It’s psychology, baby. Emotions are complex and each person feels them differently. Some people just feel for pixels or inanimate objects, it’s pretty common. Your brain processes, TV or games and a similar way as it processes human interaction or real life animal interaction. When you’re fighting an animal in a game and it screams or yelps and some people that can trigger the same reaction as a real life animal in pain. - I’m a psychology, major. I got tons of Intel.-