@Tide Hunter  

 
It doesn’t imply Rainbow can hear them. It implies Rainbow thinks she can hear them.
 
Maybe she even could when they were all connected to the game earlier. With the other girls’ senses cut off, they wouldn’t see what was happening around them and wouldn’t see Rainbow coming ’till it was too late and they lost the ability to communicate with her.

@Background Pony #EA5F  
Believe it or not, I actually have a vore fetish. It’s just that there are certain things that will bother me: It’s not that it’s unrealistic. I’m fine with unrealistic. What I’m not fine with are fetish art/writing pieces in which it is contradictory. It’s not that it happening is unrealistic or even physically impossible within the confines of the real world, but that it’s inherently contradictory and undoes itself if you think for a single second. I’m fine with a vore pic, or a vore thing in which the one doing it is in a virtual reality thing and have, say a headset and earphones on, but the thing is she then proceeds to ask a question to Twilight. This last part is what broke my belief, as that would imply that Rainbow can hear them while the VR is on and then it lead me down the train of though.

@Tide Hunter  
Or…… It’s just a piece of fetish are of a fetish that is already impossible in the real world and you spent time talking about how unbelievable a picture of an unrealistic fetish is.

Wait, so, this doesn’t make sense. If the VR is just VR, and since the others would certainly not be quiet as Rainbow Dash was eating them, and given that her ears are uncovered, she would have heard them shout “Rainbow Dash, stop doing that right now” or something along those lines and stopped because she is able to recognize the sound of her friends screaming in distress. If this isn’t just VR, and is able to block out your ability to hear sounds and cause you to hear, taste, and feel certain things despite not covering your ears or tongue, it would be something like SAO’s Nerve Gear, which would connect to your nervous system/mind to make you experience things that you weren’t experiencing. The thing is, such a thing would also stop you from actually interacting with the non-virtual world, as it changed the direction of your neural pathways and thoughts. The thing is, it’s more than likely more similar to SAO’s headset than our current day virtual reality gear, because there’s no controls. The only aspect that is shown is a headset, no arm/leg/hoof/body/mouth gear. As such, for you to do anything with it aside from looking around at pretty scenery in walking simulators, it would need to connect to your thoughts/nerves. If it connects to your nerves, and blocks out sound and simulates taste and feeling, you wouldn’t be able to move your body. If you still could, it would be a major health hazard and would likely be banned until the technology is improved, because its effects are essentially hallucinations and could lead to you attacking your friends or running straight into a wall without being able to realize it.
 
If you are able to experience real life sensations, then Rainbow would have stopped when she heard her friends screaming. Along with that, if you could experience real sensations, and if the device sent its own sensations, then it would be considered a hazard unless real sensations over-ride the gear’s feelings, sense it could have you smell thyme and rosemary and feel cool while the building burnt down around you, and thus the gear would be banned until it was modified to make it so that real sensations over-ran the device’s sensations. If the gear allowed both real and fake, and real overrides fake, then she would have noticed that five of them didn’t taste like chitin, and five had soft, malleable flesh and fur instead of hard, smooth chitin, and she would have thought something was wrong.
 
Summarizing:  
If it was just VR, then RD would have heard the others and felt the others and stopped. Along with that, there’s no equipment to allow her to move, just a headpiece.  
If it was a gear that could actually simulate something with your nerves and mind, then she shouldn’t have been allowed to move, and she wouldn’t be asking Twilight something because she would have been told she couldn’t communicate.  
If it was a mixture in which you could move your body but it also attached to you and simulated feeling, it would have been disallowed and made illegal due to being a health hazard as you would be able to run into a wall and not feel it.  
If it was a mixture in which it was essentially VR but it did simulate some feeling while allowing real feelings, then either it would be banned due to the reasons of the previous sentence or she would have been able to tell the difference between chitin and fur/flesh.
 
Because of these, this is totally unbelievable.
 
However, if you say that it doesn’t have to make sense from a legal perspective, all right. How about a different summary that doesn’t involve the government and law?
 
The headset doesn’t have any controls or ear-coverings, and thus to simulate the game it must be connected to her mind or else it’s a video, not a video game. She is shown asking Twilight for help, and thus either she hears things outside of the headset or she doesn’t know that she can’t hear them. If she can hear, than she could probably hear them talk or go quiet, and along with hearing, other senses such as taste and feel would also be open to her. She is not so unintelligent that she would feel fur and soft tissue and assume it was the chitin of a changeling, because fur has a differing texture and hardness than fur. If she can’t feel sensations outside of her simulation, then Twilight is foolish because she knows shouting won’t work and should just use her magic to teleport them out of her. Oh, yeah, thing I didn’t originally mention: Twilight has magic. She could have used it to teleport or to levitate RD and used telekinesis to stop her. Oh, also, if it took such complete control that it simulated movement through a place, it shouldn’t allow you to move in real life, but she was able to talk out loud and thus it most likely doesn’t over-ride reality completely.
 
I can forgive incest images or most vore or inflation or living latex because those don’t contradict themselves, but images like this are self-contradictory. The only way you can imagine that this isn’t self contradictory is if it actually does stop her from noticing anything not simulated, and then all her friends opened up her mouth and crawled inside into her stomach and then forgot how to get out and forgot that she couldn’t hear them, except she can talk so this explanation is false as well.

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