Anime Sickos

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.

The world never stops shoving terrible, dumb posts in our faces, so we decided to read some of them out loud. Posts truly are the worst thing on the planet, needless to say I will actively choose to look at as many as possible every day of my life.

After our two-week break, we return to form by whining for an hour. There's a lot of evil and infuriating shit out there! Listen to us get mad at it!!! Complaining kicks ass!!!!

The Sickos watched the movie RRR and are now moving to India. We apply our perfect movie rating system to RRR determining its quality objectively (it's good) and discuss how it is undeniably an anime (one of the season's best, in fact).

The Sickos gush about the little-remembered early 2010s Adult Swim live action comedy Eagleheart. Turns out it's the funniest shit ever. Comedy sucks, but sometimes? Sometimes comedy's extremely good

The Sickos welcome local genius Taylor Moore to the podcast. Taylor discusses the saga of his Kickstarter unionization effort, gushes about the anime classic Paprika, and exposes the Sickos as "business fools." Taylor's a dang delight! Check it out!

The Sickos do another manga roundup of stuff they've been into lately, including Hell's Paradise, Blank Canvas, Kengan Omega (now good again), and Witches. Comics are pretty cool, folks

The Sickos diagnose Corpse Brain, a mental affliction where your brain died a thousand years ago and now is unable to react to stimulus in any way. Every politician and media person has this, along with your mom. Please note we recorded this before Sandy Hook 2 happened and proved this hypothesis even more right.

The Sickos once again discuss that famous goop, "food." We talk about the value of a well-written recipe, how dutch ovens rule, why it's crazy to think you can compare the quality of food in different cities, and many other dumbass food thoughts. This one kinda gets nutty with it

It seems like being into a fandom is just opting in to horrible drama that makes everyone feel bad. The Sickos discuss how they will never join a fandom and thus go to heaven. Then, fandom advocate Whitney Reynolds joins for a rebuttal that proves the Sickos have no fucking clue what they're talking about