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If you can get past the purposefully bad boston accents at the start of this episode you can hear Willa and Robin talk about Echoes of Aincrad's smooth brain demo, Xbox sucking, and PlayStation also sucking. Timestamps: (00:34) Labubu missile, Winnie the Pooh, Boston molasses flood. Now that is what I call the fourth of July (04:41) Echoes of Aincrad demo (13:24) Robin on Code RAPID, Entropy (16:3...

Happy Pryde! Catch up with the story so far in episodes 26 , 38 , 56 , 72 , 95 , and 139 . Follow along this week here . Support us on Ko-fi! Check out the network at TheWorstGarbage.online! Join The Worst Garbage Discord! Follow us and send us questions! Follow Robin! Follow Willa! Music  Street Food by FASSounds Things are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some t...

This week, Willa went to Tribeca to play some games and Robin stayed home to do the same. Timestamps: (00:20) A three-martini lunch (04:00) Tribeca Games (4:55) Bad Magpie (8:40) Demi and the Fractured Dream (15:00) Drifted (17:15) Forever Ago (23:00) Kidbash (24:25) Lofsöng (28:50) Rivage (32:55) Rebounder (36:05) Rockbeasts (38:30) Truck-kun is Supporting Me From Another World?! (42:20) There Ar...

It has been a busy Summer Game Fest and all the events from the State of Play to the Nintendo Direct. This week Willa and Robin dive into what announcements piqued their interest, namely all the ones with vampires (of which there were many).  Timestamps: (00:20) Cryptid talk? (02:48) A whole lot of Summer Game Fest week announcements (54:08) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week...

This week Willa and Robin step out of their comfort zones by playing Zero Parades: For Dead Spies, a game about being a girlfailure who really wants to make out with mean women. Also: Mina the Hollower and 007 First Light. Timestamps: (00:24) What's the deal with ZA/UM? (09:30) Zero Parades! (we spoil the hell out of this thing throughout) (01:53:57) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this...

This week, we’ve got it all: old games, boring games, games we don’t play, and even things that aren't games at all but rather raccoons. Timestamps: (00:20) Robin’s new roommate (03:00) Hello Kitty urban legends (07:30) Directive 8020 (28:00) Marathon PvE (31:00) Uncharted 4: Game’s fun, game’s bad (38:45) A little game called Final Fantasy 11 (55:30) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this...

Wasn’t being a teenager great? Isn’t music magical? Don’t you want to play a whole game that’s basically that sentiment repeated for three hours? Timestamps: (00:20) Spinning our wheels to avoid talking about Mixtape (04:20) We can no longer avoid talking about Mixtape (51:50) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Call of the Elder Gods, The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman)&nbs...

Willa and Robin go into the game grab bag this week. Robin has been gambling in Bobo Bay, wielding the elements in Elementallis, and totally not romancing a living statue in Sovereign Tower. Willa, meanwhile, is building civilizations in Amberspire. Timestamps: (00:26) Tune in next week for our thoughts on [Redacted] (01:13) Bobo Bay and Elementallis (16:15) Amberspire (32:11) Sovereign Tower (37:...

This week, Willa and Robin confront their respective greatest enemies: theater kids and math. First, we go long on Titanium Court, and why neither of us found it as groundbreaking or as hard to explain as you may have heard. Then we talk about Sol Cesto, a game you’ve probably heard less about because the universe is as cold and uncaring as the probability that makes Sol Cesto great. Timestamps: (...

Artemis II might be back from the moon but Willa and Robin aren't. This week it's the Pragmata extravaganza, come along as we dive into Capcom's new action game that's pretty dang good! Timestamps: (00:13) Sponsored by Orbitz (00:48) Pragmata extravaganza (53:15) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Moves of the Diamond Hand, Invincible)   Mentioned this week: Noth...

This week, we’re only half paying attention to the show because we're thinking about the Moon. When we turn our attention briefly away from the Artemis II livestream, Willa talks about the bad new Life is Strange game and Robin played a smattering of new indies but she’s too tired to say much about them.  Timestamps: (00:20) Shoutout to the Moon (02:45) A walk through Life is Strange Discours...

Zoe graces us all with her presence to regale us with tales of her time spent saving the galaxy and exploring the highs of Rapture and the lows of Columbia. Spoilers abound for the entire Mass Effect trilogy and Bioshock 1, 2, and Infinite. Timestamps: (00:19) Welcome to the Zo Rowe Show (02:17) The Mass Effect trilogy (57:25) The Bioshock trilogy (1:35:50) What else have Willa, Robin, and Zoe bee...

This week, we've both been playing the hot new release that's taken the world by storm: the rhythm-based fishing game Sinker Sound. Then, Willa's adventures in the back catalog continue with Final Fantasy and Resident Evil, and Robin has played a pair of weird and wonderful indie sim games. Timestamps: (00:15) Donate to Robin’s truffle dog startup (03:45) Gone fishin’ in Sinker Sound (14:35) Games...

This week, we remember the halcyon days of when we cared about Final Fantasy 14, experience what it’s like to watch a gaming awards show that doesn’t make you want to claw your own eyes out, and discover that every once in a while a lesbian with a sword isn’t enough to make your game good. Timestamps: (00:15) It’s all great over here (01:45) Remember when we cared about Final Fantasy 14? (07:40) T...

Just because we haven't played Resident Evil: Requiem doesn't mean we can' talk about the discourse surrounding it and the franchise's odd position of rewriting vs reckoning with its past. Also: Silksong and Willa educating Robin on the Tom Cruise cake. Timestamps: (00:26) Daylight saving time kicks our ass (and then a weird rabbit hole of tangents) (05:56) Resident Evil… Requiem… discourse (light...

We talk about Marathon and the state of live-service titles in this one, and we could not have predicted Highguard would announce its shutdown between recording and release. Then it's to the Spencer Mansion for Willa and to Next Fest for Robin. Timestamps: (00:18) Resident… Evil? (01:24) Marathon (15:14) Resident… Evil! (25:40) Robin's selected Next Fest picks (36:07) What else have Willa and Robi...

This week, everything is bad in the world of AAA, and not just for the usual reasons. After running through the latest disasters at PlayStation and the sinking ship that is Xbox, Willa once again puts on clown makeup to await the next game from Yoko Taro, and Robin takes solace in games that are just okay. Timestamps: (00:30) The Olympics, etc. (08:50) Finally some gaming talk (it’s all bad) (17:1...

This week, we do a quick Olympic check-in before running through the State of Play and its many (un)interesting announcements. Robin and Willa do, however, come up with a groundbreaking idea to fix 007. Then it's a pair of games, one new and one old. Timestamps: (00:38) More olympic talk (03:25) State of the State of Play (34:20) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Love Ete...

This week, we talk almost as much about the Olympics as we do about video games.  Timestamps: (00:35) Video games? More like Winter Games (16:20) Nintendo Direct happened this week (25:45) Close enough. Welcome back, Dauntless. (28:40) More Bioshock talk somehow (35:00) Elden Ring with Seamless Co-op rips (37:55) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. The Starving Saints,...

Somehow Willa and Robin eventually get through the many detours of this episode (hand injuries, bisexual Zohran, etc.) to talk about some games. There is a report on Zoe saving the galaxy and heading to Rapture as well as Robin going up in Valkyrie Saga and Cairn.  Timestamps: (00:11) Willa’s housewife injury (03:06) Cursed blades RANKED (04:06) Talking about not talking about critical discou...

After taking a break for the longest week in human history (and the customary annual lay-off of one of our hosts), we’re back to talk about two interesting games: one we like and one we don’t. How novel.  Timestamps: (00:10) The Gay Bachelor, etc. (04:50) TR-49 (mechanical and light story spoilers start) (23:30) TR-49 story spoilers start for real (26:30) TR-49 story spoilers start for real f...

It's prediction time! First we tally up the scores from 2025 to see who the winner of an undecided prize is. Then it's into the future as Robin, Willa, and Zoe (via Willa reading her notes because we won't let her back on the pod) tell you what 2026 will hold for gaming with 100% accuracy. Timestamps: (00:35) Robin's dogs, the Pitt, and some Mets talk (03:43) Our 2025 predictions, which did not go...

To ease into the new year Robin and Willa took it easy and are basically giving you the audio version of those lists every outlet puts out in January. We also talk about Zoe's exploits in Mass Effect and Robin's exploits in getting one over on her landlord. Timestamps: (00:12) It's raining cats and possibly ceiling debris (1:22) A lot of 2026 games getting namedropped (37:00) What else have Willa...

It’s the Girlies! You know the drill. If you don’t, just listen and you’ll get it. It’s like an awards show but better. Thanks for listening this year! You can find a whole list of winners (with a couple of visual aids) here . Timestamps: (00:15) The Girlies! (51:30) Spoilers for Carimara and Old Skies (54:25) Spoilers end (1:22:00) Spoilers for Carimara and Silent Hill f (1:24:20) Spoilers e...

It’s the annual Girl Mode Game Exchange, the episode where we force each other to play one of our favorite games of the year, under penalty of death. This year, we chose Wanderstop and Baby Steps, two games about the struggle to find self-worth that take two very different paths to get there. Only one is obsessed with making you look at donkey dicks, for instance. This year, we were both pretty su...