The American election for President is well underway, and Democratic nominee Joe Biden has an unusual tactic: He’ll be premiering an Animal Crossing: New Horizons save file, called the Biden Island, on Friday for the Kinda Funny Games Twitch channel.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons has been a hit since its release in March 2020, especially since it coincided with lockdown measures to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. Selena Gomez held a concert in New Horizons, celebrities appeared on the Animal Crossing talk show circuit, and the game became a chill daily routine that anchored millions of players from around the world.
It’s not entirely clear what the Biden Island consists of, exactly. Did Joe Biden himself carefully craft this island with the terraforming tools, or did a young millennial on his campaign take the reins? What villagers did he recruit? Is Biden more Raymond or Pietro? Does Biden Island have a fully upgraded Nook Store and museum?
While this is obviously a silly, light-hearted moment in the campaign, it’s incredibly important for Americans to vote this fall. We’ve prepared guides for the process, including for those who will be mailing in their vote.
Animal Crossing: New Horizons guides
- Every tool’s durability and how long they last
- What happens when you eat fruit
- How to send letters with presents (and wrap them)
- How to cure a wasp sting
- How to move rocks
- How to make chat less insufferable
- What time does the new day start?
- How to customize your phone
- How to turn any photo into a pattern
- How to poop 💩
- Guide to Dreaming and Dream Addresses
- How to back up your island
- Upgrading your house
- How to unlock the Shop, the Museum, and more
- How to unlock the Able Sisters tailor shop
- Guide to the Museum
- How to move items and manage your pocket and house inventory
- How to move and rotate furniture
- How to move buildings
- How to build bridges and inclines
- How to upgrade Nook’s Cranny
- Complete amiibo guide
- How to make a villager move out
- How to get K.K. Slider
- How to get a 3 star town rating for K.K. Slider
- How to sell bugs to Flick the vendor
- How to sell to the new fish vendor, C.J.
- K.K. Slider song list, music guide
- Jolly Redd’s art, real or fake?
- Celeste Star Fragment DIY recipe list
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons winter Snowflake DIY recipe guide
- Maple Leaf DIY recipe list
- Summer Shell DIY recipe list
- Mushroom DIY recipe list
- Festive Season DIY recipe list
- Perfect Snowboy guide and DIY recipe list
- Young Spring Bamboo recipe list
- Cherry-blossom Petals recipe list guide
- Bunny Day event guide
- Acorn and Pine Cone recipe list
- How to make custom fireworks
- Raffle guide and rewards list
- The year we spent in Animal Crossing: New Horizons
- Animal Crossing kept up with all the twists and turns of 2020
- Animal Crossing: New Horizons is a much-needed escape from everything
- Animal Crossing outsells Breath of the Wild in mere months
- Animal Crossing’s escapist fantasy is getting a reality check
- Animal Crossing reportedly removed from Chinese retailers following Hong Kong demonstrations
- Animal Crossing hacker group starts free villager service
- Animal Crossing’s fashion is unrivaled
- Animal Crossing players are starting over after dozens (or hundreds) of hours
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Comments
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By R3miel7 on 10.15.20 2:02pm
I am going to vote for Biden, but man, when Democrats pander…
I guess, to put a silver lining on it, there’s pandering to an age group that they don’t identify with, and there’s pandering to a dangerous group of conspiracy loons that (and I’m not naming names here ) recently tried to kidnap the governor of Michigan, and then not only failing to condemn said kidnappers, but call said kidnapping target a "dictator".
But we’re not naming names here.
By BillClam on 10.15.20 2:08pm
To be fair, those supremacists are terrorist and murderers, and some, I assume, are good people.
By AmiralPatate on 10.16.20 2:35am
This is so weird that I have to check it out. Hope there’s a dream code.
By FixtusBlack on 10.15.20 2:10pm
Correct headline would be "some random person on Joe Biden’s staff set up an AC island for him"
By RabbiHick on 10.15.20 2:34pm
You don’t need to speculate. He didn’t create it himself…he probably still refers to video games as "The Nintendo" or hell maybe he refers to them as Pongs.
By Porcupine-Tree on 10.15.20 3:34pm
Not sure whether that’s testament to Nintendo or detriment to old fogeys
By DJCR33P on 10.16.20 11:40am
I despise the reality in which we are living
By Mimikkyu on 10.15.20 7:00pm
I’m sorry a silly Animal Crossing island triggers your fragile psyche so.
By Jonab on 10.15.20 7:10pm
How dare politicians try to reach out to different voter demographics by trying to relate to them through activities the voters enjoy!
….. /s just in case you couldn’t hear the sarcasm dripping off that.
By iMatthewCM on 10.15.20 7:55pm
I understand the push back against your comment, but I also truly sympathize with your comment.
By BillClam on 10.18.20 12:56pm