>>36505386it took me a moment to notice but there's something that genuinely bothers me about the master ball being used in like, random promotional imagery, especially unrelated to silph company.
the master ball isn't supposed to be just this staple of their culture, it's a new, explicitly-stated to be "top-secret" project by silph. some random parlor shouldn't be plastering master balls on their arcade machines.
and if your response to this is "w-well team rocket knows about the master ball that's why they took over silph!!" you've basically already lost.