Mario Is Murder

[jutl]

PETA have censured Nintendo because they seem to think that the Tanooki costume from Super Mario Bros 3 and the upcoming Super Mario 3D Land is supposed represent a skinned racoon dog, as opposed to being the artificial costume that I'd always assumed it was. I suppose this means that the Bee Suit from Galaxy 1/2 is actually a skinned bee and the success of those games is the true reason behind the mysterious Colony Collapse Disorder. 

[MojoJojo]

You can skin and wear animals in WoW can't you? And pretty sure some other fantasy RPGs must let you do that too.

Although I guess since you're invariably playing a mass murderer in those games, maybe they think it's not worth protesting.

[jutl]

I set fire to a wolf then beat it to death in Skyrim last night.

[mook]

i got drunk and went on an armadillo killing spree in red dead redemption that lasted days. i also used to dynamite the buffalo, such fun, but that was only when i wasn't shooting the shit out of songbirds, coyotes, rabbits, wolves, bigfeet (i made those fuckers extinct) and of course lassoing nuns and leaving them on train tracks.

[Brent Cockman]

When playing Zelda: Link's Awakening, I couldn't help but feel I was participating in the unethical infiltration of the Wind Fish's dreams, much like big business did in Inception. For that reason I stopped playing the game.

[Utter Shit]

One of the first things I did in Red Dead Redemption was shoot a cow. It wasn't even pissing me off, just fancied shooting a cow.

[Barberism]

Would PETA be so noble and idealistic if someone close to them was kidnapped by a giant mutant dinosaur and his army of evil tortoises and sentient mushrooms?

[Brent Cockman]

Surely even PETA would admit that my preferred method of execution for every species in Red Dead Redemption - hogtying them on traintracks then skinning the dead body that the next timely locomotive created - transcends virtual cruelty in to sheer coolness?

I'm curious to know if their attitude also extends to the braindead denizens of Hell that are in games like Doom.

[HappyTree]

I once cheeked a giant wasp in Fable.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

I once fucked a cow.

Not in a game or owt, just saying.

[EFB]

I once gave a wasp incorrect directions to the library.

[alan nagsworth]

i fucking hate animal rights protesters. not a bloody clue.

in turok 2 i remember that one level where you got to ride around on a friendly triceratops, i used to go up with the infinite ammo cheat on and just leather the shit out of that triceratops. i mean, it never died, but it was still programmed as a creature so it spurted out endless blood when you shot it. never really bothered with much else in the game.

i always wondered why that one dinosaur was friendly and that no one else questioned it. so i exploited what i considered to be a loophole, and an obligatory one at that.

[Space ghost]

You can stab up some attack hyenas in modern warfare 3 whilst shooting dogs.

[phantom_power]

I killed the shit out of some insects in Pssssssssst!

[El Unicornio, mang]

Someone at PETA is taking the piss, surely?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/17/peta-turkey-texas-tofurky-_n_1099554.html

[Spiteface]

Didn't PETA once try to get Suede to change their name to "Velour", or am I confusing them with other animal right nutjobs?

[Famous Mortimer]

Sounds like one of the stories put out by people trying to discredit PETA (although they have said some odd-ish things down the years).