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Tofu Activists Spoof Meat-Based Indie Game
Faulkner39 writes "In response to the recently released independently developed platformer Super Meat Boy, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has released a Flash-based spoof game titled Super Tofu Boy. The spoof attempts to mirror the original by featuring a protagonist made of tofu and an antagonist made of meat in a statement promoting animal rights. Ironically, however, the original game is about a human boy who is vulnerable because he lacks skin (Meat Boy), raising the question: 'is the spoof in reality really about cannibalism?'"
The Super Meat Boy team posted a response on their Twitter feed.
They offer downloads for PC and Mac. What, no Linux version? You mean I have to play the version on the website to play in Linux?
If they won't give me Linux Tofu Boy, then I have absolutely no incentive to cease my consumption of meat. Clearly, they don't care about me, so I will continue to not care about them.
I should go have a double down or something later....
Let q be a radix > 1. I am in ur base-q, killing 10 d00ds.
Don't you see man! It's like slavery! thinking you can "own" an animal.
We can't "own" our animal equals!
keeping a pet is so like exactly the same as slavery!
or something absurd like that.
either way everyone knows: dogs have owners, cats have staff.
So your'e saying that Tofu is presented as a complete replacement for Meat but is neither as tasteful (cf. the STB backstory) nor as satisfying? How deliciously ironic.
USE HOT GRITS WITH STATUE OF NATALIE PORTMAN (NAKED AND PETRIFIED)
I just can't stand f**ing hypocrites.
Dunno why not, they're just as good in the sack as everyone else.
Violence is like duct tape. If it doesn't solve the problem, you didn't use enough.