Make It Sound Fiction

Tyler and Nico talk about everything Red Dead Redemption 2: labor exploitation, why the game tries to ape the cinematic, and how Westerns are shoddy fiction.

Tyler and Nico talk about Eighth Grade, the new indie film written and directed and Bo Burnham, and what they liked and disliked about the film.

Tyler and Nico talk about why media has such a love of making men with very low moral character entertaining, or worse, sympathetic.

Tyler and Nico talk about how to navigate media criticism that is both about the art but also the politics, and what it means when artists let outside analytics influence their work.

Special thanks to Twitter user @donniemnemonic for his tweets about Fukanaga.

Tyler and Nico talk about what precisely keeps them from watching a lot of horror and horror-adjacent content, as well as a review of the film Mandy.

Tyler and Nico talk about how they've come into their media consumption habits, why match chat in games is toxic, as well as the closing of Telltale Games.

Tyler and Nico talk about where exactly World of Warcraft's story is heading next, if anywhere and we go into why games with persistent end-game content like Warcraft and Destiny 2 can be unhealthy for players.

Tyler and Nico talk about the new actor cast for Netflix's upcoming Witcher TV series, the simplicity of creativity in woodworking videos as well as what Tyler believes the point of the Dark Souls series is.

Tyler and Nico discuss what Hollow Knight is missing, why Warcraft is messing up the gear scaling, and why Netflix doesn't have social features.

Tyler and Nico discuss Cyberpunk 2077's team as well as CD Projekt Red's overall image issues, and the new D.va cinematic, "Shooting Star."