Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/16/animal-crossing-is-a-politic.html
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I am having trouble parsing the headline. What is Dash™ is it like — or – ?
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Same, I was thinking, “what, like DoorDash?”
But then I saw this in the body text:
He says "Animal Crossing is a political hypothesis about how a different kind of world might work—one with no losers.
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I am enjoying AC very much. It’s relaxing. It also highlights that the daily grind and rat race is ultimately meaningless if you can’t enjoy the fruits of your labors.
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It’s a fascinating alternative economic system. I noticed that one can collect a quarter million bells in one day with not too much effort, but one can live comfortably on zero bells per day.
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It’s official: Locke’s philosophy doesn’t scale.
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Maybe I didn’t play long enough, but I never collected a quarter million bells in one day without too much effort. But yeah, nobody was threatening to take the stuff I did have either if I spent an entire day goofing off.
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I also love how the headline could handle that hyphen just fine, but collapsed before the majesty of the em dash.
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Now I’m working from home I’m going to dusk off Dragging gnat Arial ee speeching.
I assume he was talking about the salt hyphen free seasoning comma but I suppose it could have been a weird punctuation issue period
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