In your “dude, seriously” news of the day, the folk for the moral Treatment of Animals (PETA) have turned their sights on Ubisoft over some possible content from an yet-to-be-released game.

PETA is upset that Assassin’s Creed 4: Black Flag may feature some kind of whaling contained in the game. They have got released a press release calling it “disgraceful” to glorify the practice, which continues today.

Whaling it is, shooting whales with harpoons and leaving them to struggle for an hour or more before they die or are hacked apart while they’re still alive—may appear like something out of the history books, but this bloody industry still goes on today inside the face of international condemnation, and it’s disgraceful for any game to glorify it. PETA encourages game companies to create games that remember animals—not games that promote hurting and killing them.

The game, set to release on October 29th, will let players “relive the truly explosive events that defined the Golden Age of Pirates” by “captaining and customizing their very own ship, looking for lost treasure, hunting rare animals and looting underwater shipwrecks.”

So, outrage.

Ubisoft’s response is pretty good:

History is our playground in Assassin’s Creed. Assassin’s Creed IV Black Flag is a piece of fiction that depicts the genuine events in the course of the Golden Era of Pirates. We don’t condone illegal whaling, just as we don’t condone a pirate lifestyle of poor hygiene, plundering, hijacking ships, and over the legal limit drunken debauchery.

Nobody is condoning whaling however the game hasn’t even hit the shelves yet. C’mon, guys.