

Do you remember the fever dream 1980s Canadian children’s show “Today’s Special”? It was supposed about a mannequin that came to life after the department store closed for the night, but it was really about a fast-living club girl named Jodie tripping face mixing her psych meds with hard liquor. This game has a lot in common with that scenario. Welcome to Detroit: Become Human which you can bet your boots is currently on Steam sale since I’m playing it starting now and it’s been out since 20 fuckin 18.
It’s Always Raining in Shitsmear City and I’m on my third Connor model since he keeps getting fucking ended by either getting popped between the eyeballs with a lead slug or throwing his own self off a damn roof. I would never make it as an android because I keep making the wrong choices but it’s SO easy to piss humans off in this hole. On the bright side, we finally know what city Heavy Rain happened in because on top of the fact that it’s just constantly pissing down, all the humans are either pathetic crying girl children or sadistic alcoholic perverts. There are definitely not enough shitters but why would there need to be since the main characters are all talking mannequins?
In this scene, Connor III is trying to find out what happened if the T-1000 became an orthinologist sponsored by Nike. There’s no toilet in the bathroom, and I’m severely dispirited to see this, but rather than emulating what all the mortal mokes in this universe do when they encounter disappointment (which is explicitly to dismember the extremely expensive tech they just take for granted) I’m just going to exercise my freedom of speech and eviscerate it in writing. Even if the androids don’t need a shitter why oh why doesn’t this apartment have one anyway?? Didn’t humans live here before it was converted to a condemned dovecote?
Big shitter is watching you! Here’s an Alan Wake shitter from reigning Brigadier Champion ILikeSocks: “Oddly enough, same model shitter as in the FBCs Lake House Facility. Conspiracy? Maybe. It’s certainly suspicious. The FBC bans any object considered iconic representations of an archetypal concept (e.g. rubber ducks, ketchup bottles, etc) from entering their Bureau headquarters… yet we seem to have found the archetypal concept of a shitter propagating not only throughout the world but inside FBC facilities themselves. Are the shitters all paranatural entities that will be revealed as the true villains at the last minute?!!?”
Well this looks like the most absolutely scorpion-infested spot to squat. From Bucket Brigadier ILikeSocks, this is a toilet rental for workers at a NAZI Archeological dig in Giza, Egypt. From Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: “Showing the depravity of pooping under Fascism, there’s no bucket or anything. Just a hole in the floor so the poop drops like 1 foot at best. I’m doing a Raiders of the Lost Ark and trying to find these artifacts by posing as a dig site member except I don’t wear the disguise and just keep smashing nazis over the head with shovels while repeating IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM.” Fantastic texture on that burlap canvas. It really evokes the coarseness of the fabric and accentuates the fact that there is no toilet paper here. Are those little baskets somehow associated with this shitter’s identity? Gosh, is this a bucket throwback that isn’t really ‘getting there’?
Until I find a shitter in Stalker 2 for now I’ll just Metro in place. Metro Exodus is gifted to us by 4A, also a product of Ukraine, and it has stunning shitters. Here’s one from an Bandit encampment that raises a bit of an eyebrow. The bandits in this game are sub-fucking-human. And lucky for you, they are also really dumb. This guy was crapping on a tire stack with his pants fully on his body. Pair that with an extremely low-IQ construction concept. But I see you and I validate you, Tire Shitter. It’s not your fault.
The world is indeed full of perils, and in it there are many dark places, but still there is much that is fair. And though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.
Haldir said this when he was talking about Lothlorien but you know what, damn if it doesn’t apply just as readily to the human right to sanitation. While everything we love and which is so precious to us is being fucked into the ground here’s Gaming Thrones still spreading the love. I could not be more proud of the Bucket Brigade and the entire community at Gaming Thrones for raising $325 - in this economy - for the people who need it the most. This exceeds the previous donation from 2023, but there is still more work to be done. My sincere hope is that 2025 brings us what we all so desperately need, during these time when hope is frail. And that’s VIDEO GAMES WITH COMPELLING SHITTERS. Okay? That’s what we fucking need. Because the more video game shitters we get, the more donations go out to the World Toilet Organization. The world is waiting. Step up, Silicon Valley!
And I’m not just talking bowls. I’m talking real, compelling, serious character development in these shitters. Like back in the day. And I have faith. This is a very exciting time to be alive. When all that surrounds us is a pitch bog of corruption and cruelty, even a glimmer of the light of hope is blinding.
This donation will be sent to our charity of choice, the World Toilet Organization, just as soon as I am fucking able to peel my ass off the floor because tbf, I have been a little bit busy. Another reason why the Bucket Brigade is so incredibly important to this whole world. Without them, we probably wouldn’t have 2 septims to rub together let alone $300 smackers to send on down the line to WTO. As a reminder, every brigadier-donated shitter submission is worth $5. The Bucket Brigadier of the Year award is $25, and the yearly Blue Bowl Award is worth an additional $25. Every year on World Toilet Day we send the donation to our sanitation charity of choice. You can read more About Gaming Thrones.