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What damage type would you be invulnerable to in real life? On this episode of That Guy's A Maniac , the boys pull "Invulnerability" from Richie's master list of 27 status elements—but not before standard conversational chaos takes over. Richie breaks down his highly stressful train ride from Glasgow to Edinburgh where he attempted to read a distinctly non-PG Alasdair Gray book in front of a teenager, leading to a deep dive into the legendary Scottish poet Ivor Cutler, government pigeon conspiracies, and why 80s 12-inch extended mixes are superior (even if you end up singing the hi-hat beat in your sleep). Plus, we talk about weeping at the end of Hamnet , defending the Super Mario Bros. Movie against grumpy critics, and the pure structural nightmare of a £40 plastic Yoshi popcorn holder. Finally, we talk gaming with our current late-night addictions, the open-world freedom of Mario Kart World , and the surprisingly wild metas forming in Pokémon Champions . Timestamp...

What happens when you sit down to plan Season 7 and end up in a two-hour spiral about Pokémon, SSX Tricky , and human pheromones? In this bonus brainstorming episode, the boys workshop a potential new season theme around RPG Status Effects—starting with "Charm". From D&D spell saves and Final Fantasy VII party betrayals to designing beer-themed German Pokémon and debating whether human smell is just "air taste," no topic is left unturned. Press play for game mechanics, concert mishaps, and classic podcast banter! source https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thatguysamaniac/episodes/Charm-e3qgoko

 We are back for Season 7! After looking over our listener stats and surviving the break, we're bringing actual structure to the pod this season, starting with our brand-new overarching theme: Status Effects in Video Games. In this premiere episode, we dissect how status mechanics like poison, silence, haste, and sleep mess with combat action economy in RPGs and survival horror games. But before we get technical, we tackle the big gaming questions of our era: Can you complete a Pokémon Nuzlocke in Kanto with literally zero Pokémon? What is the official Donkey Kong family tree canon (DK Jr., Cranky Kong, and Pauline in New Donk City)? Why did Patrick Stewart's hair keep glitching in Oblivion Remastered? Is NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 AI tech revolutionary or just photorealistic slop? Plus, we rant about Sims 2 pre-DLC expansions, $100 Dead or Alive swimsuit packs, and why game preservation on the upcoming Metal Slug collection is a win for gaming history. source https://podcasters.spotify...

It’s That Guy’s A Maniac Looking Back, Looking Forward episode. We take the turning over of the year as the opportunity to look back at our video game predictions and resolutions from 2025 and then look forward to new games and beating old ones in 2026. Did we predict the Switch 2? Did the GPS Kingdom Hearts come out? Why were we playing darts with our 19 year-old girlfriend instead of solving MURDERS? Click through, look back, look forward. 

It’s the end of year Estival celebration and we’ve got a jam-packed show! We’ve got 36 video game-themed Christmas cracker jokes, we’ve got a brutal half-time Chrono Trigger round of That Guy’s a Mastermind and if that wasn’t enough it’s the 2025 TGAM Video Game Christmas Awards. Find out who scoops the wins in our six unique categories.

This week is dog pokémon, Herdier. Which we talk about for five seconds before a good old fashioned What Are You Playing? Richie’s delved back into Baldur’s Gate 3 and tried their hand at Balatro . Cunzy has been on a voyage of discovery with Kirby Star Allies and Metroid Prime 4: Beyond .

We re-talk about Hello Kitty being a British Schoolgirl, the symbiosis between jellycat and penguins and the pokemon Mantyke. Richie takes on Metal Kart 3 for the SNES in That Guy’s A Miltank. We then try to remember anything about video games.

  Turnips, j k rowling spoiling super mario bros 2, sexual dimorphism and what do Swedes call swedes?

This week, we try to make sense of the goat phenomenon. We're comparing the villagers of Animal Crossing to the outright chaos of Goat Simulator and the dark comedy of Cult of the Lamb . We'll also debate some classic gaming mysteries: Which goat has the highest HP? And, most importantly, does a GTA car count as a 'mount' in the purest sense of gaming taxonomy? Tune in for the answers you didn't know you needed.

We talk mankey, monkeys, angry monkeys, Primeape, Annihilape, etymology, getting angry, anime, TCG cards and peek, everyone is a Garchomp, Tomb Raider, pigs and monkeys in games- pigs and monkeys in starfox, there are no pigs in Resident Evil, super monkey ball, monkey from timesplitters, monkeys in minecraft, pig cops in Duke Nukem.

This week we have never really looked at Klingklang. Is it a wheel? How many gears are there? Where is the face? Cunzy1 1 tests his knowledge of Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and the maniacs talk gear in games. Gear gating, cosmetics and the realistic Chariot based Gran Turismo game we never knew we needed.

We talk haunted castles this week. Sand castles. Pok é mon sand castles. Can Richie be this week’s maniac with questions about Ghost Master(mind) and we talk in ever decreasing circles about horror in movies, horror in games and classifications thereof. Spooooky or wot?

It’s Horsea folks! But not really. We quickly get too excited to talk about our first impressions of Pokémon Legends ZA (mild spoiler warning) and then take a bit of an odd tangent talking about male pregnancy in video games and we add our first items onto the TGAM scale of sadbad.

This week les maniacs are all about that wooden hill y’all. Yes we’re talking about sleep, the pokémon Hypno, tapirs, whether hypnosis is real or not, Pokémon Sleep and ummmm Silent Hill?

We’ll be honest readers. We didn’t keep good notes. Apparently this episode includes: sumo, Marvel, Sad Sack (Raggy Dolls), the bible, Ganryu and echidna, Smash bros lore and punching bag, NERF arena Blast, sand bags (more generally) and then most cryptically: brine.

Who’s that Podcast? It’s TGAM the Podcast! We’re back for Season Six. We’ve got new games. There’s a new gimmick. Cunzy is our first That Guy’s a Mastermind™ contestant. This week we talk about the Pom Poko suit from Super Mario, snails, first partner Pokémon, frogs in video games and what would the Final Fantasy VII characters be if they were D&D classes.

Bump in the night! Ooooh a skellington with a spiderweb pumpkin. Scary stuff. This week the maniacs talk about video game fears IN THE REAL WORLD. Find out what fears grips the maniacs in the wee hours. Where is it not safe to save?

  This week the maniacs continue their tirade of coming up with foolproof ways to remember all the type match ups from Pokémon. This weeks contenders are Ice, Fighting and Poison types… and these ones have a lot of unpacking to do.

This week the maniacs have a hot shot Character, Item, Level and then revel, in coming up with fool proof ways to remember all the type match ups from Pokémon. Is your Dad normal type? Familiarise yourself with the elemental triangle (and grass). And does thinking about bugs filled with dry grass really help? Listen to find out all this and morelull.

One of the four elemental forces (arguably the worst one), this week we’re talking wind in video games. What is wind? We discuss wind as a force, farting in games, games where you play as the wind and a lot of talk about Pilotwings which may or may not have wind in it actually. Oh! We didn’t talk about Windwaker. I’ve only just remembered. Damn.