Okay, so...
Is this the silliest edition of Coffee with Comrades ever made?
Is it the most wholesome AF content on the planet?
Or is this entire episode just one big shit-post?
Maybe all of the above??
Who know!?
Regardless, we made an episode about Animal Crossing: New Horizons. We hope you'll fuck with it.
Liz from Rebel Steps joined us to chat about the politics of AC:NH, the newest game from Nintendo's Animal Crossing franchise which is destined to go down in the history books as "the Quarantine Game." After offering a few critiques at the outset of the episode, Liz and Pearson spend the bulk of the discussion exploring the game's radical horizons: its themes of anti-work, urban planning, and post-scarcity, the game's DIY ethos, the setting's borderless society, and so much more.
So, is AC:NH a capitalist hellworld of landlords and stalk markets or a communist anti-anti-utopia of liberation and possibility? Stick around 'til the end of the episode to find out!
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References:
- Srsly Wrong's episode on Library Socialism and Usufruct.
- Polygon's article on the Stalk Market.
- Decolonize this Place Museum in ACNH.
- Tanuki's magic scrotum article.
Music:
- Intro: "I Ain't Got No Home in this World" by Woody Guthrie
- Interlude: "Island Broadcast: Isabelle" by Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagata, Sayako Doi, & Masato Ohashi
- Outro: "Animal Crossing: New Horizons Main Theme" by Yasuaki Iwata, Yumi Takahashi, Shinobu Nagata, Sayako Doi, & Masato Ohashi