Yussef comes onto the show tot talk about the origin of critical writing online and how it evolved through forum then later blogging, the culture behind games crit, liminal literary spaces, how games crit has evolved, the weird cold war politics of Call of Duty: Black Ops, and what it's like to be an editor.
Plugs:
Yussef's twitter - https://twitter.com/youmeyou
Bullet Points Monthly - https://bulletpointsmonthly.com/
Unwinnable - https://unwinnable.com/
notes:
Yussef's piece "Cuphead and the Racist Spectre of Fleischer Animation" - https://unwinnable.com/2017/11/10/cuphead-and-the-racist-spectre-of-fleischer-animation/
Yussef's piece "Fortnite's Appropriation Issue Isn't About Copyright Law, It's About Ethics" - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a3bkgj/fortnite-fortnight-black-appropriation-dance-emote
Jacob Geller's video essay "Does Call of Duty Believe in Anything?" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtCV421T52s
Bullet Points' Back and Forth on Spiritfarer - https://bulletpointsmonthly.com/2020/09/09/back-and-forth-spiritfarer
Bullet Points' issue on Ghosts of Tsushima - https://bulletpointsmonthly.com/issue/ghost-of-tsushima