PETA Dumps on Battlefield 3

solemnwar

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... does ANYONE take PETA seriously anymore?
I'm not sure if even PETA takes themselves seriously...
They're like a great joke into themselves...
 

FateOrFatality

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Actually, I agree. DICE should remove the rat from the campaign. In fact, they should remove all the quick time events.

Also, am I the only one who finds it hilarious that PETA complains about players being able to kill one rat in a game, when the game is about killing hundreds of humans? Priorities, PETA?
 

gphjr14

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Damn they must've not heard about a little game called Red Dead Redemption where you can kill essentially every living thing in the game. I spent 30 minutes killing beavers and skinning them only to be accosted by a pack of wolves which I knifed down.

That and the recent Uncharted 3 has you killing swarms of spiders that are merely defending their home from a notorious treasure hunter.
 

Necrofudge

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Oh PETA, at it again with your mediocrity...

At least when they're throwing paint on fur coats it's interesting. Jumping on the videogame hate bandwagon is just low.
 

Saltyk

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Okay, this makes me laugh. I'm a sick man...

Hey PETA! It's a collection of pixels. It's not real! Nothing actually died. Idiots!
Also, rats tend to carry various diseases and generally be bad for public health. Oh, but you guys don't care about filthy humans despite being a group of humans. My bad.
 

Sewer Rat

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Look, as someone who actually likes rats (as you may have guessed from my user name), I do not care about killing rats in video games. At the end of the day it is just a video game, virtual rats in a virtual world, this does not mean that I am going to go on a rat stabbing spree the second I turn off the game. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go kill some crabs with a longsword [/elder scrolls joke]
 

Callate

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Pardon me, I seem to feel a sneeze coming on.

Ah- AH--- *ATTENTIONWHORES!*

Whew. Sorry. Seem to have an allergy- this reaction comes up whenever PeTA is in the news.
 

Char-Nobyl

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Andy Chalk said:
Pop quiz, hotshot: how many rats have you snuffed in all your videogaming adventures? If you answered less than "about a bazillion," you're a dirty liar and we can't be friends anymore. Because we all know that when it comes to laying the cheap XP beatdown on filthy creatures that nobody cares about, it's Rats Uber Alles, baby. But that doesn't sit well with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Germany, which issued a statement today criticizing the game for allowing players to stab a rat with a combat knife and then toss its carcass away like... well, like a dead rat.

"[Google-translated statement [http://www.amazon.com/Battlefield-3-Xbox-360/dp/B003O6G5TW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1320705083&sr=8-1].
Yeah, that sounds about right. It's a sewer rat. That's the closest we have in modern days to the plague rats of old. I don't go out of my way to kill them, but I wouldn't have moral qualms about needing to kill one in a video game.

Andy Chalk said:
It's a bit silly, given that rats have been the go-to punching bag for gamers pretty much since the dawn of time, but this isn't PETA's first foray into videogame criticism. shoot German attack dogs [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/105778-PETA-Unleashes-Super-Tofu-Boy].
So it's gotten to that point? Where PETA will literally screech at people for defending themselves from attacking animals? In a virtual setting, no less?

Andy Chalk said:
Battlefield 3 publisher Electronic Arts has not yet commented on the PETA criticism, and is not expected to.
Aw, man. A response on this would've been hilarious. They could at least thank PETA for all the free press they're getting from this.
 

Wedgetail122

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pfft, seriously PETA take a hike, Battlefield 3 simulates war,well as much as a FUN video game can. and hell Rats are by far a major problem of war.I wonder what PETA Thought of the soldiers of WWI who killed 1000's of rats in their spare time, which is intresting the rats were the ones that helped carried the disease when they went back home and created the world pandemic of the spanish flu
 

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And yet again animal rights activists show just how retarded their priorities are.
 

SayHelloToMrBullet

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Yes PETA, because we're really all gonna play Battlefield 3 JUST so we can kill a rat. Besides the rat's death wasn't even cruel. Cutting off its limbs and leaving it to bleed out would be cruel. But thats not what happens, its a quick stab.

And technically it was self defence. The rat attacked first.
 

jyork89

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PETA is absolutely right on this. Stop wasting your time stabbing virtual rats. Instead, spend your time and effort stabbing real rats!
 

AndyFromMonday

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According to PETA, defending yourself against aggressive animals is wrong. Ain't that a gem?

EDIT: One more thing. I'm assuming since BF3 is a military shooter you're going to be killing a lot of humans, right? What does PETA have to say about that? Are humans not as important as animals? Apparently...
 

angry_flashlight

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Really PETA? I find this appropriate:

Honestly, who even takes these people seriously anymore?

Orks da best said:
peta....peta, peta, peta.... can i smack them with my choppa now?
As ya bring da BURNA ta go wit' ya choppa! I'll bring me Shoota! >:D
 

MarkDavis94

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This is what annoys me about PETA and other over the top Vegetarians and Vegans. They are all for animal rights, but often ignore cruelty to humans or often say 'I would kill a human to save an animal'. I think they are forgetting we as a species are animals and deserve the same rights they would give to a rat
 

Vrach

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Rofl. Ok, taking it seriously for a second, the rat attacks you, not the other way around. I'd like to put PETA members in a closed off ventilation shaft with a bunch of potentially rabid rats and a knife and see how they act.

If they come out with rabies, I'm totally cool with that.
 

Yopaz

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anthony87 said:
Is this relevant?


Meh I'm posting it anyway.
Not sure if this is relevant either, but good post nevertheless.

dragongit said:
Right, those Peta guys, the same ones who actually kill more animals per year then many other orginizations combined. I suppose ethical euthination is better then stabbing a rat, right?
What they do is to put down animals that are hurt. What we do to virtual rats is disrespectful against all rats and will eventually make us all end up going killing more dogs than PETA do. Battlefield 3 should be banned for letting us kill rats. If we allow killing rats in this game what will the next Battlefield game allow us to kill? Mice? dogs? People?

I think PETA should to to the source of rat killing in games and attack Dungeons And Dragons for starting it all. PETA is easily one of the organizations it's easiest to hate.