PETA is a little late to the game.

[AFK]

http://ingame.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/11/14/8802690-peta-attacks-nintendo-over-fur-wearing-mario

Okay, I can't actually read the article because it's blocked but I'm assuming by the headline (PETA attacks Nintendo over fur wearing Mario) it is full of fail.

Did they miss the whole bit where he's been kicking the shit out of turtles for the past couple of decades? 

I mean, you don't see me going after Mario for condoning eating magic mushrooms. 

Why?

Because it's a fucking video game.  If kids decide they should replicate a video game in real life, there are some very troubling issues lying much deeper. 

[Freeky]

wow.

And yeah, they're doing this in time with a newly released game, but you pretty much have it pegged.

You see, Nintendo has just launched its highly anticipated game "Super Mario 3D Land." The game — which you play on Nintendo's new handheld 3DS game machine — features the famed plumber Mario making his way through a cartoon land filled with cranky mushrooms, man-eating plants and nefarious turtle creatures. On occasion, the mustachioed plumber dons a furry raccoon-like "Tanooki suit" which lets him float in the air and swat this colorful host of bad guys with a tail.

PETA, however, thinks Mario's fur-wearing ways are offensive and has — just in time for the launch of "Super Mario 3D Land" — launched its own campaign pegging Mario as a killer of innocent animals.

To be clear, the E-rated "Super Mario 3D Land" never suggests that Mario slaughtered an animal for its fur. In fact, the magical Tanooki suits that he wears in the game typically spring from magical squares that magically hover in the air. These squares magically give up the suits (which at first look like magical leaves) when Mario bumps his head into them.

But according to PETA's new "Mario Kills Tanooki" website, in real life, tanuki are raccoon dogs who are skinned alive for their fur. By wearing Tanooki, Mario is sending the message that it's OK to wear fur."

[AFK]

You know, that's a good question.  How the fuck does PETA know that it is intended to be fur from a real animal, as opposed to a magical costume? 

Oh, no PETA, you're right.  In this game of flying turtles, mushrooms with eyes, block bricks hanging in the air, yep THIS is the one place that Nintendo intended the gamer to take the game literally. 

 

[Payne]

I say fuck Mario, and his fur suit.

He isn't even a good plumber anyway.

SHIT ON THAT GUY

[AFK]

I dunno, anyone who likes to hang around with sentient mushrooms must be a fungi.

[BabylonHoruv]

I think the idea of a game in which you play a freshly skinned Tanooki chasing Mario down to reclaim it's fur is kind of awesome. 

[Telarus]

I think the idea of a game in which you play a freshly skinned Tanooki chasing Mario down to reclaim it's fur is kind of awesome. 

Like everything 'Tanuki'... the Tanuki Suit is make from Tanuki Scrotum Skin.

[Cramulus]

We must save imaginary animals from symbolic violence!




Won't somebody PLEASE think of the imaginary animals!
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[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Peta is just a media whore which doesn't get enough attention, so they have to come up with some way to make people look at them.

If I was World Empress I would have every member of Peta flogged to death.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

NO WAIT

I would force them to eat nothing but kitten meat until they died of malnutrition! It would be glorious!

[Luna]

NO WAIT

I would force them to eat nothing but kitten meat until they died of malnutrition! It would be glorious!

Kitten meat?   

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

NO WAIT

I would force them to eat nothing but kitten meat until they died of malnutrition! It would be glorious!

Kitten meat?   

There are way too many kittens.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Oh wait, I'm sorry, did I reveal that I am a bad man?

[Luna]

Oh wait, I'm sorry, did I reveal that I am a bad man?

Your evil was showing, yes.

Hanging right out, there.

[Cainad (dec.)]

NO WAIT

I would force them to eat nothing but kitten meat until they died of malnutrition! It would be glorious!

Kitten meat?   

There are way too many kittens.

There are, indeed, too many fucking kittens. Spreadin' their rabies and FIV to housepets and shit.

I, for one, applaud the World Empress's grand effort to kill two birds with one nuke.