People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has taken a strident - Flash-basted - stand against Majesco's Cooking Mama DS game.
Here's how, "In PETA's Thanksgiving-themed parody of a popular Nintendo cooking game, Mama the Chef is evil and thirsty for blood! Try it now and see if you're meaner than mama!"
In the game, subtly called Cooking Mama - Mama Kills Animals - Mama doesn't actually kill any animals at all. She plucks, beheads, eviscerates, stuffs and under cooks a turkey leaving its bleeding carcase on plate before moving onto the make what looks like quite a reasonable giblet gravy.
The idea behind the game is not to increase awareness of gravy making, however, but to bring to the attention of people who visit the PETA website that turkeys are treated badly during what our American cousins call Thanksgiving.
It's a fun game, you can check it out here.
We now expect to see:
Greenpeace's Tomb Raider - Lara Croft Murders Tigers.
The Red Army Faction - Red Faction Got Our Name Wrong!
And many, many more...
Here's how, "In PETA's Thanksgiving-themed parody of a popular Nintendo cooking game, Mama the Chef is evil and thirsty for blood! Try it now and see if you're meaner than mama!"
In the game, subtly called Cooking Mama - Mama Kills Animals - Mama doesn't actually kill any animals at all. She plucks, beheads, eviscerates, stuffs and under cooks a turkey leaving its bleeding carcase on plate before moving onto the make what looks like quite a reasonable giblet gravy.
The idea behind the game is not to increase awareness of gravy making, however, but to bring to the attention of people who visit the PETA website that turkeys are treated badly during what our American cousins call Thanksgiving.
It's a fun game, you can check it out here.
We now expect to see:
Greenpeace's Tomb Raider - Lara Croft Murders Tigers.
The Red Army Faction - Red Faction Got Our Name Wrong!
And many, many more...
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PreciousRoi 18 Nov 2008 11:07
1/6
bah, game is overblown propaganda, the vegan answer to Reefer Madness...
Now the game I'd really like to see...
Animal Planet Presents: Whale Wars
plot synopsis:the fat jagoff (co-founder of Greenpeace) who captains the Sea Shepard has an Chinese copy of a Russian diesel-electric sub donated to him, and makes his friend (the incompetent first mate) the captain. You're a dedicated crew member who has to take over after the clumsy bastard kills himself boarding. You must hunt down and sink the Japanese whaling fleet, which are easy to pick out from other ships due to them having "RESEARCH" (curiously, for a Japanese ship in English) in big white block letters on the side. Possible minigames, including an Ecco the Dolphin inspired one where you hunt down any surviving whalers as an Orca, or Great White. Mebbe a cruise missile attack on a trendy downtown Tokyo restaurant, (by an extremely convenient Japanese law whale meat harvested during the course of "research" cannot be wasted, and so must be sold to restaurants and get this...schools) or the Institute of Cetacean Research ("non-profit" front for Japanese commercial whaling interests)
Xbox 360...at least I know the folks who make my console don't eat f**king whales.
Sony is Sony, I mean, they're heartless bastards, but I'd like to see something from Nintendo, the cutesey animal love-love company about how shameful, disgusting, and abominable their nations practice of whaling under the ludicrous banner of scientific research is...
Norway/Iceland could provide the sequel, if needed. I don't have any beef with the abos.
Now the game I'd really like to see...
Animal Planet Presents: Whale Wars
plot synopsis:the fat jagoff (co-founder of Greenpeace) who captains the Sea Shepard has an Chinese copy of a Russian diesel-electric sub donated to him, and makes his friend (the incompetent first mate) the captain. You're a dedicated crew member who has to take over after the clumsy bastard kills himself boarding. You must hunt down and sink the Japanese whaling fleet, which are easy to pick out from other ships due to them having "RESEARCH" (curiously, for a Japanese ship in English) in big white block letters on the side. Possible minigames, including an Ecco the Dolphin inspired one where you hunt down any surviving whalers as an Orca, or Great White. Mebbe a cruise missile attack on a trendy downtown Tokyo restaurant, (by an extremely convenient Japanese law whale meat harvested during the course of "research" cannot be wasted, and so must be sold to restaurants and get this...schools) or the Institute of Cetacean Research ("non-profit" front for Japanese commercial whaling interests)
Xbox 360...at least I know the folks who make my console don't eat f**king whales.
Sony is Sony, I mean, they're heartless bastards, but I'd like to see something from Nintendo, the cutesey animal love-love company about how shameful, disgusting, and abominable their nations practice of whaling under the ludicrous banner of scientific research is...
Norway/Iceland could provide the sequel, if needed. I don't have any beef with the abos.
config 18 Nov 2008 11:15
2/6
WTF?
Where in Cooking Mama is any form of animal cruelty depicted?
My 6yo daughter loves the game, and I've not seen anything worse than blending diced veg!
Vegetable rights and peace, man!
Where in Cooking Mama is any form of animal cruelty depicted?
My 6yo daughter loves the game, and I've not seen anything worse than blending diced veg!
Vegetable rights and peace, man!
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PreciousRoi 18 Nov 2008 11:19
3/6
Oh PeTA was just using Cooking Mama, I don't think they were targeting it...they need to adopt a dog or something and not worry about what this omnivore shoves into his food-hole.
I don't think animal cruelty makes for a very good game...all the best games are based on human/alien/zombie/human-alien hybrid zombie cruelty...Dead Space, I'm looking at you...People for the Ethical Treatment of Human-Alien Hybrid Zombies will have some sharp words for you...hmm, wonder if anyone's registered PeTHAHZ.org?
I don't think animal cruelty makes for a very good game...all the best games are based on human/alien/zombie/human-alien hybrid zombie cruelty...Dead Space, I'm looking at you...People for the Ethical Treatment of Human-Alien Hybrid Zombies will have some sharp words for you...hmm, wonder if anyone's registered PeTHAHZ.org?
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Did you know:
Many Lurkers have their tentacles shot off one at a time with a plasma cutter without even being put under stasis...
Many Lurkers have their tentacles shot off one at a time with a plasma cutter without even being put under stasis...
PreciousRoi 18 Nov 2008 12:40
4/6
Further research on Russian diesel-electric submarine classes reveals that there are indeed several boats which would fulfill the mission requirements for hunting the Japanese whaling fleet off Antarctica and in the North Pacific...The "Improved Kilo" class being the newest and most capable, perhaps one of the three destined for Venezuela could be diverted...though an old Juliett (which sacrifces anti-air missiles for cruise missiles) would provide a land attack (and anti-ship) option, by modifying its nuclear cruise missiles for conventional warheads...or possibly a Golf-class boat (with ballistic missiles, Scuds, actually) the Sovs sold 10 of them to North Korea a while back (ostensibly for scrapping, in reality the NKs wanted the missile launch systems to study) mebbe the "Great Leader" would gift one in exchange for Peter Jackson (there's an idea for a level...an escort mission, get Peter Jackson from New Zealand to North Korea without him getting harpooned)
OptimusP 18 Nov 2008 14:42
5/6
PreciousRoi wrote:
Further research on Russian diesel-electric submarine classes reveals that there are indeed several boats which would fulfill the mission requirements for hunting the Japanese whaling fleet off Antarctica and in the North Pacific...The "Improved Kilo" class being the newest and most capable, perhaps one of the three destined for Venezuela could be diverted...though an old Juliett (which sacrifces anti-air missiles for cruise missiles) would provide a land attack (and anti-ship) option, by modifying its nuclear cruise missiles for conventional warheads...or possibly a Golf-class boat (with ballistic missiles, Scuds, actually) the Sovs sold 10 of them to North Korea a while back (ostensibly for scrapping, in reality the NKs wanted the missile launch systems to study) mebbe the "Great Leader" would gift one in exchange for Peter Jackson (there's an idea for a level...an escort mission, get Peter Jackson from New Zealand to North Korea without him getting harpooned)
Can't we just not get the plans for the 1944 electric U-boat model of the germans and make some of those...will be a lot cheaper...and more durable. Just a thought.
PreciousRoi 18 Nov 2008 23:18
6/6
for a pseudo-academic you sure are dumb sometimes....you want to get into full-scale fabrication? When the Russians have literally dozens of these lying around rusting? besides, we need something quieter than a WWII vintage Unterseeboot, might actually have to engage in combat, or at least run or hide from it...and durable? Russian titanium technology of the cold war actually rivalled or exceeded that of the West, although they couldn't afford it.
Hell, I even came up with a better scenario...use the old Hughes Glomar Explorer (with funding from Norway, Iceland, Russia, and the US) to raise the old Mike-class from where it lies, then trade it for a working Kilo boat. I like the poetic justice, using Norway's money to outfit our anti-whaling hunter-killer...possible names for the boat:
Enola Gay II (my favorite)
Luddite ('cause we're anti-"scientific research")
Death Note (manga/anime reference...they'll get it...oh, they'll get it, alright)
Mizukage (another manga reference, means literally "water shadow", in Naruto, term for the leader of the Hidden Ninja Village of Mist, in the Land of Water)
Hell, I even came up with a better scenario...use the old Hughes Glomar Explorer (with funding from Norway, Iceland, Russia, and the US) to raise the old Mike-class from where it lies, then trade it for a working Kilo boat. I like the poetic justice, using Norway's money to outfit our anti-whaling hunter-killer...possible names for the boat:
Enola Gay II (my favorite)
Luddite ('cause we're anti-"scientific research")
Death Note (manga/anime reference...they'll get it...oh, they'll get it, alright)
Mizukage (another manga reference, means literally "water shadow", in Naruto, term for the leader of the Hidden Ninja Village of Mist, in the Land of Water)