107: The Cost of Lies
Ben and Jon break down the brilliance of HBO’s Chernobyl and espouse their love for Jared Harris.

Ben and Jon break down the brilliance of HBO’s Chernobyl and espouse their love for Jared Harris.
Jon dishes on life as a cult leader while Ben relays tales from Outer Wilds.
Randy Pitchford, gaming world cultures, and old Half-Life servers are on tap in this episode.
Sekiro is good. Sekiro is great. Ben and Jon love Sekiro and it is good and great.
Jon takes a deep dive into Paradox’s Hearts of Iron IV and Ben talks up his return to Colombia and Rapture as he replays Bioshock Infinite.
Riverdale is one of the trashiest, shameless, inane, and plot-free experiences in television. And we love it.
Ben and Jon take a long, hard look at the games they played in 2018.
We came, we saw, we played through an eight hour epilogue. Jon and Ben discuss their experiences finishing one of the largest video game projects of all time. SPOILERS.
The game of the year has finally arrived in all of its cow-punching, cigar munching glory.
The boys discuss Rockstar crunch, old CRPGs (again), and the quality of life for game developers. Also Red Dead Redemption 2 hype.
Red Dead Redemption 2 hype runs high while Ben and Jon discuss modern CRPGs and how accurately Rockstar will model horse testes.
The boys discuss the shortcomings of Castle Rock and Jimmy’s descent into the underworld in Better Call Saul. Also Mission Impossible: Fallout.
Everything old is new again. Jon is slamming his head against Troika’s Arcanum, while Ben is dodging and slashing his way through Dead Cells.
We seem to have hit a time warp; we’re talking about Breath of the Wild, No Man’s Sky, and the fun and whimsical world of toxic fandoms!
The Terror is an exercise in brutality, hopelessness, and humanity’s problematic relationship with nature. We love it, of course.
We’re talking about Elder Scrolls Online, E3 2018, and the Fallout 76 reveal.
The Americans has ended and Ben and Jon are here to pick up all the pieces and discuss the show one final, bittersweet time.