Nintendo's Animal Crossing Becomes New Hong Kong Protest Ground (bloomberg.com) 11
Nintendo's Animal Crossing has become a place for Hong Kong protesters to congregate without flouting social distancing rules. Bloomberg reports: Animal Crossing is a simulation game where players live on an idyllic tropical island and befriend anthropomorphic animals. Players can customize their islands with in-game illustrating tools and visit each other's islands online. Pro-democracy content created for the game has gone viral on social media, including Twitter. In a tweet last week, one of Hong Kong's most well-known democracy campaigners, Joshua Wong, said he was playing the game and that the movement had shifted online. In one video posted to Twitter, a group of players use bug-catching nets to hit pictures of the city's leader Carrie Lam on a beach in the game. A nearby poster states "Free Hong Kong. Revolution Now."
So yet another Second Life? (Score:1)
Anyone remember AlphaWorlds?
It already had l the traits that made clear, how, specifically, such things would be cancer.
But good on them, protesting ... online ... where it is even more unrelated and remote and meaningless for those in charge than in real life (when it's not around the building of the state leaders, with pitchforks and torches).
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Can you build a toilet paper fort in Minecraft?
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No. But I remember Second Life.
Can I make money by selling real estate in Animal Crossings?
Supplementing ground level (Score:2)
They aren't talking about Diablo. [hongkongfp.com]
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But on the other hand, it is a lot harder for them to bludgeon and tear-gas this type of protest into submission, so their message will play for much longer, and to a much wider audience. Futility isn't the same thing as pointlessness. Your argument is, though.
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I think you might be characterizing the type of in-game protests going on entirely wrong. This is a virtual game where you can built your own pro-democracy, pro-Hong-Kong stores and houses. No need to vandalize or kill anything. And here's where your mischaracterization is particularly crippling to your own understanding: this type of protest will garner global support rather than resentment.
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everything has to be political (Score:1)
even a video game can't just be a video game anymore...