“Gonna Catch Em All” by Randis Albion. The tiny scratches on the jar stab at my heart. I don’t think I’ve felt this much sorrow for a video game character since Kenny Velez’s Yoshi/betrayal painting.

I suppose this was the old school way of catching Pokemans. Oh sure, we pretend as if we’re civil now, telling ourselves that converting their bodies into energy and storing them in Poké Balls is a much more humane method of enslaving stashing the creatures, but just how painless do you think that process is?

Who’s to say that when you hear your Psyduck quack out his name as the Poké Ball sucks him up, he isn’t actually crying out in agony as his dematerializing feathers and bones are ripped from his fluffy frame? Think about it.

Buy: Pokemon Platinum, Diamond

See also: Pikachu, the electric rodent

[Via Randis Albion, Neatorama]

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