Meanwhile inside the formation...
"No, no please! Just hold out a little longer! I can make it in time, just please!"
"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!! I thought I was making the right choice, please! Please don't leave me like this!"
"Have to...keep going. Have to...keep walking..."
"Another flop, another increase in debt...welp, try again tomorrow I suppose."
Lines of dialogue just like these were being repeated over and over and over again, in situations and simulations that seemed to entail the same follies, the same mistakes and the problems over and over and over again.
And yet...the people trapped in these simulations...didn't notice a bloody thing.
{OH COME ON NOW! YOU JUST NEEDED TO MOVE A LITTLE FASTER THIS TIME AROUND! YOU'RE JUST THIS CLOSE TO SAVING HER!}
{THINK EVERYTHING THROUGH. THINK EVERYTHING THOROUGHLY, OR ELSE THEY'LL ALL DIE FROM YOUR MISTAKES!}