PETA: Mario is Pro Fur

[hexFrank202]

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.

 

[Daft Sikes]

I don't recall ever seeing Mario tear the fur right off of a racoon dog. Ever.

 

[Char-Nobyl]

When on a mission to rescue the princess, Mario has been known to use any means necessary to defeat his enemy-even wearing the skin of a raccoon dog to give him special powers.

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.

Tanooki may be just a "suit" in Mario games, but in real life, tanuki are raccoon dogs who are skinned alive for their fur.

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.

The site even features a charming little flash game, in which a skinless tanooki chases a grisly, fur-draped Mario through a nightmarish, blood-soaked version of the mushroom kingdom. The game is sure to delight children everywhere right up until Nintendo's lawyers get wind of it. Other games from the PETA line-up include Super Tofu boy [http://features.peta.org/super-meat-boy-parody/] and the Super Chick Sisters. [http://www.mccruelty.com/SuperChickSisters.aspx]

Know what? I'm not even giving them the page views. That's what they use to validate their existence.

Mario first donned the tanooki suit, which is admittedly quite grim when you think about it, back in Super Mario Bros 3, but he retired it in favor of the Cape in Super Mario World. The suit returned, much to the delight of fans, in the recent Super Mario 3D Land. Personally I find it far more disturbing that Mario lives in a land populated with mushroom people yet he has no qualms about eating mushrooms to grow larger, that raises some very difficult questions.

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.

 

[Hookman]

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.

 

[The Lugz]

ok.. peta have officially screwed with something they cant handle.. Nintendo's lawyers are going to rip this in half
and i'm going to watch them cackle all the way to the bank and cheer them on too!

 

[Danzavare]

Which is good news. Surely that just means there aren't any real animal issues left for PETA to worry about so they're turning their attention to video games. What else could it possibly mean!?

 

[snave]

Dear PETA,

I invite you to come visit East Asia. Go to Japan and step inside any of Don Quixote's many discount department stores. Won't take you long to browse the merchandise and find a genuine animal onesie because each store fits into a space roughly the size of your closet.

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Actually, I'm a fool for penning a response before following up the sources: this is genuinely one of their better campaigns. The raccoon dog live skinning issue is something rather horrifying that I had heard of previously, and their site only uses the Mario reference as a joke and a marketing hook. There's not even any subtle irony or sarcasm, they admit it in the second bold line atop the page. I'd say it's a good tactic, that is if there are no legal problems with Nintendo.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

Do PETA actually protest against real animals or just pretend ones? lol.

 

[Foxpack1]

I love PETA but this is just nonsense.

 

[Sansha]

No, he's not, because it's a fucking video game character.

 

[Dott]

Hey, PETA, I wear a cottoncoat.
OH MY GOD SHEEP HAIR.

 

[Furioso]

Peta Is NOT worse than Westboro, although they are incredibly annoying. And stupid. Just like Westboro. Boy, I sure hope these two groups never join forces.

I would say they are worse, WBC is all talk, they just yell at you, horrible yes but no actual harm is done, PETA actually firebombs places, encourages violence, teaches classes on how to make firebombs, and they slaughtered about 90% of the animals they "saved" last year, with a total "saved" animal kill rate of about 86%

 

[EternalFacepalm]

Is there anything you can say to this apart from /facepalm?

/eternalfacepalm

PETA, go away. Holy shit, if you're complaining that a video game features fur, then what the hell. It hurts literally no one.

 

[Jabberwock King]

And while we're at it, OMG! Alex Mercer ate a crow at the end of Prototype to regenerate after a nuclear explosion! Somebody should start complaining!

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

No one is this stupid. I know a lot of people say that but really, after the response to their complaints on killing rats and pigs if they were intelligent enough to function as human beings they would have re thought they way the go at these issues. It is becoming increasingly obvious to me that almost all of their comments are a lost cry of attention, seeking help for a cause that no one cares about. They don't try to be rational or helpful. Their just morons.

Edit: why isn't there a hunt for this organization? They repeatetly do criminal acts for the sake of rescuing animals 86 PERCENT OF WHICH THE KILL!

 

[targren]

*sigh*

PETA is to free speech what the Twilight Saga is to the printing press...

 

[Lucian The Lugia]

Hilarious. C'mon PETA, parade your idiocy some more. It brightens my day to see you fail.

 

[The Great JT]

Okay, PETA, what the hell is wrong with you? You could be doing something productive, but instead you throw a pissy fit over Mario wearing a tanooki suit?

THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS.