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Chase Greenlee and Jeremy Greer join me for the second portion of "Susan", where Roland finally gives in to his temptation and gets the entire ka-tet into profound danger. Meanwhile, Rhea watches and gets stranger.

John K's parade of grotesque buffoons that shout sincerely-held regressive beliefs, surprisingly, makes for a terrible game.

Mess with the crabbo, you get the stabbo. Mess with the tentacle, he'll cut your left ventricle.

These cat people are different because

November turned out to be a bit of a club banger, with three big, good, and otherwise important games. Let's find out what the listeners thought of Transistor, Thimbleweed Park, and ActRaiser. Support Watch Out for Fireballs! Links: Jim Butcher | The Online Site For Everything Jim Dropsy - Launch Trailer [Sing-A-Long Edition] - YouTube Technobabylon - Official Trailer - YouTube Primordia - Officia...

Who is this, Dee from It's Always Sunny? Get it, because bird lady.

With all apologies to Jenni Polodna, we venture into the teeming subculture of auto-generated Horse Cop games on the app store.

Caught red-handed.

In this episode, we sit down to talk about Proteus, the boy so bad his mom doesn't even call him by his real name, which is Kevin. Proteus wreaks havok (not that havok) on a small town, turns Wolverine inside out both physically and mentally, and creates a bunch of tiny rogues. It's as ridiculous as it sounds. Thanks for listening everyone!

Kole, Dennis, Jala, and David talk about EA’s microtransaction woes, LISA: The Painful RPG, and we ask you about your favorite in-game creations. The Brief: EA backs down on some Star Wars Battlegrounds II Humble Care Package Bundle has some very good stuff in it. David explains what it means to be an outlaw. Games used as education about domestic violence. The Multiplayer: What's the coolest thin...

It's a bird. It's a bat. It's a skeeter!

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. Kole and Gary talk about Actraiser, an early SNES game that mashes up two disparate gameplay modes. On one hand, you have some Castlevania-like platforming. On the other, you've got a simulation god game where you fight demons and watch your kingdom grow. How do they work together? How does everything fit? Does it hold up? Support Watch Out for Fireballs...

We took a lil break but The Hook Brought Us Back In a sort of anti Scatman John situation, a jackass frontman makes a decent song a bit worse rather than the other way around. 3 more episodes this season!

This episode solidifies an axiom for Abject Suffering episodes: the funnier a game is trying to be, the more serious the episode will end up. Crypt Worlds is a 2013 anti-game that's chock full of surreal imagery and weird-Twitter-like writing. It's also not bad , but we have questions about what it's trying to accomplish... and how effectively it's accomplishing it.

A group of intelligent squids is called an ink tank.

Autumn and Jeremy Greer join me for an episode that begins a flashback to Roland's first adventure as a gunslinger. He, Alain, and Cuthbert venture to the town of Hambry in the eastern barony of Mejis for protection... but instead find themselves in the grips of a larger plot and greater danger. This chapter introduces us to Susan, Rhea, and the Big Coffin Hunters.

Kids will go crazy for these ugly spheres... for boys!

Oh, how the children danced.

Kole, Ben, Dennis, and Jala talk about Super Mario Odyssey, Sony’s weird trophy reward program, and we ask you which games pull you into a time hole. The Brief: Console sales are way up. TellTale lays off a bunch of their staff. Sony is monetizing Trophies, kinda. Ingress users can stalk each other. The Multiplayer: Which games pull you into a time hole? The Grind: Jala: We Happy Few. Final Fantas...

Eight legs, one life, lots of attitude.

We're unabashed in our love of Maniac Mansion and other early LucasArts adventure games. So it shouldn't be a surprise that we jumped all over the Thimbleweed Park Kickstarter when it was announced. And we were right to do so, because Ron Gilbert, Gary Winnick, and company have made something truly great in Thimbleweed Park. It feels right at home with those older games, but has a level of complex...

Stupid, sexist trash.

Kris and Kole talk about advancements in technical culture, Tom Petty's subscription services, and chastity. ALSO: The screen keeps rotating. Nobody types. Cancel Tom Petty’s Pantry subscription. Tequila and beans. Kris’ text theater. Swarms of butterflies. Let’s talk about streaming services. Don’t use words if you don’t know what they mean. Abstinence for e-sportsmen.

Wetrix is most certainly NOT for kids.

Ok, we're getting tired of the "undead with a grudge" genre.