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Source:https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/03\/30\/anime-girl-tax-dating-sim-mschf\/<\/a><\/br>
\nI played the anime dating sim that does your taxes for you<\/br>
\n2023-03-31 22:14:59<\/br><\/p>\n

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Yes, there is an anime dating sim that does your taxes, and it actually works.<\/p>\n

Tax Heaven 3000<\/a> is a game produced by MSCHF<\/a>, the venture-funded creative studio behind projects like Push Party<\/a>, the Lil Nas X blood shoes<\/a>, the big red Astro Boy boots<\/a> and Dead Startup Toys<\/a>. Basically, they just make a bunch of absurd ideas into reality, which is perhaps the most noble possible use of VC money.<\/p>\n

In Tax Heaven 3000 (or TH3K, for those initiated), you have just moved to a new town, and you don\u2019t know anyone. You need to buy a pencil to fill out some forms for your new lease, but \u2014 oh no! You\u2019ve bumped into a pink-haired anime girl named Iris! You hit it off, despite the fact that she immediately asked you if you\u2019re a U.S. resident, which your character describes as a \u201cweirdly nationalist\u201d first impression. You meet up for coffee later, where she asks you more about yourself, like whether you\u2019re filing taxes single or jointly, your employment situation, your phone number and if you\u2019ve invested in crypto (if that\u2019s the case, she abruptly leaves and the game ends).<\/p>\n

Your romantic love story with Iris (get it, like IRS?) continues similarly throughout the game \u2014 while getting to know you, she asks you further questions, like what your address is and whether you have dependents (TH3K only works for single people without dependents, because Iris doesn\u2019t want to get involved in a complicated situation and\/or MSCHF did not make the game that complex\u2026 also, it doesn\u2019t do state tax.) She even gets nosy enough to ask you for your annual income, tax withholdings and even your social security number, but you\u2019re so enamored by Iris that you\u2019re willing to look past her invasive questions \u2014 and the fact that she seems to love talking about taxes. A lot.<\/p>\n

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Image Credits:<\/strong> MSCHF<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

By the end of the game \u2014 and after you\u2019ve verified your information is correct, you\u2019ve uploaded your tax forms, etc. \u2014 you get an actual PDF of your tax return, which you can just print out and mail to the IRS. Just make sure you remove the two top pages of the document before you put them into an envelope, because they\u2019re littered with Lisa Frank-style graphics. But you don\u2019t need those pages, they\u2019re just informational! For you! Iris wants you to feel empowered to do your taxes without the evil<\/a> corporate<\/a> lobbyists<\/a> like TurboTax!<\/p>\n

Is Tax Heaven 3000 safe? That\u2019s up to your own discretion, because there\u2019s no doubt that someone on the internet has been duped into giving a devious anime girl their social security number before (people do crazy things for VTubers<\/a>). But for what it\u2019s worth, this is a piece of software that you download onto your computer, which doesn\u2019t connect to the internet. I was able to play through the whole game while disconnected from Wi-Fi. But, for the record, I did not give the cute anime girl my social security number, in part because I have already done my taxes (not to brag).<\/p>\n

Like any manic pixie dream girl, there\u2019s more than meets the eye when it comes to Iris. She has a dark streak \u2014 sometimes, she looks at you sternly, and the cute soundtrack completely stops.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image Credits:<\/strong> MSCHF<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t ever get involved with TurboTax,\u201d Iris will tell you, her cheeks reddening. \u201cThey\u2019re dangerous.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the game, you notice it, and it feels a bit fishy, but you don\u2019t think too hard about it. But of course, this is MSCHF, so there\u2019s always more to the story.<\/p>\n

On TH3K\u2019s website, there\u2019s a button to download the X-rated patch of the game (the actual gameplay is pretty PG-13, though there are a few innuendos). This is not an actual X-rated patch (and I only clicked on it for journalistic purposes) \u2014 it\u2019s a link to a Wattpad story<\/a> about Iris\u2019 abduction from TurboTax. Yes, MSCHF appears to have written fan fiction about Iris the tax prep anime girl (there is even some fan art<\/a>). At least we got a little closure about why Iris is so tortured by corporate tax prep software.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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