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Me, On The Screen: Race in Animal Crossing: New Leaf

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I’m sitting on my bed for the third day in a row.

I’m waiting for 5PM to hit so that I can finally close my 3DS. I’ve been ‘tanning’ my avatar in the latest entry of Nintendo’s long running Animal Crossing series, New Leaf. I put ‘tanning’ in scare quotes because the method doesn’t match my intention. Yes, I’m doing the the thing the game calls tanning, but my objective isn’t just darkening my avatar’s skin tone, it’s being able to see in the screen what I see in the mirror

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this is an incredibly well written piece and i implore anyone frustrated at the nonexistent options for choosing skin color (outside of the chore of tanning) in AC to read this

there isn’t an ounce of yelling or screaming and this brings up great points and its sad that something that makes this much sense is a rare occurrence on tumblr

This is a very good read, and I’m a bit disappointed to read that tanning is so much harder in New Leaf. I tanned my character in the original Animal Crossing a lot because I thought the darker skin looked better with the pink hair. Maybe Nintendo should find a way to incorporate a skin color option in the questions in a way that’s not offensive or pointed. I know it’s a Japanese game and all but surely they know how popular this game is abroad…

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