In his two works on mindrape, A Rape in Cyberspace and My Dinner With Catherine MacKinnon (And Other Hazards of Theorizing Virtual Rape), Julian Dibbell points out that in an online setting, the player's identity is ambiguous. ... The character Raiden is the player "he has the player's name, gender, and blood type on his dog tags to prove it (Document, Ending 4). Yet, he also asserts his independence from the player in the game's ending, casting the dog tags aside and vowing to form a self of his own choosing. ...

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