Ah, PETA. Your intentions to defend animal rights from the scum of the earth are great on paper, but somewhere along the way you've completely lost your marbles. Now you're nothing more than an attention-seeking whore with a serious god complex, you've turned your purpose into a goddamn crusade and in the process you've pushed any sense of animal rights activism back to the 19th century. Your overzealous attitude, your almost religious fervor puts you right in the same category as the insane pastors that think Pokemon introduces kids to witchcraft and devil worship. You've put videogames in your sights as a means to justify your pathetic existence and you're not even doing a good job at it.
Nobody really pays attention to PETA's ramblings regarding the treatment of animals in games, but sometimes they just outdo themselves. The pinnacle of their stupidity came a couple of years ago, when they went into raging mode over Cooking Mama, of all things, because it taught kids how to cook meat. They have yet to outdo themselves, but this latest incident comes pretty close.
As you may know, Nintendo's beloved gaming icon, Mario, prepares to use his famous Tanooki suit for the first time since Super Mario Bros 3 in the upcoming Super Mario 3D Land for the 3DS. Well, according to PETA, this promotes the very much existent hunt of the real animal tanooki (a raccoon-dog, apparently) and its skinning for its fur.
While the reality of the issue is cause for concern and very much within the rights of not just animal rights activists, but every decent human being's to be angry about it, the idea that a video game about a fat plumber who feasts on mushrooms is promoting any serious agendas, is downright insane.
By the way, just for the record, Mario wears the suit by eating leaves-- probably hallucinogenic, since everything in this fucking series is about drugs. The suit makes him fly and can turn him into a stone statue. Fucked if I know at which point you thought you could draw any parallel to the very real horror that threatens the actual tanooki, outside of the fact the suit looks like a raccoon. Doubly-fucked if I know how you thought this actually helps prevent the situation instead of exacerbating it, as you've given pretty much every logical person out there reason to completely dismiss the situation as the ramblings of crazy people.
So, fuck you, PETA. Fuck you and your counter-productive practices that are just steps away from being more dangerous to the planet's fauna than the people you're trying to hunt down.
If anyone's interested, the link below leads to PETA's site regarding the issue, complete with a Mario flash game, where a raccoon hunts down Mario in the Alternate Mushroom Kingdom. I'm leaving it here for reasons of "journalistic" integrity (using the term loosely), but I'd personally recommend against giving these assholes any more traffic.
http://features.peta.org/mario-kills-tanooki/
Source: TheEscapistMagazine.com
Nobody really pays attention to PETA's ramblings regarding the treatment of animals in games, but sometimes they just outdo themselves. The pinnacle of their stupidity came a couple of years ago, when they went into raging mode over Cooking Mama, of all things, because it taught kids how to cook meat. They have yet to outdo themselves, but this latest incident comes pretty close.
As you may know, Nintendo's beloved gaming icon, Mario, prepares to use his famous Tanooki suit for the first time since Super Mario Bros 3 in the upcoming Super Mario 3D Land for the 3DS. Well, according to PETA, this promotes the very much existent hunt of the real animal tanooki (a raccoon-dog, apparently) and its skinning for its fur.
While the reality of the issue is cause for concern and very much within the rights of not just animal rights activists, but every decent human being's to be angry about it, the idea that a video game about a fat plumber who feasts on mushrooms is promoting any serious agendas, is downright insane.
By the way, just for the record, Mario wears the suit by eating leaves-- probably hallucinogenic, since everything in this fucking series is about drugs. The suit makes him fly and can turn him into a stone statue. Fucked if I know at which point you thought you could draw any parallel to the very real horror that threatens the actual tanooki, outside of the fact the suit looks like a raccoon. Doubly-fucked if I know how you thought this actually helps prevent the situation instead of exacerbating it, as you've given pretty much every logical person out there reason to completely dismiss the situation as the ramblings of crazy people.
So, fuck you, PETA. Fuck you and your counter-productive practices that are just steps away from being more dangerous to the planet's fauna than the people you're trying to hunt down.
If anyone's interested, the link below leads to PETA's site regarding the issue, complete with a Mario flash game, where a raccoon hunts down Mario in the Alternate Mushroom Kingdom. I'm leaving it here for reasons of "journalistic" integrity (using the term loosely), but I'd personally recommend against giving these assholes any more traffic.
http://features.peta.org/mario-kills-tanooki/
Source: TheEscapistMagazine.com
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