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Quark
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It's so great that they're spending so much money on this! I mean, why spend money keeping 'rescued' animals alive when there are Pokemon to defend? A Pokemon parody game will do far more for furthering the humane treatment of animals than that dumpster full of 'rescued' animals ever will.
I'm for humane treatment of animals, and factory farming definitely needs a lot of work, but I hate almost everything that PETA does. |
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Revolutionary
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But why exactly attack Pokemon? How many people that play Pokemon actually think that pitting animals against each other is right? I most certainly don't. It's fantasy. I mean, yes, if you think about it is quite a bit disturbing. However, if I was concerned about video games having influence over something, I'd start with all of those military video games that obviously glorify war. War is something that is very disturbing to me (and it is VERY real, unlike Pokemon), yet I'm not out protesting the existence of the countless war games released every year that are eaten up by the masses. |
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revolutionotaku
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Keonyn
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Groups like PETA or the NRA and other extreme leaning groups exist to manufacture controversy. They're so focused on their causes that they look over anything and everything related with a fine tooth comb and just overreact at anything they can that gets their convoluted message out. If they have to make a mountain out of a mole hill or even out of nothing then they'll do it if it means they have an opening to make a statement whether it's rational or not. |
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PusoPimp
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Well, to a normal and sane person like anyone here it is really isn't bad, but this is PETA we're talking about. They ain't normal, I would remind that they're the same people who attacked Mario on the basis that "he wears fur". You'd think, necessary or not that they'd be all over them the second they heard about it's existence wouldn't ya? Yes there are far worse things out there in the video game world. I mean, forget the military FPS games, ever heard of Postal 2 ?It's a game where you play as a mailman who gets fired from his job and go on a rampage killing as many civilians and police as you can before dropping dead (fortunately for them they somehow made this comical, so people didn't care as much). Or how 'bout this Japan only game called Rapelay where the object of the game is to rape a woman and her 16 year old daughter on a subway train. Those are things that should be protested, but of coarse portray humans getting killed/raped (except for the one part in postal where you shove a rifle up a cat's as so far it stays on and it serves as a barrel decoration, but that's neither here nor there) not animals, so PETA don' give a shit lol. |
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Polycell
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Ummm.... Rapelay isn't(and wasn't) exactly unique.... it just happened to get imported to the US and noticed by the "Porn is Satan!" brigade.
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rizuchan
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The thing I find interesting about PETA's Pokemon and Mario campaigns lately...
...These games replicate the game mechanics of Pokemon really accurately, don't you think? Honestly, they seem kinda tongue-and-cheek to me. Like some group of Nintendo-loving programmers at PETA are trolling the rest of the organization. |
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Quark
Posts: 710 Location: British Columbia, Canada |
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Oh, I'm well aware of their tactics. I wouldn't even care about them overreacting so much if they actually did some good and weren't so hypocritical. http://www.petakillsanimals.com/trial Is what I'm referring to. They've got the money to do promotions that are meaningless, or even worse, insulting and degrading to various groups of people (women, cancer patients, Holocaust survivors), but they can't afford to run a no-killer shelter? Yeah. Okay. PETA's actions have guaranteed that they will never get a dime of my money. I'll give it to the SPCA or local no-kill shelters instead. At least they do what they say they're going to do without being offensive and provocative. (I apologize for getting so riled up about this. It tends to happen whenever I hear about PETA)[/url] |
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