The Critical Asshole: Listening to...

I try not to be an instigator of class warfare, but there are few things that piss me off more than spoiled, upper-middle class, white kids.

This brings us to the commercial for the new game for the Nintendo Wii called “Animal Crossing: City Folk.” To be honest, I didn’t really understand what the point of this game was from seeing the commercial, so I decided to do a little outside research. From Nintendo’s website, the description for the game is as such:

“Step into a living, breathing world where days and seasons pass in real time and your destiny is yours to create.
Enjoy a new house, a new neighborhood, and some new friends. Try your luck in a FishingCity, get a Mii™ makeover, and more. The world is your sparkling, fresh canvas.”

So, essentially, this is Sim City on acid. The new feature Nintendo seems to be the most proud of is the “Wii Speak” which allows you to communicate over the internet as you “play “the game with others.”

Alright, back to the commercial—

It begins with a panned in shot of the mountains. It appears to be some time in the early afternoon. You get the feeling that this is sometime in the middle of the week.

The camera further pans over into the inside of a condo, well decorated with a huge, flatscreen TV.

“You want to go watch fireworks?”

“yeah! Are you kidding me?!?!?!”

Mid 20-something blonde female sitting on some sort of pink chair she got from IKEA.

Her friend from across the Wii looks to be in some sort of basement of a cabin playing the game from across the interwebs.

“I talked to my neighbor today.”

“Awww!”

And so on, and so forth.

I suppose the idea is that Nintendo would have you believe a couple of things:

1. Hip, blonde, chicks like to play this particular video game.
2. People with a LOT of money would rather be inside playing a video game rather than going outside and see fucking Yosimite National Park that seem to be right in their backyard.

I hate you, rich, upper-middle class, white kids. I hate you so much.