Brands have been using Animal Crossing for marketing for a while now, I'm just surprised it's taken this long for a political party to do the same.
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Get your Biden-Harris Animal Crossing Signs
- Thread starter BoboBrazil
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Joe Biden isn't doing it -- his campaign is. This is why these things are an apparatus numbering in the thousands. I'm sure someone who plays AC somewhere on the staff was like hey I've got a fun idea, we should make some signs in AC! And then it gets run up the flagpole to someone who can give the go-ahead and then it happens. Just like every other decision in any company or organization on earth.
Swear to god, so many people are just completely clueless on here about how life in general operates.
It's more ironic that they say that because if Biden himself was the one doing it (which lol at that), then wouldn't it be the case that he does know the game?
I love it. Hell I'd consider starting to play Animal Crossing just to do it.
Republicans have been courting the far right through videogames for over a decade. Steve Bannon, Trump's former campaign advisor, was a critical piece in the early promotion of GamerGate and then courting those gamers via Breitbart, turning them into digital soldiers for the Trump Campaign.
Republicans have already been doing this, and doing it effectively. A message of inclusiveness -- particularly the Biden Pride sign -- fits in a game like Animal Crossing. It's also a space that Trump can't effectively market in because his message is a message of hate and division; he'll cry foul when "BUILD THE WALL" or "ALL LIVES MATTER" is blocked in these games because those are racist, hateful messages that are antithetical to the essence of a game like Animal Crossing. Democrats need to exploit that natural advantage that they have here, and being like "Eww gross we shouldn't harness our advantages" is a losing strategy.
I'm sure this will stoke a wave of "I don't want politics in my videogames!" opinions on other parts of the internet. Politics are already in your videogames, and what those arguments really mean is "I want right-wing politics in my videogames ........ but not inclusiveness, fairness, or equality politics in my videogames."
This is a good post.*
My initial reaction was that I'm not sure about the intensity of your last statement, which shows how deep this runs that a gay guy's first instinct was uncertainty. That is of course a defense-mechanism for self-preservation. Your statement is 100% correct, but the insidious thing is how we arrived at a point where right-wing ideology is invisible to most people while inclusivity stands out in comparison, even to those who support it. We champion those things because it is enough of an anomaly that it feels necessary. Otherwise it becomes comfortable to ignore it.
*I've seen you with a lot of good posts from my years of lurking and really appreciate it.
Big yikes at the replies here!
If this is how the US will behave in November, yall better be ready for 4 more years of that orange racist/dumb bozo.
You know what? Honestly, I'm tired of caring for US politics. We have enough problems here in EU.
Keep digging that grave, America.
If this is how the US will behave in November, yall better be ready for 4 more years of that orange racist/dumb bozo.
You know what? Honestly, I'm tired of caring for US politics. We have enough problems here in EU.
Keep digging that grave, America.
Or people who started following politics in 2016 and never bothered to look at the previous 50-100 years in politics
You literally just have to wait for Biden to open his mouth and say something that his campaign didnt prepare to immediately understand that he is not a progressive.
Also when he called Trump the first 'racist' president, like come ON
More like the end of democracy as we know it. You as a European should care immensely as it will impact the world in a very negative way.
These type of posts don't need to exist right now. He is totally fit for the job and it is imperative he's voted in otherwise America is fucked for basically forever.
Why should I care if the Americans themselves don't?
Why are Americans dissing the only alternative to the fascist-wannabe?
I've always found displaying political propaganda, even from people you support, to be tacky as hell.
I recently found out that Americans actually buy mugs, stickers and shirts at insane markups. Like, this shit is handed over to the people for free where I live lol
I recently found out that Americans actually buy mugs, stickers and shirts at insane markups. Like, this shit is handed over to the people for free where I live lol
Really has nothing to do with his platform, which historically Presidents tend to try and enact. Biggest hurdle in the way of this is congress, and midterm whiplash. You'll be pleased to know that his platform is harder on guns than Bernie's but it doesn't completely eschew the 2nd Amendment, no.
If you don't believe him you can ask Bernie, who repeated it several times as of a couple days ago. Hillary's platform was close to Labour's in 2016 and Biden's only gone further left.
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I don't think anyone in the thread has openly said they won't be giving Biden+Kamala the vote despite the issues they may have them. Hell, I'll be voting for them in person alongside my partner to be on the safe side after the USPS sabotage.
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interesting take there, 64 posts
We Americans love making things even worse for ourselves than they have to be. It's the American way.
The first quote is...completely fine?
For the second one...he can either try to win or disavow the second amendment. I think he made the right choice.
He's wrong (and I don't think he actually believes this), but again, this kind of messaging is necessary for the coalition he's trying to build.
Look, Biden says some really dumb shit, but most of the stuff people try to "gotcha" him on isn't nearly as disqualifying as people think it is. The "you ain't black" thing was actually awful, and it was refreshing that he, like, apologized. That's more than we can expect from most politicians these days. We're trying to elect an effective bureaucrat, not a savior.
At the very least he's running the most progressive campaign of a Democratic who has actually gotten the party's nomination.
If you look at the policy proposals on his website he's clearly been working with Sanders and Warren to include their ideas.
Nah, fuck this. Games are an escape from this trash reality. Let me have my fantasy world where America doesn't exist.
You should care because if America falls it will very negatively impact Europe and endanger democracy around the world.
I'm certainly not a "get politics outta muh games" kinda guy, but I do feel a little uncomfortable of the fact that political campaigns can openly advertise in games targeted at children.
Oh, this is them uploading custom content rather than buying ad space or in-game promotions with Nintendo. That's a bit better, though I still feel a little weird about it.
Oh, this is them uploading custom content rather than buying ad space or in-game promotions with Nintendo. That's a bit better, though I still feel a little weird about it.
They aren't going into your own game and forcing signs into your island. You don't have to worry about politics "ruining" your precious game.
Don't mistake era or twitter with real life where negative voice is 1000 times louder.
I understand that. I think it's lame. Really isn't much more to it than that.
I won't be doing this, but it'd be clownshoes to be even vaguely mad about this when other politicians and other parties have been doing this (or even more direct/specific things) in or around gaming for a while now.
I'm proud to support Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in 2020 because American politics is a binary choice at the presidential level. Biden wasn't my first choice in the Democratic primary, hell he wasn't even my 4th or 5th choice, but the primary is over. Meanwhile, the other choice on the ballot -- Trump -- over these 3.5 years has taken the strongest economy since World War II, literally 10 years of Q>Q growth, and now turned it into the deepest recession since the Great Depression. 6million Americans are sick, 185,000+ have died. More first-time unemployment claims than any other time in American history. And, on top of this disaster of a presidency, we have a president who is actively trying to stoke a race war because he thinks it's good for his re-election chances and good for his personal corporate wealth. Promoting far, radical conspiracy theories about anti-vaccinations, about "thugs" stealing airplanes and coming to the suburbs, about how he's the only hope for white suburban women.
On the other side, Joe Biden is not some perfect presidential candidate, but the reason he won the most votes in the Democratic primary is because he has a decades-long record of being competent, and in this time -- vigilante murders targeting black people on the street, police murdering civilians without consequence, a raging pandemic where in the United States is by far the worst country in the world, antagonistic leaders putting bounties on our soldiers without consequence -- simple, reliable, empathetic competency is not just a "lesser of two evils."
People played this game 4 years ago with Clinton and Trump. Among people who aren't that tapped into politics, or who "Want to keep politics out of sports" or "Want to keep politics out of videogames," they're very eager to equivocate between both sides. "Sure, Trump bragged about sexually assaulting women and called Latinos rapists and murders, but look at all the Clinton scandals -- her emails, Benghazi, Seth Rich..." And someone will challenge that and say, sorry, elaborate on that, and then the moral equivocator will back off, "lol all I'm saying is they're both trash and I want something better." Okay, well this is the result of you wanting something better and yet perpetually arguing against the better choice as "the lesser of two evils." A collapsing state, a wanna-be demagogue dictator, a party without a platform that has no vision for America other than death and destruction. This isn't a choice between "The lesser of two evils," it's a choice between an imperfect but capable candidate, and a death cult.
Imagine living through the last 3 and a half years in America and still being proud to promote such an ignorant, uninformed, embarrassing equivocation.
Trump's actions and inactions have caused the deaths of over 180,000 people. Trump's inactions caused the deaths of over 4,000 Americans during Hurricane Maria. Trump's rhetoric has caused the deaths of 2 people just this past week, along with being the motivation for numerous shooters. Tons of white supremacist groups have cropped up in the past 4 years.
You better believe I'll be proud to support Biden.
This is just a natural evolution of Campaigning for elections. Animal Crossing became a pretty easy platform for this, especially this year with everyone having to be at home and a pandemic.
You can avoid it if you want, but I'll say this is at least more thought out then the last election attempts of VG advertisement. Anyone else remember "Pokemon Go to the pools"? Cringe-tastic.
You can avoid it if you want, but I'll say this is at least more thought out then the last election attempts of VG advertisement. Anyone else remember "Pokemon Go to the pools"? Cringe-tastic.
Absolutely yikes. Did I say anywhere I wasnt voting?
Biden says dumb shit because he THINKS dumb shit. Just bc he apologized doesnt mean that was anything other than his campaign coaching him to say something, and is literally the bear minimum. Unless he's going to be a complete puppet of his 'progressive' campaign in office, I dont see that going away.
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"Basic fucking human survival and rights" has absolutely nothing to do with putting up cute signs in Animal Crossing. Of all the places.
At least in your actual yard someone who doesn't already agree with you might see it.
This is a better election campaign than Trump retweeting a White Power video.
Saying you condemn violence is not anti-progressive, that's silly and you know it. Also which progressive presidential candidate has been calling for the repeal of the second amendment? It sure wasn't Bernie.
In fact there's actually policy that suggests Biden is a moderate, but those two twitter posts are certainly not it.
Why would you think only people who agree with you would see your Animal Crossing island?
I don't play the game, how does this even work technically? Can signs be made by users and distributed to others?
Yes, through QR codes. This isn't a Nintendo partnership.
