PeTA vs. Furries

[CrossEyed7]

I have to admit, I always get a kick out of PeTA's Mario Flash games. They're pretty fun.

(the picture is a link, by the way)

[billy chilly]

Was there ever a point when PeTA stood for something besides schlocky, tacky self-promotion?  No?  Okay.

[Weegee]

Jesus.

[bobbysq1337]

Is there a game where you're a fly and you must avoid Obama's hand?

[Lizard Dude]

Skinned alive? Is that true? Why alive?

bobbysq1337: The Fly on the Wall

[Weegee]

Skinned alive? Is that true? Why alive?

Because meat-eaters and fur-wearers are heartless sadists who delight in making small mammals suffer.

[bobbysq1337]

Because meat-eaters are heartless sadists who delight in making small mammals suffer.

Because, you know, eating delicious bacon is EVIL! MWAHAHAHAHA! IT'S FUN! NUMMY! OM NOM NOM NOM OF DOOM! ALL YOUR BACONS ARE BELONG TO EVIL! I USED A GOLD MINE, AN OIL RIG, AND MY OWN COUNTRY TO BUY BACON!
You see how silly that sounded?

[Weegee]

...You know I was being sarcastic, right?

[Lizard Dude]

It looks like a video surfaced a while back of a Chinese fur factory skinning animals alive because it was supposedly more efficient, but other than that it doesn't appear to be a thing. Live skinning also runs the risk of staining the pelt with blood. I don't think any tanuki actually get skinned alive.

bobbysq1337, did you ignore my link?

[bobbysq1337]

...You know I was being sarcastic, right?

Yes, I was just sort of continuing yolur post with my own twist.

bobbysq1337, did you ignore my link?

No, just looked a bit different from what I expected.

I also noticed that some of PETA's games are really messed up.

[PaperLuigi]

...and they're okay with Mario stepping on turtles?

[Kuromatsu]

Apparently the Penguin Slaughtering during the events of New Super Mario Bros. Wii went by unnoticed as well

[billy chilly]

As did the senseless cruelty against man-sized bumble bees in the Galaxy games.

[ShadowBrain]

I like how some of the media (okay, at least Yahoo News) is this as an attention-getter by implying LOLNOES A MARIO GAME IS CONTROVERSHUL. Well, shut up--PETA sucks, and they do this all the time. What a bunch of five-year-olds. Animal cruelty is bad, but we've got to eat something--and Mario's not going to be able to fly and save the princess without a *****in' tanuki tail. Neither goombas nor tanukis even actually exist, so they might as well be complaining about reindeer abuse in time for the holidays.

My apologies if this seems blunt. I've been pretty swamped lately, so my posts (which I really shouldn't be making in the first place, I suppose, but I'm mildly addicted to this place) might be a bit more, uh... off the cuff here and there.

[billy chilly]

Neither goombas nor tanukis even actually exist, so they might as well be complaining about reindeer abuse in time for the holidays.

Tanuki would like a word with you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanuki

[PaperLuigi]

Animal cruelty is bad, but we've got to eat something

Er, what happened to vegetables?

[ShadowBrain]

Something with protein in it. That tastes good with spices.

[PaperLuigi]

There are other ways to get complete protein.

I'm actually a meat eater, I just don't like it when people use that argument.

[ShadowBrain]

Alright, fine, I'll admit it's a [dukar]ty defense. I still think people are genetically predisposed to be omnivorous, though.

[PaperLuigi]

Yeah and some people have a predisposition to kill. Descriptive qualities say nothing about the rightness or wrongness of a thing.

Still, I think PETA went full retard. There are an infinite number of possible worlds where killing animals (or wearing a raccoon dog outfit in this case) is the norm. They too can't determine what's good or bad in actuality, so it's pointless to apply them to real life dilemmas.

[ShadowBrain]

Yeah and some people have a predisposition to kill. Descriptive qualities say nothing about the rightness or wrongness of a thing.

I'm not talking about morals, I'm talking about evolutionarily-ingrained dietary habits.

[bobbysq1337]

I love the poll results.

[ShadowBrain]

I totally forgot there even was one.

[Luigison]

http://www.dorkly.com/video/27944/dorkly-bits-mario-responds-to-peta

[Weegee]

[johnny1up]

Mario doesn't skin Racoon Dogs alive to get his suit, he gets it from a leaf. I know that game was just a parody, but honestly, the fact that they relate Mario to skinning live animals is disgusting, and saying the game encourages people to wear fur is beyond ridiculous. Who are they trying to convince? I also hate how they imply that the only way to kill animals is to brutally beat and torture them while most methods are quick and painless. How is that different than euthenizing 80% of all the animals they take in? I'm all for the rightful treatment of animals, but PeTA is looking completely one-sided to me, and I'm pretty sure I'll never be supporting them.

[BP]

Who are they trying to convince?

No one. And they never actually are. They do the most absurd things they can think of (trying to rename fish "sea kittens," for example) because even negative attention is attention and attention is all they want.

[bobbysq1337]

Some people that seem to have similar opinions to us. (Only one might show up)
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[penguinwizard]

It's no secret that I think furries win... which I'll just leave at that... but seriously, PETA doing this was in really bad taste. And the first time I saw their game, I thought "well that's even more offensive than some of the M-rated games out there today". I sure hope there isn't anyone crazy enough to play the game and take a moral lesson from it. Or any kids for that matter. ...and I think they made the game tough on purpose just to taunt us with skinless tanukis.

But on the subject of a Tanuki suit making Mario fly, I still believe it should be Raccoon Mario credited with making him originally fly, not Tanuki. ...oh right, nevermind, the only raccoon-like animals that Japan has are tanukis, so... Mario had a tanuki tail all along. Which is why it's a round tanuki tail and not a raccoon tail. Wow am I out of the loop.

I can only hope PETA goes the way of Jack Thompson and just disbands and disappear.

[A]

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. Tanooki may just be a "suit"...

Are they implying that Mario literally murders and skins actual animals to get his suits?
Have they not seen the games?
Those pelts are just lying around already. He didn't make them.
Might as well put them to some use I mean.

[CrossEyed7]

So, based on the intro to NSMBW, can we infer that Peach routinely kills just massive amounts of penguins Bumpties? Was there some kind of Bumpty genocide at some point in the relatively recent past (considering how flexible the skins still are)?

[bobbysq1337]

So, based on the intro to NSMBW, can we infer that Peach routinely kills just massive amounts of penguins Bumpties? Was there some kind of Bumpty genocide at some point in the relatively recent past (considering how flexible the skins still are)?

No, the Toads do. They were the ones giving the penguin suits to Peach.

[randomuser2349]

Was there ever a point when PeTA stood for something besides schlocky, tacky self-promotion?  No?  Okay.

Yes, earlier.
Until a large amount of militant animal supremacists seized the organization.