Wearing fur may be messed up, but if you eat plants, you may as well eat animals. It's been proven in several scientific studies that Plants have feelings, can sense danger, communicate with each other, etc. So people basically have a choice. Starve. Or eat what you like, but kill in the most humane way possible. A vegetarian is no more 'moral' than a carnivore. Just because it's blood isn't red doesn't make it less barbaric. Just because you can't hear a plant screaming doesn't mean it isn't, and that it doesn't fear for it's life.

Tasty, tasty animals.

Agreed. PETA is in the unique situation of being an organization whose biggest enemy is themselves. And the reason is that their methodology for pushing their position is basically: a) Violence and b) Doing whatever the opposite is that will appeal to the average person's sense of reason. PETA is the ANTI-model of successful activism and its born out of its leaders and founders inability to have empathy for other people.

Mario 'becomes a tanooki' version of himself via a magical item. He's not opening up the closet and putting on a tanooki coat, or buying one at Nordstrom's... PETA just takes any opportunity they can to get publicity because they feel people don't pay enough attention to their message. If you can't see the difference between real animal issues and what a video game is doing, there's little hope for you.

While I sympathize with your point, PETA has NEVER been successful with this sort of activism. The idea, of course, is that by creating "buzz", they get their message across. Well, the problem is that their message is always: "You are a worthless human being for not supporting our cause and you should die in hell for having the audacity of participating in societal norms." The "buzz activism" loses all of its luster because PETA can't control its passions.

I played, completed, and enjoyed Mario Odyssey, but I tend to agree that I don't think it's the best 3D Mario. There was sense of sameness that prevailed after the first couple of worlds... not in the levels, environments, or aesthetics, but in the routine of each world. It just felt like each new environment was just the beginning of another checklist of moons to acquire, and the sheer number of them took away the sense of accomplishment I got from the stars in Mario 64 and the like. I can't exactly put my finger on why that is. Galaxy gets my nod as the best one.

Yes agree