The Sickos continue to fill our their definitive tier list of all game mechanics, this time saying the final word on runs, consumables, joke classes, pressing the thumbstick down, and more. If you skip these episodes you're basically worse than Elon
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138: The Sickos Experience Entropy
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115: The Sickos Become Institutionalized
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