Anime Sickos

The Sickos have been doing this for 100 episodes! We take a moment to reflect on how it's very hard to come up with episode ideas when you've already had to come up with 100 ideas and also the world provides you with no new stimulus. Then, we indulge in disgusting levels of smugness as we share words of congratulations from some of our closest sicko homies. Here's to 100 more!

The Sickos present a finely-honed slop experience. We introduce a new segment, "Anbernickos," in which we discuss the ways our Chinese Gameboys are solving all our problems, finally read some more user-submitted stories in Cog Talk, and welcome guesto Kevin Johnson back on the show for Cat Talk as we talk about how Kevin is fostering the best cat who ever lived.

Josh McVety is a goth king who makes music under the name Mellow Code. Josh discusses his origins as a doomed child born to a family of absolute anime sickos, shares how to become an electronic music sicko, tells a wild Cog Talk story about building music video sets for an insane man made of cocaine, and more. Check it out!

The Sickos finally address the burning topic that's been the talk of the gaming world for weeks: The Anbernic RG351V handheld retro emulation device. Yes, the Sickos purchased Chinese Gameboys in order to do game crime and it's the most alive they've felt in a decade. (We will do an Inscryption episode once Joe's shoulder feels good enough for him to finish playing it lol)

Being online is terrible! The Sickos moan about how the very structure of the internet requires every action you do on it (talk to people, order food, look up information) to suck mondo ass. Plus, we marvel at the audacity of an app-connected dick sleeve that sends your JO data to the cloud.

The Sickos discuss one of their favorite animes: Tim Robinson and Sam Richardson's Comedy Central sitcom Detroiters. Folks Detroiters is the funniest fuckin show. The Sickos are hootin in this one

Didn't NFTs already flame out? How come we still have people making wife posts about spending $8,000 on a jpg of a horny lion? The Sickos discuss how NFTs, dumb as they may be, are actually a totally predictable outcome of our horrible system, and how shit's only gonna get dumber from now on! Then, we finally return to the Fruit Annihilation Tournament for the first time in four months (lol) to de...

Joe is being forced to return to the office, despite a big virus that I guess his work hasn't heard of yet. The Sickos discuss the perverse tendency for managers to consider problems solved forever as soon as they are acknowledged in any way. Then, the Sickos bitch about the odious Netflix cartoon Chicago Party Aunt, and Tom yammers about Real for 20 minutes.

The excellent Rayne Klar goes guesto mode! Rayne is a podcaster (shameful), witch (cool), and person who knows how printing works (except for the glue that doesn't make sense). They join the sickos to discuss a childhood filled with anime sin, a long and difficult path to gaming nirvana, and how jobs suck ass.

Posting is a horrible battle dome where everyone is forced to do bloodsport by Lord Bones. Anything anyone says is mere seconds away from igniting a days-long PvP match where you can't log off. It's a nightmare but also is the literal only way to be a creative person and cannot be opted out of. We all fight and beg for scraps of attention while simultaneously fearing attention more than anything....

While discussing how cool it is when bosses have phases, the Sickos stumble into one weird trick for making any game, comic, or show extremely better: make every guy actually be a lot of guys.

The Sickos take you on a guided tour of some of history's best, worst, and most powerful posts. See posts both old and new, horny and stupid, funny and horrifying, and more. God, posts suck ass! Fuck this

You know how sometimes you play a video game where you hold a big fuckin plastic gun and it goes pow pow. That kicks ass to us. Guns are like the coolest thing in the world (only when fictional or toy version)

Whitney Reynolds goes guesto mode! We discuss their inexplicably verified Twitter account, the siren call of shitty mobile games, how they craft unique soup creations, and cats. Check it out!

The Sickos discuss the roguelike deckbuilders they've been playing lately, Roguebook and Griftlands, and how their preponderance of ancillary game systems outside of the core card game dilutes the overall experience. Basically we're just gonna play Slay the Spire forever

As though it weren't enough to live in a world so beset with catastrophe, people keep insisting you have to be worried about it all the time! The Sickos discuss how this impulse to remind others to be worried is demonic and demonstrably anti-life. Plus, Tom shares stories of how international travel is fucked, and on Cog Talk we discuss Joe's impending return to the office.

Trump is gone, but comedy still refuses to not suck! Since it's not allowed to talk about the Main Part (the imminent collapse of society), all that is left is empty culture war where people point at things and go "that's good!" or "that's evil!" It's not very funny! Plus, we finally remember to do the Fruit Tournament again, finally completing round 2!

The Sickos indulge in frankly disgusting levels of self-congratulation as they go behind-the-scenes to relive the process of producing The Tragical History of Modesty City, a five-act audio play that took a year of secret work to complete.

The Anime Sickos present: The Tragical History of Modesty City, a Play in Five Acts Directed by Tom Harrison and Joe Anderson Written by Tom Harrison from a story by Joe Anderson and Tom Harrison Audio Design and Engineering by Adam Goron Act 5 Scene 1 Audio Design and Engineering by Casey Toney CAST: Joseph - Joe Anderson Thomas - Tom Harrison Bryan Steven A'Lee Stevenson - Tom Harrison Doctor Vi...

The Sickos share what manga/comics they've been reading lately, specifically: Kengan Omega, Shamo, Usogui, One Piece, Orc Stain, and The Marquis. If you like comics, check it out (and we're sorry you also have the "likes comics" debuff applied to you)

The Sickos are back with a brand new slop experience that goes down smooth. We define "Dude Time," a horrible time late at night where you turn to sludge. Then, we debut a brand new segment, Cat Talk, to discuss Joe's awesome new cats. Then, we read listener-submitted cog stories on the first crowdsourced Cog Talk. Folks, this is one tasty spoon of slop!

Riley Hopkins (of The Podcast Mines and many others) steps in for Tom as the Sickos discuss the nightmare hell of working retail during the pandemic, in which the demons who already wrought their infernal torture on all workers suddenly get a massive automatic power-up as their very breath can now potentially kill you for real. Plus, we sing the praises of the offline wife (the purest kind of geni...

The Sickos look over the state of Posting and find a desolate waste devoid of life. Leaderless, the screaming hordes of fascist maniacs splinter into sub-groups led by Substack racists. Content creators devolve into endless grievance-based feedback loops as they rage against each other and their own audiences. Basically we gotta go full Dune and make computers illegal.

The Sickos welcome Stephanie Mattos, a certified fight coordinator, to confirm that anime is real and fighting kicks ass. We discuss how to plan, choreograph, and execute a stage fight like a genius, ponder over the anatomy of Godzilla (what type of neck mobility are we looking at), and myriad other topics about the coolest thing that can happen: fighting!! Turns out when you have a subject matter...

The Sickos discuss the Suffering-Suffering Fruit, a real life Devil Fruit that makes you think suffering is inherently noble and good. Every Democrat has eaten it and they get extremely confused when you tell them you want to suffer less.