Anime Sickos

A podcast for geniuses about the four pillars of modern misery: anime, gaming, posting, & jobs. Starring Tom & Joe. New episodes every Wednesday.

221: Corpse Brain 2 - Corpse World 04/09/2025

221: Corpse Brain 2 - Corpse World How come all this fascism and tariff shit is allowed to happen? Why are so many critical US agencies being deleted? Why isn't anyone stopping this? The Sickos have the answer: We live in Corpse World, a post-function existence where the concept of "doing" has been phased out entirely. Intrigued? Yeah bitch I know it's brilliant. Listen for the full story /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/36025825

220: Josh Boerman and Dylan Rank Game Mechanics With Us 04/02/2025

220: Josh Boerman and Dylan Rank Game Mechanics With Us We return to our ongoing project to rank all game mechanics, but when it comes to the immersive sim and fighting game genres, we don't have the expertise required to make those decisions. So we had Josh Boerman from the Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast join us to help us with the imsim mechanics and our buddy Dylan (aka Jordi from Sicko Shock 2) do the fighting game ones. What's better than this: homies chilling and yapping about video games baby Check out Josh's podcast here: /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/35919615

219: Oops! All Goofs 6 03/26/2025

219: Oops! All Goofs 6 It's another grab bag of bits. We introduce a new segment about the most insanely fatal "non-lethal" attacks from the Yakuza games, find insider knowledge about the grim state of radio, and invent a new coffee sensation: The Americano 2. Check it out! Play our new video game Time Force X: Mission of Lennon here! /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/35822305

218: Dono from Radio Free Tote Bag Goes Guesto Mode 03/12/2025

218: Dono from Radio Free Tote Bag Goes Guesto Mode Dono from the excellent podcast Radio Free Tote Bag goes guesto mode! We yammer about how getting into synth music is just an excuse to make your room look like where Daft Punk does their taxes, Tom & Joe answer relationship questions with their perfect brains, and Dono joins us in ranking some classic game mechanics. It's fun as hell folks, check this one out. You can listen to Radio Free Tote Bag at rftb.me or just do it the same way you listen to any podcast. Podcasts are all in the same place /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/35610495

217: The Sickos Continue To Be Unemployed 03/05/2025

217: The Sickos Continue To Be Unemployed The Sickos do a special unemployed version of Cog Talk where they do the unthinkable and wish they had an evil computer that took up half their time with awful job tasks. As bad as it is, just sitting around all day is worse! Plus, Tom yammers and yaps about The Bee Sting, a great novel by Paul Murray. /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/35494475

216: The Sickos Rank Still More Game Mechanics 02/19/2025

216: The Sickos Rank Still More Game Mechanics The Sickos continue to fill our their definitive tier list of all game mechanics, this time saying the final word on runs, consumables, joke classes, pressing the thumbstick down, and more. If you skip these episodes you're basically worse than Elon /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/35302505

215: Complaining Still Kicks Ass 02/12/2025

215: Complaining Still Kicks Ass Shit is so bad! The dumbest evil man is wrecking the country using a cadre of Nazi zoomers named after an outdated meme! Da future is grim and we are miserable! Therefore, we do the only thing we can do to keep our minds from total destruction: complaining!!! /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/35211510

214: Posting Strikes Back 02/05/2025

214: Posting Strikes Back We never thought we'd see the day: it's a posting episode. The insane repliers of Bluesky have stepped up, providing a critical mass of deranged posts without us having to log on to the odious X. We have sex poems, joke correctors, the Hawk Truth, and leaked photos of Heaven. Check it out /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/35118195

213: The Sickos Talk Resident Evil 4 01/29/2025

213: The Sickos Talk Resident Evil 4 After the most harrowing week of fascist American leadership in our memory, the Sickos must seek the healing aura of Resident Evil 4, the platonic ideal of video game, and the real-life manifestation of Bonestorm, the game Bart wants on the Simpsons. We talk both the original and the remake. They both rule. It is fun when you kick an old old Spanish man and his head becomes deleted /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/35006450

212: Hundreds of Beavers is Gaming 01/15/2025

212: Hundreds of Beavers is Gaming The Sickos watched the unbelievable indie silent slapstick comedy Hundreds of Beavers. Here's the thing: This movie is gaming. Watching this movie is the same as Minecraft except every two minutes you see the dumbest image of your life and go haw haw! We are absolutely in the tank for this movie and will go to war on its behalf. It's the only movie with a UI. You can watch the entire movie legally and for free on YouTube right now: /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/34778900

211: Merritt K Goes Guesto Mode 01/08/2025

211: Merritt K Goes Guesto Mode Writer, podcaster, game developer and poster Merritt K goes guesto mode! We discuss her new visual novel, Fledgling Manor, the sick soul required to be a wicked Asymmetrical, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, the sick compulsion to play Magic the Gathering despite it sucking ass, and our nostalgia for the bygone stink of a LAN party basement. This shit is so good. Happy new year freaks Get Merritt's game here: Here's the horrible article Merritt referenced: /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/34721435

210: The Sickos Go Dad Mode 12/18/2024

210: The Sickos Go Dad Mode We really lean in to being in our mid-30s in this one. We jaw about our various home improvement projects, and Joe goes deeper into how to become a genius parent to a wonderful child (this time for real, it's not an extended bit that uses that as a premise). Plus, Joe goes nuts about pachinko deckbuilder Ballionaire, which contains a game mechanic so good that all previous games are rendered dogshit for not including. /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/34493050

209: The Sickos Talk Luigi 12/13/2024

209: The Sickos Talk Luigi italian pawg hits robber baron with negative zone /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/34438140

208: Cohen Edenfield Goes Guesto Mode 12/04/2024

208: Cohen Edenfield Goes Guesto Mode Games writer and Skulltenders DM Cohen Edenfield goes guesto mode and the chilling is simply off the charts! We jaw about Deadwood again (to the delight of all), yammer about video games, and talk shop re: how to DM a great RPG podcast (short version: depends on a lot of things) /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/34284440

207: The Deadwood Episode 11/20/2024

207: The Deadwood Episode The Sickos go nuts over HBO's Deadwood, a show in a league of its own. You have to watch Deadwood--this is not a request. /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/33950707

206: It Happened Again! 11/13/2024

206: It Happened Again! Folks, uh oh!! Once again we have experienced a mondo catastrophe! Trump won big time! The Sickos discuss their feelings (bad), criticize the Democrats (morons), and reminisce on how the day before the election they were in a fun live show that made them feel really good (sinful, Trump victory is their punishment) The live show we mention, The Skewer, was recorded for your listening and/or viewing pleasure. Find The Skewer Podcast here: Watch the video recording here: /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/33869597

205: Maslow's Hierarchy of Posting Needs 11/06/2024

205: Maslow's Hierarchy of Posting Needs It seems like every posting platform sucks. But what does it take for one to not suck? The Sickos answer by creating the Poster's Hierarchy of Needs, a pyramid of requirements that, if followed, will lead to Poster's Paradise. /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/33765922

204: The Sickos Rank Some More Game Mechanics on a Tier List 10/30/2024

204: The Sickos Rank Some More Game Mechanics on a Tier List The Sickos give the final word on a variety of classic game mechanics that all gamers know and love, such as "roll," "homing attack," "homing attack (Sonic version)," "When Dracula shoots 3 fireballs," and "The Wagon." If you disagree with our tier rankings, how dare you? /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/33674877

203: The Sickos Complain About that One Photo of John Lennon Where He's Walking Like an Idiot 10/23/2024

203: The Sickos Complain About that One Photo of John Lennon Where He's Walking Like an Idiot The Sickos briefly discuss a number of topics: meeting a guy in the West Loop who talked like a bugged NPC, how the Cybertruck is basically this decade's equivalent to the Nokia N-Gage, why moving to Bluesky feels like starting a new file on a 200 hour+ game, and most importantly, that the photo of John Lennon where he's walking like an idiot is not funny and in fact sucks /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/33537447

202: The Sickos Go To Gay Paris 10/09/2024

202: The Sickos Go To Gay Paris Tom went to Gay Paris, got Covid (no longer eligible for heaven), and got laid off! We yammer about my dumbass travel anecdotes. It's fun to listen to Anime Sickos Podcast! /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/33341962

201: The 201st Episode Spectacular! 09/04/2024

201: The 201st Episode Spectacular! OK, this time we're celebrating 200 episodes for real. We reflect on five years in Sicko Mode and bask in the praise and congratulations of our fans and homies. Anime Sickos Podcast forever /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/32869932

200: The 200th Episode Spectacular! 08/28/2024

200: The 200th Episode Spectacular! Incredible! We've been in Sicko Mode for 200 episodes! What better way to celebrate this incredible achievement than to discuss our favorite dusts and goops! What, you thought we were gonna read a bunch of kind words from fans? That's next episode! /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/32730697

199: Danette Chavez Goes Guesto Mode 08/21/2024

199: Danette Chavez Goes Guesto Mode Danette Chavez goes guesto mode! Danette is the new editor-in-chief of the AV Club, an icon of internet culture writing recently freed from a grim period of ownership by the truly boneheaded G/O Media group. We talk about the challenges facing writing online, the pitfalls so many business guys keep stumbling into, and what it takes for a publication to be sustainable and forge an identity. Sites mentioned: avclub.com pajiba.com hellgatenyc.com defector.com aftermath.site /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/32628532

198: More Podcasts About Buildings and Food 08/07/2024

198: More Podcasts About Buildings and Food The Sickos yammer. No topic! All minutia! We yap about eating burgers under the L tracks, Home Depot hot dogs, Joe's son getting spooked by the Roomba, Monster Train, and any number of dumb shit. It's fun to hang out with your Sicko homies /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/32464197

197: The Severance Episode 07/31/2024

197: The Severance Episode Unbelieveable! The Sickos discuss an actual anime: the 2022 Apple TV+ live action thriller Severance starring Adam Scott. This shit is so good. We basically just go nutty over how much we love this show. Some spoilers but we leave the finale and the big twists unrevealed. Also we got a fun sketch with the Worst of All Possible Worlds boys. It's a banger /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/32333702

196: The Sickos Get Laid Off 07/24/2024

196: The Sickos Get Laid Off The Sickos discuss Joe's recent layoff, and how getting laid off is fine, and it's easy to get a new job, and there WILL be a future, and you can depend on it, and it's easy and smart to feel confident in the future, and it's all going to be so normal. /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/32235237

195: A.J. Ditty Goes Guesto Mode 07/17/2024

195: A.J. Ditty Goes Guesto Mode A.J. Ditty from the Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast goes guesto mode! We learn how to act, why seeing your parents shot in the face would make you get all A's in acting school, visual novels, Elden Ring, and the joy of writing lore-heavy serialized interstitial skits to stick in the middle of your chat podcast. You can listen to Volume One of the Odyssey Commercials here: /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/32124157

194: The Sickos Examine the Perfect Pilot 07/03/2024

194: The Sickos Examine the Perfect Pilot Sitcom pilots tend to suck ass. They have to do boring exposition and the characters haven't settled into a rhythm yet. Well what if we told you there existed a perfect comedy pilot. There does: the pilot for the 2005 Comedy Central series Stella, an episode so good it could have come from season four. /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/31985347

193: Best in Slot Jokes 06/19/2024

193: Best in Slot Jokes Comedy is an endless playground of creativity and innovation, but some jokes are so good that nothing could ever be better in its niche. We call these "Best in Slot" jokes and most of them are from 30 Rock, The Simpsons, and Venture Bros. Listen to us talk about them! /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/31779662

192: Remy Siu Goes Guesto Mode 06/12/2024

192: Remy Siu Goes Guesto Mode Remy Siu, creative director of the excellent narrative game 1000xResist, goes guesto mode! We discuss how he & the game's writing staff put together a frankly staggering work that you WILL buy and play, how MMOs were more fun when they made zero concessions to the player, how to use lore for good instead of evil, why only geniuses appreciate Vinland Saga's farm arc, and generally jaw about art and process in a way that you will love. Buy 1000xResist on Steam here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1675830/1000xRESIST/ /episode/index/show/animesickos/id/31670587

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