Anime Sickos

The Sickos truly believe that the Nintendo DS is a public good that should be provided for free by the government. Sick of samey AAA games that demand years of crunch? Sick of day one patches and updates? Sick of game consoles that don't fold in half? The DS is the answer baby. It's a moral failure of staggering magnitude that Nintendo is not producing DSes anymore.

Branson Reese (Swan Boy, Rude Tales of Magic, etc) goes guesto mode! We can't stop having cartoonists on this show. We discuss how being extremely stupid is a recipe for timeless comedy, why 5-minute TV shows should become the norm, the simple joy of making everyone yell at you, what Pokemon types we are, and more. Branson kicks ass, folks.

Join us at the toilet for another mouthful of inconceivably bad posts! We got Jordan Peterson panicking over the Chinese dick sucking factory! We got posting Hall-of-Famer Bethany "Grandma Killer" Mandel becoming the main character of a whole week! Slurp up this garbage with your guides, the Sickos! As our famous motto goes, "Posts: Guaranteed to give you a brain-eating amoeba!"

After leaving the house for the first time in years to attend a punk concert, the Sickos reflect on their lifelong love of punk and discover it's anime: a weird niche interest that warps you forever and dooms you to be a weird guy, and also it kind of sucks. Doesn't matter to us though: our brains are forever fucked up and will never stop deriving joy from this crap

The Sickos go nuts over one of the few TV shows they've both seen, HBO's Barry. Turns out Bill Hader is really really good at making a TV show. Also The Fonz and Stephen Root are in it. Also it's a dark violent drama but also has huge belly-laugh jokes every few minutes. Also one of the main characters is a cartoon man who says "ciao babies"

It's another grab bag of gags, goofs, and bits from your favorite Sickos. Joe recounts discovering a real life Easter Egg in Mexico. Tom shares a foundational part of his comedy heritage. We reveal a new entry to the Wife Post canon. Plus we have a sketch about how giants are real. The sketch is fiction but it's about a real thing (giants) Special thanks to Edward Selvey for playing the CIA man in...

Mike Migdall, notable Online Guy, goes guesto mode! We discuss Dwarf Fortress, blaseball, TTRPGs, sports fandom, and more, all of which are engines for unconventional storytelling Mike uses to recreate "Guys," the ultimate childhood storytelling game. Man Dwarf Fortress sounds so damn cool.

The Sickos discuss shittification, a process by which the world is not only made worse, but the prospect of improving to the previous level is made impossible. This has been happening for our entire lives but is really supercharged lately with the 1-2 punch of dumbass AI content generators and massive fucking layoffs. Shit sucks folks

Most of the time when the Sickos read dumb posts it is to mock and belittle them. No more. We now accept them as true and real. We accept that giants are real and the government wants to keep you from fucking them. We learn time magic from a sweaty grindset man. We call the cops when we see an ultrasound where Al Capone is trying to get born a second time. Posts are so dumb. Viva posts babey

The Sickos discuss Final Fantasy, perhaps the most popular JRPG series of all time. Like all JRPGs, the Sickos love them but also they all suck ass and are not fun. They're all masterpieces and we love them but they're also all broken and tedious and none of them actually pull off what they're trying to do. Anyway, can't wait for XVI!

The Sickos head to da movie house to watch Avatar 2, a movie about being a blue guy and doing Tony Hawk stunts with your best whale friend and then your dad yells at you because the whale is too much of a sicko. You probably want us to say "it's anime" but we are above these obvious surface level observations. It's clearly manga.

Ever wonder how the right, Elon Musk, QAnon et al always get special treatment? It's because they use the powers of the Mods-Mods Fruit, a real-life Devil Fruit that allows them to yell "MODS!!" in such an annoying way that everyone moves heaven and earth to appease them. The Twitter Files? That's Elon going "mods!!!!!!! Twitter was unfair!!!" Banning the ElonJet account? Buddy, he's yelling "MODS...

The Sickos spend a bunch of time recommending the games, manga, movies, and TV they've been into lately with their typical verve. Thrill as Tom actually get convinced that the Vampire Survivors clone Joe's playing now is worth a shot! Gasp as you learn that a certain Sicko has the willpower to watch an actual movie! Swoon as you learn about a stone-skipping manga with an unbelievable twist! Check...

The Sickos are suffering from entropy, that famous decay that happens when the Devil lays his wizened finger upon that which you love and it decays and gets more shitty. Our backs and PCs are fucked up. This shit sucks so bad!

It's a mondo sized Cog Talk as Joe recounts his work trip to Florida where he ate at the Troop Restaurant, met a fan boat man named Captain Disco, and caught the dreaded Florida Virus. Then, we once again stare agog at the burning wreck that was once Twitter.

Uh Oh! Twitter is getting fucked up by the world's dumbest man! We love posting and are addicted to the slop and half our episodes are about posts. This sucks! The Sickos break down the dumbass decisions Elon Musk is ruining Twitter with and eulogize the dumb site we love to hate. No other site lets you see so many Joyce Carol Oates thoughts, dude

Like any hog, the Sickos enjoy da slop! We slurp down dire crap all the time, but certain flavors are laser-focused on the Sickos' dopamine centers. From cyberpunk, to ZX Spectrum graphics, to upgrading a ton, to digging a big hole, come learn what the Sickos take 4x damage to!

The Sickos are amazed to find that MinovskyArticle, one of the posters of all time and our spiritual leader, has gone guesto mode! We talk about the posting philosophy that allows him to use the internet without becoming insane or evil, how being a chill and pleasant human is so much more powerful than marketing best practices, and then listen to Minovsky recommend some truly astonishing manga.

You hogs love it when we read posts to you. Some of these really suck! You know, I'd go so far as to say they're all quite bad! Well, rest assured: we'll read em out for ya

The Sickos go on and on about one of their favorite ongoing manga, Dai Dark, a series where bone freaks travel space in a corpse ship doing hyperviolent murder, but the actual plot is about how the characters like to chill and have a good time.

The Sickos go puritan mode as they talk shit about gambling, the kind of gaming that sucks ass and steals from you. Dragon Quest always thinks you're going to be really excited to go to the casino. Drugs at least get you high, gambling could never

The Sickos watched Mad God, a stop motion horror film 30 years in the making, where a bunch of GI Joes walk around the blood machine we always talk about.

After another two-week break, the Sickos are back and haven't lost a step. We recount a pair of hilarious posts, old and new, finally do another Cog Talk, and brag about how fun and special it is to go on vacation. Check it out!

It's a grab bag of bits as the Sickos present one hour of recorded audio! We talk about noted idiot Malcolm Gladwell, Tom burns bridges in order to moan about his comedy pet peeve, and we admit that we will never watch anime again. Check it out!

It's taken two years, but we finally complete our bracket and determine the Ultimate Fruit Under the Heavens. Then, we revisit the Anbernickos segment and discuss the games we've been playing lately.