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There is no denial that the author had an unpleasant experience, but it is nowhere close to what a real-life sexual assault feels like.

If I was the author I would choose different words to describe the experience out of respect of people who have been sexually assaulted in real life.

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Of course, the author would agree that it's not close to real-life assault. If I said, "I shot a bear in virtual reality," it would be missing the point to complain that it's nowhere close to real-life bear shooting. No one said it was real-life, quite the contrary.

The story does bring up a central trouble spot in multiplayer gaming: no mechanisms in place for holding players responsible for being an asshat.

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