Pictures from sophomore Jared Poblete s birthday celebration in Animal Crossing. (Courtesy of Jared Poblete)
on April 19, 2021
“Quarantine,” muses Jared Poblete ’23, “is this weird liminal space where I’m alive but I’m not living. But in Animal Crossing, my character can run around and catch bugs. And I’m my character
I’m the one running around and catching bugs.”
Armaan Rashid ’22 hums in agreement. Armaan can’t fully understand Jared’s experience he doesn’t play Animal Crossing, a video game that allows users to explore a cartoon village populated by anthropomorphic animals but he sees parallels between their virtual lives.