This week on The Free Cheese, Joe and Kyle try to understand discipline and attempt to balance their expectations with reality. We wonder why No Man's Sky is no more exciting than a trailer, and how difficult it is to create something that still provides thrill and surprise to encourage playground chatter in the modern era. We look at what makes stories interesting to us and try to uncover why we are so easily dismissive and how we never accomplish anything. Kyle tells us stories of his recent journey to Philadelphia and Joe trades the secrets of success for a day on the couch. We create the formula for Nintendo's EarthBound adaptation, discover the games we'll be playing when it snows, and talk about Super Metroid all in under two hours in one of our best episodes ever.