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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.
I had never heard of Super Meat Boy.
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.
You know, maybe they could have spent some of that development money on outreach for their shelters, so that they wouldn't have to kill 86% of the animals they shelter.
But no, I guess making video games, stockpiling red paint, and placing ads of naked hippies should really come first.
I don't believe in time. It's a grand conspiracy designed to sell watches.
They'll attempt to demonize any mention of carnivorous behavior, often without a complete grasp of what they are attacking-- as seen here. A boy with no skin must be countered with a lump of tofu? Obviously no one there actually played Super Meat Boy.
PETA can't rightfully preach about animal rights while euthanizing tens of thousands of unwanted pets every year. Hypocrisy at its finest.
Vegetarians are a whole different and sad subspecies of humankind, they try to deny we've been eating meat from animals since many millions of years.
As a matter of fact we've become the creatures we are because we ate animals, for example there is strong evidence of a correlation in humanoids starting to eat seafood and a jump in intelligence that led to the making and use of tools.
"The likes of Facebook and WhatsApp are free to those whose privacy is of zero value."
They think that's gross? The villain of SMB is Dr. Fetus, a fetus in a jar. Bosses include a happy ball of blood, a meat boy clone made of feces and a living pile of corpses. Oh and animals constantly get murdered by the saw blades everywhere as they try to flee from the carnage as Dr. Fetus destroys more and more of the world.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
No, not PETA, the developers of Super Meat Boy.
After hearing about this game I was curious as to whether a Linux version was available or in the works. I ended up at http://www.indiegames.com/blog/2010/10/indiegamescom_podcast_5_super.html, and a commenter put a link to a podcast with the developers here: http://www.levelfortytwo.com/2009/12/talk-is-cheap-12-21-09/
The relevant bit starts at 43:55. Basically, they think that a Linux version would mean it would have to be open source, which obviously it doesn't. To quote one of the developers: "Linux can fuck off as far as I'm concerned." Gee, thanks. I don't mind if you're not going to bother making a port to Linux, but to not even bother to understand what people are asking and instead resorting to profanity shows these guys are a bunch of closed-minded dicks.
Because their president wants to be cooked at a barbecue when she dies, to disgust people from eating meat. Or something. Honestly, the idea was so nuts, I forgot to take notes on why, and merely listened to the what. Because when you're spoon-out-your-eyeballs crazy like that, it's hard not to be inadvertantly entertaining and terrifying at the same time.
There is no -1 Disagree.
Well, it is a more concentrated form of protein, which leaves you more time from gathering roots and berries, to like, build stuff, like pyramids, dams, hospitals , a civilization and the like.
This guy had a good take at it all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bronowski
My girlfriend had a veggie book, that claimed that eating meat was against human instinct; "who would ever think of eating a nice, cuddly squirrel?"
I countered with a quote from Benjamin Franklin, "hunger never saw bad bread'.
Veggieism is an ethical, rather than a physiological evolution. If you decide to be a veggie, make sure that you take many vitamin supplements. Otherwise, you will devolve what your hairy assed ancestors discovered . . . eating meat is good for you, and efficient.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Indeed, I hate PETA as much as any right-minded individual, but these guys pulled a dick-move. They basically trolled the PETA forums with a bunch of sock-puppet accounts in order to goad them into action and to get publicity for their game, which seems, judging by the /. comments, to have not made it onto many peoples' radar. Yet again, PETA have made the world a worse place in which to live. This time by giving these tumbling tumbling dick-weeds the publicity they are so obviously desperate for.
That's one of the reasons why nobody takes PETA seriously: They operate on the same level as 4chan trolling Habbo Hotel. I mean, I've seen some fairly grown-up actions from Anonymous but PETA consistently acts like an antisocial teenager.
Plus, whenever they want to "parody" something it's always mean-spirited and extremely badly researched, ending up carrying a lot of unfortunate implications - such as Super Tofu Boy, which manages to casually describe eating animals as being identical to cannibalism. Way to go, PETA.
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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.
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raw meat is instinctualy repugnant
No, it’s culturally repugnant. And even so, plenty of people still consume raw meat on a regular basis.
In addition to the obvious sushi, many forms of smoked or dried meat are not cooked (e.g. jerky and many varieties of ham), any good steak should be raw in the middle (and anyone who prefers their steak turned into shoe leather is an idiot), steak tartare is considered a delicacy, Caesar salad dressing is made with raw egg, etc. etc. etc.
What’s more, cooking meat creates carcinogenic compounds, so if it weren’t for the risk of disease and parasites, meat would be healthiest if it was consumed raw anyway.
Distributed Denial of APK: It takes 15 seconds to reply to him anonymously, but wastes tons of his time if we all do it.
Animal WELFARE = treat animals humanely, co-exist with animals, if animals are killed for food it should be as quick and painless as possible.
Animal RIGHTS = extinction of domestic animals, zero human/animal interaction
(yes, I know humans are animals, by animal I mean non-human animal)