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Why Is #BoycottBigGames Trending? Why Is Pet Simulator X Is Suing Roblox Games?
It is not much of a surprise if a particular game like Starfield, Minecraft, or Fortnite trends in social media platforms such as YouTube, Twitter, and Instagram because they just do so occasionally, either due to new updates or insane features that please the players.
However, something unusual has been happening in the gaming world, with the hashtag boycottbiggames trending for the past few days.
Apparently, BIG Games has been at it again, suing the games left and right for stealing their content. However, as a retaliation, Pet Simulator X sued Roblox Games for featuring cube-shaped pets, which are identical to the designs from their game.
With the news spreading among the gaming communities, everyone began discussing it by mentioning the hashtag boycottbiggames below the topic.
So, why exactly is Pet Simulator X suing Roblox Games, and what is the response of gamers and developers? Read on to find out more.
Why Is Pet Simulator X Suing Roblox Games?
While there have been several games with similar features that borrow a certain character design, not many take it seriously, but Pet Simulator finally decided to take action when the news of someone leaking about Pet Simulator X to BIG Games got out.
A popular leaks account named RBXG Leaks has been sharing everything about Pet Simulator X for the past few years now, and they recently got banned by BIG Games because Pet Simulator sued Roblox Games.
For example, BIG Games had previously sued Arm Wrestling Simulator due to their assets of Pets being too similar to the designs of their own games. While that copyright issue has been resolved, the community believes that the pets dont look very similar.
Now, the karma is biting back at BIG Games as they didnt anticipate Pet Simulator X to sue them in return. According to the information revealed by RBXG Leaks, they decided not to disclose any further leaks. In their words,
This is whats going on right now, and no, Im not joking. Ive been leaking Pet Simulator X for the past two years, but Preston suddenly decided, without warning, to DMCA takedown RBXGLeaks Discord server, which I no longer have. Now, Preston claims he filed a DMCA claim on my Twitter, but Twitter isnt responding (I wonder why), and now Im being threatened with a cease-and-desist order and possibly being sued after.
Big Games is one of the worst ROBLOX game development teams, and Im surprised that people still support them. Big games dev team have supported me for the previous two years and now they are now taking me down without a warning and without me knowing till 2 days ago.
I will no longer leak Pet Simulator, not because they asked me to stop, but because I want to stop supporting them after what they have done to me. I am not longer in great shape anymore cause of BIG GAMES, they set me up after clearly showing support to me for the past 2 years.
How Is the Gaming Community Responding to the Issue?
Almost everyone in the gaming community have been taking the issue seriously and trolling BIG Games by mentioning the hashtag boycottbiggames.
For example, this X user named Sockaboy dropped a picture of a duck with a square background and claimed that BIG Games is suing him for having a square-shaped profile picture.
Another X user named Luiggi trolled the color of the BIG Games logo by mentioning how using an Orange could get you a DMCA copyright.
The above tweet sums up the situation perfectly, as Preston, the leading developer of BIG Games, doesnt like any other games with a square and immediately files a copyright DMCA when he sees one.
So, what do you think about this whole situation? Is BIG Games crossing the line by suing every game? Let us know your thoughts in the comment section below.
PETA Bricks at Baseball Parks
Claim: PETA placed bricks with hidden messages at baseball parks.
Origins: At the beginning of the 2004 baseball season, the San Diego Padres moved out of Qualcomm Stadium (formerly known as Jack Murphy Stadium and
As has been done with many other public structures, a program was initiated at PETCO Park to raise revenue by allowing people to purchase personalized bricks inscribed with messages of their choosing. The personalized bricks are put on permanent display in the stadium's Palm Court Plaza.
The Ballpark Brick Program at PETCO Park presented an interesting opportunity for the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), who had written letters to Padres executives asking them to cancel the naming rights agreement. PETA has long been urging consumers to boycott the PETCO chain on the grounds that numerous complaints have reported PETCO stores as all too often being the site of sick, dying, and mistreated animals:
PETA's national campaign against PETCO was launched in order to inform consumers of the pet-shop chain's bad habit of leaving animals sick and dying in its stores, pending lawsuits, and angry customers.
PETA is sending monthly casualty reports to PETCO officials, citing dozens of eyewitness accounts of sick and dying animals at PETCO stores across the country. During March [2004] alone, PETA received
PETA has also filed a complaint with the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging that PETCO failed to disclose animal deaths, customer complaints, and legal actions filed against the company (including lawsuits over cruelty to animals in San Francisco and Utah) to its stockholders. And PETA has filed a shareholder resolution calling on PETCO to end its sales of animals.
Although they may have failed at prevailing upon the Padres to change the name of their ballpark, purchasing a brick inscribed with an anti-PETCO message at PETCO Park would be a subversive way for PETA to take the battle to the enemy, so to speak, and that's exactly what they attempted to do. However, Christy Griffin, PETA's PETCO Coordinator, told us that their initial two submissions were rejected as unsuitable: the first was for a brick bearing the message "In memory of all the animals who have suffered and died in PETCO stores nationwide," and the second was for a brick reading simply "Boycott PETCO."
What to do when you can't get your message in through the front door? As we've seen in other examples, one way to sneak subversive messages into unlikely settings is through the backdoor method of acrostics, message spelled out by the initial letters of a series of words. And again, that's exactly what PETA did, purchasing a brick with the inscription: "Break Open Your Cold Ones! Toast The Padres! Enjoy This Championship Organization!":
Read as an acrostic, these sentences form a decidedly less friendly message:
| BreakOpenYourColdOnes!ToastThe |
Padres!EnjoyThisChampionOrganization!
According to Ms. Griffin, PETA's aim is to see PETCO give up the sale of live animals altogether, a product line which she says accounts for only 5% of PETCO's business. (PETCO officials maintain that they have investigated some of the reports submitted by PETA, and that most of them are "mischaracterizations.")
ESPN reported that PETCO wasn't expressing any public consternation over PETA's hidden message:
Padres and PETCO officials discussed whether something should be done with the brick, but PETCO executives had no problem with it.
"If you walked by and read their message, you wouldn't know it had anything to do with PETA," said Don Cowan, PETCO's director of communications.
In 2012, PETA pulled off a similar caper at the Florida Marlins baseball team's new park. Back in 2010, PETA had expressed opposition to the team's plans to install two enormous saltwater aquariums, complete with coral and sea life native to South Florida, in the backstop at that park:
PETA said the Marlins should explore alternatives, such as "artist-designed aquariums full of beautiful blown-glass animals," "high-definition plasma screens showing underwater footage of sea animals," and even "robotic fish that can 'swim' through water."
"I hope to hear that you have decided to leave fish in the ocean where they belong," Reiman wrote.
Yahoo Finance
What Happened:
Shares of pet-focused retailer Petco (NASDAQ:WOOF) fell 11.6% in the morning session after the company reported third quarter results, which missed analysts' expectations on nearly every key metric we track: revenue growth, same-store sales growth, gross margin, adjusted EBITDA, EPS, and free cash flow. Management acknowledged the challenges posed by the current consumer environment and expressed a commitment to swiftly address these issues by enhancing customer appeal, implementing cost controls, and managing capital more tightly. It's worth noting a significant decline in GAAP operating income and EPS, thanks to a one-time $1.22 billion goodwill impairment charge. Even when adjusting for the non-recurring expense, this was still a bad quarter for Petco.
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What is the market telling us:
Petco's shares are somewhat volatile and over the last year have had 32 moves greater than 5%. But moves this big are very rare even for Petco and that is indicating to us that this news had a significant impact on the market's perception of the business.
Petco is down 68.5% since the beginning of the year, and at $2.90 per share it is trading 76.4% below its 52-week high of $12.27 from February 2023. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of Petco's shares at the IPO in January 2021 would now be looking at an investment worth $98.47.
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It's true: PETA placed a brick with a hidden message at San Diego's PETCO Park.
Break Open Your Cold Ones! Toast The Padres! Enjoy This Championship Organization!
Thats the seemingly innocuous message PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) purchased as part of Petco Parks personalized brick program at Palm Court Plaza. It was received with a bit of a sigh of relief, after two of their previous submissions had been rejected: In memory of all the animals who have suffered and died in PETCO stores nationwide, and simply Boycott PETCO.
The irony being, once the brick was engraved and laid into the foundation of Petco Park, it was noticed that the first letters of the message, when read vertically, spelled:
Break Open Your Cold Ones Toast The Padres Enjoy This ChampionOrganization!
[*BOYCOTT PETCO]
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Petco agrees to stop large-bird sales
Petco Animal Supplies Inc. said Tuesday it will stop selling large birds in a deal with an animal rights group, which agreed to end its boycott of the pet supply chain.
Amazon and African grey parrots, cockatoos and macaws will no longer be sold at Petco stores once the company runs through its existing stock. Petco will continue selling smaller and medium-sized birds, such as canaries, finches, parakeets, cockatiels and conures.
We recognize that most of our bird customers are what we would call beginning hobbyists. Large birds are not necessarily appropriate for these individuals due to their long lifespan, size and care requirements, Bruce Hall, Petcos president and chief operating officer, said in a statement.
San Diego-based Petco, the countrys No. 2 pet supply chain with 730 stores, also agreed to encourage adoption of homeless birds from shelters and to separate mice and rats by gender to prevent them from breeding.
In return, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals agreed to end demonstrations outside Petco stores and take down its anti-Petco Web site. The Norfolk, Va.-based organization began attacking the company in January 2003 for what PETA called Petcos pattern of mishandling pets for sale.
Wed be happier if all birds werent sold, but this is a precedent-setting action, said Daphna Nachminovitch, a PETA spokeswoman. It is a victory for the birds for certain.
Large parrots can easily outlive their adult owners, said Nachminovitch, who considers parrots to be wild animals and unsuitable pets. Wild and escaped parrots are known to flock noisily in San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco and other cities.
Last year, Petco paid more than $900,000 to settle two lawsuits that accused the company of mistreating animals and overcharging customers. A complaint by PETA to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that calls on Petco to disclose revenue and inventory figures of pet sales remains pending.
