That article made pickpocketing feel ever so slightly like running a debugger on code and halting execution, inspecting values, etc. Robbins freezes his mark's

That article made pickpocketing feel ever so slightly like running a debugger on code and halting execution, inspecting values, etc. Robbins freezes his mark's mind or attention and then make changes to their state. And they keep going oblivious to it all. Like the article stated, it feels like he can freeze time at will.