Kind of similar to alt-tabbing out of a game that is sucking up a bunch of system resources

Why is dumpshock not similar to the harddrive melting? It causes you physical damage (somehow) to suddenly unplug from the matrix. Isn't a computer crash similar to disorientation? Computer takes a minute or two to reboot, as opposed to hours and hours (stun) or a specialist (medic).

Because a melting hard drive is permanent? And it's only sometimes Physical. And again, you're *not* a computer. There's no reason to compare it to one for this. It's not shocking that you can't reboot (and look how long it takes TMs).

Because they're built to handle that. Ever tried unplugging the RAM?

For whatever reason, probably due to "it's a dystopian setting" and preexisting tropes, ASIST is not designed as a resource that may become unavailable, and that consequently has a gentle failure mode.

~J

Maybe the “physical damage” during a hot sim experience is not the body physically bleeds because it perceives getting stabbed, but rather the nervous system going into shock and halting (or otherwise causing havoc to) the involuntary muscles, such as stopping the heart and lungs. If so, then the physical trauma would not be due to “bleeding from a stab wound”, but internal organ strain and cellular oxygen-starvation… in game terms, the same physical damage monitor is filled, regardless.