Pliskin: You don't get injured in VR, do you? Every year, a few soldiers die in field exercises.
Raiden: There's pain sensation in VR, and even a sense of reality and urgency. The only difference is that it isn't actually happening.
Pliskin: That's the way they want you to think, to remove you from the fear that goes with battle situations. War as a video game — what better way to raise the ultimate soldier?
Raiden: So you're saying VR training is some kind of mind control?
— Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. Pretty haunting quote about the dangers of videogames...in a videogame. --
"Ahh,, do you not feel the grand romance of the wide open skies? The roaring invitation of the wind? The soft call of the clouds? You are a boring, boring creature."
--Willi, the Bird-Man in Wind Waker


