How to Talk About Games for 40 Minutes

I think just like a couple of weeks ago, there was a waypoint radio episode that opened with a 40 minute conversation about the inhumanity that people of Palestine are living through right now. I would draw a line between two types of conversations. One is I feel like we need to talk about this because we have developed thoughts about it. What we've gotten away from, done our best to, is the sort of point scoring around a new release or an upcoming release or trailer looking like it's going to be bad. At this point, what I want to do is to do the work of criticism, to let the game come out for me to play it and then for me to talk