Swipe Right On Your 1040EZ: Inside The ‘Tax Heaven 3000’ Dating Sim by taxgirl
is offering a twist on the traditional tax preparation service with a dating simulation game that also prepares your federal income tax return.
While I'm not in the market for a date or a tax preparer, I was intrigued by the concept and decided to give it a whirl. There are some choose-your-own-adventure-like moments, such as deciding where to meet and what you might order at the coffee shop, but they are inevitably a pretext to answering questions about your life, including the basics like your name and address. It moves on to marital status, dependents, and educational level—it's part of the date, of course, as Iris also checks your eligibility for tax benefits like the Earned Income Tax Credit and American Opportunity Credit.
The game offers a nod towards that very issue on its site, saying,"All of TurboTax's cutesy loading animations are fake graphics; TH3K simply makes the fiction the point." The site goes on to say,"For some reason the game-to-real-life interface has tended to remain in the purview of corporate metaverse fictions. TH3K is a dongle that adapts from a visual novel to the IRS.
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