Can you really trust anyone? Join Alexis and Lottie as they roundly conclude that you can't. We talk unreliable narrators via toilets, relevance theory, echoic mentions, the four levels of Star Wars canonicity and Lovecraft being surprisingly confident that his monsters were real.

Games / books mentioned in this episode, for your gaming / reading pleasure:

• Cultist Simulator, by us
• RimWorld, by Ludeon Studios
• Prison Architect, by Introversion Software
• Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Luzhin Defense, by Vladimir Nabokov
• Chess Story, by Stefan Zweig
• Aspects of the Novel, by E. M. Forster
• The Turn of the Screw, by Henry James
• As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality, by Michael T. Saler
• Soldier of the Mist, by Gene Wolf

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