Anime Sickos

After leaving the house for the first time in years to attend a punk concert, the Sickos reflect on their lifelong love of punk and discover it's anime: a weird niche interest that warps you forever and dooms you to be a weird guy, and also it kind of sucks. Doesn't matter to us though: our brains are forever fucked up and will never stop deriving joy from this crap

The Sickos go nuts over one of the few TV shows they've both seen, HBO's Barry. Turns out Bill Hader is really really good at making a TV show. Also The Fonz and Stephen Root are in it. Also it's a dark violent drama but also has huge belly-laugh jokes every few minutes. Also one of the main characters is a cartoon man who says "ciao babies"

It's another grab bag of gags, goofs, and bits from your favorite Sickos. Joe recounts discovering a real life Easter Egg in Mexico. Tom shares a foundational part of his comedy heritage. We reveal a new entry to the Wife Post canon. Plus we have a sketch about how giants are real. The sketch is fiction but it's about a real thing (giants) Special thanks to Edward Selvey for playing the CIA man in the giants sketch: www.edwardselveyiv.com

Mike Migdall, notable Online Guy, goes guesto mode! We discuss Dwarf Fortress, blaseball, TTRPGs, sports fandom, and more, all of which are engines for unconventional storytelling Mike uses to recreate "Guys," the ultimate childhood storytelling game. Man Dwarf Fortress sounds so damn cool.

The Sickos discuss shittification, a process by which the world is not only made worse, but the prospect of improving to the previous level is made impossible. This has been happening for our entire lives but is really supercharged lately with the 1-2 punch of dumbass AI content generators and massive fucking layoffs. Shit sucks folks

Most of the time when the Sickos read dumb posts it is to mock and belittle them. No more. We now accept them as true and real. We accept that giants are real and the government wants to keep you from fucking them. We learn time magic from a sweaty grindset man. We call the cops when we see an ultrasound where Al Capone is trying to get born a second time. Posts are so dumb. Viva posts babey

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!!!! I WAS MURDERED!!"