One teacher is using 'Animal Crossing' to help students around the world graduate during a pandemic

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'Animal Crossing: New Horizons' players are substituting real-world graduations for virtual island celebrations.

Ton did offer some advice to those hoping to replicate his meme: beware of Nintendo's shoddy online servers."The biggest challenge was just having an island full of eight people not crash or disconnect. Nintendo's online system isn't the best, and the process for arriving at someone's island takes a bit of time," the educator advised.

"I thinkis giving me what it's giving to a lot of people right now, which is a nice distraction from this pandemic. With people social distancing and self-isolating,And it would appear many others agree with Ton's sentiment. Following its release last month,sold 1.8 million copies in Japan in its first three days and dominated UK sales charts during its debut week.

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