History LetsPlay / GamingGarbage

* DudeNotFunny: The end of the ''Nine-Eleven'' LP has Shmorky [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness get serious]] to proclaim that the entire concept of the game is actually pretty horrible.

* TooSoon: [[invoked]] During the standard FPS Creator menu in ''Night Terrors'', Shmorky comments on the stock ambient background track:
-->'''Shmorky:''' I just hear... I just hear a constant drone. Is this [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]]'s game?\\
''[[{{Beat}} [long silence]]]''\\
'''Lowtax:''' Speaking of night terrors—''[clears throat]''—and not speaking of what he just said...

* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse: The scene in ''[[https://youtu.be/EEvT5zx-I8g?t=633 Terminations 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.
-->'''Lowtax:''' Okay, you cannot beat that line.

** "Killer Jeff" ends with [[https://youtu.be/N_pzzYiJKFw?t=123 a literal example]] that thanks the player and refers them to game's creepypasta source material.

* GangBangers / UnfortunateImplications: In all ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto'' clones, the only African-American NPC's are these. Exaggerated in ''Miami Traffic 3'' when they are the only ''humans'' in the city.

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, "Murder the Internet".

* PettingZooPeople: In ''[[https://youtu.be/ZnVn-oES5T0 Miami Traffic 3]]'', a furry {{expy}} of VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity.

** "Let's Play ''Doland8''". 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://youtu.be/CpoGIV_XMD8&list=PLdzBCg8nf5uhZ9a6Wp-caR31reh02xiiq&index=42 It's better if you see for yourself.]]

** Lowtax makes fun of Men's Rights Activists when mocking the [[DemonicPossession possessed]] [[DomesticAbuser abusive husband]] in ''Phantasmagoria''.

** In the opening to "Let's Play: ''Flapper Racers''", Lowtax tells Shmorky he feels like killing himself. After playing the game, he closes the video saying that he is going to "blow [his] brains out". The fact that Lowtax has [[WordOfGod gone on the record]] as to consider ''Flapper Racers'' [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible the worst game he's ever played]] makes this [[HarsherInHindsight particularly more stark]].

** ''Earth Defiance'' crashing to Windows 8 right when Lowtax was [[YMMV/SoBadItsGood starting to actually enjoy it]].

* DudeNotFunny: [[invoked]] The end of the ''Nine-Eleven'' LP has Shmorky [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness get serious]] to proclaim that the entire concept of the game is actually pretty horrible.
* [[ExplodingBarrels Doom Barrels]]: And that's just the tip of the Game Maker community's ''VideoGame/{{DOOM}}'' fetish iceberg...

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The creator of ''The Endless Stairwell'' not only admitted that [[https://youtu.be/lA8x_0hHVTE a video on his game]] was funny, but also became a big fan of the channel ever since.
-->'''Zykov_Eddy:''' I'm so glad I've discovered Gaming Garbage two months ago, it quickly became one of my favorite channels on youtube. I've never had so much fun watching someone playing horrible indie games. It's a comedy goldmine.

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

--> "Dontrel, the dolphin with Downs!"
--> "Who knew 9/11 could be so much fun?" followed by a ":)" caption.
--> "You know what I feel like doing today? Killing myself. I just wanna slit my wrists. I just wanna die." "Oh, that's cute!"

--> '''Lowtax:''' ''"IN A LAND WHERE ANY THING CAN HAPPEND. WHERE YOU CAN DO ANY THING. OUT COME A NEW KIND OF HERO''\\

--> ''"The time was September 11, 2001 when 9/11 had begun..."''

---> "THIS IS THE SCARIEST S*HT EVER!!! NEVER WANNA PLAY THIS "NIGHTMARE" GAME EVER AGAIN, I S*EAR TO *OD!!! ITS SOOO* F*N SCR*Y!!! OMG OMG OMG IM ALL LIKE W*F*OOP T** A!!!!!!!!!!!*** H@LP@@ S* F*N S*RED!!!@#"

--> "God damn this! This motherfucking stupid-ass game! With the fuckin' [[WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce meatwads]], the fuckin' trains, fuckin' white man, fucking globules... all this shit, fuck it! Fuck it! Fuck it! Fuck this, fuck Pounland, I'm not even playing any more of these games again, ever! Never again! 50 fucking minutes of this shit!"

--> '''Shmorky:''' Now I just feel bad.
--> '''Lowtax:''' Yeah, I don't. Like, he could've Photoshopped the acne out.

---> '''Lowtax''': This is the guy who always makes the fucking stupid VideoGame/HalfLife rip-offs!

--> "What does this remind me of? Oh yeah, racism."

--> '''Lowtax''': This game will get scarier, folks! ... I feel bad for saying that.

--> '''Shmorky''': '''Somebody shut that baby up!'''

--> '''Lowtax''': An entire city of Crisses.

--> '''Lowtax''': You suck! "I'm not addicted to normal addictive things, I'm addicted to a non-addictive thing!".

--> "*gasp*! Oh, I see a bu-utt!"

--> "LG's burgers are people!"

---> '''Lowtax:''' If I had to ask one question about one thing in this game, I'd be like, what is it?

--> '''Lowtax:''' Okay, you cannot beat that line.

---> Ugh. No. NO. NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!! NO!!!
* NoPeriodsPeriod: {{Defied|Trope}} when Lowtax discovers the toilet in ''Terminations 4'' to possess some conspicuous red pixels.
--> "I don't want to make a 'that time of the month' joke, but..."

--> • ''Sonic the Hedgehog''\\

--> '''Shmorky:''' [[https://youtu.be/TH7CxxwlLtk?t=82 Stone, don't do that, no! Stop making love to your axe!]]\\

--> '''Shmorky''': Oh okay, you were above it for a minute but then you were below it.\\
'''Lowtax''': Uh huh, I was up above it, now I'm [[Music/NineInchNails down in it]].

* SanitySlippage: ''Dontrel Dolphin'' 2 and 3 have a tendency to cause this in Lowtax and Shmorky. Shmorky goes insane, starting to speak to Dontrel, and eventually [[spoiler: starts peeling the flesh off their leg]] in 2, while Lowtax starts doing a deranged Dontrel impression in 3.

--> '''Shmorky:''' There's ... only jump? You can't ... like, move out of the way of the bullets?
--> '''Lowtax:''' I don't know! I purposely didn't read the instructions!

--> '''Shmorky:''' And here comes LetsPlay/{{Markiplier}}!
--> '''Lowtax:''' Oh God! Run away, it's one of the few people less funny than us!

--> '''Shmorky:''' Thumbs up... ''your corpse!''

--> "''*to the tune of [[Music/GunsNRoses "Paradise City"]]*'' Take me down to the [[TitleDrop Crime City]] where the textures are terrible and everything's shitty."

--> '''Lowtax''': When the moon hits your game / and it turns out really lame / that's ''Timore''

--> "Dear sir, if I may, please allow me to notify you and the public in general of my opinion of your play style. I find it [[{{Scrub}} trite and shallow, to be generally lacking in skill]] as evident in your selection of weaponry. May I suggest you find solace in a [[Console/WiiU completely different video game entertainment system]], one with [[CasualGame titles that suit your strengths accordingly]]. Once this has been accomplished, please [[SuicideDare entertain the option of altering your life state to that of which directly opposes the one you currently inhabit]]. Sincerely, [[TheStoner Weed420]][[Franchise/DragonBall Goku]][[AllMenArePerverts XXX]]."

--> '''Shmorky:''' I just hear... I just hear a constant drone. Is this [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama Obama]]'s game?\\
''[[{{Beat}} *long silence*]]''\\
'''Lowtax:''' Speaking of night terrors—''*clears throat*''—and not speaking of what he just said...

--> '''Lowtax:''' He's drunk and I didn't even serve him a beer!

* TrueArtIsAngsty / TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: In-universe.
--> '''Lowtax''': Are we ''enjoying art'' again? Is that the problem?

--> '''Lowtax as the bowling alley manager''': You're going to have perform some tasks for us. You may find them unpleasant.
* WorldOfPun: See Pungeon Master.

** The ending to ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQUXhbdmSPo#t=9m39s The Forgotten Project of the Damned]]''.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny: The creator of ''The Endless Stairwell'' not only admitted that [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lA8x_0hHVTE a video on his game]] was funny, but also became a big fan of the channel ever since.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR-fxVdZ71o Clash of Aggression]]'' was much more coherent and playable than the channel's usual fare, to the point where Lowtax actually enjoyed playing it.
* AllMenArePerverts: The premise behind the ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYOyOAxA_AQ Lady Moon Rider]]'' commentary.

* CaptainObvious: The protagonist of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHj40D0O6Ss 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."

-->[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtIUfI5lMVs "Let's Play: 'Nightmare!' *WARNING: SCARIEST GAME EVER! I FRE*K DA F*K !OUT!! OMG I FLIP MY L*D!!!!!"]]

* FauxHorrific: One of Lowtax's [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Crowning Moments of Funny]] is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9II_cq01hY "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 "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQQCDxfv1SY Let's Play: ''Real Life'']]" where Lowtax takes footage of a typical workday and scarecams the hell out of it.

* HighPressureBlood: The wildlife in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wZ0L1_MS8Y 1.exe]]''.
* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: ''SlenderTheArrival'' was at least arguably SoOkayItsAverage enough to put a child through, but when it was followed by an abysmal SCP "game" consisting of nothing more than a stairway and comical JumpScare, as well as the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDHuRQbnTo4&list=UUPoSHO-OOTb0rqZr6bJlMkQ video game]] ''and'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gF6uEvwyTeg&list=UUPoSHO-OOTb0rqZr6bJlMkQ musical]] [[MindRape works]] of infamous ''Beestmeel'' creator [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Steward HK Lar Lover]], viewers actively started to become worried about Lowtax's parenting.

* ItIsPronouncedTroPay: Lowtax consistently pronounces ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTqpMQseeDg Crisis City]]'' as "Criss-iss City".

* LeaveTheCameraRunning: In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doz3Z1LnZlQ Let's Play: "Sonic Under Fire"]], Sonic simply runs and jumps into the water. The rest of the video proceeds to focus on moving the camera around, and even Shmorky and Lowtax attempting to close the game with Task Manager.
** A YouTube comment jokes "He was under fire so he jumped into water to put it out."

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Pe-JzlMxE 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.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsCF-mz6Y6A&t=499s Dontrel]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOOUHiYo788&t=608s 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.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbEL2YthHak 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".
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iCFQNkm-S8 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.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_UupXuV-Nk 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 ''Doland8''". 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.]]

** ''Beestmeel'' might be by far the biggest Mind Screw of them all. The video title has "ABSOLUTELY INSANE" in brackets, and the video even begins with a ''personal health warning telling the viewer to stop the video''. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVUjVqKKmoI See for yourself.]]
* MotherFBomb: Lowtax lets loose more than one of these during ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYY7jltAm6c Caves of Hell]]''. [[NintendoHard It's quite understandable.]]

** Lowtax and Shmorky reacting to and rationalizing cookie-cutter ''VideoGame/{{Slender}}'' knockoff ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OAltOZUdVQ Goldrush in the Forest]]'' as the GREATEST GAME EVER.
** After Lowtax invariably makes a [[ToiletHumor fart joke]] in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dODptgTDZPs 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 ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' plays.

** The game ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0aQsYsAdQE 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)

** The mixture of custom 2D animation with 3D Unity assets in ''Viral Compiracy''[[labelnote:*]]Viral Conspiracy[[/labelnote]] is a sight to behold, and neither Jonathan or Lowtax [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me4SQCTBXwY#t=1m55s can keep themselves together]] during scenes where the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me4SQCTBXwY#t=5m49s custom animations are featured]].

** TOT Comics' entries—''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyFBaiD-O4Q Catland Pounland Wars]]'' and the ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQLZEA3hkAA Smarty Lab]]'' games—are littered with [[LightningBruiser fast-moving and bullet sponging]] enemies that deliver [[ThatOneAttack rapid-fire]] CollisionDamage from [[HitBoxDissonance across the room]]. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVsG6rVfFys 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.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpEsK7GWqts Mega]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaI71wjmjfk 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 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2u1k_j-Ddo 1]] & [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDlPbxHAWUE 2]]'' and ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6NvGRdkqX8 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.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3z9jWfHFHc 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.
** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxpzJIuUkPg 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.

** Defied again in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X9E5M4tvtg 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: "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dd-Z-_wn2fk 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 ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UO_jneJGrpQ 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 ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dLFD-304fk Sonic Yoyo]]'' intro.

* PettingZooPeople: In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnVn-oES5T0 Miami Traffic 3]]'', a furry {{expy}} of VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoViceCity.

* SelfDeprecation: In ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaw3uBGQ3PE Elementary Memories]]'':

* SophisticatedAsHell: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNzYxVHovTM This video]] proves you to can be this when upgrading to an UsefulNotes/XboxOne.

** Lowtax challenges [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]] to a [[AbortedArc speedrun]] of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6NvGRdkqX8 A Nightmare on Elm Street: Blood Days]].

* TranslationTrainwreck: This gem from ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5L0e6TzndA Restaurant 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!"''

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfXBGW8quwI 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 [[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''"]].

** The dialogue in ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c50T89W0xY 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.

* WordPureeTitle / InherentlyFunnyWords: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfXBGW8quwI DEBOB!]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m1OBIIZWlM Manganoochatrelacanootratreladeb!]]

** "Let's Play ''Doland8''". 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.]]

* {{Wimpification}}: Shmorky, beginning in late 2013 and reaching critical levels by Spring of 2014.
** Addressed in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLV5ECmLlgY this video]].

* {{Wimpification}}: Shmorky, beginning in late 2013 and [[CharacterDerailment reaching critical levels]] by Spring of 2014.

* WordPureeTitle / InherentlyFunnyWords: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfXBGW8quwI DEBOB!]]

** In the opening to "Let's Play: ''Flapper Racers''", Lowtax tells Shmorky he feels like killing himself. After playing the game, he closes the video saying that he is going to "blow [his] brains out". The fact that Lowtax has [[WordOfGod gone on the record]] as to consider ''Flapper Racers'' [[SoBadItsHorrible the worst game he's ever played]] makes this [[HarsherInHindsight particularly more stark]].

* PrinciplesZealot: Due to IdiotProgramming, the music and gun sounds in ''VideoGame/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.

--> '''Shmorky''': Oh okay, you were above it for a minute but then you were below it.
--> '''Lowtax''': Uh huh, I was up above it, now I'm [[Music/NineInchNails down in it]].

* HellholePrison: The ''Rotten Prison'' is made worse by IdiotProgramming in the audio - the game was supposed to play slowed-down baby cries that sound like demonic roars. Except they didn't slow down.

''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPoSHO-OOTb0rqZr6bJlMkQ Gaming Garbage]]'' is the current name of Website/SomethingAwful founder Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka's Website/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.

** ''Mega Lord'', an ill-concieved and [[IdiotProgramming iller-created]] ''Mega Man'' rip-off. At least you can [[DenialOfDiagonalAttack aim up]].

* FauxHorrific: One of Lowtax's [[FunnyMoments Crowning Moments of Funny]] is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9II_cq01hY "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.

* FlatWhat: Lowtax's response during ''[[https://youtu.be/SG3n8FsO0bY?t=2276 Cry of Fear]]'' when he is told that after reaching the subway train past the gateway that required [[FetchQuest three scattered fuses to unlock]], he now has to go back to the gateway panel and bring the fuses to the train.

* FlatWhat: Lowtax's response during ''Cry of Fear'' when he is told that after reaching the subway train past the gateway that required [[FetchQuest three scattered fuses to unlock]], he now has to go back to the gateway panel and bring the fuses to the train.

* GangBangers / UnfortunateImplications: In all GrandTheftAuto clones, the only African-American NPC's are these. Exaggerated in ''Miami Traffic 3'' when they are the only ''humans'' in the city.

The channel initially was a dumping ground of either personal or Website/SomethingAwful related videos under Lowtax's "lowtaxico" account until he decided to do a Let's Play of the SurvivalHorror ''VideoGame/CryOfFear''. Despite Lowtax's lack of experience with the medium, the videos garnered massive praise from the Something Awful community for his [[DeadpanSnarker dry, sarcastic]] and [[CausticCritic highly critical]] commentary as well as his honest criticism of concentrated {{Narm}} and flaws in game design. When Shmorky took to the microphone in the fourth installment, [[GrowingTheBeard a chemistry was established]] (along with a much-beloved BreakoutCharacter) and the two ran with it. During the ''Cry of Fear'' run, the two took much-needed breaks (up to six months in length) to LP other games, beginning with an obtuse Survival Horror game named "Slenderman.exe", followed by a handful of homebrewed ''GrandTheftAuto'' clones. Finally, the two branched out into any messed up game of any kind they could find on the [=YoYo=] Games website (and later, Game Jolt for their increasing Unity-engine fixes, and Steam Greenlight) to expose in all their {{Bile Fascinat|ion}}ing glory.

** After Lowtax invariably makes a [[ToiletHumor fart joke]] in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dODptgTDZPs 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.