PETA Do Something. Gamers Go Stupid
PETA are organizing a little PvP action in World of Warcraft to raise a bit of awareness to the problems surrounding seal deaths. Because PETA often do dumb things around gaming, most readers of the reports of this action didn’t actually bother to read the words on the page, instead just spewing classic gamer bile.
To clarify; PETA are doing something fun in WoW. Something that isn’t extreme and, in my humble opinion, is actually a great way to spread their cause in an exciting, cool way. Below are some reactions from people that make me want to chew the keys out my keyboard.
These are all from my one true love, Destructoid, because that’s the first place I found this. As the day goes on I expect the other blogs to pick up on the story, and all their readers to blindly, and in a moment of hilarity, call for everybody to eat meat too:
I don’t play WoW, but I hope the Horde kills every last virtual seal and Alliance vegetarian.
PETA your nothing but a bunch of hypocrites.
fuck you peta im gonna go club a real seal just for infringing on our rights as gamers to whatever the code monkeys allow
Yeah.. Uh.. PETA? You do understand that WoW isn’t REAL… Right? Those “Baby Seals” are just polygons and textures… Not real animals. Are these people delusional? Or just simply OUT OF THEIR MINDS?!
And one via Facebook:
I’ll kill every goddamn seal in Azeroth then go to Nunavut and bash a few on the head in real life, spread the blood on a post card and mail it to you spineless vegan fucks.
These are just a few of the soon to be thousands of comments around the net of similar intelligence. People who clearly have already formed an opinion, and equally clearly didn’t bother to read the article. Does the author of the above Facebook comment genuinely wan to kill baby seals? Nope, just an internet tough-guy.
As a quick aside, “vegetarian” or “vegan” isn’t a derogatory term, it’s a dietary choice. I’m vegetarian (and worked in a butchers shop for 3 years) so fuck you if you think it is. OH MY GOD YOU DON’T EAT MEAT!? Yeah. I also don’t like mushrooms, but there isn’t a word for that.
Saying you love meat in front of somebody who doesn’t eat meat basically just shows your insecurities and inability to form a real insult. It’s also a kind of dick thing to do. If I know a friend of mine doesn’t like to eat pop-corn, I’m not going to sit there eating some in front of them if they come over to watch a film. Still, that’s not really important and just one of my own personal annoyances.
Listening to the latest EEGRA podcast, they touched on a topic fairly similar. On Kotaku Australia, Micheal Atkinson actually wrote a letter to the site, which got published. Instead of using their brains for once, the commenters just acted like dumb children with neither respect nor cognitive ability. The first comment reads “… how about getting him to some online COD and just own his n00b ass…”
It’s no wonder he followed up a few days later in classic internet style, by responding to the trolls on his previous article.
Sadly, I’m starting think it’s too late for gaming, or at least the larger gaming sites. This level of idiocy (or quantity of 14 year olds) is so ingrained into our sub-culture that we’re stuck with it. The leaders of the conversation, the article authors and editors, don’t really care. If they tired to counter these idiots, educate or ban them, they would simply leave and head to the next moron feeding pond.
I’m just getting so annoyed with gamer’s stereotypical, predictable, low brow and dumb comments. STOP BEING IDIOTS. If people want to go play WoW, let them.
Editorial, Rant Tags: Destructoid, eegra, Kotaku, PETA, rage
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Its not anger at vegetarians. Its anger at PETA’s continued idiocy at choosing to ignore real world issues in order to focus on virtual worlds.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to KFC.
@njsykora: I don’t think they ignore real world issues. They have their specific area of “expertise” and cover all the aspects within that area. Kind of like how the government are fiddling with the economy, and wars, but also find time to screw around with video games.
“Saying you love meat in front of somebody who doesn’t eat meat basically just shows your insecurities and inability to form a real insult. It’s also a kind of dick thing to do. If I know a friend of mine doesn’t like to eat pop-corn, I’m not going to sit there eating some in front of them if they come over to watch a film. Still, that’s not really important and just one of my own personal annoyances.”
I don’t eat seafood. I live in Louisiana. I don’t think people are “dicks” if they enjoy it, say they enjoy it, or eat it in front of me. If I did, I’d be the one who was a “dick”, period. Fix that attitude of yours.
While I agree this is actually a cool promotion, I think PETA have used up all their crediblity by doing all the batshit insane things they’ve done over the last few years, so I understand the kneejerk reaction. It’s like if Osama had a big beach party. Sure it would be a fun beach party, but I still wouldn’t go cause, y’know, he’s a terrrist (not equating terror with vegetarianism here btw). The other thing is that while I have no issue with veggies who just get on with it, PETA are actively trying to encroach on my right to eat animals – I believe in live and let live. Except when it comes to veal calves, or fattened geese. Mhmm Foie Gras
Sup3rT3d nailed it, PETA have just done too much bad stuff to be given any graces. Also worth the point that people don’t have problems with vegetarians, but they do have a problem when those vegetarians are trying to eliminate meat eating completely.
PETA kills more animals than they save, so just by knowing the facts, all respect for what the organization claims to be for is lost. Also, their founder is a fucking nutcase, but that’s beside the point. Stupid gamers need to shut the fuck up. Always flaming shit they don’t know, based on two or three words. If I say something sucks, then mention Halo in the same sentence, albeit in an unrelated fashion, five thousand fanboys are going to start throwing every pre-pubescent “reason” they can think of as to why Halu “rulz” and whatever I happen to play “blows huge dick”. Among these reasons would most certainly be “your gay”, which, had someone taken that second it took to type the phrase and spent it READING THE SENTENCE, they might have realized is not applicable in the slightest.
/rant
@timeshifter: What the fuck do Halo fanboys have to do with PETA?
“Always flaming shit they don’t know, based on two or three words.”
Did you even read the article? Or my post?
The word for not liking mushrooms is ‘normal’.
Beyond the PETA thing, your comment about the stereotypical gamer subculture struck a chord with me. It’s something I’ve been noticing online and with each passing day it’s getting harder and harder to take. It doesn’t help that the big gaming websites (Kotaku and Destructoid) practically encourage this behavior with their pseudo-witty sarcastic RSS style “journalism”.
I’m one of those people who laments Nintendo’s decision to abandon the “core”. But when I look at how the “core” acts, I wonder if the decision was less financial and creative and more Shigs going, “If I have to deal with this people one more time I’m going to kill everyone in this building and then myself.”
I don’t really care for PETA. That said, this is an interesting way to get people to educate themselves about their cause. I just don’t think WoW’s audience really… cares about it though. And it’s only on one realm? That’s weird, I guess they didn’t actually add anything to the game, it’s just going to be some guys from PETA playing against the people in-game. I think it would be cool if they actually got Blizzard to make it a full on quest in the game, that would probably get more attention.
And yeah, people are dumb. I wouldn’t dream of beating a seal, ever. But I also wouldn’t chastise anyone wishing to stop people from doing so, that’s 4 steps in the wrong direction for people wanting games to be taken seriously.
I really don’t like PETA’s methods due to a lack of foresight and understanding of certain issues but I do agree with their purpose on treating animals ethically and not like garbage that gets eaten. Its only on one realms so the organization doesn’t really care about attracting WoW players by getting enough members to participate on more than one server.
Living north of the 49th, I see this whole seal clubbin’ kerfuffle rear its head every year. Seals are an endangered species and I don’t give a shit that a Newfoundlander will loose his job beating animals to death, he can get one on an oil rig. Your job may go away but you’ll get another one, if seals go away they don’t come back.
““Saying you love meat in front of somebody who doesn’t eat meat basically just shows your insecurities and inability to form a real insult. It’s also a kind of dick thing to do.”
Isn’t saying you don’t like meat in front of people you know do like it the exact same thing?
Other then that I do agree with a lot of it… PETA is just a very bad instance of this to try to make a point because they really ARE that bad. Any credibility they ever had has long since been thrown out the window.
SEALS AND WHALES ARE HIDING FROM THE PETA TWATS
PETA are a bunch of absolutly brainless idiots too darn stupid to know what their blabbering their big fat mouths off about thier nothing but a bunch stoned on dope and stupididy
Did you hear PETAs latest stupid idea? THEY DONT WANT US TO KILL FLIES boy what a bunch of stupid pinheaded jerks HEY REMEBER DAVID HEDESON in THE FLY and PPPLLLEEAAASSEE HHHEELLLPPP MMMEEEE HEY PETA WHAT ABOUT THAT SPIDER BARING DOWN ON THE FLYim telling you that recent research connecting vegan diets and brain shinkage is probibly true PETA IS FOR THE ABSOLUTLY STUPID ALONE