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.
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
