Endless Paradigm

Quote:Animal rights group PETA has condemned the Pokémon media franchise and video game series, saying it “paints a rosy picture of what amounts to thinly veiled animal abuse.

Quote:Much like animals in the real world, Pokémon are treated as unfeeling objects and used for such things as human entertainment and as subjects in experiments. The way that Pokémon are stuffed into pokéballs is similar to how circuses chain elephants inside railroad cars and let them out only to perform confusing and often painful tricks that were taught using sharp steel-tipped bullhooks and electric shock prods …if PETA existed in Unova, our motto would be: Pokémon are not ours to use or abuse. They exist for their own reasons. Wee believe that this is the message that should be sent to children.

Aside from the fact that this is clearly a lame attempt to attract publicity on the back of a major video game release (which is why I’m not linking to their site, and you shouldn’t look for it, either) PETA seems to have missed the single biggest theme of the Pokémon series: That Pokémon should be treated humanely and live as our equals. The games are loaded with an endless stream of characters who go on and on about true friendship between man and Pokémon. It’s so saccharine and so completely the opposite of what PETA suggests that it boggles the mind.

As part of the campaign, PETA also developed and released a flash-based parody game which it calls “Pokémon Black and Blue.” It is awful.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2...mal-abuse/

Game can be found here: http://features.peta.org/pokemon-black-a...te-parody/

Related: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2011/3/7/

I always thought the pokeballs were huge and luxurious inside.

I think they did something like this when Super Mario 3D Land came out, something about Tanooki abuse :/

Kuu Wrote: [ -> ]I always thought the pokeballs were huge and luxurious inside.

Well...
There's probably a reason why Pikachu never wanted to get into a Pokeball.  Other Pokemon don't seem to mind >_>

I only thought of the Master Ball as being like that.

Obv. PETA is starting to hate on video games.

it makes PETA look like the bad guys. and they don't read into things either.

Next up: PETA condemns Angry Birds Star Wars.

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lol, and there's ton of video games that uses animals as characters, why now only PETA, lol

anyways i think sony hired them so that to lessen down sales of Pokemon Black 2/White 2 releases, lol

Just tried the game.  It actually may have worked better if they didn't try to put so much propaganda into it - it could've been seen as a reasonable parody.

they did actually look things up. but that's an example of how old people can't use google.
Mudkip: "i herd u liek mudkipz" "do u liek mudkipz?"