Greenpeace recently drew some not-so-peaceful press in Nintendo's direction by stating that the Wii was bottom of the barrel when it came to enviromental compliance. Not satisfied with just doling out a poor rating, now this video has popped out which portrays Master Chief, Mario and Kratos (wretchedly voiced, may I add) encountering their worst enemies: the consoles themselves.
If you can watch this entire video without wincing or facepalming, I'll buy you a drink next time I see you (feel free to take me up on this at any public gaming event in 2008.) I am in full support of being enviromentally aware, but wasn't the chart released on the Greenpeace Web site blatant enough? Was this corny commercial necessary?
There's a whole Web site too, which I'd advise you peruse only if you're feeling ready for some serious bullsh*ttery. The next thing you know, every hippie that's somehow wandered out of his own pot smoke and into the 21st century will be harassing me at E3 about owning consoles and pleading that I build them out of sticks and organic bird feces instead.
Ah smells a lawsuit~! Seriously though, they're making it seem as though producing these consoles is going to be the end of the world. What about the kajillion cars around the world, or the multiple unregulated manufacturing plants in China?
Greenpeace is just being a bunch of attention whores because they're no longer relevant.
Greenpeace and the whole green movement is the new religion for the 21st century. They may have started out with good intentions, but they've become organistaions of fear mongering and hate, very much like the other main orgaised religions.
I couldnt watch anymore after Kratos got hit in the head with a PS3. Seriously does anyone give a shit about Greenpeace anymore? Did anyone ever give a shit about them?
WHAT!? What's that, Greenpeace? You actually CARE about people getting hurt now!?
Last time I looked, Greenpeace was propogating hunger in the third world, keeping food out of the hands of starving children, by lying to country leaders about the quality and safety about donated GM foods from America and tricking them into denying hundreds of tons of donated food, and protesting industrialization and introduction of modern farming technology in the third world due to fears that paving roads and making farms to make food and distribute it would hurt the poor wittle fish and birdies.
Fuck Greenpeace.
Fuck PETA too for their consistent use of propaganda that compares livestock farms to Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust.
I neither facepalmed nor winced...but I did have a look on my face the entire time that said, “What the...?” So...Kratos is the “friggin’ God of War,” and Mario sounds like Elmo? I wonder how much time and money Greenpeace put into this awful PSA that could easily have come out of the early 90s (excepting the characters used and the 3D world, of course).
I'd rather people get more interested in flourescent lightbulbs and energy-efficient cars. The lightbulbs are cheap and easy-- Maybe not as cheap initially as a regular one, but the electricity bill's a lot prettier. The cars? Just don't buy a friggin' SUV.
Boom, if everybody did that we'd have less energy problems. No need to whine about consoles, which are hella more efficient, than, say, PC's.
*Is loving my gaming PC and flourescent lights in my room*
Well shit, maybe we should use consoles to power a nuclear reactors instead of isotopes, Least then they'd have another use when they're thrown away.
Oh wait no thats not what they're trying to get at is it, I was distracted to another train of thought by the awfulness of that video.
Wow so this is how they're going about bringing a younger generation into Green-POS. Unfortunately what they forget a little thing called "fuck you, I'm going to play my games anyway"
I went through the video without wincing or faceplaming, mostly because i was laughing at Greenpeace for both their horrid inaccuracies, and that whey would actually make this and think it actually meant something. Though you got to admit that got some big balls to be asking to get sued by Sony, Bungie, Microsoft, and Nintendo both for copyright infringement and slander.
If I want to be preach to, I'd go to church; seriously.
I agree with BrOnXbOmBr21; I wonder how much was spent on this. I'm also curious to know how often they consulted their attorneys to see how much they could get away with and what are they including to arrive at the numbers they use. For example, over at http://nexgenwars.com/ adding their numbers only brings you somewhere short of 32 million. If those only represent north America, I'm guessing that adding next gen consoles sold in Japan and Europe (whom I don't even think this ad is targeting) still brings you well short of the 60 million mark.
Meh. Time to pull down the vodka, pour myself a stiff one and go wail on some zombies.
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5:36 PM on 12.14.2007
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Greenpeace is just being a bunch of attention whores because they're no longer relevant.
And this ad is just about the dumbest thing I've ever seen.
PETA can get fucked too.
Fuck you.
the only thing they got spot on was the nerd teen voice of master chief. i hear that voice all.the.time on xbl.
For me to MST3k!
(ZING, No I didn't!)
2) Anyone up for some copyright infringement? Who at Greenpeace thought it was a good idea to get sued?
3) Mario sounded like a Muppet, and Kratos isn't nearly as coordinated as his games make him out to be.
Last time I looked, Greenpeace was propogating hunger in the third world, keeping food out of the hands of starving children, by lying to country leaders about the quality and safety about donated GM foods from America and tricking them into denying hundreds of tons of donated food, and protesting industrialization and introduction of modern farming technology in the third world due to fears that paving roads and making farms to make food and distribute it would hurt the poor wittle fish and birdies.
Fuck Greenpeace.
Fuck PETA too for their consistent use of propaganda that compares livestock farms to Nazi concentration camps and the Holocaust.
*caughs*...
Okay here we go...
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The last thing I ever thought I'd have to worry about was militant hippies.
Nintendo - New to the guide - first global brand to score zero across all criteria!!!11 Oh, you meanies >:(
Stop polluting my innernets with that greenpiss crap.
sad thing is it's better than G4 has ever made
Touche, Greenpeace. Touche.
Boom, if everybody did that we'd have less energy problems. No need to whine about consoles, which are hella more efficient, than, say, PC's.
*Is loving my gaming PC and flourescent lights in my room*
Oh wait no thats not what they're trying to get at is it, I was distracted to another train of thought by the awfulness of that video.
I agree with BrOnXbOmBr21; I wonder how much was spent on this. I'm also curious to know how often they consulted their attorneys to see how much they could get away with and what are they including to arrive at the numbers they use. For example, over at http://nexgenwars.com/ adding their numbers only brings you somewhere short of 32 million. If those only represent north America, I'm guessing that adding next gen consoles sold in Japan and Europe (whom I don't even think this ad is targeting) still brings you well short of the 60 million mark.
Meh. Time to pull down the vodka, pour myself a stiff one and go wail on some zombies.