If you talk to a GameStop employee long enough, at some point they’ll likely reveal that they know exactly what cockroaches smell like.

As one former employee tells Inverse, it’s like “a musky attic full of body odor, with a bit of burned meat.”

It gets worse: “Sometimes the roaches would melt inside if a console overheated,” the former worker explains. Hence, the notes of roast.

If you’re squeamish about bugs, bodily fluids, and bad smells, buckle up. We talked to over a dozen current and former employees and learned that this secret work of GameStop employees is full of all of the above — and so much more.

If you didn’t watch Outer Range in 2022, you missed one of the strangest, most haunting, and original series of this decade. Neither a western nor fully a sci-fi time travel drama, Outer Range’s first season excelled partly because it defined genre expectations.

Now, two years later, Outer Range is very much the same show, but somehow... changed. While Season 1 had the careful, understated pacing of a stage play, Season 2 is 100 percent a twisty science fiction time travel show, which just happens to be wrapped up in a western genre.

If Season 1 was No Country for Old Men with an eerie spacetime void in the middle, Season 2 is very much Yellowstone meets Doctor Who. Does it work? The answer is a cautious yes, but you’re gonna need to do your homework first.