Special interest groups run the world. It’s a fact. The latest in a long line of fundamentalist boat-rocking quasi-terrorist organisations is run by a seedy cabal of gaming hacks based in a small flat in Pimlico whose project may change the way games are designed and produced. For all their extreme views, the powerful lobbies these special interest groups control often manage to sway political decision-making against the prevailing winds of popular opinion. Not Enough Owls is just such an organisation. Its members seek to cherry-pick examples of owl-based discrimination in the games industry and use as a tool with which to beat developers and publishers into featuring their favoured animal species in undue and undeserving frequency.
Not Enough Owls’ propaganda machine is gathering pace and this post seeks to tear open their misinformation and lies before it goes too far. The fact is that owls are fairly represented in the gaming world and to say otherwise is in clear denial of the facts. Not Enough Owls uses minor evidence, blown up to grotesque proportions, and applies false conclusions to impart dire consequences unto us all.
Their claims include:
- Blathers, the owl from Animal Crossing is an owl-equivalent Uncle Tom figure whose appearance in the game is solely to discredit the species.
- Sony purchased Psygnosis in order to destroy their logo, featuring an owl.
- The BBC are anti-owl.
How they can arrive at such an absurd solution as the last one beggars belief. As with many special interests groups, they’ve made the classic mistake of seeing an enemy where one doesn’t exist. The BBC are famously pro-owl and have always been so. Classic proof can be seen in the design of the BBC Micro computer, a staple of 1980s British schools whose logo was an owl. It really is time to tear off the blinkers of paranoia and let these madmen see the truth. For all the lobbying they do, counter it twofold; for every complaint email they send to a minor celebrity for their impilcit anti-owl comments, send them flowers. Don’t let the pro-strigiform lobby win!
Tags: owls, notenoughowls, facists
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