Episode 84: "What New Horizons Await?" ft. Rebel Steps


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May 04 2020 64 mins   3 1 0

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!

References:

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