It's one of those days when the slightest breeze causes a torrent of leaves. Some trees are just looking for any excuse.
PROTEST! Any parent whose kids went through a Pokemon phase knows the truth - the sick, sick truth - at the heart of the entire subculture. It's cockfighting. The creatures are kept in small dark cold balls, then released into the world only to find themselves in desperate combat.
The game encourages you to stun and electrify your trainer, which is okay because he's a person, and people are disposable in almost any form. What really counts are helpless creatures into which we can project almost anything, our own moral vanity included. Heck, especially that!
The full game - slow, dull, pedantic - is here. Warning: because the site was coded by chimps rescued from a research facility, the game autoplays, and there's music.
VIDEO Because there's a curse word at the end, I'm not embedding this. But it's the popular video of the moment: The rootin' tootin' rainstorm with the big ka-bang conclusion.
It's 45 seconds long, which makes it rather epic-length for these things. There might be additional footage of the tree after the explosion, or the delayed reaction of the dog, but they probably held that back for the Extended Edition, or a sequel.
