Intention

First of all, please don't hate me for doing my project on this. I am from Turkey, and even though most people know what Pokemon is, people rarely play it and they only watch it when they're very very small. Pokemon is not a big thing in Turkey like it is in United States. I was one of the people who have never played, I don't think I even knew there were games. I have watched one or two episodes of the show when I was very small. I also did not know the existence of a game called Super Smash Brothers. So when I came here, I was very surprised by how much people loved Pokemon. I did not understand why they got so excited about catching this creatures and making them fight. That just seemed cruel to me. I'm in my second year in Carnegie Mellon, and I still feel the same. (Except about Super Smash Brothers, I've gotten really good at it and have WiiU and GameCube at home here now that I play with my housemates from time to time.)