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EXACTLY! Look at them the sneaky bastards they have a natural mask on their faces... Ah well at least raccoons don't constantly make retarded statements about harmless videogames in pisspoor attempts to garner attention to a cause they are actually hurting... In case I'm being too subtle EAT MEAT, PLAY VIDEOGAMES AND FUCK PETA | |
I actually just got done playing that little flash game and, just like PETA's other games, it sucks. You are constantly scrolled and you can jump way too high, so there isn't really much of a challenge once you get used to it. Once you win, you get a censored message that really just says "Fuck you Mario! That skin belongs to the animal". Going out of your way to insult one of gaming's greatest icons is sure to cause gamers to flock to your cause. Also, I really doubt that PETA actually plays any of these games. If they did, they would be aware of the fact that Mario gets his Tanooki Suit from a magic feather. Stop wasting our time PETA! | |
For the love of God. Obama, Gillard, and every other world leader, I will vote for your party in every election from now until I'm senile if you pass a law permanently disbanding these idiots. | |
Indeed! I would love to see how the world would be if everyone gave PETA the silent treatment permanently. "GARAHA FICTIONAL ANIMAL RIGHTS VIOLATED BY MARIO GARAHAHA" Wow the wind's sounding rather irate today. Oh wells. And the wind sure likes to euthanize animals...
I forgot about the Team Meat incident. Is PETA so desperate that they're trolling video games now? And who the hell gave them the idea that anyone who plays video games gives a damn? Moviegoers, theater people, video gamers, ect.; crazy is still crazy, no matter who you direct it towards. Maybe the only answer is to hit 'em right back like what Team Meat did. The idea of sending back the message "nobody cares, and look! We're killing more virtual animals in spite of you!" is at the very least entertaining and a good choice if the silent treatment doesn't work. | |
Let's not forget that in Halo: Reach you get a shiny achievement for killing moas, and people in Minecraft have built things dedicated to the wholesale slaughter of pigs and cows. The virtual horror... On a more related note, when did PETA start caring more about virtual animals and less about, you know, real animals...? | |
I'm pretty sure it was a leaf that spawned the suit in Super Mario Bros 3. No animal-murder involved. PETA needs to stop jumping on non-existent issues and go... Free the monkeys carrying the Rage Virus or something. | |
Oh shit, you're right. My bad. God, I must have so much egg on my face... | |
Yeah, I think I'd prefer the lighthearted spoof. | |
Hipster PETA. Because real animals are too mainstream. | |
At this point I think PETA is just trolling everyone. | |
Woah, guys, hold your damn horses. You're missing the point here: PETA isn't seriously mad at Mario games for having a Tanooki suit, they're just using the Mario comparison as a platform to talk about fur use because Mario's popular. You're crazy if you think this is about "advocating censorship" or whatever. Do they just want attention? Yes. Is it in bad taste? Somewhat. But is this an attack on videogames or Mario? No, not at all. And for the record, I thought the game was pretty amusing, at least for a propaganda game. Also, I think PETA's right to an extent, we shouldn't buy fur products when there are equally viable alternatives out there. *raises flame shield* | |
Get out of here with your buisiness model power phrases, you office drone. :p TBH its been pretty much the case for a long time that PETA just pick on these popular things to boost their own campaigns. Will be interesting to see what Nintendo lawyers do when they see that Mario picture though, pretty sure theres a case out of taking a brand icon and warping it like that. | |
PETA will one day collapse under the weight of their own bullshit. | |
If PETA is allowed the fiction that they don't kill animals, I'm allowed the fiction of Mario doing whatever it is he does. | |
After years of consistent assclownery without ever accomplishing anything, it's obvious that their only goal is to receive the kind of coverage they're getting now, and... that's it. Why enable their histrionic tendencies? | |
There are those who might worry that articles like these only draw attention to PETA all the more. This is true. What is also true is the message that people get from this is not the one PETA is trying to convey, but instead is the one they are actually broadcasting: 'We are batshit insane. Enjoy the skinny naked women we show who don't entirely embrace our ideals, and laugh at our feeble attempts to show compassion for animals as we slaughter them.'
They can go protest the overabundance of cars on the freeway by ranting on the road itself. I will be on the overpass with the popcorn enjoying the gorefest to ensue.
Makes me think of the ending to Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy(The book. Read it sometime, kids). Best result ever for a group like this. I would share it but I am not one for giving spoilers to stories I really enjoy. | |
YAY dumb nuts went after a fantasy magical suit in another dimension with a cartoon style. | |
I thought it was magic, not that he went and skinned a tanuki... I suppose next NASA will be accusing him of disrupting the gravitational balance of the galaxy by eating stars or that Gargomel sponsors him to make smurfs homeless with his vast mushroom consumption. Talk about nit picking PETA, no wonder no one takes you seriously. *rolls eyes*
Dude I agree, but if anything I find this way of protesting offensive, because it seriously undermines any sort of effort to destroy the fur trade. No one will take this seriously. The cause of animals rights deserves better than the ridiculousness of PETA. It just makes people reactionary against it... | |
So, skinning a mythological creature in a video game is a real world problem? First world solutions for Disney world problems. | |
Wow. Is it bad that I didn't notice it until you pointed it out? | |
Nope, I don't believe there is. Then again, nothing is off-limits to PETA. I'm just surprised they didn't say the Raimi Spider-Man continuity promotes animal cruelty because the spider that bites Peter reacted out of fear and was being experimented on by SICK, DEPRAVED scientists who like to play GOD. Or something of the sort. Then they'd release a Flash game where gigantic spiders graphically pull apart innocent human victims. | |
That ending was unexpected, but very suiting for people like PETA. | |
Haha, that is awesome. | |
And we're supposed to take an organization of people who the US Department of Homeland Security and FBI have listed has having ties to domestic terrorists seriously? PETA has been in bed with the likes of the Earth Liberation Front, one of the largest domestic terrorist groups according to the FBI who are guilty of Assult, arson, firebombing, use/possession of explosives, and attempted murder. In 2002, PETA admitted to funding criminals associated with them. Oh, and here's the icing on the cake: PETA enjoys an IRS Tax Exempt status as a "501(c)(3)" charity. [edit] HAH! Found the info-graphic I was looking for: http://www.infographicslibrary.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/peta-kills-animals.gif | |
Funny thing PETA. All those animals we slaughter? If it wasnt for us there wouldnt be so many of them. All Cows/Chickens/Pigs wouldnt survive in the wilds. And I gotta say, between living on a farm for a ten years with food, sleep, grassfields and then being put down painlessly before getting turned into cooked meat and eaten by humans. And having to flee for your life fearing for your very existance for the last minutes of your life on the great plains and then get eaten by a lion while you are still lying down on the ground breathing as the darkness closes down around you. Which food for the predator has the best life? Eh? Eh? Compared to the free out-in-the-wilds gazelle. Our cows and chickens have it great. Now I dont mean the stacked on top of eachother cows in America. But not everyone mistreat the animals they eat. There is more of the open-grassfield cowfarms than the closed crowded factories. | |
If that's the case, then so is this adorable baby: What? That lion suit probably isn't from a real lion and is therefore irrelevant to the fur fashion debate? DON'T ASK QUESTIONS. Just draw the baby with the bloody head of a lion and that automatically makes PETA right. | |
That child has the obvious leer of a hardened killer and sadist. Your pro-baby nonsense can't evade the lance of truth here, sir. More seriously, this has the reek of a group of people who act retarded when they're bored or looking for attention all over it. The odor is all the more unfortunate when it's a legitimate, recognized organization. | |
It was just a matter of time, wasn't it PETA? How bored do PETA employees have to be, and do they honestly, HONESTLY think this particular cause if worth fighting for? | |
How completely ignorant about Japanese mythology. A simple Google search would show this as ignorant. A suit that looks like an animal does not mean a skinned animal. It's practically just a furry fursuit with magical powers. If anything, it's empowering, and it's just another reference, again, to Japanese mythology/Shinto. Tanuki are shapeshifters, and mario essentially becomes like a shapeshifter when given magical suits, turning him into things like frogs and tanuki. By this logic, Buffalo Bell and fursuits in general promote animal cruelty. I don't understand why people hate furries so much. PETA are the real animal hating crazies. I'm a person who's pretty sympathetic to a lot of hardcore pro-animal and pro-environmental causes, and I think PETA are crazy nutjobs.
Oh, is that what's going on? Well, that's a bit better. You sure? I hope you're right. | |
Wow, and they're trying to knock down the big dog? Compared to Cooking Mama, they're just splitting hairs, atleast shes actually using meat (which indirectly means that an animal was killed by someone, but not her, not like she advocates no vegetables), but trying to demonise Mario simply because he looks like a Tanuki? (which is basically a Raccoon Dog) is practically trying to demonize him and could be seen as a backhanded slap to Japan's culture. I think they're more conscious about the wildlife and the environment that surrounds them, a large number of people in Japan are either Buddhists or followers of Shinto, im pretty sure they acknowledge that an animal was killed to get to their plate and is thankful for their sustenance. But yeah, Mario is essentially an extremely well known icon at the moment, i seriously doubt it would do things like brutally killing animals (obviously) an interesting point to make that there is next to no meat consumed by Mario in his series, it's usually weird powerups, mushrooms and (in some of the newer games) strange, biologically weird powerups that happens to grow on plants. The closest things to meat might either be Wacka Bumps, or (in Bowser's Inside Story) Chicken Wings, though the latter is primarily consumable by Bowser only anyway. | |
I'm going to have to un-say some of the things I've said (or thought) before, so here goes. This scorning of PeTA by the escapist disproves to me that the gaming community is mindlessly running 'liberal' at everything. They're really only interested in how individual situations treat their cause. That's perfectly reasonable. Just thought I'd say that a lot of Republicans--and some of the people at Fox news--don't support animal cruelty, but also fight against enviro-terrorists' scheme to make everybody's life suck. | |
I don't recall ever seeing Mario tear the fur right off of a racoon dog. Ever. | |
Yeah. Because it's totally and explicitly the hide of a recently skinned animal. And not just a clever visual representation of him gaining super powers.
You know what I find the weirdest about this? That they're inexplicably jumping years late on the Mario bandwagon when Skyrim just got released, ie, a game that practically has a medieval big game hunting simulator built into it.
Know what? I'm not even giving them the page views. That's what they use to validate their existence.
And, of course, PETA doesn't give a shit about all the clearly-much-more-real-than-this-crap turtle stomping that goes on in Mario games. But then again, they're PETA. | |
So I'm gonna go ahead and decide that PETA are not serious, and have never been serious about anything but euthanesia. Its just better for my blood pressure that I believe my own lie. | |
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As I lack the certain know how to place a picture I shall describe how I fell about this. -ahem-
Tommy Lee Jones is looking at PETA with an implied face palm. Once so intense it's not worth lifting a hand.