{"id":504,"date":"2008-11-18T14:37:18","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T18:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/?p=504"},"modified":"2008-11-23T12:57:20","modified_gmt":"2008-11-23T16:57:20","slug":"too-nice-the-peta-take-on-cooking-mama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/11\/18\/too-nice-the-peta-take-on-cooking-mama\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Nice! PETA takes on Cooking Mama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t know Cooking Mama was sufficiently popular to merit a critical parody, but PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has made <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peta.org\/cooking-mama\/index.asp?c=pmkegc08\">a game that emphasizes the more gory aspects of eating animals<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I do think it would be much more powerful if it started by giving players a more personal relation to the animals that they prepare and then made players kill them. (Meet the sweet little turkey &#8230; now kill it.)<\/p>\n<p>I speculate that PETA faced the problem that they wanted to convince players that animals are treated cruelly &#8211; but on the other hand they did not want to make a game in which players could do just that. A shame really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t know Cooking Mama was sufficiently popular to merit a critical parody, but PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has made a game that emphasizes the more gory aspects of eating animals. I do think it would be much more powerful if it started by giving players a more personal relation to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/2008\/11\/18\/too-nice-the-peta-take-on-cooking-mama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Too Nice! PETA takes on Cooking Mama&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actual-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jesperjuul.net\/ludologist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}