Grunt Free Press Podcast

AbsoluteDeicide scares up some thrills and chills for you boils and ghouls in the second annual Grunt Free Press Spooktacular! Those flies buzzing around are actually CGI props that cost thousands of dollars per second. Topics - Vacation smells, more words I can't say, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, bad memory, flies, Alone in the Dark, blinking, OBS revelations, selling out, Rise of the Tomb Raider (again), Year of the Yaga, brutal Lara, Gears of War 4: Still pretty shitty, Nintendo Switch, Red Dead Redemption 2, Red Dead Rewriting History, Battlefield One, shitty campaigns, Goldeneye A.I. Music - The Ramones - Chain Saw, Terminator Theme, GWAR - Whargoul

Recording on new equipment doesn't necessarily result in a better podcast, as this episode clearly proves.   Topics - A long, boring story about waiting around and being a grumpy old man, Gears of War 4, Mafia 3, A long, boring story about PC hardware.   Music - GWAR - The Bloody Pit of Horror Part 4, Castlevania Lords of Shadow - Vampires, The Animals - House of the Rising Sun

Shivering and full of hummus, AbsoluteDeicide tackles the real issues the other Illuminati-run news outlets won't touch with a silver spoon. And games! Topics - Grunt Free paranoia, bags, the muffins are secure, Tomb Raider 2013, gritty reboots, garbage shipwrecks, Alien: Isolation, last gen nostalgia, slow burns, Alien A.I., pressin' buttons and pullin' levers, Gears of War 4, Early Access for more money, Gears is Gears, General VRAMM, blurry graphics, playin' it safe, millennial comedy, shoehorned Horde, flat maps. Music - GWAR - The Bloody Pit of Horror Parts 1-3.

Busy times results in a rushed and shortened episode, but they're all gems in the eyes of our loving God. Topics - Shitty C buttons, hard on outs, Forza Horizon 3 Review, everyone's a winner, filthy casual racing, VRAM, bad ports, Xbox download speeds suck, car porn downtime, locked custom music, staged showcases, rubberbanding AI, bad Forza Motorsport, gimmicks, bad progression trees, foreign languages, Westworld rules. Music - The Ramones - The KKK Took My Baby Away, GG Allin and Antiseen - 99 Stab Wounds, Dropkick Murphys - The State of Massachusetts

It's been four days of burning through he desert in Halo Warthogs and Ferraris since we got early access to Forza Horizon 3. Naturally we talk about it for all of thirty seconds and rant about other, less topical garbage. Topics - Impacted podcast colon, For Alpha... For Honor Alpha, Moderate NATs, Weekly Friday the 13th: The Game: The Beta Code update, Resident Evil: Zero: Sucks, random holes, bad design, item dumps, turd blobs, Batman: The Telltale Game: Part 2, The Resolution Riddler, dead parents, Tomb Raider: The Reboot One, Lara Croft puts tears in my eyes, More reasons I hate people, Idle Thumbs makes me delete podcasts, Friday the 13th: The Game: The Virtual Cabin: The Bathrooms, Monster Madness, The Rise and Fall of Palmer Luckey, Twitter Hell. Music - Combat - Ruination, Reign of Pestilence - Break Your Neck, Belphegor - Rise to Fall and Fall to Rise

Chipping away at an aural backlog, go behind the scenes of Grunt Free Press and hear all of the rants and grudges and hatred in real time. Topics - Behind the Grunt Free curtain, Game of Thrones: The Telltale Game, pandering, forced cameos, Raiden 3, Japanophile FPS casual douchebags, Mass Effect: Andromeda voice over contest, Mike Futter goes away and the people rejoice, surface level stalking, ReCore, robutt buddies, 3D Mega Man, matching sets, lots of cores, objectively wrong reviews, grindin' axes, anti-Windows 10 dufuses, Friday the 13th: The Game: The Weekly Beta Code Update. Music - R.E.M. - Stand (Get A Life Intro), Harry Manfredini - Friday the 13th Part 3 Theme, Serj Tankian - The Unthinking Majority

The games are on the horizon, so why not join AbsoluteDeicide as he bitches about a Gamecube game? Topics - General Dicking Around, ReCore early impressions, the new B tier, convenience store transvestites, PlayStation meeting/press conference thing, fanboy hypocrisy, 4K snobbery, Friday the 13th: The Game: The PAX West Panel and The Virtual Cabin, Rage, The Flame and the Flood still sucks, review obligations, old Resident Evil games are bad, Resident Evil Zero is the worst, Gamecube war stories, poisonous chess. Music - Alfred Hitchcock Theme, GG Allin - Caroline and Sue, The Black Dahlia Murder - To a Breathless Oblivion

"We" think this is a good episode, so you have to, too. Don't even listen to it, just tell everyone you know that it's amazing then donate money at gruntfreepress.com. Topics - Random, Sierra games on Steam, Tim Schafer: Still a hack, Police Quest, cop shows, The Night Of, Naz is an idiot, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, small scale stories, crazy cat ladies, punchin' throats, bullshit negative review campaigns, elite combat rifle, the Store, "we", Battlefield One beta, stocking up for the season, rage against the Rage, sports talk experts, The Conjuring 2 sucks, Friday the 13th: The Game: The Kills. Music - Little Shop of Horrors - Dentist Song, Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World, The Dead Kennedys - Pull My Strings

It's a Grunt Free First as AbsoluteDeicide stays laser focused on games due to time constraints. More or less. Topics - Swimming heads, pure gaming, Full Spectrum Warrior, Rage, Fury Road and Fallout, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, choices, RPG game design: the good, the bad, and the Planescape: Torment, crime scenes, pumpkin muffins, The Church in the Darkness, SJW cults, rushed notes and editing. Music - Slayer - Read Between the Lies, Rage OST - Action, Blind Melon - Skinned

Things get technical as numbers are bandied about and the nitty gritty of rally racing is dissected. Also, rambling and muttering. Topics - Wolf spiders, The Tick, Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair, random Godzilla, ragdoll, Dirt Rally, cockpit view, banned idiots, night drivin', badly explained championships, missing textures, VR ruins games, magic fixes, Forza Motorsport Apex, in depth Gamescom 2016 coverage, Dreadout, Dreadout: Keepers of the Dark, "Indie"nesian, Z buffering, MS Paint textures, numbers prove that Mike Futter is still an idiot, steamdb. Music - Chicago - 25 or 6 to 4, GWAR - Bloodbath, Frank Zappa - Titties and beer

AbsoluteDeicide creates an editing nightmare for himself as he travels back in time to the early aughts to dig into an obscure fan made gaming forum. He picks fights, hurls insults, and goes into teenage rage mode. Hilarity ensues. Topics - Review-a-poloza, drudgin' through the sludge, the death of spoilers, trash people, Satanic references, bad music, My Little Journey, retro reviews, Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, vagina triangle, shootin' gongs, No No Man's Sky, $60 Early Access, pure marketing, Stranger Things, Wynona Rider kills it, Jessica Jones still sucks and she looks like Michael Jackson. Music - A Clockwork Orange - Theme, GG Allin - Outlaw Scumfuck, Primus - Wynona's Big Brown Beaver

Grunt Free Press opens it's first aid kit and stitches together something from nothing. The jury's still out as to why. Topics - The Cold Brew Conspiracy, Preacher Season One, random Watchmen, Tulip at 11, room to improve, Hey... a review!, Mr. Trendy Pants, Blurry Batman/Buggy Batman, Quick Time Asylum, PC secrets, Call of Cthulu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Bandicam, ten year old first person stealth attempts, random shootouts, cured exposed bones, straight outta Lovecraft, one hour to dead kid, Fishmom, J. Edgar Hoover is a dick. Music - Weezer - Tired of Sex, Marvel Ultimate Alliance OST - Mephisto's Realm, Twiztid - Die Mothafucker Die

This is a rebroadcast of a ten year old episode, so if you press play and it doesn't work try playing it from a tape deck. Topics - Updates about updates, Joe Schmoe Xbox User, The Secret World, Anti-FNAF Club, Podcast reads the internet, horror bias, theme park MMOs, I don't know how churches work, Press "B" to Google, MMO PvP, themes, honey puns, Marvel Ultimate Alliance is fucked, Press "X" to "A", pandering, broken simulations, repeatable bugs, Lawbreakers alpha (again), confusing gametypes, 0 or O? Music - Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit, Match Game Theme, The Clash - Police and Thieves

Sometimes it's about video games, sometimes it's about ten year old TV shows. It's always terrible. That's the Grunt Free Promise. Topics - Hyper X Cloud Headset Review, random updates, headbands and earcups, Deadwood, Wild West Shakespeare, speaking dipshit, BBB, Overwatch changes, Ana, spammier, D.VA buffs, buffed McRee, I suck at Overwatch, Earth Defense Force 4.1: The Shadow of New Despair, text scaling, dumb fun, Kick Ass Torrents shut down by the authorities, PSA for Ed, Welcome to the Game, Red Room, kidnapped by Russians. Music - Lamb of God - Letter to the Unborn, Curb Your Enthusiasm Theme, GWAR - Have You Seen Me?

AbsoluteDeicide catches a Shitachu. Topics - Pokémon Stop, C++ dump, normies, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time and The Warrior Within, boss tower, controller support?, Godsmack, bad map, hard and long, The Secret World, Travis Bickle, Skinnyfingers, Templar, eatin' bees, H.P. Arts and Crafts, button mapping, Berserk: The Game, Boring PC Hardware Update, First Blood, Overwatch, Ana: The Old Seed Lady. Music - Men Without Hats - Safety Dance, KMFDM - New American Century, The Casualties - Fuck You All

It's another very special episode as Grunt Free Press celebrates it's one year anniversary. Expect some surprises and special guests. If you've stuck around for the past year, you know the previous sentence was a complete lie. Topics - I'm pretty awesome, One Year Special, quiet contemplation, reflections, Space Hulk, Deadpool, questionable permadeath, arthritis, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, controller support, confusing Prince of Persia retrospective, Lawbreakers Alpha, poor man's Overwatch, Overwatch, competitive issues, questionable complaints, brainstorming, 6 Torbjorns. Music - Dropkick Murphys - Worker's Song, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time - The Prelude Fight, Amon Amarth - The Hero

Celebrate Independence Day with the Early Edition of Grunt Free Press Podcast. I celebrated by just throwing it together and not listening, so if it's jacked up... well, that's the American Way. Topics - The Flame in the Flood, Overwatch competitive, Space Hulk, Inside, probably other stuff. Music - Chuck Regan - Landsick, Pink Floyd - Empty Spaces, Nine Inch Nails - Only

Catching up on the rudely interrupted last show, AbsoluteDeicide celebrates 50 episodes by getting political and mumbling through words just like Episode 1. Topics - 50th Episode Celebration, Trials of the Blood Dragon, Overwatch Corner, Mei, freeze juice, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Demo, Odin Sphere: Luftrauser, phozons, fruit, fiddly inventory, Steam Summer Sale, Grunt Free Economic life hacks, Buy Condemned, "grey market" games, stolen keys, buy in bulk, "always online", Mike Futter is a hack and a Nazi, Brexit affects UK... slightly gaming, Sherlock Holmes and the Devil's Daughter, more dead kids. Music - Leftover Crack - ? (Track 2 from Shoot the Kids at School), Adolescents - Amoeba, The Doors - Gloria

Wrapping up E3 2016, AbsoluteDeicide summons a phantom sneeze and takes cover as Kojima smites him with dead whale thunder. Topics - E3 2016 Part 2, I'm sick of watching shitty press conferences, PC Gaming Show, Lawbreakers, "Salt", Ubisoft, Mohawk Pandas, edgy, Ghost Recon: Wildlands, South Park: The Fractured but Whole, Ray Charles VR, For Honor, Watchdogs 2, Steep, Dad of War, Days Gone Home to the Rapture, Far Cry: Primal: Horizon: Zero Dawn: Robot Edition, Resident Evil 7, Friday the 13th: The Game: The E3 Alpha, thunder, Halo Wars 2 beta. Music - The Black Dahlia Murder - In Hell is Where She Waits for Me, Skate or Die 2 Theme, Alestorm - Captain Morgan's Revenge

It's the long awaited E3 2016 Spectacular. AbsoluteDeicide gives his cheers and jeers from the red carpet, where he finds an injured cat and Morgan's Webb's horrible nose job. Topics - The PR Show, birds, Mirror's Edge: Catalyst, blurry betas, techno douchecore, Bastion sucks, E3 2016, EA Play, Titanfall 2, Battlefield One, E Sports, sports stories, Bethesda, Quake Champions, Elder Scrolls?, Prey, Morgan Webb's nose job, Microsoft, Gears 4, bad voice acting, more Forza, Recore, background music, Dead Rising 4, State of Decay 2, Scorpio. Music - Wanda Jackson - Shakin' All Over, Frank Zappa - He's So Gay, The Exploited - Fuck the USA