You probably know this only as the worst Uwe Boll videogame film of them all. But Postal has a long-running videogame legacy as a shock-value comedy-action series about a normal guy — The Postal Dude — who gets pushed a little too far on a really, really bad day. Strange scenarios in previous games have included terrorizing a marching band and a bizarre book-signing run-in with...Diff’rent Strokes’ Gary Coleman?! What sort of wild shenanigans await in the open-world third-person-shooter sequel? We had an incredibly strange instant-message conversation with Running With Scissors producer Mike Jaret-Schachter that filled us in.

Ryan_OXM: It seems like Postal has always been about the most over-the-top stuff you guys can think of. We’ve met Gary Coleman, peed on people in first-person view, and wrought havoc on a marching band. And now you guys have a "badgersaw." What's the deal with that thing?

RWS_Mike: Well, Postal is and always has been about humor. If we laugh about it in the office, then we put it in. It’s always our inside joke, and if other people happen to find it funny, then so be it. The badgersaw is just something we always wanted to do. Chainsaws are just sort of a staple in gaming, and we figured we would just put a twist on it — Postal-style — and threw in an angry animal in a harness.

Ryan_OXM: Does the badger have rabies? It’s got to, right? Right?

RWS_Mike: I guess that’s a fine possibility...maybe it has herpes like makak monkeys…

Ryan_OXM: Funny you mention monkeys. I heard a rumor about a "weapon" in the game where you sic a lab monkey on people with a laser pointer…

RWS_Mike: There are some monkeys in the game…causing mischief here and there. They happen to follow the laser pointer…f*ck people’s faces…throw feces…who knows?

Ryan_OXM: So it seems like EVERYTHING always goes wrong for The Postal Dude. What pushes him over the edge in Postal III?

RWS_Mike: Well, The Dude finally got his way in Paradise after the unfortunate…nuclear explosion [in Postal 2]. He makes his way up the road and runs out of gas in Catharsis. Gas costs way more money a gallon than he has in his pocket, so he sets off to get a job. The dude isn’t crazy.

Ryan_OXM: Postal III is open-ended, right? You can wander around town and try to earn gas money by doing jobs, yes?

RWS_Mike: Yeah, Postal III is a sandbox-style, hub-based game where you can go around and f*ck around all afternoon just doing what you gotta do!

Ryan_OXM: What are some of the things “you gotta do” this time around? I’m guessing it involves shame, humiliation, and/or torture?

RWS_Mike: You gotta get jobs. You gotta complete them. How you complete them is up to you. There will be branching storylines so you can actually stay on a good path and join the police force. On the other hand, you could also go nuts and join the local ecoterrorists.

Ryan_OXM: So at the end of the day, besides the humor, Postal is all about being a dude stuck in a living, breathing town. Is it fair to call Postal III part third-person shooter, part adventure game?

RWS_Mike: Yes, that all sounds about right.

Ryan_OXM: Okay, one last question: the Postal movie by Uwe Boll — you gotta admit it was bad, right?

RWS_Mike: F*ck no! It was the best thing Uwe ever sh*t out! By no means was it a good movie.

Ryan_OXM: Are you in it? [Studio head] Vince [Desi] is...

RWS_Mike: I am not.

Ryan_OXM: Did you return the favor? Is Uwe in Postal III?

RWS_Mike: Uwe is most definitely in Postal III.

Ryan_OXM: Better question: can you kill him in the game?

RWS_Mike: You can kill anyone!

Ryan_OXM: Yes! Uwe's going down!