History YMMV / GamingGarbage

** For most of the viewerbase, Shmorky's departure in fall 2014 [[JumpingTheShark essentially killed the channel]], even if the reasons for his removal became understandable later on. While Lowtax would try to go on with the channel without Shmorky, he proved to be a much less entertaining personality without Shmorky to bounce off of, resulting in the channel's subscriber total completely stagnating and the videos getting a fraction of the views they attracted in the Shmorky era, while they would just continue to decline up until Lowtax's death.

* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: {{Lampshade}}d in ''Pulse Phobia'' where Lowtax and Shmorky brought up the fact that some of their listeners have fallen asleep to the conversations, in a video that is almost entirely a full hour of them having {{nerd}}y chats as the player paces about a small woodland area.

** The entire "golden era" of the channel when Lowtax and Shmorky were collaborating is this, with the later revelations of everything messed up with Shmorky going on behind the scenes, and how Lowtax was making these videos with Shmorky away from his home as his marriage fell apart, marking the beginning of the downward spiral that would eventually lead to his suicide.

** For many, Shmorky's departure in fall 2014 [[JumpingTheShark essentially killed the channel]], even if the reasons for his removal became understandable later on.

* HarsherInHindsight: Lowtax telling Shmorky that he's going to kill himself in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig8xky-3Gkk beginning]] of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig8xky-3Gkk Flapper Racers]]'' counts as this come November 2021, when he did commit suicide.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: For a few seconds during Lowtax's conversation with Shmorky as he spends half an hour walking around the forest in ''Pulse Phobia'', an image of one of ''TheSimpsons'''s secondary characters appears in the foreground. It happens at an utterly random moment and disappears without explanation.

* DorkAge: The Spring 2014 period had a particular [[ItsTheSameNowItSucks overabundance of recycled Unity-engine horror games]], made worse by Shmorky's voice hitting a rather sappy rock bottom.
** For many, Shmorky's departure in fall 2014 [[JumpingTheShark essentially killed the channel]], even if the reasons for his removal became understandable later on.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Lowtax telling Shmorky that he's going to kill himself in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig8xky-3Gkk beginning]] of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig8xky-3Gkk Flapper Racers]]'' counts as this come November 2021, when he did commit suicide.

** For many, Shmorky's departure in fall 2014 [[JumpingTheShark essentially killed the channel]], and it has not regained its reasonably popular status from 2013 ever since.
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Lowtax telling Shmorky that he's going to kill himself in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig8xky-3Gkk beginning of ''Flapper Racers'']] counts as this come November 2021, when he did commit suicide.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Sometimes the channel will fall into a habit of playing several indistinguishable SurvivalHorror games back-to-back rather than mixing up genres. In later years, seeing the same (usually free) Unity and Unreal Engine 4 assets featured in almost every [=GameJolt=] creation has led to the same reaction.

** Every once in a while, one of the commentators will bring up Shmorky's [[OldShame history]] of rather [[MindScrew bizarre]] and fetishistic UsefulNotes/{{furry|fandom}} artwork; his drawing of cub porn is especially infamous. Lowtax often claims that is (at least in part) why he no longer works with Shmorky.
** Lowtax was never able to live down his disastrous boxing match with Uwe Boll. Over a decade later it's still an infamous moment fans and critics alike love to bring up.

** Despite its hilariously primitive UsefulNotes/MSPaint graphics, ''Torture'' is probably the closest a game on the channel has gotten to attaining this on legitimate grounds, thanks to its copious varieties of EyeScream.
** "Erned Laser" may also be the creepiest game they have played, given that the incomplete, poorly designed, flickering textures of levels resemble a cross between abstract art and an EldritchLocation. The warped, ominous, cacophonous music is definitely nightmare fuel.

* NightmareRetardant: They turn every single horror game they play into this.

* SoBadItsGood: Lowtax has said that he tends to look carefully to find games that are entertainingly bad to watch/play instead of just '''bad'''. Some considerable examples include:

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Sometimes the channel will fall into a habit of playing several indistinguishable SurvivalHorror games back-to-back rather than mixing up genres. Though there was [[HalloweenSpecial one point]] where it was justified.

** Lowtax never was able to live down his disastrous boxing match with Uwe Boll. Over a decade later it's still an infamous moment fans and critics alike love to bring up.

* SugarWiki/SweetDreamsFuel: {{Lampshade}}d in ''Pulse Phobia'' where the two bring up the fact that some of their listeners have fallen asleep to the conversations, in a video that is almost entirely a full hour of them having {{nerd}}y chats as the player paces about a small woodland area.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Lowtax's rant at the end of "Let's Play: ''Crimelife: Somertun''", where he finally snapped into a rage and [[SirSwearsALot obscentity-filled]] SincerityMode over the audacity of just what recycled trash the Internet lets people get away with uploading as their "own games".

* AuthorTract:
** "Let's Play: ''Crimelife: Somertun''". After a year of attempting to mine some fun out of so many broken atrocities, Lowtax finally makes his [[BrutalHonesty honest, brutal]] thoughts on then perfectly clear.
** Cry of Fear's LP was one long diatribe against darkly-lit survival horror games and LetsPlay/PewDiePie-style LPers.

* AuthorTract: "Let's Play: ''Crimelife: Somertun''". After a year of attempting to mine some fun out of so many broken atrocities, Lowtax finally makes his [[BrutalHonesty honest, brutal]] thoughts on then perfectly clear.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Sometimes the channel will fall into a habit of playing several indistinguishable SurvivalHorror games back-to-back rather than mixing up genres. Though there was [[HalloweenSpecial one point]] where it was {{justified|trope}}.

* NeverLiveItDown: Every once in a while, one of the commentators will bring up Shmorky's [[OldShame history]] of rather [[MindScrew bizarre]] and fetishistic UsefulNotes/{{furry|fandom}} artwork. It doesn't help that much of it has a rather... [[UnfortunateImplications childish]] slant.
*** This has been taken to the extreme, as Lowtax often claims that is (at least in part) why he no longer works with Shmorky.
** As for Lowtax, the Uwe Bowl incident.

** Calling something a "disgusting wad" after Lowtax's unofficial christening of PacMan as such.

* CrossingTheLineTwice: Very likely one of the biggest factors in "Let's Play: ''Evicted''" ''not'' getting Lowtax's YouTube account shut down.

* HeReallyCanAct: Lowtax's performance as a [[WesternAnimation cartoon-style]] old man in "Elderly Games 2" is pulled off surprisingly efficiently for someone who was most famous for his [[StylisticSuck "acting"]] in ''WebVideo/DoomHouse''.

* SweetDreamsFuel: {{Lampshade}}d in ''Pulse Phobia'' where the two bring up the fact that some of their listeners have fallen asleep to the conversations, in a video that is almost entirely a full hour of them having {{nerd}}y chats as the player paces about a small woodland area.

* VisualEffectsOfAwesome: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkeOpTPeAtk&list=UUPoSHO-OOTb0rqZr6bJlMkQ "Let's Play: 3D Goku Allstars"]]. It must be seen to be believed.

* ReviewsAreTheGospel: Despite otherwise having near universal acclaim among IndieGame enthusiasts, Lowtax and Shmorky's complete and utter evisceration of ''VideoGame/CryOfFear'' has been followed by ''absolute'', ''universal'' disdain on its part from the Website/SomethingAwful forums and Website/YouTube comment section. The videos are held as undeniable proof of the game being SoBadItsHorrible.

** Working the title of ''CryOfFear'' into a phrase, especially ones that involve fear and/or crying.

* ReviewsAreTheGospel: Despite otherwise having near universal acclaim among IndieGame enthusiasts, Lowtax and Shmorky's complete and utter evisceration of ''CryOfFear'' has been followed by ''absolute'', ''universal'' disdain on its part from the Website/SomethingAwful forums and YouTube comment section. The videos are held as undeniable proof of the game being SoBadItsHorrible.