History LetsPlay / GamingGarbage

* BerserkButton: [[Franchise/TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]] is this to Shmorky. The mere mention of him or anything similar in terms of character or game mechanics (collecting papers or 8 of anything) is enough to send them into a screaming, [[ClusterFBomb swearing]] tirade.

** Upon seeing "[[AC:INSPIRANO NO GAME]] '''{{CRY OF FEAR}}'''" in ''[[https://youtu.be/72Cv0QF5ZFw?t=11 Insanidade's]]'' opening credits.

** SinisterSubway: ''CryOfFear''

* CallBack: There are callbacks to many videos throughout the channel's run. ''CryOfFear'' and ''The Groundskeeper'' are two popular sources.

* {{Cliffhanger}}: A few of the ''CryOfFear'' [=LPs=] end on this sort.

* PilotEpisode: "Let's Play: ''CryOfFear''" was essentially this.

* PrinciplesZealot: Due to IdiotProgramming, the music and gun sounds in ''CryOfFear'' only play if the game is installed to a specific file path. Lowtax proceeded to play it in such a broken state as part of showing off the game's inexcusable design flaws and out of resistance to the developers' laziness.

* TakeThat: LetsPlay/PewDiePie and {{LetsPlay/Markiplier}} are common targets. In fact, the original CryOfFear LP was made solely as a takedown against [=PewDiePie=] and [=PewDiePie=]-style "LP recording over-exaggerated reactions during gameplay" LetsPlays - lowtax would link to random ones he'd find in the original thread, ask the goons how the hell they would be considered funny, and let the goons go to town.
** CryOfFear itself is torn apart as being a dimly-lit, badly-designed game, especially ripping into the voice acting and teenager angst. Lowtax and the goons held special contempt for the {{Jump Scare}}s, calling them cheap.

* {{Cancelled}}: As mentioned in the above summary, Lowtax has announced on [[https://twitter.com/lowtax his Twitter]] that he will providing no more Gaming Garbage content (or at least [[LetsPlay Let's Plays]]).

-> '''Lowtax:''' Oh, our tank has shown up. With the archers and the Amazon women. So this is actually happening.

** ''Clash of Aggression'' was much more coherent and playable than the channel's usual fare, to the point where Lowtax actually enjoyed playing it.

The channel was essentially reborn in 2017 as Lowtax recruited his friend Jonathan as the new official co-host, while the Shmorky era is now regarded as a bit of an OldShame for the channel. After Google suspended Lowtax's monetization efforts he and Jonathan have suspended the comparatively labor-intensive work of Let's Plays in favor of a Gaming Garbage podcast.

* VitriolicBestBuds: We get to see Fragmaster and Lowtax's unusual relationship in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8FyU5tHGP4 "Let's Play: ''Jay's Mod''"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsHI4T9Xyt4 "Let's Play: ''Belly of the Beast''"]].

* GenericGraffiti: "Stay out of Studworth, NERDS!" from ''The Groundskeeper''.

* FauxHorrific: One of Lowtax's [[FunnyMoments Crowning Moments of Funny]] is "Let's Play: ''Death Unknown''", where he parodies the overblown "{{scarecam}}" style popularized by LetsPlay/PewDiePie and LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} by playing a horror game almost completely devoid of any readily identifiable horror elements and [[ScreamingAtSquick acting comically horrified at]] ''everything''. This was also done in an earlier video: "Let's Play: ''Nightmare!''", though without the camera and was done with Shmorky, rather than a solo run.
** Taken UpToEleven in "Let's Play: ''Real Life''" where Lowtax takes footage of a typical workday and scarecams the hell out of it.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQQCDxfv1SY Let's Play: ''Real Life'']]" consists of home movie footage of Lowtax at work and at home, to which he applies [[ComicalOverreacting comically]] [[FauxHorrific terrified]] scarecam reactions to ''everything'' over the music from ''VideoGame/GunstarHeroes''.

* CaptainObvious: The protagonist of ''Nine-Eleven'', a game revolving around a character escaping the World Trade Center during the 9/11 attacks. The end of the game has him simply proclaiming "What a disaster."

* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Lowtax consistently pronounces ''Crisis City'' as "Criss-iss City".

-->"Let's Play: 'Nightmare!' *WARNING: SCARIEST GAME EVER! I FRE*K DA F*K !OUT!! OMG I FLIP MY L*D!!!!!"

* AllMenArePerverts: The premise behind the ''Lady Moon Rider'' commentary.

* HighPressureBlood: The wildlife in ''1.exe''.

* TranslationTrainwreck: This gem from ''Resteraunt Rush'': ''"C'mon man! Is this takes that much time, uh?! I [[WantonCrueltyToTheCommonComma dont]] think [[NoPunctuationPeriod so]] [[AllLowercaseLetters i]] get back here to drink a goddamn beer!"''

** ''Library Save'', a guessing game (the uploader's own words) where you choose between clicking blue and red books. With random PlatformGame backgrounds for [[MindScrew no discernable reason]].

* VitriolicBestBuds: We get to see Fragmaster and Lowtax's unusual relationship in "Let's Play: ''Jay's Mod''" and "Let's Play: ''Belly of the Beast''".

** The dialogue in ''Nintendo World 2 EX'' is ungodly drawn out [[LargeHam ham]] and [[{{Narm}} melodrama]] that serves no purpose given the otherwise simplistic subject matter. Lowtax naturally skips through the vast majority of it as quickly as possible.
** "Killer Jeff" ends with a literal example that thanks the player and refers them to game's creepypasta source material.

** Upon seeing "[[AC:INSPIRANO NO GAME]] '''{{CRY OF FEAR}}'''" in [[https://youtu.be/72Cv0QF5ZFw?t=11 ''Insanidade'''s]] opening credits.

* PissTakeRap: Lowtax performs one at the end of ''[https://youtu.be/3LLCkOjBL6Q?t=442 The Last Guy]]''.

** ''Potato Pushur'' is undeniably this trope concentrate. It turns potatos into one big {{motif}} and combines it with DerangedAnimation, {{Gorn}}, BodyHorror, EpilepticFlashingLights and whoTF knows what else, all within a narrative too twisted to make up.
** ''Dontrel Dolphin'' is the ultimate example of a Mascot Platformer gone horribly wrong. From the concept to the execution, the whole thing literally looks ([[SoundtrackDissonance and sounds]]) like a disturbed child's {{nightmare|fuel}}. After a while, it becomes hard to tell what ''anything'' is supposed to be.

** ''Erned Laser''. You shoot crudely drawn "aliens" with a crudelier drawn gun that has a perpetually offset crosshair in a small, square map with textures made up of random, UsefulNotes/MSPaint-drawn patterns while you search for the crudliest drawn floating potato, where you can walk straight off the map into a black void where sprites representing basic rectangles pop out from underneath the floor. All of this while a seemingly random arrangement of sound effects comprise the "background music".
** ''Space Blaster'' does this [[InvokedTrope intentionally]], taking a relatively normal [[ShootEmUp space shooter]] game and then playing with the visuals and mechanics, all while [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou making obtuse statements towards the player]] regarding their interaction with the game itself and other mysterious topics.
** ''Survival Horror'' is not, in fact, a SurvivalHorror game in the traditional sense, but rather a {{maze|Game}} with solid magenta walls and a floor that consists of a snapshot of a villainous-looking {{Bishonen}} and randomly scattered [[Videogame/MegaManX Zero]] sprites while the [[EarRape "music"]] from ''VideoGame/CrazyBus'' plays.
** "Let's Play: ''Donalnd8''". Shmorky and Lowtax walk the player through an indecipherable FreeToPlay GameMaker {{MMO}} using UncannyValley animated avatars while {{Jump Cut}}ting to obscure pre-2000s computer games and making up lots of non-sequiter shit. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpoGIV_XMD8&list=PLdzBCg8nf5uhZ9a6Wp-caR31reh02xiiq&index=42 It's better if you see for yourself.]]

* MotherFBomb: Lowtax lets loose more than one of these during ''Caves of Hell''. [[NintendoHard It's quite understandable.]]

** Lowtax reading off the tag list for ''Grand Theft Normo V''.

** "Let's Play: ''Real Life''" consists of home movie footage of Lowtax at work and at home, to which he applies [[ComicalOverreacting comically]] [[FauxHorrific terrified]] scarecam reactions to ''everything'' over the music from ''VideoGame/GunstarHeroes''.
** Lowtax and Shmorky reacting to and rationalizing cookie-cutter ''VideoGame/{{Slender}}'' knockoff ''Goldrush in the Forest'' as the GREATEST GAME EVER.
** After Lowtax invariably makes a [[ToiletHumor fart joke]] in "Let's Play: ''Urban Streets''", the footage suddenly pauses with a posterization filter over it and "FART JOKE" in huge, stylized letters at the bottom of the screen while the fanfare music from ''FinalFantasyI'' plays.

** The game ''Torture'' - where your character tortures a helpless victim - was especially notable for this (fortunately so, as it would be a rather disturbing theme for a game otherwise)

* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse: The scene in ''Termations 4'' where [[VideoGame/HalfLife2 Alyx]] {{expy}} October tells the player to "Go into the toilet and stay there." Suffice to say, it's a moment from the game neither Lowtax or Shmorky will ever forget.

** TOT Comics' entries—''Catland Pounland Wars'' and the ''Smarty Lab'' games—are littered with [[LightningBruiser fast-moving and bullet sponging]] enemies that deliver [[ThatOneAttack rapid-fire]] CollisionDamage from [[HitBoxDissonance across the room]]. ''Smarty Labs Counterattack'' is the worst of the lot, combining these inconveniences with [[MalevolentArchitecture tight corridors]] and big ambushes. Lowtax's [[ClusterFBomb foul-mouthed]] RageQuit is ''gentlemanly'' in terms of the game's inevitable reactions.
** ''Mega Lord'' can be described as the {{Platform|Game}} equivalent of BulletHell, made worse by [[FakeDifficulty finicky controls and rampant physics bugs]] that put the player in frequent moments of helplessness.
** Bladevampirek's ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' games ''Blood Craze 1 & 2'' and ''Blood Days'', {{Boss Game}}s where every other boss you fight is ThatOneBoss. You're a OneHitPointWonder that has to dodge massive enemy sprites that [[HitBoxDissonance kill you with a single pixel of the rectangle that contains their respective sprite]] which ''also'' happen to move significantly faster than your character ''and'' [[DamageSpongeBoss require dozens upon dozens of hits]] by your [[DenialOfDiagonalAttack one-way projectiles]] to kill ''and'' have unpredictable moving patterns. As bad as the ''Blood Craze'' games are about it, ''Blood Days'' takes it UpToEleven by facing you against a boss that adds similarly killbox-sized BeamSpam to the mix, and a fight against [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Pinhead]] which requires you to punch a well-guarded box about a hundred or so times as he shifts erratically all over the screen. The first two games were miraculously completed by Lowtax and Shmory, while the third put Lowtax and professional e-sports athlete [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]] through an hour before collapsing in disillusionment.
** ''Earth Defiance'', possibly due to a [[DifficultyByAcceleration timing]] [[FakeDifficulty bug]], pits you against [[BeamSpam projectile-spewing]] aliens armed with DeflectorShields while you [[OneHitPointWonder die in one hit]] in a situation where everything moves far too quickly to properly react. It takes Lowtax approximately [[EleventyZillion 1,000,000,000 minutes]] to complete the first encounter.
** ''Escape 4 Beta'' combines a lack of {{Knockback}} with a lack of MercyInvincibility and a [[HitboxDissonance limited attack hitbox]] to create instant death situation where enemies run right past your fists and CollisionDamage your character to death from the center of its sprite.

** Upon seeing "[[AC:INSPIRANO NO GAME]] '''{{CRY OF FEAR}}'''" in ''Insanidade'''s opening credits.

** Defied again in ''Mario-The Lost Chapter'', this time by Shmorky in reference to the creator's decision to just put blood on trees, rocks, and pretty much everything else.
* NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer: "Let's Play: ''Slender Lost''" has not one, but ''two'' messages stating that the gratuitous MotionBlur sequence is in fact generated by the game itself and not the video, both before and during.

* OriginalCharacter: Shmorky and Lowtax declare that the titular character in ''Clyde the Hedgehog'' is probably the laziest example of this trope that they have ever seen.
* OverlyLongGag: The list of VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog games in the ''Sonic Yoyo'' intro.

* PettingZooPeople: In ''Miami Traffic 3'', a furry {{expy}} of VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity.

--> '''Shmorky:''' Stone, don't do that, no! Stop making love to your axe!\\

* PissTakeRap: Lowtax performs one at the end of "The Last Guy."

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: His dialogue in "Let's Play: ''Crimelife: Somertun''" is almost entirely one of these, getting increasingly personal and intense as it progresses.

* RougeAnglesOfSatin: Unsurprisingly, hilarious typos abound within the verbal content of such titles. One of the more memorable moments is ''Nightmare: Creepy Factory's'' spectacular AWinnerIsYou ending: a blank screen that reads "Thaks for playing!"

* SelfDeprecation: In ''Elementary Memories'':

The channel was essentially reborn in 2017 as Lowtax recruited his friend Jonathan as the new official co-host, while the Shmorky era is now regarded as a bit of an OldShame for the channel.

** "Let's Play: ''Real Life''" consists of home movie footage of Lowtax at work and at home, to which he applies [[ComicalOverreacting comically]] [[FauxHorrific terrified]] scarecam reactions to ''everything'' over the music from ''GunstarHeroes''.

* {{Mockbuster}}: ''Sonic Unleashed'', ''Dead Space'' and ''Metroid Prime'' are extreme [[VideoGameDemake demakes]] of their respective sources in the form of [[{{Unwinnable}} severely broken]] [=MSPaint=]-drawn platformers. ''Far Cry 3'' takes it even further by being a half-baked ''VideoGame/{{DOOM}} II'' WAD with ''Wolfenstein3D'' map design whose only connection to any actual ''FarCry'' game is a basic fractal generated wall tile meant to resemble greenery of some sort.

''[[http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPoSHO-OOTb0rqZr6bJlMkQ Gaming Garbage]]'' is the current name of Website/SomethingAwful founder Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka's YouTube channel which, beginning in the Spring of 2013, became primarily a LetsPlay channel in which both he and [[WebAnimation/TheFlashTub FlashTub]] co-founder Dave "Shmorky" Kelly search the internet for the bottomest of the very bottom of VideoGame barrels to find crudely designed homebrew {{freeware}} games, often programmed in entry-level template software programs such as GameMaker and UsefulNotes/{{Unity}}. The videos involve Lowtax (usually) attempting to play through [[ObviousBeta barely (if at all) playable]] digital cacophonies of primitive and unprofessional one-man graphic and sound design, often relying on stolen assets in order to give the illusion of something that wasn't made by a delusional child, while both he and Shmorky provide [[HilarityEnsues appropriate]] commentary.

* FauxHorrific: One of Lowtax's [[FunnyMoments Crowning Moments of Funny]] is "Let's Play: ''Death Unknown''", where he parodies the overblown "{{scarecam}}" style popularized by PewDiePie and LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}} by playing a horror game almost completely devoid of any readily identifiable horror elements and [[ScreamingAtSquick acting comically horrified at]] ''everything''. This was also done in an earlier video: "Let's Play: ''Nightmare!''", though without the camera and was done with Shmorky, rather than a solo run.

* GratuitousRape: When PewDiePie is brought up on the show, you can count on Lowtax suddenly [[TakeThat replacing the humor in his commentary with rape references]].

* TakeThat: LetsPlay/PewDiePie and {{LetsPlay/Markiplier}} are common targets. In fact, the original CryOfFear LP was made solely as a takedown against PewDiePie and PewDiePie-style "LP recording over-exaggerated reactions during gameplay" LetsPlays - lowtax would link to random ones he'd find in the original thread, ask the goons how the hell they would be considered funny, and let the goons go to town.

* SpecialGuest: Mike Nelson of Podcast/RiffTrax and Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 appears in place of Shmorky for a few games.