User blog comment:DarthPlan/Our Version of The Last Great Time War?/@comment-5265497-20141204102539/@comment-5265497-20141208120033

You seem to be averse to violence/general conflict and the psychological effects it introduces without accounting for the physical afflictions. Imagine Mortal Kombat if it just transferred physiological damage without the sensory input that usually naturally accompanies it. You innately know it's going to kill you if it continues, but at the same time, you're just blithely waiting out your death sentence. As I already said, pain isn't what kills you, it's just a feeling.

If you want to be specific, in a short-term death match the a flight-and-fight response is initiated and the pain receptors are practically deadened overrided by adrenalin boost, time begins to slow accourding to your perception, you have a temporary boost of adrenalin, etc.