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Episode 144 - The Soon To Be Mrs. Robin (Your Name Here)Bad news, there is barely any beverage talk in this one. Good news, Robin is open to her hand in marriage being bought. Oh, we also spend a lot of time talking about the importance in having conviction in critical thinking and why Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is greatTimestamps:(01:06) Learning about our audience(3:36) Critic corner(22:00) Robin’s spooky games (Vampire’s Best Friend, Sender)(28:38) Play Uncharted: The Lost Legacy(35:50) Carimara(43:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. A Star Brighter Than The Sun, Fabula Ultima)Mentioned this week:Pauline Kael’s Raiders of the Lost Ark reviewRobin on CarimaraSupport 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 FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we’re still talking a bit about Hades II, sandwiched between slime farms, psychic babies, Tetris-likes, and Willa’s beverage-based spinoff podcast.Timestamps:(00:40) More coffee talk(5:40) Slime Rancher 2(09:35) Hades 2 (mid-to-endgame spoilers start at 15:20)(18:30) Goodnight Universe (26:40) Falling Block Jam (31:40) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Bed and Breakfast for Spirits, Baquiné, Dreams in Nightmares)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 FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week Willa and Robin are talking about suffering… but for fun! Consume Me and Baby Steps take up most of the episode but there is still time for brief thoughts on Blippo, Hades 2, and Willa’s coffee tips.Time stamps:(01:15) Willa’s Dunkalatte tips(04:55) Consume Me [Trigger Warning: discussion of eating disorders]  (27:20) Baby Steps (44:27) Blippo+ (49:26) Willa’s early Hades II thoughts(55:08) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. A Fragrant Flower Blooms In Dignity, Witch Hat Atelier)Mentioned this week:Coffee syrup differencesRobin on Consume MeZoe on Baby StepsGio on Baby Steps   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 FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we’re very tired and spend a long time talking about milk. I don’t know man. Then, Willa is apparently in the good part of Silksong and Robin talks about what she doesn’t like about Hades 2, a game that’s mostly good.Time stamps:(00:20) Coffee milk, Willa’s divorce, etc.(05:30) So Willa’s been playing some more Silksong [Light Act 2 boss spoilers from 8:00-9:30](11:00) We should play Three Houses again(12:30) A few more thoughts on Silksong(17:40) This time Hades stars a girl(37:45) Penguins(39:40) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. FlyKnight, listening to the radio)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 FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yes, we talk about Hollow Knight: Silksong in this episode, but first Robin and Willa have to salivate over the reveal that we are getting a new Fire Emblem game next year. Time stamps:(00:20) Willa’s a tradwife(02:54) Non-Fire Emblem Direct news(14:00)  Us being crazy about new Fire Emblem(25:28) Shaw! (the Silksong segment)(53:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Taking My Dark Knight Girlfriend To The Corner Store, Secret Mall Apartment, Katabasis)Mentioned this week:Nintendo Direct summaryNoah Caldwell-Gervais on Souls inheritorsNicole Carpenter’s review of The Last of Us Part 1 at PolygonSupport us on Ko-fi!Check out the network at TheWorstGarbage.online!Join The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It’s been a while.Follow along here.Catch up here, here, here, here, and here.Support us on Ko-fi!Check out the network at TheWorstGarbage.online!Join The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Robin and Willa played some games this week, just not the same ones. First up is the detailed world of Artis Impact, followed by the sleek and simple mechanics of Öoo. They both rock! Timestamps:(01:35) Worst Girl Mode episodes, ranked(03:47) Artis Impact(25:00) Öoo (37:34) A short Peak update (it is still cool)(38:18) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Alien: Earth, Berlin by Bea Setton)Mentioned this week:Willa on Artis ImpactWhy We Can't Stop Mapping Elden Ring by Renata PriceSupport us on Ko-fi!Check out the network at TheWorstGarbage.online!Join The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we watched Nintendo’s little showcase, which was fine. Then we both played Heartworm, a game that we like a lot, despite all the things we don’t like about it. Finally, Robin talks about some old lady shit and a new podcast, and Willa reads a good book.Timestamps:(01:06) A little Nintendo Direct(03:25) Too cool for Americans(04:45) Regarding mouth sounds(06:05) The rest of Nintendo Indie World(14:25) Heartworm(37:50) Titan Quest II(40:09) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Pure Colour, In Sequence, Queer Games Bundle 2025)Mentioned this week:Heartworm Is A Modern Take On Fatal Frame With Perfect Retro AestheticsHeartworm Grapples With the Trap of NostalgiaTitan Quest II Takes All The Right Lessons From Its Classic PredecessorSupport us on Ko-fi!Check out the network at TheWorstGarbage.online!Join The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’ve got a grab bag of things this week (that includes mini grab bags hidden within). Robin and Willa discuss the latest Nintendo Direct, including everyone’s love of Philabieldia, and then go over previews for Battlefield (boo) and Silent Hill f (boo, but in a scary way not a bad way) before checking up on what games they’ve been playing. Timestamps:(02:30) Nintendo Direct gives us the good slop(16:20) Preview corner with Battlefield 6 and Silent Hill f(21:04) The Great Villainess… Again!(27:48) The Robin game corner (Co-op Kaiju Horror Cooking and Time Flies)(40:09) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Brendon Bigley's Metroid Fusion video, Stop Fucking Playing The Wordle, Hana's Light)Mentioned this week:The Edelgard affair tweetGiovanni Colantonio on Battlefield 6Support us on Ko-fi!Check out the network at TheWorstGarbage.online!Join The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Everything that was bad last week is even worse this week. Itch has followed Steam in delisting a ton of games for either including offensive sexual content or just gay people. Who can even tell the difference? We follow that exasperating conversation with what we’ve been playing this week, mostly consisting of games about a whole bunch of toxic lesbians.Timestamps:(01:00) Everything got worse(18:35) Toxic Yuri VN Jam(29:10) The Great Villainess(33:15) Metal Garden(36:50) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Young Justice, The Raven Tower)Mentioned this week:Two articles from Ana Valens on game censorshipFans need to understand Link and Zelda aren’t a coupleEveryone Is Beautiful and No One Is HornyDevelopers Are Protesting As Adult Game Bans Come To Indie Storefront Itch.ioSteam Banning Some Adult Games Is A Big Deal Even If You Don’t Play ThemStop Payment Processors from censorship!Protect Queer Creators and Sex WorkersSupport us on Ko-fi!Check out the network at TheWorstGarbage.online!Join The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Episode 133 - The Cultural Vandalism CornerThis week Robin and Willa talk about the horrors of horse girl racing, the horrors of pulp point-and-click adventure The Drifter, the horrors of regulating games, and the beauty of the New York Mets baby, let's go Mets, it's all about the Mets!Timestamps:(00:13) Sponsored by TK water brand (04:24) Umamusume: and they were roomates(12:44) The Drifter: John Carpenter does point-and-click(23:14) Wheels of Aurelia and Apple sucking as usual(28:19) Valve cracks down on porn for stupid reasons. TRIGGER WARNING: sexault assault and rape mentioned(34:04) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. TAMAYOMI: The Baseball Girls, Leviathan)Mentioned this week:Robin on The DrifterMaddy Myers on The DrifterGame Developer on Wheels of AureliaRPS on Valve’s porn crackdownNo Escape on Valve’s porn crackdownAna Valens on Valve's porn crackdownAnd finally Robin on Valve's porn crackdownWomen are reclaiming their place in baseballThe girl who struck out Babe RuthSupport us on Ko-fi!Check out the network at TheWorstGarbage.online!Join The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions (and money)!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We took last week off from recording and, what do you know, we ended up playing a lot of games in the meantime. This time, we’re talking about girls who are horses, cats who are girls, and card games that are magic. This week also marks Press Start joining The Worst Garbage network so go check them out!!Timestamps:(00:25) We’ve gone to the audience(03:10) Peak - It’s still good(10:00) P5X - A Persona game with bad politics? Who would have thought(19:25) Occlude - What if solitaire was fun(26:45) Umamusume - The highs and lows of high school horse girl racing(41:35) Everdeep Aurora - She’s a cat who’s a girl, not a cat girl(46:30) Mass Effect - The best Mass Effect(57:50) Eriksholm: The Stolen Dream - What if Fagin was a hot lady and not antisemitic(1:08:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Dan Da Dan, Wildermyth Lays Bare the False Promises of AI Storytelling, Two Days Talking to People Looking for Jobs at ICE)Mentioned this week:Not Every Co-Op Game is “Friendslop”No Phone Summer: It’s The Summer of the Retro HandheldHello Press Start!!!Support us on Ko-fi!Check out the network at TheWorstGarbage.online!Join The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There has not been a lot of news for us to discourse about lately, so we are doing what every good content creator does for engagement: make a bad list. Come for Willa and Robin suffering through a task of their own making as they choose the best games of the 21st century, stay for updates on what Willa’s neighbor is doing with their backyard. Timestamps:(00:13) Judging our neighbors(04:09) The best games of the 21st century (objectively)(35:27) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Loco Motive, Peak)Mentioned this week:Robin on PeakSupport us on Ko-fi!Check out the network at TheWorstGarbage.online!Join The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We’re coming to you live from the heat dome this week, so assume anything wrong with this episode is due to our brains poaching in our skulls. In the meantime, we’ve been playing fishing games and porn games and old games and racing games and all kinds of other games and we’re here to talk about them in no particular order. Timestamps:(00:20) Welcome to the heat dome(02:50) Sinker Sound(17:10) L8R SK8R(22:34) Mario Kart 8(25:30) Aeromachina(31:00) Signum Malum(34:35) PSP Corner(41:20) The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky(44:40) Ambrosia Sky(46:25) Good Morning Drifter(48:20) Squeakross: Home Squeak Home(52:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. The Talented Mr. Ripley, Date Everything claims to be a dating sim, but it doesn't love or understand its own genre, good writers are perverts, leaving the party, F*ck it, Let's Make a Website!)Mentioned this week:Bloomed WingsMario Kart World Review: ALMOST the Best Mario KartBaseball Explained by an Anime GirlSupport us on Ko-fi!Check out the network at TheWorstGarbage.online!Join The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, we've played an unconscionable number of demos, so we run through a whole bunch of the ones we mostly liked at Steam Next Fest and the Tribeca Festival. Then, Willa interviews Tribeca Games vice president Casey Baltes with a tin can inside a submarine apparently and Robin tries her hardest to make it listenable.Timestamps:(00:20) Just a whole bunch of nothing(04:35) Dice Gambit(10:30) Cast and Chill(14:00) Morse(18:15) Prison of Husks(28:30) MotionRec(33:20) Coffee Talk Tokyo(35:30) Project Arrow(37:15) KuloNiku: Bowl Up!(41:10) Dispatch(47:15) MIO: Memories in Orbit(55:45) Possessor(s)(1:00:55) Absolum(1:04:46) Death Howl(1:09:00) Cairn(1:13:10) Sleep Awake(1:15:40) Take Us North(1:22:35) Mixtape(1:29:30) Casey Baltes Interview(1:55:10) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Fire Emblem: Three Houses, a very good video about Dark Souls 2)Mentioned this week:Prison Of Husks Feels Like Playing A Dream About Dark SoulsI'm Bad at Video Games, So I Played Dark Souls 2Support us on Ko-fi!Check out the network at TheWorstGarbage.online!Join The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The worst part of the year was even worse this year. We slogged through Summer Game Fest and a few showcases that didn’t suck and now we’re here to talk about what we saw there and why everyone’s so mad.CW: Discussions of disordered eating in Consume Me from 52:30 to 57:05Timestamps:(00:20) Our mortal enemy, summer(01:30) State of Play had a few good games(13:15) Ciri Showcase and Unearthed Treasure Room(17:30) SGF was even worse than it always is(33:00) Mina the Hollower is good as hell(38:55) Remembering that good video games exist at Day of the Devs(52:30) CW: Eating disorders Consume Me is unbelievably good(57:05) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Mishima - A Life in Four Chapters and another cinematic masterpiece)(1:04:30) Some announcements!Mentioned this week:The Unearthed Treasure RoomConsume Me Turns Gaming’s Obsession With Stats Into A Trap For PlayersYou can now give us money if you really want toWatch Annie and Robin on Twitch Wednesday at 7 pm ET!TheWorstGarbage.onlineJoin The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We have a handful of games to talk about this week, including an excellent new farming game, a so-so story from the creator of Katamari Damacy, and a turn-based RPG about death (no, not that one).Timestamps:(00:30) Corndog update(04:10) Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma is the second coming of Harvestella(24:50) To a T is cute I guess(40:55) Galactic Glitch is simple fun(44:10) Danchi Days is delightful and weird(50:25) The Time I Have Left now lives rent-free in Robin's brain(57:15) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Hacks, You’re Wrong About - Coyotes! and Lesbian Seagulls)Mentioned this week:Rune Factory: Guardians of Azuma Review: A Bountiful Blend of Life Sim and RPGTo a T Feels Like A Saturday Morning Cartoon’s Rough First SeasonGio’s good postThe Quest To Revive A Summer Festival Is Off To A Strong Start In Danchi DaysTheWorstGarbage.onlineJoin The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Robin and Willa have a conversation no one will disagree with about a game everyone is being reasonable about. We talk through why Clair Obscur, the FRPG of the year, didn’t live up to the hype for either of us, and inevitably detour into why criticism is good and cool and doesn’t have to make you a killjoy.Timestamps:(00:30) Setting le tableau (or, don’t yell at us about Clair Obscur)(03:40) Prologue: A Very Somber State Fair(35:00) Act 1: Lost Syndrome(45:45) Act 2: We Don’t Care That [REDACTED] [REDACTED]s(53:00) Act 3: Every Frame A Painting(1:04:50) Epilogue: Blaming Women(1:18:18) Inspirations and comparisons(1:29:40) Why everyone is being so weird about this game/why criticism isn’t a dirty word(1:42:00) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Gundam GQuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuX, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Tactical Takedown)Mentioned this week:The best part of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 is it explains nothingClose Reading Is For EveryoneClair Obscur: Expedition 33’s style is its substanceI Want to Be Potboy! (with Robin and Tori!) - Into the AetherTheWorstGarbage.onlineJoin The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

CW: Brief reference to suicide between (01:05:00) and (01:05:45)This week, Robin and Willa dive into the work of Selkie Harbour, developer of the recent (and excellent) Many Nights a Whisper. We get into the interesting parallels and outliers among the studio’s catalog and come away more excited about ice skating than we ever thought possible. We also completely spoil all of these very short games, so consider taking a couple hours to play through all of them if you don’t want to hear about them first!Also check out Robin's recent appearance on Into the Aether, where she talks indie deckbuilders and Expedition 33 with Stephen and Press Start's Tori!Timestamps:(01:20) X-Men belongs to the dolls(02:45) A walking tour of Selkie Harbour’s itch page(6:15) A Message for the Stone King(12:15) The Well(19:30) Everything You Didn’t Get To Do(31:50) Sunset Shift(40:20) I.C.A. Calendar Photoshoot 2023 (see Robin's calendar here)(46:10) Rêverie(51:30) The Anglerfish Project(58:35) Wrapping up Selkie Harbour(1:00:40) What else have Willa and Robin been up to this week? (feat. Easy Delivery Co., Apocalypse Hotel, a great piece on Superhot VR, Blue Prince)TheWorstGarbage.onlineJoin The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Robin talks to the delightful hosts of the equally delightful Emmi & Annie Talk Indie podcast. We discuss a whole mess of games, with tangents on sexualizing playing cards, furry-friendly pizza restaurants, the games that taught us to type, and learning the name for a group of butterflies.Timestamps:(00:20) Introducing Emmi and Annie (who talk indie)!(14:30) Making dogs immortal in Many Nights a Whisper(43:30) A food service soap opera in The Chef’s Shift :3 (1:02:55) Christine Mi’s games make us want to make games(1:23:00) Growing a story in Tiny Garden(1:26:45) Worshipping the devil after gym class in Expelled!(1:39:00) What else have Annie, Emmi, and Robin been up to this week? (feat. traumatic YA books, gacha-based disappointment, The Apothecary Diaries, Changes of Heart, Look Back, a 29-year-old calling herself old and instantly killing Robin)Mentioned this week:Listen to EATI!Follow Emmi, Annie, and EATI on BlueskyAnnie, Emmi, and EATI’s websitesA very good Christine Mi comicDotzip on Worm Girlfriend Dating SimulatorTheWorstGarbage.onlineJoin The Worst Garbage Discord!Follow us and send us questions!Music Street Food by FASSoundsThings are bad right now, but you can help make them better. Please take some time to consider how you can help trans people, immigrants, and others targeted by our fascist government with this Big List Of Links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.