Turnip Boy Robs a Bank
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Posthuman Cuteness: Affective and Agentic Tensions
This paper examines cuteness in videogames through a textual analysis of the Turnip Boy series, namely Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (2021) and its sequel Turnip Boy Robs a Bank (2024).
- The paper's central claim is that cuteness, as an instrumentalised emotive form, lets cute things resist subordination and become agentic subjects within a posthuman framework.
- Turnip Boy is framed as subordinate in three overlapping ways: as a vegetable positioned as 'less than' human, as an avatar subordinate to the player, and as a cute object apparently posing no threat.
- The games nonetheless depict Turnip Boy threatening economic structures such as capitalism, and in the sequel Turnip Boy Robs a Bank (2024) he shakes down fellow vegetables for money.
Veggie Vigilantes: Queering Crime Tropes in Cosy Comedy Games
The paper analyzes how the games Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (2021) and Turnip Boy Robs a Bank (2024), developed by LGBTQI+ Canadian studio Snoozy Kazoo, subvert traditional mafia tropes and challenge entrenched representations of organized crime.
- The paper is a textual analysis of two Snoozy Kazoo games, Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (2021) and Turnip Boy Robs a Bank (2024), arguing that their cosy comedic take on mafia narratives subverts established crime tropes.
- The games parody mafia power structures, deflate authority figures, and critique capitalism through satire, slapstick, and cute aesthetics, in contrast to crime works like The Godfather, The Sopranos, Mafia, and Grand Theft Auto that reproduce organised-crime glamour and violence.
- The authors frame this humour and cuteness as a form of resistance that makes the danger of the mafia and themes of apocalypse and war more manageable and accessible.
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