It was all a joke, says PETA

November 17th, 2011

It was all a joke, says PETA

The crazy folk in charge of PETA have made a final statement in regards to their campaign against Mario and Super Mario 3D Land. It was a joke! Or at least that’s their story now. Here’s what they’ve said:

Mario fans: Relax! PETA’s game was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, a fun way to call attention to a serious issue, that raccoon dogs are skinned alive for their fur. We wish real-life tanukis could fly or swat enemies away with their tails and escape from those who profit from their skins. You can help them by never buying real fur.

This is obviously a continuing publicity stunt and I’m probably falling into their trap by writing about this, but at the same time it’s proof to never trust PETA and to never support PETA. They’re either incompetent morons making a “joke” that aims to harm the reputation of a company, or they’re incompetent morons who make a bold statement but back down and change their story as soon as it receives a negative response.

Cosmic Mario

Or so they say it is…

http://gravatar.com/elffcc E.L.

It was all a troll attempt for attention.
awesome

YA PETA LIKE I SAID DONT HATE APPRECIATE
Thefranny1995

Were leaving the protection of animals to these guys?! Anyone see a flaw in this?
DavidW
ha ha ha….

yeah sure peta and my mom is taylor swiftz(SARCASIM JOKE HAHAHA)

Fernap

Nintendo sent some “friends” to make them shut up xD

http://www.gamesradar.com GameManiac

They committed suicide when Nintendo sent Navi to them.

Listening to “Hey!” and “Listen!” ad nauseam will make anyone do so.
yoyo

I don’t see no one laughing ಠ_ಠ
yoyo

WTF how was my comment a reply?
Ruīji !

@GameManiac OH. MY. GOSH. That was possibly the funniest thing I have geard all week. And who wouldn’t?
Ruīji !

*Heard (epic fail.)

Cecil

So it was all a joke…………

FUCK YOU PETA!!!
we will never trust you fags ever again!!
even though i never even trust you one bit!

ahmad

but you gotta remember that these guys are also good, they’re against animal cruelty (dancing bears, animal testing, etc..) its a sad story and you gotta remember that you don’t judge people by their leader (e.g good leader bad people)…most of the time
thomas1up

They’ve done more than this ahmad, as many said they’re trolls, not once have they helped animals.
Matt

@ahmad: since when did they stop some rich a** from buying another fur coat when they dumped paint all over it?
http://hybrilynx.net/ Hybrilynx

i feel the same with nintendo. trust no one.

FlyGuy95

HAHAHAHAHA

PETA IM GOING TO PUNCH YOU IN THE F*coin*NG FACE
http://Thisisnotarealwebsite Username

Pee-tu

http://Thisisnotarealwebsite Username

PEE-TU.

Free of Birth

Too late PETA… You shouldn’t have taken it so seriously in the first place.

Ruīji !

Really. They are probably just saying this because of all the people back lashing at them and calling them idiots, which happens when they do practically anything, which shows you can never trust PETA!

Navolas2

Rhino Pubes

Mike S

PETA: MARIO KILLS TANUKIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nintendo: *Threatens with lawsuit*
PETA: It was all a joke :) *phew* that was a close one

sam3ds

I just have to wonder, if this was a joke, why did they make a website and whole flash game about it?

Peckingbird

HAHAHAHA, hilarious joke! ¬.¬

Mike S

I can’t figure out what that symbol you’re using for eyes is, where is it on a keyboard?????
Peckingbird

On uk keyboards it’s under the escape key, for all macs (US and UK) I’m pretty sure it’s Alt + L, if your not sure what it is try Alt L and if that doesn’t work I can’t help you Dx.
Mike S

¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬¬ :)
Mike S

¬¬
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Mike S

what do you use for the mouth?
Ruīji !

@Mike S. You just put a period in between it: ¬.¬
Mike S

¬.¬ I’m so tupid i thought you put something under it XD
Mike S

*stupid
ahmad

¬.¬ works for me
thomas1up

¬.¬
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Symbol de Au

I’m going to give them the benefit of the doubt after all we all knew it was a joke from the start we just didn’t think it was intentional.

SparktehFox

Lets go back to the original statement:
“Tanooki may be just a ‘suit’ in Mario games, but 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.”

Wich part of that is a joke or tongue in cheek?

PantaroP

hahahahahaha RELEASE THE HOUNDS!!!

Mega

lol thumbs up

That Dude With Those Afghan Hounds

I actually went and bought a Davy Crockett fur hat all because of PETA. Had to go and get it out of summer storage when i read that crap. Rockin it as i type! Off to Micky D’s now…

That Dude With Those Afghan Hounds

I mean, PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. They CAN be bred/grown/killed ETHICALLY. Sorry for yelling, it’s just that there’s actual craftmanship and skill and design involved and i’ve seen actual people suffer because of self-righteous twerps (PETA/ALF) decide they’re “activists” and “punk rockers” for a fucking week.
Pierre Luc Beaudry

Sorry, but I don’t see killing an animal to satisfy taste buds as ethical. Not one bit.
SparktehFox

Not even when other wildlife do it every fuckin day?
Belinni

High-five Spark!
SparktehFox

YEAH!
*High fives Belinni*

http://www.mohdfikree.com mohdfikree

This is what’s in my head after knowing that PETA was kidding… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Z4m4lnjxkY
1-up Dude

Man they r stoopid -_-
I’m killin some Tanookizzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

aw it was just a joke. I was having fun.

Michael M

Time to switch back to my old username. Peta won’t let me make fun of there joke.

http://passid.ca/paulio LazyKite

well i guess they try and spread their message in anyway possible. So really its a marketing stroke of Genius!

Seriously how els are you gonna get peoples attention about the fur trade, by hijacking a major game product release PETA can ride companies hype.

They are a bunch of trolls though and they must have got scared by Ninties lawyers.
bill

This would only make sense to be a publicity stunt. Remember to bring more grains of salt next time. :)
Xtractor

are you kidding me?!…oh wait…you are….PETA, YOU DONT EVEN TAKE YOUR OWN BUSINESS SERIOUSLY! STUPED IDIOTS!
Cecil

Right when nintendo said they were sewing PETA for $90,000,000,000 PETA said “it was just a joke”

Skylighter

Wow, sewing $90,000,000,000 must take a pretty long time…
Willch

Imagine all the stitch work….

or the amount of soil you’d have to dig (depending on which type of sewing you mean)

Christi

It’s called a Parody retcon, it’s how idiots lie about how that stupid thing they did was actually meant to parody similar stupidity (none of which they are responsible for of course). So yeah, PETA still sucks balls.
Mr Guy

You got your publicity PETA. You pissed off thousands of gamers, and made animal abuse prevention look like a joke, but you got publicity. I hope you go bankrupt in a week, and I never have to hear your trolling again.

Ruīji !

Yeah, we all can wish but they won’t go away ¬.¬
DelegateZero

Why are you “pissed off”? How can a non-profit go bankrupt? Do you know anything about PETA or animal cruelty?
Mr Guy

@DelegateZero
Okay, I made a mistake, and I give you credit for finding it, HOWEVER, don’t you dare say that I know nothing of PETA or animal cruelty. I think that it is sickening that PETA would compare something as serious as animal cruelty to a Mario game, and then make a creepy flash game involving a skinned tanooki running through a blood spattered world to reclaim his skin. PETA excels in one thing, and one thing only, TROLLING.
DelegateZero

Mr. Guy, I wasn’t assuming anything about you. I was asking questions.

I can’t understand how you feel. I actually see it in a completely different light; it disgusts me that people would get offended over a fictional- and almost racists depiction of, an Italian superhero in a video game being used as a vassal to send a far more serious message that should be extremely easy to get behind; people skinning animals (just like your pet dog or cat that you have an emotional bond with and can relate to on certain levels) for profit and fashion when there are. very, cheaper, durable and more ethical alternatives with the exact same styles.

No one can really debunk that. PETA reached gamers, maybe not you, who will see it their way and be a bit more considerate when they buy clothing.

It’s not ‘trolling’ as we know it.

Thanks for not being overtly insulting, though, I appreciate that, man. =]
DelegateZero

And just to clarify, I’m a really big fan of Mario, and Nintendo over all, but I’m a bigger fan of ethical thinking. I beat SM3DL yesterday, and I’m going around a second time to get all the Star Coins. B]
Xarreno

It may be good publicity for them and it probably will get the attention of gamers, but that doesn’t change the fact that they used an unappropriate icon to spread their cause. Maybe more mature games or something that actually involves animal skinning and wearing it like Monster Hunter or Skyrim, but nothing so whimsical and innocent like Mario.

Well, they got their publicity for picking on one of the gaming industry’s biggest icons, but look what happened. It was never a good thought-out reasonable idea to use him. It probably isn’t a good idea to use games for the cause at all, but you need to get to specific audiences some way…

That’s why PETA is an untrustworthy group. For it’s incoherent choices in propaganda and it’s few unreasonable trolling members that put up stupid excuses to gain attention. They do it right sometimes, but most times it’s for naught.
Mr Guy

@DelegateZero
I can tell that you are not a troll, and that you sincerely care about your cause. Because of this, you have my respect, but I think that comparing the skinning of animals to a power up in a Mario game involving a magic leaf makes the whole process of protecting animals look like a joke. I wish you would use different means to get your point across.

Tazer

All I can say is: UNBELIEVABLE!!
Pep

They may made a mistake on accusing Nintendo in that way, but your reply is beyond pathetic, David. I don’t know these guys, I don’t know what they do, I do know sometimes their way to say the things is ridiculous, but your free insults at an organization with noble causes that is saving the animals just because they misinterpreted a videogame shows the kind of dumb person you are. I thought you were smarter than that, but you’re just an ignorant kid.
You lost a reader here.

David Turnbull

A noble cause does not equate to a noble organisation though. And, if you were to visit the link mentioned at the bottom of the post, you would see they’re not pulling through with their promises on the ethical treatment of animals at all.
bill

I’m sure not everyone at PETA thought this was a good idea.
Ruīji !

Rude much? And I am sure David doesn’t care that he lost you as a reader, if you can’t take some joking. By the way, PETA, a so called group -for- the animals, puts a TON of animals to sleep for no reason.
Popipo

Yes, keeping animals safe from harm and making sure they aren’t killed for an “inhumane” cause is a good thing. But PETA is a horrible organization. They do nothing but spout nonsense and make a good cause sound ignorant and stupid. I really hope they die in the future and make room for a good, upstanding organization to come out of the clouds to do what they were actually MADE to do. Believe in animal rights NOT PETA!
Brian

PETA doesn’t give a shit about animals. They’re a just another business pulling stunts like this for money. The president of PETA himself said that he would be against finding a cure for AIDS if it meant saving a few animals from testing, and you’re going to take them seriously? The fact that you’re not following this blog anymore based on one comment shows what an immature little bitch you are. Please, go on and leave, no one wants you.
James

“misinterpreted a videogame”?

That in itself is pathetic. It’s obvious that these folks didn’t just “misinterpret a videogame”. You’d have to be a moron to “misinterpret” a Mario game for slaughtering animals (and campaigning against it).

Oh, and an organization that claims to help animals just for funding that ends up killing them would not be defined as “noble”.
DelegateZero

It’s incredible how little you guys know about PETA. David, I’m a member of PETA, and a huge fan of Mario. I think this was a very effective ad on their part. I’m kind of offended that you would say these things, but you didn’t lose a reader here, I’m really hoping that you acknowledge that you made a mistake by writing what you did, but I can’t expect you to understand everything, you’re only a video game blogger, not a political activist.

David Turnbull

@DelegateZero – I’m happy that you’re going to remain a reader. But I still believe it to be wrong that PETA would exploit any company in this way, so I don’t believe my criticisms are a mistake. That’s of course the joy of differing opinions though. :)

Free of Birth

trololol
DelegateZero

David, “exploit” is an overstatement. So, how do you feel about comedian parodying the fictional character Mario to gain viewer? Have you written a blog post about any hundreds of youtube videos depicting Mario as a womanizing, psychedelic mushroom consuming sociopath?

It makes people laugh. There’s no harm in that. But to be reactionary towards an organization parodying a different aspect of the character for an actual cause is extremely foolish. Stick to blogging about 3DS news, you can’t be a militant video game activist if you take up issues like this rather than, say, Cali’s attempted legislation forcing censorship on certain video game.
Popipo

A comedian’s job is to be funny. I did not laugh at this. Even if it was a joke, I don’t think I can take a serious organization seriously if they make such a bold statement on something that wasn’t a serious cause. I mean, making a small joke on something truly horrible that isn’t Mario I guess I could understand. But, not a whole webpage dedticated to a crappy joke. Maybe if they put that kind of effort into killing less adoptable animals a year as they did that crappy videogame, maybe JUST MAYBE I’d actually take PETA seriously. I do not support the inhumane killing of animals, but I’m just not too fond of PETA…
http://bit.ly/coolernow123 coolernow123

@Pep fuck youuuuuu, fuck youuuuuuu
Ruīji !

@DelegateZero This is 3DS news. It’s about a game that is on the 3DS, Super Mario 3D Land, and it’s getting bashed for no apparent reason. Anyway David can write about whatever he wants, after all it is his blog.
http://Gravatar.com Symbol de Au

@DelegateZero: Fair enough, but the difference is that everyone knows comedians are joking from the start and a single person/small group of people is different from an organization. There’s also the fact that PETA is known to overreact so there’s bound to be controversy over whether this was an actual joke. Making a joke like this knowing your own reputation will cause misunderstandings isn’t very well thought out.

In any case how about explaining why it has the highest kill rate of all facilities in its vicinity and why it only managed to get 44 animals adopted in an entire year. Out of thousands no less. If you can explain it would make the outlook on your organization a bit brighter.
DelegateZero

@Ruiji Yes. If you read what I wrote, I did state that I understand Dave can write what ever he’d like, following “it’s your blog”, however it’s in a separate post on this thread, it probably hasn’t caught your eye.

@Symbol First off, I would love if you posted your sources, as PETA is under constant attack by the right-wing and people involved with the businesses that PETA interferes with, which is understandable, I would be pissed if I invested my life selling over priced meat patties, etc… Just like people who own factories that contribute to Global Warming, or how slave owners in the south refused to give up their right to own another human being.. So they would be happy to skew facts and out-right lie to convince people to hate PETA at all costs. And I understand that a LOT of people have fallen victim to this.

PETA actually does have a history of being funny and parodying, so there for there is a premise to that. The thing is, when people are told that they’re doing something wrong, they feel insecure and victimized, so instead of critically thinking and considering the suggested ethical change, they get defensive and angry.

Just like when the Communist Party was under attack by the House of Un-American Activities. The CP did LOADS of positive things for the nation; the civil rights movement, the labor movement and the creation of the AFL-CIO, anti-war movements, and they fought for free speech, but tax payer dollars went into infiltrating and slandering the CP to change the publics’ perception of them.

(inb4 Commie scum; Kojima is a sympathizer of Communism as is reflected in most MGS games- Anti-war, anti-nuke, anti-capitalist statements and metaphors can back this up. So, if you hate me for it, hate Kojima, too. ;] )
Xarreno

There’s only one thing I don’t agree with you, David. It’s the fact that you wrote down that you should never support PETA. I agree that they are untrustworthy, some of their members are probably the moronic fools, and using Mario was and extremely poor choice in propaganda, but to say to never support them (and that the entire group is at fault) was a careless choice of words.

Some members probably take it the right way, but most don’t; as that’s what it looks like. After all, it’s a non-profit group that anyone can join in and those who do may perchance cause the most turmoil for careless actions. PETA doesn’t have direct control over all of its members and because of that, more of these lousy protests are made.

So blame the people, not so much the corporation because PETA probably has to clean up the mess that their irresponsible members make (hence the drawback to their previous claim towards Mario). PETA only has about 300 official members and over 2 million members and supporters, so I wouldn’t be surprised a small group of those members/supporters are the cause. PETA isn’t a bad group, entirely.
Xarreno

That is, if those members can affect their website. Otherwise, I believe one of their employees is pulling the strings, not the entire corporation.

Mike S

Mike S

this is at PETA, just so you guys know……

Hypersonic45

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16c0CF9iJj8&feature=related

About Peta…
someguy97

lol PETA was never a joke

they just couldn’t handle all the hate mail they got LOL

someguy97

and then again, if it was a joke, isn’t making a video and typing a huge text blog on their page a little too much and taking it too far for a joke?
someguy97

I mean “video game”

Andrew

Amen. At everything you said. And the link you shared.
http://youtube.com/64supermarioreturns 64supermarioreturns

I know fur kills PETA. Why don’t you do something that is more…I don’t know effective…like show the movie “Earthling” that movie made me want to punch people that wear fur in the face…this made me want to punch you in the face.
Newah

PETA: “Hey look-they have a tanooki suit in Super Mario 3D Land! Let’s start a campaign against it!”

5 days later:
PETA: “People are really angry at us. Let’s just say it was all a joke. :)”
Twix

Bad joke……
Ttimer

Well i didnt care about this but what ticks me off is that they may be saying that video they had on the website with the mario game is just a fake…..that no skin tanooki looks real and i fell bad for it and i wonder how much suffering it is going thru. I have had that image burning in my head and i am scared. I just want that suffering to go away. PLEASE dont support PETA but support those helpless animals.
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Matthew

Really? Lmfao/
http://..... luisj96

here is my reaction when i saw this

http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/entries/icons/original/000/005/545/OpoQQ.jpg?1302279173

Connor Russell

^that

Cory

Eh, maybe they really did JUST want people to know it was wrong, so they targeted Mario, a very well-known franchise by thousands of gamers, to spread publicity. I kinda am gonna believe them, after all, I see what they was trying to do… :) It was stupid though! :/
AdmanAbou

PETA is retarded
Holonboy

So basically PETA spent tons of money on a “joke” campaign while they could’ve spent it to help their cause? Well, they could’ve STARTED spending money to help their cause…
Skylighter

PETA: It was all a good joke! hahaha
Nintendo: ha-ha ha… *bang*
Mr.nomnomz

For a joke they seemed really serious about it…
Kaede

what a Trolling they did xD
Charles

*Facepalm*
SandshrewCobalion

They wanted publicity and instead they got loads of people hating them ( who doesn’t love Mario ) And im gonna have nightmares tonight from that video on their website, Makes me hate them even more!!!!!!!!
Devinal215

Got themselves in this and now there backing out, c’mon peta you can’t do that.
Thomas Jones

its only a joke on the 1st of april
drwill439

I realized that PETA was ineffective when it tried to make me a vegan with Super Tofu Boy. Jack Thompson got better results than these dumbasses.
Baris

ASPCA > PETA

Also if it was meant to be a joke, I wasn’t laughing.
Meesho

To be honest, PETA probably did Nintendo some good by making their upcoming game receive some extra attention before being released–plus some people who hate PETA now want to get the Mario game and kill Tanuki just out of spite for PETA.

It could be that PETA was making a tongue-in cheek joke, which, if it was, is actually kind of funny since they were making fun of their own craziness, but it also did succeed in bringing attention to not only their whole “save Tom Nook” cause, but also in giving Nintendo some good publicity (I’m sure very, very few people thought ill of Nintendo after reading an article about PETA’s video game).

All-in-all, I’m kind of glad PETA did it. I thought the whole thing was funny, I played their game a bit, which was good for a laugh, and my favorite game company got some extra attention.
Connor Russell

REALLY, a JOKE! (liar liar pants on fire! :) )
Brian

Yeah fucking right. I should expected this of them, as soon as they receive negative backlash they change their story. Pathetic.
Willch

Oh yeah, it’s all a joke.
Which is why it says “F*** you, Mario!” when you beat PETA’s (the Protection of Eating Tasty Animals) little game.
(yes, I was sad enough to finish it)

What I find more humorous though is that they’re trying to get publicity by saying that Mario is evil… by creating a game… does anyone else see the irony??
http://passid.ca/Darin Wildman

–P.E.T.A.–

Patheticly
Erroneous
Troll
Alliance

Link3DS

Epic acronym
Willch

I prefer: The Protection of Eating Tasty Animals

but I see where you’re coming from :P

Link3DS

I call bullshit
Willch

I preferred it when PETA just got naked with animals :(
LadyyJuse

Their joke was so funny; I forgot to laugh…
SKent

Jeez, did you have to push that CCF propaganda? *(the Peta Kills website)

A lot of people need to figure out the difference between “just a joke”, and using humorously provocative/gross-out satire to draw attention to a serious issue.
scotty

wow it better been, u cant ever blame nintendo
Somebody

Screw you PETA. *Puts on leather jacket and eats hamburger*
Nin-Sony Box

I LIKE PETA……….BREAD

http://bit.ly/coolernow123 coolernow123

With some tzatziki sauce

Reshiram52

just after Nintendo’s message, holy crap
Peter

Uh yeah, playing off Mario was not joke worthy.
I don’t think they know what a joke is anymore.
Die in a fire.

DavidW

I KNOW RIGHT

cecil

PETA were we suppose to laugh??
3DyeS

David – while I agree with your assessment of the absurdity of PETA’s Mario campain, I urge you to remove the link you included to ‘PETA kills animals’; a right wing propaganda site run by Richard Berman. You can find out about this corporate stooge and his misinformation here: http://bermanexposed.org/

David Turnbull

I’m removed the link. To be honest, I don’t know much about this particular side of things, so I guess it’s best not to support anything too strongly.
3DyeS

Thanks David.

KLoo

This is off topic from this article but, did anyone know to day was Mr. Miyamoto’s Birth Day?
I didn’t :P

http://wii.ign.com/articles/121/1212688p1.html

http://bit.ly/coolernow123 coolernow123

Happy bday miyamoto!…back to the current fanrage againsta peta…

DavidW

PETA: “U mad?”
Me: “I ain’t even mad”
Jule S.

i still like peta :), they do good work for animals, someone has to.
crash

I hate the disrespect for animals in the world. Skinned alive raccoons, abused/abandoned animals, its sick. People take advantage of animals disadvantages. Just because they’re not as intellegent as us, doesn’t mean we kill them because we can. I mean look at us, we think that donating to the “Help a sneeze” foundation is more important then saving animals lives. I’m not saying that i think Mario is a Tanuki stripper, but i am saying that the PETA has a point. If someone doesn’t take a stand for animals, who will?

SKent

Very much agreed. It’s bad enough that this shit goes on, but I hate the sense of entitlement about it.

As clumsy as PETA were with this campaign, they certainly succeeded in getting attention. I think it’s the wrong type of attention, but a more restrained approach would’ve probably been ignored.
James

If only organizations did stuff to help them, instead of claiming to for money.
David Turnbull

We’re not arguing against the cause. We’re arguing that PETA themselves is ineffective and doing silly publicity stunts.
DelegateZero

Yeah, David. Most people don’t care about animal rights; hell, they don’t care about human rights either. Sometimes you have to wear red in gray city.

If you hate PETA for it, then you’d have to hate every comedy writer for every comedy show that has ever said a word about Mario or any other fictional character in the Nintendo family. It’s called parody. I’m sorry that they offended you, but they accomplished what they set out to do, begin a dialog between gamers about something that they feel is irrelevant to them.

So, no, they aren’t “morons”, but rather extremely good PR folk.
SKent

“If you hate PETA for it, then you’d have to hate every comedy writer for every comedy show that has ever said a word about Mario or any other fictional character in the Nintendo family.”

true enough. It’s similar to using South Park gross-out gore to deal with a serious issue. South Park as much as they go outrageously over-the-top, it’s often to explore an issue, or make a point.
DelegateZero

Yay! Finally someone who is legitimately “aware” of PR tactics.

Yes! It’s very much like South Park’s N-word Man episode, to use the most overt example! Thank you! =]
Question_mark

@DelegateZero
the big differance is that the comedians are already taken as jokers and people don’t read to much into what they say. When a professional organization is saying that a game has evil undertones and they aren’t known for joking around all the time, they could be taken seriously and it could impact sales for nintendo which is, I bet, the reason david dislikes there attempts at making a statement this way. Furthermore I feel that they could have approached it with a less serious tone (computers don’t emote sarcasm that well XP) and tell people its a joke from the beginning. Doing childish thing like this isn’t helping them make there point anyway, thats like the feed the children organization making a videogame where you rip up the pillsbary dough boy and feed him to starving african children, it may make people think of starving children, but not in a serious light and its just a stunt that makes them look immature. it also makes them look like they believe in a good cause but don’t have the maturity to tackle their problems effectivelly and evoke feelings of compassion in others.
DelegateZero

@Question_Mark, If you look around I have already addressed this throughly in another post. I’m trying not to be ultra-redundant.

PETA has a very large history of using satire to get their point across, just like comedians. Plus, there’s always free speech. Just as it was David’s right to say what he did, and my right to respond negatively.

PETA is a non-profit and their job is not to cater to you by passively post tweets without hash tags so as you will never be bothered by their concerns, but rather to get into your face to address serious issues. And they accomplished that. Just like comedians strive to make you laugh; PETA strives to make you think about ethics, and hopefully make you smile by investing time making a simple flash game parodying a beloved universal symbol of fun.

Maybe the grandmothers who collect Yankee Candles from Cracker Barrel will be the next PR targets, and many of them, who wouldn’t change anyways, will get upset, but others may consider a more ethical life choices from that campaign. Make sense?

http://www.youtube.com/user/Pikawil64 Pikawil

If PETA really wanted attention, they would have rated SM3DL with the dreaded score of 7.5.
http://gravatar.com/jacknzack27 JacknZack

…-___-…
Nexas

Jesus fucking christ, lighten up, people. It’s called satire. :T
Alejandro

Guys peta are just so fools because they never thought about that because they are just trying to not get in problems
meliakh

let PETA know I’m torturing innocent mosquitoes by ripping their wings off in response.
meliakh

here’s a good place to learn more about peta and their bullshit
Smockers

One word:

Woooooooooooooooooow.
Squish

Well that should be the end of that. Time for me to go back to forgetting that PETA exists.
http://www.youtube.com/user/theicedude545 icedude545

ok now there turning it into a joke
captainchew2

this makes me want to go skin some tanooki.
nintendofan

F-off, PETA.
If that sh*t was meant to be a joke we should’ve been laughing sooner rather than 6 years from now!! >:(

put THAT on your bloody website.

DelegateZero

So, you’re upset that PETA made a statement by finding humor in a fictional character to effectively point out injustices? That’s not very rational. I’m sorry your non-existent entity was blasphemed. But to be fair, do you watch Family Guy or any other cartoon shows that provide humorous content poking crass fun at pop culture icons? Because there’s very many.

It must be a different story when it actually helps a cause. Hypocrite.
nintendofan

How about you get yourself a tanookie suit and beat it, you bloody bass! My opinion my business!
nintendofan

And just so you know, David has the right to say whatever he wants to say on his blog. And EVERYONE else on this blog have the rights to say what they want too.

I don’t care if you’re a Nintendo fan or a vegan or a bloodsucking vampire. You don’t go around and accuse people on this blog of being stupid and not seeing the big picture in this situation! PETA’s message about Mario 3D Land, WITHOUT ANY MENTION OF THIS BEING A JOKE IN THE FIRST PLACE, made it seem like they attacked the game. Plus, doing that is pretty stupid. And why is that? Because it’s a video game! Do they care about all other animals actually being killed on the road? Absolutely not! Your opinion is purely hypocrisy and moronic.

On a lighter note, learn to respect people’s opinions once a while. If you don’t, then fuck off!!
DelegateZero

Right! My opinion; everyone’s business because I decided to post it on a social outlet for the public to see! Duurrr, or were you too busy to considering whether or not to show the public your lack of effective, creative G-rated insults to put thought in to your latter statement?
nintendofan

Oh! And I don’t watch Family Guy. That show SUCKS!
DelegateZero

Actually, I agree! I hate Family guy, it’s too formulaic and redundant. But I use it as an example because of it’s overwhelming popularity.
nintendofan

Yeah… sure… my G-rated insults. You want M-rated insults?

Take a left turn down the highway not far from every freeway in every states near forests and parks. They are squirrels, raccoons, dogs, and even crows being fucked up in the street by idiots on their speedy cars. Blood and guts splattered everywhere, and their heads ripped off their shattered skulls, it’s disgusting. One week, two, then three weeks passes by and they are nothing more but actual bloodied carpets.

Is that M-rated enough for ya, pal? I do my part in helping these animals by actually stopping in the middle of the road to get them out of the way. People don’t. If I’m in a hurry, I change lanes. People don’t.

If you want to help animals and do something right rather than complain about us being stupid about what PETA is doing, I suggest you do three things. Write them down:

1. Get your guys to clean up these highways off these poor dead creatures

2. Talk to PETA about these animals being killed everyday on the road

3. Finally, get traffic control for THESE animals, even squirrels. They are traffic controls for deers, why not for these creatures, hmm?

The more time you earn to save these creatures from extinction will not only benefit these animals, but it’ll actually make PETA look more professional than they seem. And we don’t have to hear whiners such as you complaining about us whining when we’re only sharing our opinions!

If you want more M-rated insults, there’s an urbandictionary for your reader’s digest.

Good night.
nintendofan

Speaking of G-rating my insults, I’ll G-rate all of my insults whenever I want. Keeps me sane and sinless unlike some people…

Now it’s a good night.
DelegateZero

Wow, um.. Actually, none of what you wrote as at all insulting or really directed at me, but rather some bizarre maunder… You couldn’t be any more incompetent, I guess.

It’s okay, man. We all gotta rage sometimes I guess, and sometimes we all sound pretty stupid, you’re not alone. Maybe the next time you post something you’ll have another chance to sound a bit brighter.

Good night, mate.

DelegateZero

I’m a huge Nintendo fanboy and a PETA supporter. I’m totally disillusioned that David would say something so stupid, and that regular followers of this blog, excluding myself would stand behind those statements.

PETA does a lot of stupid things, but they work, they send out a message, and those stupid things pay off to ultimately effect extremely helpful change. Calling them “morons” is totally out of line; clever, yes; stupid, only if you don’t understand how PR works in contemporary America, and you’d have to be pretty stupid not to understand that by now.

You’re a great writer, man and you’re not stupid. It’s your blog, you can say whatever you’d like, but you’ve just isolated a hardcore reader and fan. I’m a socialist, vegan, and an activist, and I’ve been playing games (mostly on my Nintendo consoles) since I was 4; I’m 23 now. I lead a very stressful political and labor activist career, and I take refuge from that stress in very few places, this was one of them.

On a lighter note, I just beat SM3DL.

Jeff N

Please stop
Unicorn Lord

ur a moron
DelegateZero

Lol. “ur a moron”.

Does my rational sense of ethics really hurt that much? Why should I stop? Because my politics don’t conform well around your apathy and poorly developed world view. I’ll stop when people like you stop being ignorant.
Brian

PETA does more harm than good by turning people away from their message with stupid stunts like this and their extremist agenda. If you want to help animals, get behind a real organization that knows what it’s doing.
miiworld2

@DelegateZero

So let me try to understand your opinion. You’re upset because PETA attacked a video game for ‘promoting fur’ when video games like Mario for example have nothing to do with animal cruelty, and when we’re upset about it, thinking that this is all a PR stunt just for them to get media attention, you’re upset and call us delusional and stupid?

Either my mind is really foggy right now or you’re actually missing the big picture here: they criticized a video game. A video game. They are fictitious, fun to play and have nothing to do to promote animal cruelty, Mario’s Tanookie Costume looks pretty much like a Halloween costume, not real fur IMO.

So to recap according to 3DS Buzz dot com.

“1. PETA slandered a classic video icon simply as a PR stunt to get attention from the media.

2. Nintendo fans and the company itself responds. The fans, just like the Battlefield fans, are outraged.

3. PETA really felt the game promoted wearing fur and eventually realized this was ridiculous. Thus claiming it was a joke.

4. We, the fans don’t take these jokes lightly, because they are stupid jokes, moronic and eventually have nothing to do with what really matters: animal cruelty”

And so when we as a society think that, YOU think we’re being stupid? Your comments sound like you’re actually SUPPORTING the ridiculous stuff PETA does. You’re seriously not a true Nintendo fan.
Z-Bug

@DelegateZero
I hope you don’t honestly think PETA was trying to be humorous. They’re only saying “It was a joke” to prevent the lawsuit. They had no intention of making people laugh. That’s why it’s so F*’d up that they did it. They knew that if you denounce something as popular as Mario people will hear about it. And that’s all PETA cared about, was riding a wave of Mario’s popularity just so they would get attention.
You’d have to be blind not to see that. I respect your opinion but damn, only a F*ing moron would truly believe that PETA was trying to bring laughter when they made that flash game.
MrPokeyLope

This real problem with this stunt is that it weakens the legitimacy of an organisation that stands for a just cause. What is happening here is not people questioning the ethics of a game but the methods of a group in trying to get their message across. I think the most effective way to send out a message is to show the ways animals are being attacked rather than these stupid PR stunts. Nude photoshoots and attacks on the games that aren’t animal friendly enough don’t feel that effective when compared to the Nestle ad and palm oil. That got a message across and it did change a company. The dialogue here does not seem to helping their cause at all and I think they put a lot of people off for attacking a beloved character and even further probably realised this when putting out this statement.
As for your comment “comedians do it”, the replies kinda speak for themselves. If the link between animal cruelty and mario was clearer it’d might work, but he gets his suit from a magical tree for goodness sake.
I apologise that this puts your efforts in a bad light, but it is just in this instance that this sort of behaviour is intolerable and the energy better spent on more serious things.
Unicorn Lord

ur also a poopy doopy jerk face
DelegateZero

@ Brian, not you’re totally wrong, I’ve explained how their tactics. You’re already compromised, you wouldn’t consider changing your ethics even if they gave a simple and polite suggestion, they’ve tried that. Look for my other posts to read into this more.

@ miiworld2 Your understanding of my opinion is actually pretty off, this WAS a PR stunt. That’s the entire point, I’m upset that you’re upset by a parody of a fictional character to shed light on a serious and very real issue.

As taxing as it is, I’ll respond to each comment, in the same fashion that you presented them. Sorry, I’ve actually spent way too much time responding to everyone, that I should have just made an article for PeoplesWorld.org.

1.Mario is a fictional character. Gaining media attention and attention from gamers was the point. I don’t think you can “slander” a fictional character like one can slander a political figure. If you take Mario that seriously, you should probably ignore PETA’s suggested issue and focus on your own mental health, then maybe later consider vegan-ism.

2. Refer to answer 1. I think Nintendo responded appropriately considering they understood this in a differently light. A corporation isn’t a person and doesn’t have a sense of morality or humor. They’ll do whatever they can if they feel that their money maker is threatened.

3. PETA was just looking for PR to shed light on a serious issue (I don’t know how many times I’ve wrote this today) even if they have to piss off some people on the way.. Have to talked to anyone else from PETA, other than myself? It was a joke, Mario is fictional, therefore he doesn’t actually wear fur, they wouldn’t target any other pop-culture icon, because Mario is probably the MOST universally known video game character.

4. Speak for yourself. You’re assuming that you’re a bigger fan than I am and you know nothing about me.

I do support the thing people do, because they create dialog, as is their job. I’ve been playing Nintendo games since I was 4, man. I’m an adult now. I’ve got a Nintendo Club account and I still have ever model of Gameboys ever made plus games. My very first toy was a plush doll of Mario. Nintendo is a huge part of my life, I’m just not irrational and I care about social justice for all beings (except fictional ones).
SparktehFox

PETA is a stain on the world that won’t go away.

L1qu1d

This joke makes me want to completely cut fruits and vegetables from my diet and just stick with meat.

Its funny, i’ll swerve my car and stop for raccoons but I wouldn’t stop for a Peta member:D

DelegateZero

Because, you, my friend, are not a very bright person.
L1qu1d

I didn’t ask a question, but thanks for the answer my friend. Now get back to that salad:D

PixelKnot93

The only funny thing about this whole set up was thier stupidity.

PixelKnot93

* The only funny thing about this whole set up was their stupidity.
DelegateZero

Which part of this was stupid?
PixelKnot93

A professional organization jokingly trolling the internet just to get attention?

None of their fake campaign was remotely funny.

And it certainly doesn’t help their popularity. Why would they do something so dumb to make people hate them?

After all they have done recently in trems of video games, accusing Battlefield 3 developers of rat cruelty. I don’t believe this was a silly prank in the least.
PixelKnot93

* terms
DelegateZero

The only people who are going to hate them are reactionaries who have already been compromised to think a certain way, e.g you.

There are people who will be attracted to the stunt and would probably think twice before wearing non-ethical clothing. And “probably” is an understatement. I’m sorry the ad tightened your speedo, mate.

Perry

PETA, you are so gay.
http://www.youtube.com/user/MrMicroRed MicroRed

gonna go skin a tanooki now. good job, PETA.
Smashmatt202

Guess what PETA, NO ONE’S LAUGHING! >:(
Cecil

2 things PETA

1.go to hell
2.____________
anyone fill in the blank :)

PixelKnot93

2. stay there
http://bit.ly/coolernow123 coolernow123

2. what pixelknot93 said

SparktehFox

PETA.IS.A.JOKE.

Fuck off and die. You made a failed attempt at slandering a popular figure (AGAIN) to “better your fight” and made an ass out of yourselves. Own up to it and don’t act like pussies when people call your bluff. If Nintendo can admit to failing a console’s launch honorably (something I think was unneeded) then you should be able to stand at the mic and with a proud tone say, “We fucked up.”

As for the person using other forms of entertainment as an argument, such as South Park, PETA is doing something completely different. PETA made a failed attempt at slandering a company’s reputation and cannot own up to that, while these shows are merely doing parodies that are not meant to be slanderous at all, just entertainment.

SparktehFox

MOTHER FUCKIN’ CHIMICHANGA!
SKent

If you seriously think their deliberate intention was to slander Nintendo, you need to watch their video and get a clue. Mario is just a cartoon character, and everyone gets that.

The focus is on torture in the fur-trade (in this case Tanuki fur), because it ties in with a game that’s being heavily promoted at the moment. They’re only doing this so they can take advantage of all the Mario promotion so they can reach a wider audience, not because they want Nintendo to stop using the Tanuki suit. If they had a problem with cruelty to video game animals, there’s a lot more obvious targets they could’ve picked.
Lv.5 Jacob

It’s quite obvious at this point that people took the campaign seriously, and the “f— you, Mario” falls squarely under “overzealous”. I’m very much disinclined to support the group. Not dissuaded from fighting animal cruelty, but they haven’t exactly put me in the mood to do anything to help out. And in that regard, they failed. They could simply have used a less inflammatory tie-in. No hurt feelings, no internet backlash. No cementing the reputation they’ve earned as a moronic parody group dressed like a nonprofit organization.

kylehyde13

haha, now PETA is saying that it’s a joke even if it’s not really in the first place because there’s so many people against them.

Leave Mario alone!!
kenneth

its a lame joke and its stupid and no one should support this organization if this is how they waste their time. Its one thing to provide care for serous causes its another to do unprofessional crap like they did and even make a flash game and all just so unprofessional and doesnt help a danged thing.

DelegateZero

Yeah. You’re talking about it, right? People on the fence will fall one way or another. So it’s a total success.
Unicorn Lord

its not a TOTAL success though. dont some people hate the group more now

Axilon

Their joke is way too serious..so, I’m and probably we are not laughing.
Kayriss

A Joke? these dumbasses can’t even take they’re job seriously.

DelegateZero

Because activist have a “right” way of doing a job?…
SparktehFox

If an activist is doing their job correctly then they are influencing the masses and bringing attention to serious matters, something that PETA fails to do considerably and quite often.
Xarreno

Did they influence the masses? Yes.
Did the attract attention to serious matters? Yes.

Did they do it in the proper fashion? No. But I doubt they would have recieved as much attention for “joking” about a game like Monster Hunter. That’s why they chose Mario. Not a very inspiring tactic, but nonetheless effective.
SparktehFox

They’ve still lost more support than they would’ve gained otherwise regardless of the fact they still garnered attention.
Xarreno

Yeah, I know. It’s pretty laughable.

http://youtube.com/64supermarioreturns 64supermarioreturns

How did they know we were mad, did any of you actually go to PETA and complain?

Total911

The story was all over.

Total911

Think of how many copies this story has sold.
http://mayker.tumblr.com Mayker

Dang! Then what do I do with all these expensive tanuki hides I imported? Obviously, my friends all have them, too, because if you don’t have one, you’re a nobody. Since they are so popular in America, the country where PETA exists, rather than Japan, the country in which tanuki live, they are very smart for covering such an important issue.
(sarcasm)

But at least they aren’t using threats, violence, or terrorism in general, this time. That’s real progress for them.

DelegateZero

Oh, because when Iggy Pop made a statement against clubbing seals that could be classified as PETA’s most recent act of terrorism.

Monk E

What PETARDS….

http://bit.ly/coolernow123 coolernow123

zing!

RagingButtPirate

Fail Troll? or just really stupid?
baBAM

Publicity stunt win. They may be extreme but they are not evil and they are working for a just cause, just often in extreme manner. Advising readers to never trust or support them is a pretty strong social/political stance for a Nintendo blog.
http://nintendo3dsblog.com/photos-of-a-kid-icarus-uprising-float-in-japan Kaizar

Well, the important thing is that Super Mario 3D Land is getting more publicity.

BITE MY SHINY METAL ASS.
Raif

Ive seen many companies do this, when they are in deep shit they say its a joke and back away even though they did it with pretty much every nintendo game…even COOKING MAMA!
Perry

PETA, you are so so gay.
Pokemon Master

Wow, either PETA is lying or they suck at making jokes XD
SoopahLynk

There you have it folks, PETA has a terrible sense of humor! Was so funny when our dear old Nintendo Legal Department was knocking at their door, but I sure got a laugh out of the situation.

Remember kids, PETA is the #1 killer of animals! Don’t fall for their animal friendly name!

*skips off*
Question_mark

first it isn’t really a success to get publicity if everyone that will hear the news (gamers)gets mad about it and strays from the point your trying to make cause your insulting there hobbies. Second there promoting animal cruelty by making a game thats meant to make enjoyment from killing animals and for the people who would enjoy crap like that, they won’t take the issue serious either.:P
Just because a lot of people hear the issue doesn’t mean its a success if you insult the company that the crowds like duh! thats why nobody takes PETA serious cause they don’t think things through they just act irrationally (and to all who are sticking up for them instead of appoligizing on there behalf your also hurting there cause)
Sean

Hmm joke…

probably more like it was serious and then somebody (someone in peta who actually has sense) realized it was just really dumb.

ChaosInvoker

Pretty much! They saw the responses and came up with a 5 year old excuse to pretend it’s water-under-the-bridge!

Nate

PETA are a fantastic organisation, trying to save animals, they cannot afford to spend the little money they gain on advertising and thus rely on word of mouth and shock tactics to spread the word. By all this talk you are successfully helping PETA promote their cause which is excellent.
The problem I see is that all of you seem far more disgusted at PETA than the actual act which is happening to these animals. Have any of you watched the video? If you have you will of seen the torment, I will freely admit that i was brought to tears of what happens to the poor animals. I bet those of you who watched it were surprised to see these revolting human actions towards tanuki, actions you would never have seen/known about without this campaign. Thus it is a success.
Mario and nintendo will make money no matter what (and don’t get me wrong I LOVE mario), but PETA will be overlooked by the bank accounts and thoughts of society and so animals will continue to suffer, unless you Change Your Ways.
Im sorry to appear ranting and irritating but this is how I feel and it seems you are all missing the point.
Be Happy, Be nice to one another, look after animals.
One point I shall end on:
NO matter how much you protest and argue otherwise, you cannot deny; Meat is and always will be Murder.

Worthy

All these PETA supporters need to calm down… DAVID WAS ONLY JOKING!! :b
http://bit.ly/coolernow123 coolernow123

But i like cheezburgers! :(
Squish

What about vegetables? Are they not killed in order to be eaten?
PS. Please don’t view this as a hostile comment. I would just like to see people’s view on this.
SparktehFox

Meat is not murder unless you have no intent on using the prey for sustenance. For example, when a lion kills a gazelle is he viewed as a murderer? No, because that’s his way of life. There are exceptions to this though, for instance, if the gazelle kills the lion instead. The gazelle has no intention of consuming the lion, he was just using self defense. In essence humans are still animals in the world, we live day by day based on instincts. As an intelligent being we find it necessary to where clothing and there are those who want the most elaborate clothing available to A) Promote dominance and B) Attract “mates”. It’s true that even though there are humane ways to gather the more extensive fabrics but there are people who still use primitive methods to do so, and we can’t put blame squarely on the workers for most of the time they are just trying to survive in a less than stellar economy and it’s pretty obvious these same people won’t normally wear the same fabrics due to their high price point, but as long as there is demand someone will need to supply. If the higher power would invest in a more humane way of gathering these objects then we wouldn’t need activists to chant “Fur is Murder”.

by SparktehFox
Dictated but not Read
Phillip

@Nate you good sir are a moron.
Nate

@philip: thanks, i could say it takes one to know one but this seems far too easy.

@SparktehFox Yes you make some points but I believe them to be misguided. I agree what you say in reference to the lion,but, as you may have realised, we are not lions we are a developed species that can learn and observe in ways no other creatures can, and through this huge evolution in Nature we have gained the ability to realise we do not need to slaughter animals to feed our greedy selves. I do not eat meat, i am still alive thus your argument is flawed. There is no need to eat meat to survive so the death of the animal is for no reason and a death for no reason is murder. The lion must kill to survive where as we must not. The only reason we eat meat is the ignorance of humanity and an un-willing to change. Ironic that the greedy glutinous vile meat eaters of these world walk around like sheep. bah bah bah
SparktehFox

It is considerably unhealthy for humans to deprive their bodies of the nutrients found in meat. While there are alternatives (nuts, berries, supplements) they are not nearly as strong nor as reliable as actual meat. If the body is denied this source of nutrients long enough the body will indeed adapt, a trait found in all animals and even plants, and will require less and less of the aforementioned object. However, if this happens the body will often times begin to reject what it has been unable to get making the object (in this case meat) bad for the consumer and almost damaging.

Also, it is not uncommon for animals to betray their class if need be. For example, there was a story in the news about deer with mineral deficiencies. As they were not getting what they needed to survive, the deer began to open up it’s diet going as far as eating live chicks.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/08/0825_030825_carnivorousdeer.html

As living creatures are bodies must meet different requirements to properly function. A human could not survive on, say, a giraffe’s diet and would surely die if attempted. Humans have long known what is good and bad for our diets and it’s been (and still is) printed on packages of food, in public areas such as schools, and in scientific study.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_guide_pyramid
Matthew Landry

You know the problem, right, Nate? You’re talking to kids who’s lives are stick within the plastic of their 3DS. A study could come out saying that playing the 3DS causes cancer and they’ll bash the study and the scientists for making Nintendo look bad.

These kids have no clue what real issues are. All they know is what’s in their 3DS and what remake is coming out for it in a couple months.

Meat is murder, brother.
SparktehFox

Matthew is too ashamed to say that he’s actually just Nate talking to himself.

ChaosInvoker

A joke, I think not!

Gandalf once said: “Go back to the shadows”

He was talking to PETA
http://bit.ly/coolernow123 coolernow123

who’s PETA?
Dunkelheit

PETA have just won the award of “Attention Whore of the year”
derpa

Yeah it was a pretty obvious joke, you are really fucking dumb.

Jmaster720

lol who is dumb?
Worthy

Yes because PETA would be stupid enough to make a joke out of real life tanuki’s getting killed for fur as it’s such a laughing matter *insert face palm here if PETA are joking about a serious issue*.

Seriously though, it’s clear by the abuse on PETA’s Twitter page alone that they messed with the wrong gaming fans and now they are trying to get out of it by claiming it was a joke.

Jmaster720

they have Officially trolled us……..Again lol
Phillip

These guy are worse than those westboro faggots. At least when they start something against a spacific thing, they stick to their guns and don’t pussy out.

Phillip

*guys

chill

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHHHHA

chill

ha

Lucas

o f course ir was a joke, that statement as so stupid that I assume they only must be kidding.
Like I said before, if I were Nintendo I wouldn’t bother to answer
GERRELLEY

I see no point in PETA making false accusations on Nintendo and a serious topic of animal abuse, I mean, they even put out a horrible video of people killing Raccon Dogs, adorable animals. And it turned out to be a joke! I support the cause of ethical treatment of animals… but, PETA made a joke out of it! T_T
And i’m still getting SM3DL.

Nate

you have the wrong end of the stick

http://Roblox.com I Love Nintendo

#@##@$#%^ U PETA
Disappointed

Its a shame the whole thing with PETA! Animal rights is a sensitive subject yet they make it a joke. I can’t believe that PETA is run by complete unprofessionals who are definitely succeeding at one thing giving a bad reputation to their company. I mean no one goes over the comments they are about to put out? So basically it’s all a joke? For who? Not us, the only people that thought that was funny was PETA. Good job PETA! I hope Nintendo sues you and I hope no one takes you seriously ever again. PETA keep digging your own hole.
Doonkoff

@Delegatezero: Dude… seriously? youre really being a douche… i know you work for peta but still COME ON. Give everyone thats still mentally sane after all this crap some respect! I mean !#$% you mario at the end of the game? Even you must think thats pretty low… even for peta. Who has gone pretty low i must add. So please… just either stop trolling all the people who hate peta (including me… i hate animal cruelty and all the groups for it… like aspca.. they overreact.) or troll a different site… like an anti peta blog or something.
dfdf

i bet they just backed off when they saw such reaction in the fandom, pussies..
ema486

People for the

Eating of

Tasty

Amimals
Matthew Landry

Wow, David, are that pathetic? This is the most horrendously moronic anti-PETA post I’ve ever read. So many levels of immaturity lie within this steaming heap.

You think PETA gives a shit about games? You think they honestly wanted to bash Mario? NO, YOU DOLT! THE POINT IS THAT THE FUR MARKET IS TERRIBLE! Did Mario Kill a Tanooki to obtain his suit? No, because in Nintendo/Disneyland you don’t kill anything, you just pick up a leaf and pow! Well, guess what, in real life, there’s no such thing and it must be said that THE FUR INDUSTRY IS BAD.

PETA is the only large organization that actually gives a shit about animals and you’re going to trash them? Why? Because they told a joke about a fat, stereotypical plumber?!?! Where is your moral compass, bro? Find it. Find it fast!

SparktehFox

Matthew, dude, you need to get that sand out of your vagina bro.

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