PETA reacts strangely to Overlord II's 'Whack-a-Seal' minigame
by Alexander Sliwinski 
{ May 14th 2009 at 10:15PM }
Instead, PETA sent us a response back about some place called Can-a-da. Apparently, baby seals are killed by the "hundreds of thousands" there and we may soon see "PETA-made helmets for baby seals."
When asked for comment about the seal hunts, our token Canadian Xav de Matos commented, "I do not live in an igloo ... I live in a city and I have health insurance! Stop asking me stupid questions like that! Oh, and it is pronounced ZED!"
Jeez ... we just wanted to know. Check out PETA's full statement after the break.
PETA statement:
Not only is "Picking on others weaker than you" in the instructions for Whack-a-Seal, it's also the name of Canada's seal slaughter game. PETA is pleased that Whack-a-Seal is drawing attention to Canada's annual seal slaughter, during which sealers beat and skin hundreds of thousands of baby seals every year for products that are now banned in the U.S. and in Europe. In real life, seals don't have helmets and can't fight back, but perhaps you'll soon see PETA-made helmets for baby seals in Canada.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Danny @ May 14th 2009 10:18PM
I wish us Canadians could slaughter PETA members, instead.
ArchGamer @ May 14th 2009 10:22PM
Why just Canada? Hell, they can help the Middle East: PETA can be the enemy everyone can hate.
teedubdub @ May 14th 2009 10:23PM
I wish I could eat humans.
Mavrick593 @ May 14th 2009 10:29PM
What's stopping you?
ArchGamer @ May 14th 2009 10:40PM
@Mavrick
Uhh, society?
THE Ezio Auditore de Firenze (PSN slycooper_rocker) @ May 14th 2009 10:37PM
archgamer, i believe you meant the jews. the middle east has been an 'enemy' for a relatively short amount of time. the jews have been hated on for centuries.
THE Ezio Auditore de Firenze (PSN slycooper_rocker) @ May 14th 2009 10:38PM
correction: replace centuries with millennia haha
ArchGamer @ May 14th 2009 10:40PM
@ Ezio
I know, but if my geography is correct Israel is part of the Middle East.
THE Ezio Auditore de Firenze (PSN slycooper_rocker) @ May 14th 2009 10:56PM
this is true.
Ringalo @ Jul 27th 2009 11:09PM
Check out the Funny Video called , "Catch The Lobster Club The Seal" , by the Cape Breton Comedy team .. 4 Men In A Tub: its pretty funny .. I'd love to club a Peta member .. I really wish PETA would stop saying Canada kills BABY SEALS because its an out right lie... NO BABY SEALS are killed in the regulated seal harvest..NONE NONE NONE , its against the law. The only reason people think BABY SEALS are killed is because PETA keeps spewing out the same pile of bull.. DFO has conficated Paul Watsons boat the Farley Mowat , the Capt and crew were found guilty of a bunch of things, and they are not getting the boat back EVER. I can't wait to go see the "sinking of the Mowat" unless someone sinks it at the dock first. Its docked at the Sydport Industrial Dock on the west side of Sydney Harbour here on Cape Breton Island the most beautiful Island in North America (according to Travel and Leisure Magazine) I am not a fisherman of any kind, but this is one of the Canadians way of life in certain parts of the country. Its terrible that other Countries ban seal products based on the what PETA spews out rather than have one of their bias politicians come to our country and watch the hunt for themselves and make up their own mind. Peta makes it look like some kind of blood sport using fuzzy white seals with big brown eyes as the target of the fishermans enjoyment. The hunt is not a sport and is not enjoyment its a way of life for some, and a very dangerous occupation.. and nutjobs like Peta make it even more dangerous, PETA WILL be held accountable if someone dies due to their actions on the ice flows.. The gloves are off, DFO are sick of PETA'S lies .. I hope to see you at the sinking of the Farley Mowat.. if your not there I'll have a beer for you ..
for info on Cape Breton Island visit www.travelcapebretonisland.com
Have a good one eh.
Don
THE Ezio Auditore de Firenze (PSN slycooper_rocker) @ May 14th 2009 10:21PM
can they get ANY stranger?
Mr Khan @ May 14th 2009 10:22PM
Really?
Bizarro Mr Khan is confused
dgknight500 @ May 15th 2009 2:27AM
Sir, you get a +1 for that ava!
Mavrick593 @ May 14th 2009 10:24PM
PETA-made helmets for baby seals... i have nothing to say. i can honestly not think of any way to make that any funnier than it already is. way to go PETA. way to go
Batzarro @ May 14th 2009 11:11PM
I'm guessing the helmets would be pointless if they don't have straps and dangerous/deadly if they have them.
Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ May 14th 2009 11:24PM
Yeah that sounds helpful Is not like hunters can take the helmets off at any time right?
Blank-Mage @ May 15th 2009 2:17AM
"Damn! The seals have evolved!"
Zerokku @ May 15th 2009 2:51AM
@ Blank-Mage
http://guidesmedia.ign.com/guides/9846/images/dewgong.gif
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Cole @ May 14th 2009 10:24PM
I dont believe a word xav just said.
Tegolin @ May 14th 2009 10:25PM
I thought Xav talked about moving to the US.
PETA sucks.
InFaMoUs1- @ May 14th 2009 10:29PM
poor baby seals.. Oh the humanity!
TheLionOfAzzalle @ May 14th 2009 10:30PM
PETA is so annoying. One of the groups I'd support if not for the lunatic fringe that exists within it.
DBuck_Eye @ May 14th 2009 10:35PM
Boy, of the many countries that come to mind when I read "Xav de Matos," Canadia sure as hell ain't one of them.
Rein @ May 14th 2009 10:36PM
Zee! It's pronounced zee! You foreigners can take your zed and shove it!
Think of a world filled with zedebras and zedoos. That is a world I don't want to live in!
TheKarmaPolice @ May 15th 2009 8:59AM
You people mangled the letter, not us! I believe it's pronounced Zed in the UK as well
Draco @ May 15th 2009 1:54PM
C is pronounces See
I don't know why you call it a K-ar, when its clearly See-ar :P
Dangeresque @ May 14th 2009 10:40PM
Warranty void if seal is broken.
*Ba dum pish*
ThornedVenom (of the Fidlious Clan of Wong) @ May 15th 2009 8:32AM
A seal walks into a club.
*Ba dum pish*
Elmhurst676 @ Jul 18th 2009 4:29PM
You guys are good!
Slayer @ May 14th 2009 10:41PM
Damn, they must be getting extremely desperate if they're were about animals in video games. What a bunch of fucking morons.
Slayer @ May 14th 2009 10:46PM
*worry*
FUCK!!!
THE Ezio Auditore de Firenze (PSN slycooper_rocker) @ May 14th 2009 10:57PM
this isn't the first time they've targeted video game animals. not even close.
MJA @ May 14th 2009 10:49PM
Someone should make a Whack-A-PETA MEMBER flash game.
dogmaticatheist @ May 14th 2009 10:50PM
You stole my idea! Haha.
Rhamsey @ May 14th 2009 10:54PM
Oh PETA, why am i never surprised.
Smoke_me_a_Kipper @ May 19th 2009 8:17AM
PETA - warranty void if seal is broken.
Batzarro @ May 14th 2009 11:09PM
Well, I see what they did there. One is supposed to be the bad guy in Overlord, so it's cool. But not if you're a "hero" trying to "survive" and "save" other's.
Manly Mcbeefington (Mr. ESC) @ May 14th 2009 11:21PM
Those guys at People Eating Tasty Animals sure have a lot of spare time in their hands.
teedubdub @ May 14th 2009 11:58PM
I'm vegetarian and I dislike PETA as much as the next guy.
We just gotta ignore them, and they'll go away. They have the right idea but just lose all sense of reason and logic in the translation.
Rentaro @ May 15th 2009 12:27AM
Is this anything where they tried to paint the seals fur to lower their market value, only to make them giant targets for polar bears?
Alex @ May 15th 2009 1:18AM
how about a game where we get to club annoying commenters? Or the kid always screaming when I play online?
Blank-Mage @ May 15th 2009 2:20AM
Clubbing the kid just makes him louder. Until you club him harder, then the cops get all uppity.
tobz1000 @ May 15th 2009 4:28AM
So... PETA like this game? I'm a little confused.
Johnnydoo @ May 17th 2009 5:56PM
They should go and save some animals instead of complaining and writing texts and going on the street and creating petitions.... gawd!
The Dark Wayne @ May 15th 2009 8:30AM
They do realize the entire point of Overlord is to be an evil motherfucker don't they? So technically the game reinforces the idea that clubbing baby seals is evil doesn't it?
Mike @ May 15th 2009 8:50AM
I should point out that the whole PETA/McCartney anti-sealhunt issue is a big load of bullshit and misinformation.
The facts that the McCartneys won't tell you:
-It is illegal to kill baby seals
-90% of hunted seals are killed by bullet. They are only clubbed when the shot wasn't fatal.
-Compared with other small/medium game, the method of killing seals is extremely humane. For instance, rabbit snares often won't kill it right away, forcing it to bleed to death and suffer horribly.
-The hunting of polar bears (predator to seals) and new, strict regulations against cod fishing (a common food for seals) has meant that the seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence suffer from massive overpopulation. Quotas for seal hunts are designed to compensate for this, and if the seal hunt is stopped then many baby seals would die from starvation, and with no predators their corpses would remain, spreading disease and infection and thus killing more seals.
-Unlike almost every other medium game, 100% of the seal is used (the meat, skin, bones, etc.).
-The hunt provides significant income for many families (a good friend of mine in particular lives partially off what his father makes by hunting seals).
But no, Paul and Heather want everyone to think that only baby seals are killed and are clubbed over the skull repeatedly.
SimonBob @ May 15th 2009 9:54AM
Bravo, mate. Exactly what I was thinking of posting.
Nitemare1 @ May 15th 2009 9:01AM
@Mike Keep spreading the thruth Mike. It's bound to catch on sooner or later. If people would do some research and get the facts of a situation instead of following blindly, PETA wouldn't have nearly half its supporters.
Singular Trap @ May 15th 2009 9:03AM
Oh, too funny! It's SO meta to quote Xav in there!
diamondberyllium @ May 15th 2009 9:42AM
PETA is right. The seal massacres perpetrated by a handful of thugs in Canada are the largest, most savage massacre of wildlife on the planet. It is an international crime and there is no excuse for it. "Mike" is repeating the lies and propaganda of the DFO.
First Myth: Seals are overpopulated: The seal population is dropping like a rock, a catastrophe has been occuring where seal nurseries have disappeared because of ice loss due to global warming. 90% of the pups were killed in the last two years for this reason in the last two years, and on top of this the massacres kill around half the remaining pups. The Gulf of St. Lawrence and Newfoundland were free of ice last year for the first time on record, and where there should have been hundreds of thousands of seals returning to mate and give birth, there were none. Even the DFO propagandists admit at least 70% of the seals will be gone by 2015.
Second myth: Seals eat all the fish. Seals are an essential part of a carefully balanced ecosystem, where seals eat the predators of the food fish that Newfoundland depends on. For instance, seals eat skates, rays, sculpin, capelin, squid, silver hake, dogfish, etc. These things are mostly unfit for human consumption but they prey on cod, their minnows, spawn, & eggs. With less seals the predators are rampant, meaning that populations of cod and other food fish Canada exterminated by 1992 have not recovered. It was not the seals that wiped out the fish; it was greedy sealers who are enemies of the their own fishing communities and the incompetent and corrupt Canadian government. The claim that seals will "starve" if they are not killed is another propaganda point. Seals maintain their own balance. when there were 40 million seals on Canada’s shores there was no fish shortage and the settlers remarked fish were so abundant they could "walk across their backs "
Third myth: The hunt is humane. It is definitely not. The claim that most of them are "shot" painlessly is outright lies. That only happens in the "second phase" of the massacre when the seals are more mobile. According to accounts of the sealers themselves, bullets spoil the coats when they leave a hole in them, so they will choose clubs. Even when they are "shot", the sealers come around to club them and drag them off with hooks while they are still alive. A huge percent of seals that are shot escape with their wounds to die slowly beneath the ice. Despite Canadian govt propaganda FILMED evidence of cruelty was obtained in 2009 of seals SKINNED ALIVE, injured seals left to suffer on the ice, and wounded seals allowed to escape beneath the water's surface where they endure a slow and painful death. Those filmed and documented footages have been obtained year after year. They show brutal scenes of baby seals screaming in fear and pain and their mothers trying to protect the bloodied bodies of the pups from the savages, and seals writhing still alive in bloodied heaps of dead seals. Also every year veterinary reports have shown an average of 42% of the seal pups were still alive when they were skinned.
Fourth myth: "seals are not babies". Seals start changing their coats at ten days old. -95% of all the Harp seals killed are still babies, 2-6 weeks old. they are still not able to eat solid food or swim, and they are dependent either on their nursing mothers or on their blubber to survive. whitecoats-younger than two weeks- are still killed illegally and the massacre takes place over hundreds of square miles of ice-the Canadian government has no ability to monitor it. SEALS live 30 to 40 years, a human 60 to 80, so a 3 week old seal compares to a 6 week old baby. Sealers will try to con you and say now it's not a baby anymore. A scam to get away with killing them.
The Canadian commercial seal hunt is to marine mammals what the holocaust was to humans. Crimes of this magnitude should never be forgotten and never, ever forgiven as to do so would lower the stature of humankind itself.
Never again should so many people ( Canadians who oppose the seal hunt ) and animals ( the millions of defenseless baby seals which have been ruthlessly butchered ) be subjected to such savagery nor to such callous disregard for another intelligent, sentient, living being.