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    Nintendo Responds To Animal Crossing Racial Epithet Issue, Blames Internet
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    Image of AntiheroKing AntiheroKing
    12/05/08

    In reply to Nintendo Responds To Animal Crossing Racial Epithet Issue, Blames Internet
    Hey, it's cool, guys. Baabara's a black sheep, so it's okay when she says it.
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    Image of Random J Random J
    12/04/08

    In reply to Nintendo Responds To Animal Crossing Racial Epithet Issue, Blames Internet
    That is funny. Wrong, but funny. But as users have said, shit like this isn't going to make Nintendo lift the bastardized Friend code system anytime soon. This just goes to show that even with these Friend codes crap like this can still happen. And with Wii speak, people will actually be able to say naughty words! [Shock, horror!]


    I say Baabara gets shortlisted for the next Smash bros. and Mario Kart game.

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    Image of Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!! Soldier_CLE says DON'T STOP AT THE STAR! REVOKE THE WHOLE DAMN THING, OWEN!!!
    12/04/08

    In reply to Nintendo Responds To Animal Crossing Racial Epithet Issue, Blames Internet
    Heh,


    I'd laugh if someone at NoA found this to be Cammie's doing, in another failed attempt to "relate" with her customerbase...


    Then again, I'd also laugh if she were getting beaten down with a shovel...


    I need sleep now.

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    Image of Zombie999 Zombie999
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nintendo Responds To Animal Crossing Racial Epithet Issue, Blames Internet
    Epic Fail!
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    Image of subnet6 subnet6
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nintendo Responds To Animal Crossing Racial Epithet Issue, Blames Internet
    I thought friend codes were supposed to protect us.
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    Image of doubtful doubtful
    12/03/08

    @subnet6:


    The googles! They do nothing!

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    Image of jayntampa jayntampa
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nintendo Responds To Animal Crossing Racial Epithet Issue, Blames Internet
    Previously used games? What ... Nintendo shops at GameStop now?
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    Image of excel_excel excel_excel
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nintendo Responds To Animal Crossing Racial Epithet Issue, Blames Internet
    surely nintendo should have realised some assholes would switch a with the accented a!

    Man....makes you wonder what the game would be like without friend codes....a scary place....fucka! can you call people fucka in the game?
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    Image of Gossy... Fortune and Glory Gossy... Fortune and Glory
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nintendo Responds To Animal Crossing Racial Epithet Issue, Blames Internet
    "via a wireless function that allows user-generated catchphrases to spread virally from one game to the next"


    Is this the wireless function that actually forms part of the game? (not really up on it, it's my wife that plays it... honest)


    Plus if I was a parent and I read "user-generated" and "spread virally" about something my kid played on regularly...

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    Image of NoBullet NoBullet
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nintendo Responds To Animal Crossing Racial Epithet Issue, Blames Internet
    Its the users. Blame them. You know, the ones they called nerds.
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    Image of gaijira gaijira
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nintendo Responds To Animal Crossing Racial Epithet Issue, Blames Internet
    I don't get how they're blaming the internet here...the wireless function they mention I believe is the local one.


    That's all we need is for Nintendo to become even more paranoid about internet filth invading their pristine universe...they already make people type in somebody's DNA sequence just to play a Wii game online with them...

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    Image of N●Gage Croal is grabbin' peels N●Gage Croal is grabbin' peels
    12/03/08

    @gaijira:

    You can get new neighbors over wi-fi, too.


    I remember getting a new neighbor from someone on GameFAQs who had the catchphrase "fücker"... or something like that.

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    Image of doubtful doubtful
    12/03/08

    @gaijira:


    I don't get how they're blaming the internet here... -gaijira


    I believe the Family Circle comic strip contained a running gag using a mythical character called 'Not Me,' who the children would always blame instead of taking responsibility for their own messes.


    Nintendo just blamed 'Not Me.'

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    12/03/08

    @doubtful:


    That would be Family Circus, not Circle. D'oh.

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    Image of Psy Psy
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nintendo Responds To Animal Crossing Racial Epithet Issue, Blames Internet
    Great , now nintendo will remove this sharing feature from the game. You never know what racial slurs will show up on little johny's DS.
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    12/03/08

    @Psy: Or just limit it to people on your friend's list....
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    12/03/08

    In reply to Nintendo Responds To Animal Crossing Racial Epithet Issue, Blames Internet
    Did no one actually play the game? Anyone who has knows that it tells you if you activate the online features of the game that your characters (and any catchphrases you've given them) can migrate to other games, so be careful of what you write. How anyone could think that Nintendo themselves actually put/left that in is beyond me. It's completely user-generated content.
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    Image of Amsterdaam Amsterdaam
    12/03/08

    @kokuou: Right, but these were review copies sent directly from Nintendo, which means it was Nintendo employees that were the culprits.
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    Image of MattB92 MattB92
    12/03/08

    @Amsterdaam: Or it was a media outlet who did it. I think MTV did this to get there site some views.(Game site.)
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    Image of Zeikcied Zeikcied
    12/03/08

    @MattB92: Except in the earlier report, Brian Crecente said that he tracked down the character in a copy sent to Kotaku, and found the offensive phrase.
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    Image of MattB92 MattB92
    12/03/08

    @Zeikcied: Then it was Kotaku.
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    Image of d_r_e d_r_e
    12/03/08

    @MattB92:


    Then what was Kotaku? The person that generated the phrase? Is that what you're suggesting? I sure hope not.

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    12/03/08

    In reply to Nintendo Responds To Animal Crossing Racial Epithet Issue, Blames Internet
    It would be awesome if Nintendo just said like "OH SHUT UP AND PLAY THE GAME"
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    Image of Altima NEO Altima NEO
    12/03/08

    @Ted: Except for the fact that weve been playing it since the N64.
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    Image of Chasmang Chasmang
    12/03/08

    In reply to Nintendo Responds To Animal Crossing Racial Epithet Issue, Blames Internet
    Some game tester is probably getting fired. :P
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    Image of DaveKap DaveKap
    12/03/08

    @Chasmang: Or just being called a dumbass. I've seen this kind of thing happen elsewhere and usually it just leads to an internal apology e-mail followed by "lol you dumbass."


    The save probably got copied without permission, so blame can't wrest on anyone's head.

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