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| Subject: LOL: Animal Crossing's Tom Nook: "Pleasant" Landlord or Anarcho-Capitalist? Fri Feb 28, 2020 4:23 am | |
| New details were revealed about 'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' that put the motivations of everyone's favorite raccoon-dog landlord into question.
We have a few Animal Crossing fans on the Waypoint Radio crew, so of course we had to immediately talk about this week's Animal Crossing Direct. Animal Crossing: New Horizons has you setting up shop on a deserted island where you can collect resources to build furniture, clothing, a home, and eventually an entire town. This is all made available by the series' longtime landlord, Tom Nook. This time around, instead of saddling you with a loan for a small home without your consent, he sets you up with a tent, with a loan in the form of his own company currency. After completing certain tasks (such as collecting wood, catching fish) you are rewarded with "Nook Miles," which you use to pay back the initial loan and eventually purchase other goods and services from him.
This got us thinking: Has Tom Nook been an anarcho-capitalist all along? Was each town in the Animal Crossing series just a new venture for him to extract natural resources for his monetary gain, and this is just the first time we're in on the ground floor? We discuss the various implications of the direct and also what we're looking forward to in Animal Crossing: New Horizons on this episode of Waypoint Radio. You can listen to the full episode or read an excerpt below.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5xwg7/animal-crossings-tom-nook-pleasant-landlord-or-anarcho-capitalist
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