You've seen immersive sims before, but have you ever played one where you sneeze? Skin Deep is a cute, weird, immersive sim with indie sensibilities. Your character doesn't wear shoes, you carry the heads of your enemies around in your inventory, and it all takes place on a spaceship.
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2025-07-03 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
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2025-07-01 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHello everyone
Like with the previous season, we'll be stopping a few times to do a round up of your comments and feedback, as well as cover anything we've missed. With the clan quest mod, after Downtown seems like roughly 1/3 the way through the game, so we're going to be recording one of these soon. Get in your comments in the replies!
Also note: I'm no expert on Vampire, so I know I've gotten some stuff wrong. This is your opportunity to set the record straight (I know I call...
To prove just how dead in the water Sega was in the mid-1990s, they bet big on Bug!, a very slow 2.5D platformer that began life as a Sonic game. The Sega Saturn was a system in search of an identity, and boy howdy, Bug! did not provide it.
2025-06-30 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we meet a wicked lil pisha and get engaged to Elisabeth Dane.
The Chronicles of Darkness: Pisha and the Antedeluvian?
Handbook for the Recently Deceased: Thaumaturgy
How to Cheat in Bloodlines and Why to Cheat in Bloodlines
Kaye, Ben, Dennis, and Moxie talk about FBC: Firebreak, SplitGate 2, Lost in Random: The Eternal Die, and much more!
The Grind:
The Multiplayer:
Hey folks, for a little bit now people have been bringing some audio glitches to my attention. The problem is that my voice will cut out sometimes in the middle of words. I don't catch these because nothing happens during recordings, and it happens so irregularly that the glitches don't come up in our spot checks or during the edits.
I've been trying to solve this problem, thinking it was an issue with my noise gates, the processing our call recorder does to master the sound, or even ho...
2025-06-27 16:24:16 +0000 UTC View Post
What's scarier in this world than trying to make friends as an adult? Tim Robinson teams up with director Andrew DeYoung to bring us an expanded look at the tragicomedy of an I Think You Should Leave character.
2025-06-26 14:17:45 +0000 UTC View Post
We spilled the bowl, and only questions came out.
Upcoming Games:
July:
-Skin Deep
-Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3
-Cyperpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
-The Talos Principle
August:
-Metroid: Zero Mission
-Split Fiction (with Will Hughes)
-Mercenaries: World of Destruction
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2025-06-26 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey folks, I'm writing to let you know that I'll be hosting this month's Jackbox night tomorrow night, Thursday June 26, 2025 at 8:00pm Eastern.
We'll be playing for about two hours. Everyone can watch, but patrons get first crack at the participation codes in the #duckbox-partyquack channel in our Slack.
If you've never participated, we urge you to come by! It's good, goofy fun.
- Kaye
This is The Cranberries. I believe this.
2025-06-24 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Have we talked about Spider-Man more than any other superhero on this show? Maybe Batman is up there. And Gary has definitely shoehorned “Turn Off the Dark” into more episodes than is necessary. But this is the first time we’ve really camped out on the Sinister Six, one of the more incoherent supervillain groups of all time. Also, take a look at Spider-Man’s sprites for this game. He’s so schlubby!
2025-06-23 18:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we do some oddjobs... at night.
Handbook for the Recently Deceased: Armor
Clan Chapbook: Tremere
Malkavian Mintue: Argue with a stop sign
In which all of your questions are finally answered.
We would like to thank Gwen Static for composing our theme song, and Trent Peters for creating our great podcast art.
2025-06-21 13:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Personally, I wouldn't take the substance.
How far would you go to become a younger, better version of yourself? Would you give up seven days in a row? Our advice: stock up on hobbies!
2025-06-20 21:02:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Episode Description:
Kaye, Ben, and Jala talk about The Labyrinth of the Demon King, a shitload of Steam NextFest demos, and much more!
The Grind:
Back when Fromsoft used to experiment in the B-tier game mines, they made a bizarre Real Time card battle game. That game is Lost Kingdoms, and this is our Summer JRPG. Sometimes life takes you to unexpected places.
2025-06-19 18:18:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Elden Ring: Nightreign is a very strange product, and in the leadup to it we thought it wouldn’t be for us. And we were right! At least, as it’s designed. This brief episode has us talking about our time with Nightreign, the mods we installed to make it workable, and whether or not we’ll continue covering it.
2025-06-18 19:53:18 +0000 UTC View PostWould you believe your democracy muscles need to be stretched? It's time to do a vote. One-two-one-two!
Extreme Ghostbusters (GBC)
Here at Abject Suffering, we love a licensed platformer where the player character takes up a third of the screen.
Incredible Hulk, The (Genesis)
HULK SMASH. AS SOON AS HULK MAKE IT TO OTHER SIDE OF SCREEN.
2025-06-18 16:02:38 +0000 UTC
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Gary checks out Baby Reindeer, Gwen listens to Normal Gossip, Kaye finishes off What We Do in the Shadows.
2025-06-18 02:34:59 +0000 UTC View Post
In which a bold new business idea is hatched.
2025-06-17 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Folks, Gary chose to harm all of us by picking this game for Abject Suffering. Part of the shovelware dance game craze of about fifteen years ago, the Black Eyed Peas Experience ranks pretty low on the list of things we’ve covered. And that list is long.
2025-06-16 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode we apply Astrolite liberally and hit downtown.
Other Segments:
Handbook for the Recently Deceased: Skill Books
Guess Who: Beckett
LA By Night: The computers of Santa Monica
Kaye, Ben, Jala, and Moxie talk about Mario Kart World, KARMA: The Dark World, Skald: Against the Black Priory, and much more!
The Grind:
The Multiplayer:
In this spin-off of a spin-off, C&C assumes the Allies are victorious in C&C Red Alert 2, which is why Yuri is out for Revenge. Use your units and strategic wits to outsmart the enemy, and as a reward you will get to see some of the silliest cutscenes ever made.
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2025-06-12 12:00:00 +0000 UTC View PostHey, fellars! The purpose of this post is to call for your questions and prompts for WOFF! Dispatch. Please respond by Tuesday, June 17th by leaving a comment on this post.
We're looking for two kinds of things:
Suggestions for our long-form discussion prompt.
Q&A about the shows, behind the scenes details, and miscellaneous (including off-the-wall and off-topic questions). Ask us about games or other media, life in general.....
2025-06-11 22:52:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Steven Spielberg deigns to adapt Ready Player One to the screen. He dare not deign to reference his own movies in this reference factory, because that would be one step too far.
2025-06-11 15:30:04 +0000 UTC View Post
A frank and wide-ranging discussion of Family Feud hosts and how they are selected.
2025-06-10 06:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Covering Guardian War right after Paperboy 64 is a one-two punch of some of the most hideous games we’ve played. But looking past its shoddy veneer, Guardian War is kind of interesting, if insufficient. Of all of the 3DO games we’ve played, this is the one that’s most like an actual video game… being a kind of over-the-shoulder tactics RPG.
Gary also underwent a harrowing medical experience, so we had to talk about that too.
2025-06-09 17:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, we clean up the streets Other Segments: Chronicles of Darknes: The Cathayan Handbook of the Recently Deceased: Dementation
In this episode, we clean up the streets
Other Segments:
Chronicles of Darknes: The Cathayan
Handbook of the Recently Deceased: Dementation
The Clan Chapbook: Malkavian