is the Shaun video Sicko Tom was thinking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l63nY0AYebI

Guest host erica dreisbach fills in for Joe and reveals how to defeat aging and live forever by buying pills from the store that a disgraced charlatan told you about. Remember everyone who's ever died? Well if they knew to take saw palmetto like erica they'd still be alive. My proof? erica is alive idiot, QED

Square Enix is fucked because no one liked Final Fantasy 16. They need the next mainline entry to be a rock-solid crowdpleaser that's cheap and fast to develop. Luckily the Sickos have a perfect solution: just take out the shitty parts of Octopath Traveler 2, a game that's like 80% of the way there.

It's our spookiest episode yet as the Sickos rank the Halloween monsters in a bone-chilling tournament! This one's pretty dumb (non-derogatory)

Sean Rose goes guesto mode! We discuss Sean's comic Red Ring of Death, a parody of inescapable mid-2000s gaming webcomics, his podcast The Hornet's Nest, in which reformed supervillain Dr. Hornet hosts a local classic rock radio show, and for the first time in the show's history, ANIME!

The Sickos discuss the story of the millenium: Obama is allegedly gay with Tucker's buddy. This is sure to really move the needle. Plus, numerous goofy segments and discussions of the games Nioh 2 and Luck be a Landlord.

With Joe's baby on the way, the Sickos use their genius minds to solve the age old question of how to be a perfect parent who raises a child who never experiences sadness or pain. The answer: make them play a bunch of JRPGs and Mario. Touch screens do NOT COUNT as gaming, people. Kids need controllers, not iPads.