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Thread: Nintendo uses the N-word in Animal Crossing

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    Default Nintendo uses the N-word in Animal Crossing

    But as spotted by MTV Multiplayer and confirmed by GameSpot, not everyone in the city was very neighborly. Specifically, the character of Baarbara the sheep greets players by using a racial epithet (pictured) in a modified form commonly used as a greeting in hip-hop culture. The line also includes a line of dialogue from the film Full Metal Jacket that Asian-Americans might find offensive. Wild World lets players customize greetings, and it appears that the objectionable wording was inserted using that function.
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    Lol. Well... it's interesting. Might be for appeal to older crowds (you know how Disney often has jokes in the movies that are covert sexual references, and would go over the heads of the younger viewers but older folks could make sense of and enjoy)... this shouldn't have any risk if it's not often repeated by the sheep/whatever character - should easily be lost against all the other text/encounters the players should come across in the dozens of hours they spend in the game.

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