Does having an "arachnophobia" setting that censors spiders in your game count as woke?
Does having an "arachnophobia" setting that censors spiders in your game count as woke?
Does having an "arachnophobia" setting that censors spiders in your game count as woke?
Im glad RT could play the game, he is really charming and fun. You guys will seethe at the dumbest shit ever
Dude, it's a horror game. Censoring a monster because it's scary in a horror game is buttfrick moronic.
Idk about anyone that enjoys bein exposed to their phobias
Horror has always targeted people's innermost fears, that's what makes good horror so effective. That's why the dev chose a giant spider in the first place, people have phobias of them. Should Scott Cawthon have added a censor mode for the fricking animatronic puppets because people have crippling phobias of them? Do you think it might be slightly immersion breaking if every camera feed just showed the word ANIMATRONIC because you didn't want to get scared by a scary game?
From what I understand phobias are way stronger than just normal fear to the point where you pretty much can't handle it in any way, probably evolutionary but only happens for some people, big spiders can kill with one bite after all. If it was just random irrational fear akin to average person's level of fear of heights, you could get over that being on screen, thing is remember talking with one guy with arachnophobia, he could play Deep Rock Galactic just fine because it just didn't trigger the same subconscious pattern detection mechanisms of your brain
>wants to play a horror game without being scared
I dunno, maybe they should stick to Mario
that's literally the point of horror you fricking moron
a phobia is literally a mental disorder, its not just 'something spooky'
if you had the deep water phobia, would you play subnautica and complain that it's not accessible to you?
Not a good comparision since Subnautica is all about deep water exploration. Lethal Company is not the "scary spiders game", it just happens to have one enemy that is a spider.
> Lethal Company is not the "scary spiders game", it just happens to have one enemy that is a spider.
No, it has an enemy that is the word SPIDER
Black person no, you'd be disappointed you can't play it but you wouldn't complain about it because what are the devs going to do? Just completely change the game by removing the water? Changing the model of the spider isn't changing the game foundations because you still got like 10 other monsters to scare the shit outta you, even the spider still can without your brain firing off neurons saying 'YOU'RE ABOUT TO DIE! YOU'RE ABOUT TO DIE! YOU'RE ABOUT TO DIE!'
You absolute spastic.
*You're about to die in real life
Thought I should add it before your moronic Gankerrigin ass tries to come up with some stupid 'comeback'
seeing the dogs makes me freak out because I was attacked by a dog as a kid
I also have some bad trauma of mannequins after a particular experience in a storage room.
Also the loud noise queues really bother me because of OCD
accessibility when bigot dev!?!?!?
>accessibility when bigot dev!?!?!?
It's honestly weird how decent accessibility options are lacking and instead we get meme shit. I've got a friend who gets severe cases of Tinnitus whenever there are high pitched repeating sounds in vidya which happens quite often but it seems like no dev has ever thought of adding some safeguards against it as an accessibility options. I can't imagine that it can be too hard to implement, just "squish" the sounds that go above a certain frequency, they might sound like shit but at least it doesn't cause actual physical discomfort.
there are people who freak out when devs add that shit too. there's been plenty of games that actually add hard of hearing options, and colorblind options and people here get mad about it
I'm honestly surprised there are so many games that don't let you keybind things, there are frickloads of people missing fingers or one of their arms and need to rebind everything to the mouse.
There are also a lot of people that are deaf or effectively deaf and I have yet to see a game that lets you turn on visual queues for important sounds in the game
imagine calling anyone a spastic while your brain screams "YOURE ABOUT TO DIE" from seeing 12 polygons
absolute embarrassment
It's called an irrational fear you mongoloid.
then work on your rationale instead of asking the world to bend around your mental illness.
why am I even arguing with some Ganker tard who doesn't get out of their basements unless it's asking their decrepit 8 year old mother for chicken tendies
80*
If you can't see a spider without significant trauma, horror games are not for you.
so don't play
and we didn't and weren't going to, despite liking the game, and the dev knew that so added the mode in for more profit.
at the expense of their integrity and reputation
Zeekerss is a furry, not much integrity there to begin with
and a Roblox 'developer'
People like you are the reasons caste systems exist.
Frick off out of here you moron.
who?
RTGame? Some Irish Chimp who has teeth bigger than his fricking head.
He looks like Spoony. Remember Spoony?
I have zero clue what a 'spoony' is
>Crippling e-celeb?? adddiction
Anon stop you've lost too much money. Stop giving all your money away your family is worried about you.
So if a jpg of a spider pops up on screen they pee pee poo poo their pants?
well played jannie
Ganker... is healing...
Yes, very much so. It is the accomodation of people we don't have to accomodate. It would be so much more easy on us if we were just to let everyone different from ourselves suffer and hope that we are the norm such that we never find ourselves on the opposite side of the table.
>be me
>afraid of bugs
>try to play northern journey
Never again.
I too watch Albino
I liek sheep, But frick the ones in that game.
Kinoest indie game god I hope he makes Northern Journey 2
Is that an ovulation meter on the bottom right?
It's a symbol for the sling, which is the first weapon you get in the game.
It's not woke but it is complete pussy shit. If you can't play games with spider, don't play those games. If you can't look at a spider irl without having a breakdown, get professional help because that's no way to live.
this shit is just gay, plain and simple homosexuality for gays
depends how much of an inconvenience it is for you to make that setting, and also how much it harms the suspension of disbelief in your game.
I would consider the pic related way of "fixing" it completely unacceptable. that is not a screenshot that should exist of a game. it makes a mockery of it.
if a no-spiders-mode is little work because spiders are unimportant and you have another monster type you just substitute with little hassle then go for it, if appealing to the few arachnophobes is important to you. otherwise don't.
>If you can't look at a spider irl without having a breakdown, get professional help because that's no way to live.
no kidding. spiders are everywhere. it's not like mice or snakes that a person could easily grow up without ever seeing. even if you're a clean freak there will always be a few spiders in your basement or attic and you will never be more than a few meters from a spider if you leave your house.
I would fricking love to see a dev respond to arachnophobia toggle requests by saying "get professional help"
>toggle arachnophobia mode
>turns every enemy into a spider
>EXPOSURE THERAPY MODE: ENGAGED
>friendly npc spider spawns and starts following you around
May I direct your attention to Shadows over Loathing and the arachnophilia mode
arachyes
Anon, you piqued my interest, please elaborate
It's not just flawed for immersion, but you also lose all visual cues.
Did they ruin the inhibitor as well?
Maybe my mods were fricking with it
Why would you even play a game with horror elements AKA something that is supossed to scare you only to censor the stuff that may scare You?
How much of a pussy can you be?
Nobody with arachnophobia deserves to be taken seriously. Something like war violence if you have PTSD I can at least understand(and would just recommend you not play war games at that point) but nobody gets PTSD from a fricking spider. You're letting your weakness rule you at that point if you have conniption from seeing a tiny thing that is all over the world.
Get help instead of making devs waste their time giving a toggle to make the game worse.
Bruh, just don't go to war, people with PTSD are all pussies
Most people in the western world can honestly choose not to go to war so if you want to have less empathy for them because they made life choices that led them to that point then that's fair. But having to blow someone's brains out in front of their kids or some shit and being rattled by it is different than seeing an icky spider and having an exaggerated reaction to it because your homosexual friends enable you because it's haha quirky.
there's a ton of evidence that arachnophobia and similar phobias are genetically encoded. It just triggers an actual fight or flight response, its not about being tough or something, you're brain is having a response that just can't be helped. its pretty interesting honestly. there's been some research that taking beta blockers works for getting over it since that blocks your brain from receiving adrenaline and doesn't allow a heart rate increase
>actually genetically inferior
its there because of an evolutionary trait for people to avoid things that would kill them. can't really say its inferior, because people with this will notice and stay away from things that are venomous. of course it doesn't detect which ones are. but cats have it with snakes, so they don't die from snakes. a cat that didn't have it would pounce on a snake and die, hard to argue the dead cat is superior
moron when's the last time a human died from a spider?
probably earlier today if you count Australia
people die every year from spiders. or even get necrosis from things like a brown recluse. lots of people have brown recluse stories
AIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE
Warn me next time you’re about to post something scary
Who cares gay ass
>I want to play this scary game. Make it not scary so I can play it
it's the most pussy shit ever. it's not like it's a real spider. use it as a form of exposure therapy instead of being a fricking homosexual b***h. anyone who has ever turned this setting on should be publicly shamed
it's the most pussy shit ever. it's not like it's a real war. use it as a form of exposure therapy instead of being a fricking homosexual b***h. anyone who has ever turned this setting on should be publicly shamed
are you seriously suggesting you got severe crippling PTSD from a spider
no i'm just showing that the argument that Ganker tards are spitting out looks moronic as shit, unless it's a fricking 6 polygon spider or something.
It only looks moronic when you're dumb enough to equate shooting at and getting shot by people in combat situations with the fear of seeing a tiny 8-legged creature on your kitchen floor that you can easily sweep away outside or put a cup over and eats bugs that annoy you.
>t. raped as a kid and plays down all trauma to cope
lmao
haha have a nice day pussy
You are a disappointment to your parents Black person.
>"Yeah so basically I lose all composure when seeing a creature that's 100x smaller than me so I guess you can say I carry the same trauma as a soldier who watched his friend get his legs blown off by an IED"
I'm arachnophobic as shit, just the other day I screamed like a girl because I was clearing some boxes and a tiny dead exoskeleton fell on my arm, and in my opinion the bunker spider should not be censored lol no spider should
Why are arachnophobia so fricking obnoxious?
>game is so sovl that Ganker can only complain that "the spiders are too woke!!!!!"
I'm afraid of the dark so I'm petitioning he adds a light mode where all the base lights are on and removing the power cell doesn't make it dark anymore
also the shadow man is scary, cut him
the giants are stressful, cut them out
the slime blocks my path sometimes and I experience minor stress from it, remove that
I am afraid of clowns so the jack in the box is too similar to the other thing I dislike, cut those.
and finally the game won't be ableist
>count as woke?
idk but it seems gay. but on the other hand if someone has a crippling fear of spiders and the devs don't mind putting that in, then why not let that person play the game.
It's built into us to naturally be afraid of the shape of a spider. Its coded into our dna. Just like how chickens cower when they see a silhouette of an eagle in the sky.
Some people apparently are SO HARD WIRED: that seeing a spider triggers that flight response to a massive extent. Like full on ptsd. Its something only therapy can cure. If that's the case, I can understand that.
Even tho spiders dont really bother me as they used to, I do get that pang of fear in the back of my head whenever I see one. Game or not.
>Its something only therapy can cure
then shouldn't they get therapy instead of making devs creatives alter their vision to pander?
As is Therapy is even the slightest bit affordable, hahahahaha.
if you can't get therapy I don't know why you are buying horror games and crying that the enemies are scary
>crying over that the enemies are scary
Black person you're moron, Most sane people ain't crying over that the enemies are 'scary' they're asking for a arachnophobia mode so they can play a game they enjoy watching and support a developer, and maybe if they're brave enough, turn it off so they can give themselves exposure therapy at a way cheaper price than normal therapy for a while till they can't deal with it anymore then periodically turn it off for a longer and longer time.
I guess you could do that without an arachophobia mode but you'll be alt+f4ing in the middle of a game and ruining it.
>but you'll be alt+f4ing in the middle of a game
Looking away is no option, true
When I play games, I play in a mirrored tube so I can see the game and ONLY the game and glue my eyes open so I have to pay attention.
>but you'll be alt+f4ing in the middle of a game and ruining it.
And the arachnophobia mode doesn't ruin it.
>and maybe if they're brave enough, turn it off so they can give themselves exposure therapy
anon the kind of people who ask a developer to give them a special snowflake mode to turn off scary content in a fricking horror game are not interested in getting better
if anything they want to get worse so they can whine harder and get more special treatment
I don't blame you for overlooking this, because you presumably are sane and make the mistake of thinking that they are as well
True, most are pussies who just want special treatment.
>And the arachnophobia mode doesn't ruin it
no? only the person with the mode enabled will see the spider as the word 'spider' everyone else will be normal, if you alt+f4'd in the game, you'll be dropping all the loot you have, making the group lose a player and worse, making all the loot the group has grabbed disappear because you were the last person alive and didn't know it.
point taken, they still shouldn't be playing it in the first place
Lethal Company is only 10 dollars, anon. Welcome to your exposure therapy. Cheap halloween props are even less expensive. If you're not a fricking moron you can google things and slowly desensitize yourself. But these people are fragile morons is the issue, and you enable their homosexualry.
>have arachnophobia due to be terrorised about them by my sisters as a child
>would often get those cool picture books about armour and history and animals
>would purposefully look at the scale pictures of horrific spiders to desensitise myself
>only partially works, some spiders are just too nasty to think they're fun
>can get "triggered" by a picture or footage of a huntsman where I have a base, nervous system reaction where I feel electricity run through my endings and blood rush to my head
>have never
>ever
>not even once
>been remotely off put by a video game spider
I'll fully admit I'm a pussy, but that's BEYOND being a pussy.
EDF! EDF!
brb consulting the hivemind since i don't know what woke means either
>since i don't know what woke means either
skill issue.
I had a nightmare when I was young that this massive spider came down from the ceiling and tried to eat my head, and now I get the arachnophobia but only when the spiders come down from above. If they are just walking around on the ground like the spiders in World of Warcraft, I can handle it all day. But Skyrim made them come down from the roof of the cave and I had some mild panic and I really hated it. God damn you Skyrim, you didn't have to do that
i don't know. If I'm in a forest or even a dark basement I get freaked out because I know (or don't know) that at any point i could rub my hand on a surface and catch a bug. I used to be afraid of worms. One day i saw a line of ants. Being a boy of violent te davies i started crushing the ants until i felt something rubbery and long. The ants were carrying a dead worm. I had crushed it. I got up real slow and as I walked away i felt this huge tremor through my body like I had an actual panic attack.
you got trojan wormed
>violent te davies
violent tendacies
It's not woke exactly, but it's only a couple of degrees removed from it
Very much a result of the Trigger Warning, safe space, everything that makes me slightly uncomfortable must be avoided at all costs and should ideally be censored or cancelled crowd
What if I'm afraid of the word spider?
>tfw devs add spider filter
are spiders right-wing?
no their society is run by females
I think they're no wing
Depends on what parts of the web they visit
i love spiders so much
i hate having to break their nests to make my place presentable
cute little spiders
its insane to me the idea of playing a horror game, which are designed to scare you, and turning off something that is guaranteed to scare you. what the frick is the point then?
>what the frick is the point then
feeling included
these people don't like video games, they want to feel like one of the cool kids
Same thing as people who watch horror movies but close / cover their eyes at the scary parts. They want horror but not too much horror. They want to feel mildly scared, not terrified.
Yes
Arachnophobia is a phobia that affects very very few people - far less than things like aerophobia (fear of flying) or acrophobia (fear of heights), both things you cannot skip in the game at all, you will be "forced" (the same way you are forced to see spiders) to see your starship landing from very great heights, space even!
So yes, it is virtue signaling and all virtue signaling is woke.
>letters uncoil and jam themselves down the player models urethra
a bit excessive tbh
lmfao what fricking game is this?
Did they really replace actual spiders with the word SPIDER?
And how come this is an issue now and not in the last thirty years of the medium? I don't remember anyone complaining about the big-ass spiders in Resident Evil, for example
>And how come this is an issue now and not in the last thirty years of the medium?
homosexuals went to university to be taught to hyperventilate at the slightest discomfort
As a society we used to not encourage mental illness, weakness, and lack of willpower. Now we encourage and even glorify it
my best guess, since i'm an arachnophobic b***h, is that 30 years old games weren't as 'mainstream' as they are now and the spiders were made up of 20 polygons max.
Have you seen Lethal Company? It's not exactly high resolution
Millions time more high resolution than Resident Evil 1/2.
they're less scary and more disgusting.
This has to be the laziest way to implement it ever lmao
Oh I get it, this is a viral marketing thread that's gonna get spammed for the next two weeks. Hahaha...
>play horror game
>turn on a setting to nerf / remove the horror
A previous commentor a few days ago said that Lethal Company is a streamer game that is played as background activity while they have a podcast. Couldn't put it better myself.
there's far too many games that could be thrown into a basket like this one, even factorio and valheim - basically anything that involves periods of low activity between highlights
i don't disagree with your message but the scope is too broad to be applicable in good faith - essentially striking the bullseye because you dropped a fricking piano on it
Ganker is so dumb. i come back here every few years and everyone is somehow collectively dumber.
Aww he's smiling :3
>tfw mask that kills players and turns them into masked zombies that infect the other players
>masked AI will sometimes spin around to mimic a player freaking out so the control room player will beam them back to the ship and promptly get munched
>AI will crouch and hide in the ship to ambush any survivors who return
I can't hate this game, I know it's the latest creepypoosta memeslop fotm but I can't hate it
that sounds scary they should add a toggle that removes it
They should just make a "phobiamode" that completely changes the game's visual and makes all enemies into teddy bears looking to hug you and if you die, you just lie down and have a sleepy nap with a stuffed animal.
>they spawn naturally as enemies too, so avoiding the masks doesn't stop them
The argument that accessibility options are pandering nonsense is a crock of horseshit and shows how way too seriously you people treat your video games. Go outside. Horror games aren't some test of strength to show that you can withstand more than the next person. They're inherently supposed to be fun, and if it makes it a little easier to have that fun with friends then why not let it be enabled.
I used to have arachnophobia real bad and anyone reading this can testify what that's like. Even the thought of a spider sent sensations all across my body that they were crawling up me as if I was submerged. I'd see them crawling up my walls and everywhere, which only compounded and made it worse. I took steps to get over it but during that time these accessibility options let me enjoy games without having to worry about that, and I just dealt with the phobia outside the game. Why do I or anyone NEED to face their actual, real fears in casual settings? I can face those elsewhere where it actually matters.
I don't even know why I feel the need to post this. I think I just hate it when people are this stupid. All of you need to graduate grade school and stop caring what other people are doing.
Maybe you shouldn't play a horror game then? Spiders are a common horror element.
you sound like a deranged homosexual
>I can face those elsewhere where it actually matters.
yeah, when's that? when you go into your bathroom and see a spider in the shower? wow glad you saved up all your manly energy for that time it really mattered instead of getting desensitized like a big boy and conquering the spider
>They're inherently supposed to be fun
They're supposed to be scary, it's a HORROR GAME
If you don't want HORROR, don't play a HORROR GAME
Is it supposed to be proper horror though? More like just a multiplayer game with a horror themed style in my mind, the same way you wouldn't say that Dead by Daylight is a horror game.
>ou wouldn't say that Dead by Daylight is a horror game.
what the fricking hell is happening to the world
do you even speak English or is it just a parlor trick like a parrot
It is not a horror game at all. What are you even talking about? Is American McGee's Alice a horror game to you as well? How about Witch's Wish too because it's Halloween themed?
Black person, dead by daylight is a game about iconic horror characters catching fleeing people and hanging them from meat hooks
if you define that as any genre except horror you have legitimate cognitive issues and I feel bad for insulting someone with special needs
>wouldn't say that Dead by Daylight is a horror game
Bad bait, try again
It's horror enough that it's completely fricking backwards to have this feature
Trappings and theme matter, imagine Dead by Daylight but the killer is replaced by a big smiley face with OPPONENT written on it
its supposed to be a fun game thats why they include stuff like this. phobias are different than just being creeped out or scared. there's no ghost phobia thats in the same type as when people have spider/snake/rat/height phobias
The "fun" part of horror games is the horror. If you need a special setting just for your specific phobia to make the game less scary what's even the point.
It would be like forcing you on the ground in Mirrors Edge because you're afraid of heights. It makes no sense
see
I'm just gonna assume that nobody's really thought this through or knows what an actual phobia is.
'IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE SCARY WHY'D YOU TAKE AWAY THE SCARY PART' is peak smoothbrain.
Also, most of these games don't have just one enemy that's a spider.
>you're conflating 'horror' with terror
No we're not. You started off with a false premise in your very first sentence.
And your all caps strawman is just a blatant strawman that doesn't actually address the issue or justify why your specific phobia deserves special treatment. It's clear you're arguing in bad faith.
anon. there's a reason other enemies which are scary in the way horror is, don't have this option. phobias are different than just being ''scared'' (whatever that means in a video game) you're activating a visceral mechanism some people have thats different than seeing a scary monster. this has been explained so much that i don't think you can use the bad faith argument
The existence of an option doesn't in of itself justify said option.
>phobias are different than just being ''scared''
That's literally what it means. It has not been explained even once why this specific phobia of a specific type of animal is different than every other phobia. You are in fact arguing in bad faith.
Nta, but the option is there so they can sell the game to more people. It is rational from the standpoint of making a profit and I do not think it is offensive. People that don't like spiders will not buy a game with spiders and people that don't like homosexuals will not buy games with homosexuals. You wouldn't get offended if saudis implemented a homosexual-less mode in some modern AA game so they could sell the game on their territory, why does the spider-less mode offend you?
Sorry but this is an absurd explanation. You might as well argue that games should have toggles for every single enemy type and sexual orientation to cover every single irrational fear out there to sell the game to the maximum amount of people. Hell why not just include an autoplay feature, the game can play itself so they can sell it to people who don't have the motor functions to play the game. I don't like first person games, so every single first person game should have a third person option regardless of what the devs are trying to go for. A game made for literally everyone is a game made for no one.
>adding a third person mode is the same as adding a model swap from a setting
absurd argument.
Let's cut to the chase. You want others to suffer because you view any form of help to others as "woke" because this site has broken your brain to the point needless cruelty is just to you.
You sound ridiculous.
>You want others to suffer because you view any form of help to others as "woke" because this site has broken your brain to the point needless cruelty is just to you.
>there is no reason to not do it aside from cruelty.
Speaking of absurd arguments
Arachnophobia is one of the most prevalent phobias among humanity, if not the most prevalent one. It makes sense if they wanted to reach the broadest possible audience they would institute toggles for the one of the most widespread and severely reacted to. You are also presenting a false equivalence, because replacing a mesh with a word SPIDER takes about two minutes, whereas introduced a different perspective, different animations and coding all of that for the entire game would take a substantial amount of work.
>A game made for literally everyone is a game made for no one.
What a pretentious pseud thing to say, why don't you google quote more philosophers at me, lmao.
>Arachnophobia is one of the most prevalent phobias among humanity, if not the most prevalent one
No it isn't.
Replacing every other enemy mesh with a word takes the exact same amount of time. How is that a false equivalence.
>What a pretentious pseud thing to say,
It's no more pretentious than your entire argument that arachnophobia is a special phobia that needs its own options over every other type of phobia.
>What a pretentious pseud thing to say
He's right. You don't know what those words mean.
you guys are fricking stupid. Clearly the dev laughed to himself and thought "wouldn't it be funny if i did this" and then gave it no more thought. It's not actually to appeal to people with arachnophobia you stupid fricking homosexuals
You seem confused I wasn't talking shit about this game specifically.
because the mechanism in animal phobias is recognition of either a type of movement or a sensory recognition of something. its hardwired, and genetic.
its see spider = activate adrenaline. a phobia like height isn't activated this way, and its not replicable in a videogame
Fear of heights is replicable in a video game. Arachnophobia is no more genetic or hardwired than any other phobia
its not. removing VR from the equation, mirrors edge wont trigger the same response as being up in a high tower yourself. images on a screen do not have depth
Ignoring the fact that VR games alone refute your entire argument, mirrors edge will in fact trigger the same response as being up in a high tower from people who are severely afraid of heights.
I mean, if you're really sitting here like 'the fun part is the horror, why remove the thing that makes you unable to look at the screen? It's supposed to be scary,'
then I think you're missing the point. It's difficult to not argue in bad faith because the question doesn't frame phobias correctly.
A person with a phobia is not playing at the same level as your average horror-enjoyer. They literally don't want to play the game - not because they're scared of being scared - but because they don't want to feel like they're literally about to die IRL.
Again. Imagine playing a game where you're too scared to look at the screen. A person playing a horror game might get 'scared' but they're not playing at that level.
>'the fun part is the horror, why remove the thing that makes you unable to look at the screen? It's supposed to be scary,'
This is 100% true though. You are missing the point of horror games if you think things that scare you detract from the experience.
>A person with a phobia is not playing at the same level as your average horror-enjoyer. They literally don't want to play the game - not because they're scared of being scared - but because they don't want to feel like they're literally about to die IRL.
This is equally as true as every other phobia, not just arachnophobia.
> This is 100% true though. You are missing the point of horror games if you think things that scare you detract from the experience.
I mean, I don't know what to tell you, at this point. Name a horror game so scary you couldn't look at the screen or couldn't even watch another person play it. This is not 'scary' the way horror games are meant to be.
If you literally think that the 'fear' felt in a phobia is the same as the 'fear' felt by your average game player, than you're probably being willfully ignorant, or your understanding of how complex human fear (which can range from aversion to abject terror) is.
>horror game so scary you couldn't look at the screen or couldn't even watch another person play it. This is not 'scary' the way horror games are meant to be.
>you're probably being willfully ignorant
2/10 for the bait.
>not because they're scared of being scared
No that's pretty much the reason.
because phobias aren't scary. its not the same reaction. a lot of people have made the distinguishment in this thread but for some reason you're still asking. heights dont even work in games unless its VR because there's no depth. moreover its a team game, having someone not be able to enter a room because of a specific, scientifically unique, phobia kind of ruins it for the rest of the team, so there's an option so other people can have fun.
Everyone knows what phobia means. Arachnophobia is a fear of spiders. The reaction is fear. If you have to redefine the meaning of words to carve out a special case vs every other type of fear you don't really have an argument.
>heights dont even work in games unless its VR because there's no depth
Spiders in video games aren't real spiders. QED.
there's a reason we call it arachnophobia and not just say 'scared of spiders'
Yes thats what the root greek word means, and colloquially, people say fear of spiders because it best translates the subject for someone who doesn't experience it, but thats not whats going on. Its activating fight or flight. But no one is gonna say "i'm fight or flight reactive to arachnids" because thats a mouthful. i mean you have to be extremely fricking stupid to use the argument that 'a root word phobia means fear therefor its the same as all fears because dictionary. ' without even understanding a very well studied and explainable psychological distinction. your brain stem is laterally sending signals to your brain to frick off and get out.
there's just a difference in things going on. and its actually pretty interesting to learn about, but i don't know if you have the capability
spiders dont even work in games unless its VR because there's no depth. It's not immersive enough to count just like with heights or any other animal or monster based phobia
spider phobia doesn't require depth to be activated. different things are different. go back to special ed
it requires just as much depth as any other phobia, except a phobia of depths maybe. You sound like a special ed kid.
do you understand what depth means when we're talking about perception? do you KNOW what depth means at all? height fear is litterally about having space between the ground and where you are, you need to see depth for that to trigger
You need to see the spider for that to trigger. The spider in a video game is just as real as the heights or any other animal. It's not a unique phobia.
this argument is literally never going to end because people who understand phobias are going to say 'it's not the same as your typical fear' and the cleverest bros in the thread are gonna say 'no, PHOBIA means fear, genius.'
>I'm so weak and pathetic that everything has to pander to ME!!!!
Dude I used to see people crawling out of my floors and demons and shit when I woke up in the middle of the night, it's not that big of a deal. It's more interesting than anything. Imagine if I was a whiny selfish little pussy homosexual like you though that wanted to infect other peoples hobbies with the pandering to the inept and pathetic.
Frick you you little cry-bullying homosexual b***h.
I mean... you're not wrong.
I don't get what the issue is, either. I don't get why people are so pissed off that people made games with a setting on them that allow a certain subset of players to actually look at the screen. It's not like you have to play with that setting on.
If you have an actual phobia, fun fact: You don't always wanna 'face it' or get over it while playing a goddamn video game.
Also, those of you who are saying it's 'supposed to be scary' have completely missed the point of horror. When an arachnophobic person sees a spider, it's not 'scary,' it's like licking a 9 volt battery, but with your brain. The horror in most games makes you jumpscare - that's not what we're talking about here.
The issue is anon, if theres a horror game with spiders...
And your afraid of spiders...
Then disabling spiders makes it not a horror game. So playing it is actually just pointless.
I don't have a problem with accessibility settings outside of stuff like this, where it completely guts the point of the game in the first place?
Its like the "add a difficulty select" to Dark Souls shit
This game isn't about spiders, there's like 9 other enemies
It. Is. A. Horror. Game. That. Has. A. Scary. Spider.
You're playing semantics here. Terror is an element of good horror.
>I don't know a fricking horror game in existence that's so scary that you can't actually play it.
Sounds like you're a pussy. I have a phobia of enclosed tight spaces, and still forced myself through tight spaces while caving with my family.
>Blood phobia isn't the same
Then why is it called a phobia?
People with hydrophobia scream in terror like their skins on fire if you give 'em a splash.
>Then why is it called a phobia?
i'm not saying its not a phobia, i'm saying to replicate the creation of the effect you can't accomplish it in a video game because the mechanisms are different in their delivery. you could probably if some game was indistinguishable from real life in a game, but no game has really ever done that.
In other words it's not a phobia.
> Sounds like you're a pussy. I have a phobia of enclosed tight spaces, and still forced myself through tight spaces while caving with my family.
Okay sounds like we're all playing semantics, 'cause I don't think anyone would diagnose this as a phobia if it's a thing you straight up did.
I feel like we have no room for a sliding scale of fear.
average horror game <------------------ >feel like you're probably going to actually die
Yeah, did it while my heart rate skyrocketed to the moon, and my shirt soaked through with sweat. But there was no other way out of the cave, unless I wanted to wait for a hour by myself in the dark for someone to drop a rope from the entry side.
And also my Dad would have beaten me for it.
nobody with genuine claustrophobia would even agree to go caving in the first place
>Sounds like you're a pussy. I have a phobia of enclosed tight spaces, and still forced myself through tight spaces while caving with my family.
because you don't have a phobia. if you did you would not be able to enter the tight space. you can't will yourself through it. I used to go spelunking (and i wouldn't now) and yeah it was scary, there are moments of an intellectual fear when you think about what could happen, but if i had real clausterphobia i woulnd't have been in the situation at all because it would just not be a thing that could occur. a panic attack would prevent it
you're conflating 'horror' with terror. You're underestimating what an arachnophobe seeing a spider is like. It doesn't make you go 'OH shit!' it makes you unable to look at the screen or leave the room.
I don't know a fricking horror game in existence that's so scary that you can't actually play it.
Nobody's addressing why the arachnid needs censoring but not the blood or anything else that makes people phobic
that's a fairly good point. I'd imagine that arachnophobes are more prevalent though, right?
a blood phobia just isn't the same. there are a few phobias that have a visceral reaction, blood isn't one of them outside of making someone feel disgusted, but it never translates to games. there's very few movies or games that portray gore accurately. its almost just a special effect, you might as well add a lightning effect it would have the same reaction. most people are averse to realistic gore, thats why it doesn't exist in games barely ever
I agree, fellow humans! Arachnophobes are all pussies! Spiders are the best! I say we stick it to them by leaving the doors of our homes open and letting all the spiders inside! Who’s with me?
if you don't want to be scared don't play scary games
this isn't rocket surgery you morons
I explained in my post the difference between being scared of literally anything else and the specific phobia. Why do you think I don’t like horror or being scared by media by the way?
because you draw an arbitrary line for certain bugs, and that's just pathetic as all frick.
seriously consider that you don't piss and shit yourself when you see an ant but if I draw 2 more lines on it as extra legs you have the most pathetic meltdown in modern hostory
Yes, I agree with you my fellow human!
God I love alternative speech patterns like this
I get regular nightmares if I spend too much time being exposed to spiders or cave crickets. I hate it but it’s not just a, “Be afraid and move on with your life thing” it will actually ruin my sleep. My sleep quality has improved a lot now that bugs are mostly gone for winter and because the amount of cave crickets I saw this summer was far less than usual, haven’t had a nightmare in months. It’s not that I’m a pussy, though I am, it’s that the effects of dealing with a spider last far longer than the initial shock or creepiness of seeing one and that aspect is completely out of my control no matter how brave I am in the moment when I see one. This does not happen with any other kind of horror or scary thing.
Still don’t use arcanaphobia modes though and thanks for reading my blog
>Still don’t use arcanaphobia modes though and thanks for reading my blog
fellow arachophobe, fellow refuser of baby modes
Whatever you do anons, DO NOT click this
This is making gen alpha piss and shit their pants right now?
BLUE BOARD moron
The fact is has more than 8 legs makes it look so much scarier in-game for some reason
whatever is going on in your brain when you see the subject of a phobia is related to certain cues. for arachnophobia the amount of legs is a big part of it, most people will have a similar reaction to centipedes if they have a reaction to spiders, but phobias are kind of complex
THEN IT'S NOT A SPIDER YOU FRICKING moron
It’s just dumb design to me. If you are concerned for the player, just don’t include them. It’s not like spiders have been in 1/3 video games that have ever been made so no one is going to miss them. Much like how game devs censor panty shots but keep including skirts as characters primary design. And a black void under the skirt? That just makes me think they have a cavernous vegana or something
Yes.
>caters to some minority at the expense of all others
>what expense
cant be bothered explaining, you are too low IQ if you can't answer that yourself
I cannot help but find arachnophobia to be utterly hilarious
I remember bullying a gay classmate who squealed like a b***h when I showed him a spider jpeg. He was so loud he got in trouble
What do you gain from me not playing? Really ask yourself why it's so important to you that only you and people like you get to play a video game and others don't.
because you sound like a fricking insufferable homosexual and I don't want you playing games with me at all
Same to you, and thankfully we don't unless we queue together, which is my point entirely. The mode only affects players you never have to come into contact with and yet you insist its a problem
Why are you desperate to play a video game that's not for you? Why would you have the temerity to ask a developer to make a game, not for you, cater to you?
I don't need to use the mode so I'm not asking for shit all for myself. Imagine though, if I couldn't play the game, I'm missing out on good times with my buddies who are playing, which is important, but no one on Ganker can think outside themselves long enough to think that that social interaction can be important for some people. I
t's like if you had a group of four, one being lactose intolerant, and made him sit outside alone while the the three of you went inside to get pizza or something dairy related for half an hour. Sure, he COULD man up and shit himself later on, but why don't the three friends have the decency to just go to a different food chain that they can all enjoy?
It's imperative for a HORROR GAME to have a NO HORROR MODE because your friends might play a game that you don't enjoy?
And it's reasonable to expect them to get a different food (even though the three of them are craving pizza and you could just grab a sandwich or something) but it's not reasonable to expect them to play a different game that doesn't frighten you?
its just one person getting a local visual mod, its not affecting other players
its 3 people getting pizza with cheese and you getting a slice of something without lactose
no one is getting their experience ruined
You are the one who said your friends should go to a different food chain, don't blame me for your poor example
im not that anon i just tried to fix his analogy
oh thank fricking God you used a food analogy because I couldn't wrap my head around censoring horror enemies until you compared it to ooey gooey cheese
I never said it was imperative that these things happen, and I realized my example was saying my friends shouldn't play the game rather than what I was trying to say.
Lets instead say that the pizza chain didn't offer lactose intolerant options like no-cheese and said "frick you, you just can't eat here". Is that really more reasonable than just making a slice that doesn't have cheese on it? If you see someone making a slice of pizza without cheese at a pizza place, are you going to yell behind the counter that they're wasting their time and that that person shouldn't be served? Because that's essentially what you're doing over the internet.
Also thanks to whoever just put a spider on the top of my screen, very cute little guy.
>Lets instead say that the pizza chain didn't offer lactose intolerant options like no-cheese and said "frick you, you just can't eat here". Is that really more reasonable than just making a slice that doesn't have cheese on it?
Yes, it is. I mean you can ask but you shouldn't expect them to do it.
> If you see someone making a slice of pizza without cheese at a pizza place, are you going to yell behind the counter that they're wasting their time and that that person shouldn't be served? Because that's essentially what you're doing over the internet.
No, I'm telling you you shouldn't expect a pizza place to serve you something other than what's on the menu.
I'm all for personal choice and options anon, I just hate this culture of expecting to be babied and protected and for everyone to bend over backwards to cater to you. Maybe this isn't the worst example of it but it's indicative of a growing malignancy. It's okay for something to not be for you. It's okay to miss out on some things that are out of your reach. It's okay to let go of something you don't like or can't handle, instead of expecting it to conform to you.
but the example here is where devs want people to play it even if they have this phobia. so its not coercing them into providing it, which i agree would be wrong, but its them just wanting to have more people play it. its like if a pizza place offers lactose intolerant options, thats good. going to the restaurant and demanding it is bad. every restaurant gets calls about options for some dietary restriction all the time. but they are usually just asking about what those things are. if a restaurant decides it wants to include them as customers it will consider adding them. its not changing the experience for the people who can digest cheese
imagine being at computers
It being provided proactively by the devs is better than it being demanded by snowflakes, but the deves are homosexuals for feeding into that culture of entitlement
its only enabling if thats what happened. it didnt. removing it because of people complaining about the addition would be enabling entitlement
There is no logical comeback to this
if you give an addict drugs he didn't ask for, you're still enabling him
if you give entitled people a special snowflake consideration they didn't technically ask for, you are still enabling their entitlement
See, I get that too, surprisingly enough. I don't think I should walk into a store and demand a no-cheese pizza if they don't sell it, and pitch a fit if they don't. I see that and I get that: I'm not a selfish person and don't expect my games or restaurants to cater towards my every whim. But if the pizzeria does cater to me if I politely ask, then that's just good service. I'm not going to get mad if they don't, but I'm happy they went out of their way.
Anons think that the mere existence of an accessibility option meant that the developer was bullied by this nebulous "woke crowd" they've overblown in their heads and can't imagine that maybe a developer was either kindly asked and obliged, or did it of his own volition. Anons can't seem to believe that developers aren't just like them and instead do things that make it easier for everyone to enjoy. I think that's the mentality I get so frustrated with. If, somehow, the developer is a 'spineless coward' and did in fact get bullied under threat of violence and cancellation because they didn't include an accessibility option, then I'll eat my words. But even then, I wouldn't really be mad at the developer for doing it moreso than I would be mad at the players who acted in such a manner.
Spiders are scary for their lack of intelligence if anything. I feel 0 fear of jumping spiders because they exhibit higher thought.
I'd just not include spiders in the first place, can easily replace them with something else if arachnophobia is a concern for you as a dev. I despise spiders but never was ever bothered by any in a video game so I'd not use it.
Fellow spider / flying bug hater here. I can't stand insects IRL but seeing them in video games does literally nothing to me. I don't get people who are so 'afraid' they can't view media with spiders in it.
considering how Arachnophobia is an 'irrational' fear, even the people with it don't get it either but they just can't.
Seeing them on TV and movies bother me a bit but I don't flip my shit over it. In video games they're either stylised or they don't exactly mimic them perfectly. If Skyrim spiders are reducing you to tears then jesus christ get help.
Yeah, bugs are horrible in real life because they skitter all in your personal space like autistic morons. Sometimes bugs in video games look creepy enough to give me chills like
but a fictional bug on a screen could never bother me as much as real ones do, especially not to the point of needing censorship to cope.
Same here but with heights. I can’t get on a ladder without my knees buckling but for the most part I don’t mind it in game. The only time it really started giving me problems was in totk with the sky boss and I kept clenching my butt in fear but eventually I got used to it and skydiving was the only thing I really enjoyed in that game. I still hate heights irl though
I remember my little sister was watching a video of some guys taxidermying bugs or whatever the term is, but the spider was completely pixelated out. I thought, damn, that must be disappointing for anyone who wanted to see how they do a spider.
could have used this feature in the latest spider man game to be honest
Miles gives me the willies
I don't know but aren't there as many if not more people with ophidiophobia (fear of snakes?) No one gives a shit about that or needles, or heights or anything else. There's no auto-skip the public speaking cutscene segment accessibility option.
>compromising your creative vision to accomodate a specific demographic's brainworms and opening the floodgates for more of the same
Very much so.
>see spider
>startle for maybe a second, then realise "Oh, it's just a little spider" and go about my day
Phobiacels stay losing.
I was working on a video game about 10 years ago with Unreal Engine and at one point I posted on Ganker saying I was going to add an arachnophobia mode that when you enable it, it just adds extra spiders in places that normally wouldn't have spiders.
I still want to do it, but I gave up on making a game because I realized I don't have any motivation to create things unless somebody is going to be mad that I made it. I don't know why I'm like that, it's not intentional.
i feel like i remember your post
>Add arachnophobia mode
>It doesn't seem to do anything
>Out of nowhere a super realistic tarantula crawls across the screen
>Keeps happening every so often
kek seems like the mods had a similar idea, popped up as I was typing this. Actually made me up you c**ts.
I have arachnophobia and I've never been scared by a spider in a video game ever
I have a phobia of wasps and I have never given a single shit about virtual bees, I think the people who ask for this crap are just faking it same as the people pretending to have multiple personality disorder.
I'm shooting that clock with a 12 gauge I don't give a frick what or who's behind that wall
Ever wonder why it's always an arachnophobia setting and never anything else that could potentially be scary? It's because people are told they should be afraid of spiders, that it's normal.
Making this setting is doing way more harm than good but whatever, gotta pander amiright?
Homophobia setting: Removes gay pride flags and homosexuals from your games.
Do you think Steam would remove a game from their store if they did that? I know Nexus will remove politically incorrect mods, I wonder if Steam would fold to the woke mob if a developer was ever based enough to add a toggle to remove troony, homosexuals and Black folk from the game.
Literally just have the setting say "Do you support gay pride? Yes:I'm a homophobe" and how could they? The developer is calling people who don't want to see the gay shit homophobes, nothing wrong with that!
as much as I like steam, they 100% would.
Im pretty sure its because its easy to remove
scawy
MODS = GODS
Fricking homosexuals got me
screen destroyer anon, is that you?
good one mods
I got spookied for a moment so it worked
AAAAIIIIIEEEE! I'M FRIGHTENED! MODS, GIVE ME A TOGGLE TO MAKE IT GO AWAY!
I'm not gonna pretend that I didn't have a heart attack when I saw it on the top right
I'm on phone so it's layered behind the posts for me. If it was in front I would have launched my phone across the room.
wait is the spider a lethal company joke
i saw that shit and was like "it's the middle of december morons"
has there ever existed a more "chad" group of people than the Ganker mods?
me
Maybe people from the country 'Chad' but they are Black folk.
They haven’t been chads in ages. Bring back public bannings
its not "chad" to be a shut in transvestite obsessed with your genitals
Wish they did shit like this on other boards to liven them up a bit.
this. Ganker was at its best when the moderation team actually interacted with its community
Personally I think aaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
I genuinely jumped
I cultivated a nice natural garden last year leaving lots of local plants to grow and only cutting back just enough to keep my landlord off my ass, and it attracted a lot of insects.
This means spiders showed up. I accidentally befriended a few of the biggest jumping spiders I've ever seen. Every time I'd go out to check what's going on with the garden, they'd come walking out to watch me and sort of follow me around (Like they'd sort of follow along behind me to keep me in view but they'd stop every once in a while to check their surroundings.) and then they'd follow me back when I'd go inside.
Was really strange, but I started talking to them and letting them walk around on my hand for a bit then putting them back, they seemed like they actually recognized me.
I had the same experience with the mantises along the same area, and when I looked it up supposedly mantids are able to recognize faces and they can remember whether you were dangerous or not over time and they are ACTUALLY capable of remembering you and will interact with you if they know you're not a threat.
Jumping spiders are supposedly remarkably smart for an animal that size. Their brains are so large that it's even in their legs IIRC. I guess it's because they actually hunt instead of sitting on a web waiting for a dumb butthole fly to get caught.
They are smart, but no their brains do not go into their legs. They also spin webs but it's just to live in.
If spiders weren't limited to being so tiny because of their physiology, there's a good chance they could be the most intelligent animals after a few million more years of evolution. Maybe even sapient.
Don't they suffer the same as ants from square cube law making their bodies impossible to scale up much more in size while retaining their advantages?
Yeah, and their respiratory and circulatory systems work entirely differently from mammals. Fist-sized tarantulas are about the upper limits of what we'll ever see, and the species that evolved to be smaller won't ever grow larger.
The biggest issue is respiration based, I believe. Same reason why we don't have mega-phauna now.
But yeah, as they scale up their strength, proportionally would decline. But they would probably still be a fair bit stronger than most vertebrates.
Could I just make an artificially oxygen-rich environment and breed larger spiders? Perhaps large enough to equip them with mechanical respirators so they can go into the outside world?
That would be a lot of effort, but you might be able to do so, given how many offspring a spider can have + the faster reproduction of insects.
I mean, scientists have breed high testosterone flys that wrestled for mating rights.
From what I've read, no. Spider respiratory systems only work the way they do because they're so small - they don't breathe, they just pass air through their book lungs and let the oxygen diffuse through their "blood" (hemolymph). If you were to scale up their size you'd need to substitute their respiratory system entirely.
You know spider legs kinda work the way the human penis does. Fluid rushes to them and makes them more erect which makes them stretch out. That's why they go into that creepy curled up pose when they die.
But by creating an artificial, high oxygen environment, you could increase the amount available to diffuse, to act as a starting point.
The respirator thing, idk. If it was pressurized over ambient, but low enough not to cause the spider to die(this is assuming they've gotten sufficiently large)
You could maybe even use CRISPER to create a few trial groups with proto-lungs
Yeah this was my next thought. Isn't spider locomotion more like hydraulics than musculature? Seems like that could be fashioned into a sort of lung-like system. But this sort of system really scales poorly with size, doesn't it? I wonder how one could supercharge it.
this is why they barely move unless they are in murder or escape mode. spiders are fricked up animals. they eat their own children. Still, there as spiders big enough to eat birds so
They also don't have a lot of energy reserves to waste on frivolous movement. They might be able to live 1-2 months without food, but that's almost entirely dormant and it's not unlikely they won't find any food before they starve.
>they eat their own children.
Yes. And some will sacrifice themselves to protect, feed, and dave their children.
Just like how some frogs will eat their own.
But others have developed a "skin" net to keep their baby tadpoles safe from predators, or Goliath bullfrogs, for example, will dig channels to connect ponds and drying bodies pf water to save their young from dying.
Reminds me of that one movie where the scientist lady starts shitting herself during an autopsy of a giant bug after discovering that it had lungs.
Mimic?
I think so, yeah.
the fact that they use their web to sense danger, food, and attract mates is what seperated them from other insects. I think the only bug more smart is the bee/ant but that is only because they have a hive mind. They spend their days protecting and hunting for the queen and if the queen dies they go down too. At least spiders look out for themselves. Not to mention their camouflage can rival most other bugs
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what bruised chin having homosexuals like you don't understand is that there is a difference between being scared and feeling real terror. no one gives a frick if you're not scared of little jumpscares or being chased. anyone can fricking do that. little kids play five nights at freddy's - it's not an accomplishment. having a phobia is different. it is more than a little reaction. it's a full-body experience that makes you feel like you're about to get raped and murdered
so you're weally weally scaerd? awww poor babbbyyy
yes you fricking moron. are you scared of being raped and murdered? imagine a situation where that is likely going to happen. that is how i feel when i see a spider.
are you stupid? for me it's the opposite. real spiders aren't scary because i can just take my slipper off, scream, and smoosh that b***h 1000 times. large, in-game spiders are terrifying because i literally can't do anything to them in reality. in-game spiders, movie spiders, large spider decorations for halloween, imaginary spiders in the shower, and close-up spiders all scare me
>are you scared of being raped and murdered? imagine a situation where that is likely going to happen. that is how i feel when i see a spider
T-troll, right?
NO. that is how phobias work.
don't care, i'm glad they added it. the vast majority of people can walk up stairs, but we still build ramps.
BECAUSE IT'S ABOUT WHAT THEY COULD DO IF THEY WERE REAL moron. all their fricking finnicky twitchy long sharp limbs surrounding you while their gross beady eyes and soft tarantula looking mouth are all up in your fricking face. it's an overload and a loss of control.
>the vast majority of people can walk up stairs, but we still build ramps
Is that a concession that you're disabled
yes. consider me disabled so i can get disability money
i usually don't play games with spiders or spider-like creatures in them for this reason. wouldn't have gotten to play this if the arachnophobia option didn't exist.
yeah real ones have a sense of unpredictability ON A TINY TINY FRICKING SCALE.
>o-oh my god... that spider literally just... sprinted 2 inches to the right.... IM GOING INSANE!!!!!!!
like dude, just FRICKING KILL IT. YOU CANNOT KILL VIDEO GAME SPIDERS. YOU SIMPLY CAN'T. THEY WERE NEVER REAL SO THE MENTAL IMAGE STICKS AROUND AFTER THEY DIE IN GAME. i had to quit thief, arx fatalis, dark messiah, the last 2 metro games, etc FOR THAT REASON. real life spiders are one and done. FICTIONAL SPIDERS ARE FOREVER. you will imagine huge spiders behind you in the shower while you close your eyes to wash your hair. FRICKING DUMBASS.
You know you can kill spiders in game right?
>i usually don't play games with spiders or spider-like creatures in them for this reason. wouldn't have gotten to play this if the arachnophobia option didn't exist.
I guess I'm glad you can play it anon, I just don't like the deeper ramifications
>its only enabling if thats what happened. it didnt.
Disagree, it bolsters entitlement/snowflake culture even if it's not a direct result of it. It's called enabling.
I’m not the moron who is only scared of fake spiders. At least real ones actually have the factor of unpredictability. You just made me less sympathetic for people with phobias since you went off calling people stupid and moronic when you let your imagination control you. Now unspoiler this image and die!
Bro you sound like the stupid one how are you only afraid of fake spiders they literally can’t do shit lol
pixels on a screen can't rape and murder me so I wouldn't be crying and pissing my pants like you are
ughngngnnnnnnnnn sex with spiders ahhhhhh spider sex
OOGA BOOGA homie
And yet that is still hardly enough of the population to warrant arachnophobia modes in games
it doesn't change your life at all
And neither do games with spiders?
you're complaining about an optional feature you don't need to use in a game thats meant to be fun with friends because it might increase someone else's enjoyment.
My complaining doesn’t affect your life
>real terror
it's a video game, if it's causing such an intense reaction in you you should not be playing horror games, or at least seek out content warnings so you know if they will have something you can't handle
MOOOOOOOOOOOOODS!
Actual, aracnaphobe here. Im convinced the only reasons devs do this to appear inclusive. I rememner grounded being the first. The thing about phobias, at least for me is that my brain can very easily tell the difference between a spider no matter how realistic, scary or low pixel on a screen and an actual spider in real life.
I dont get goosebumps from shit like pic related or from skyrim or whatever because its fake and I often have some type of weapon but an actual spider zipping around at lightning speed on the floor or just hanging around on the wall actually turns my brain on flight mode
It's the accessibility equivalent of letting you pet the dog, devs only do it because it's basically a meme at this point
>arachnophobia mode = good
>homophobia mode = bad
Why are gamers like this?
why are spiders the best fighters among all animals?
This arachnophobia mode feels more like an insult though, not genuine.
this, if it was genuine it'd just disable spiders as enemies and put something else in it's place, feels like the dev is making fun of people scared of spiders
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So this is the stealth arachnophilia thread, right?
i want to frick that spider
I want to frick that spider in her human form. Face-to-face missionary position in the dark while holding hands.
white supremacy yes
when is the next season btw
Dunno, but hopefully it stops spending half the time focused on the nobodies.
Try to keep up with the LN/manga kumo-kun
i've been reading the manga and it's just trash now
I skimmed over the LN for most of the story but dropped it as well, especially once the machine translation got way too shitty
i know the story and it really is garbage, it completely threw away the reason why it was good in the first place
True, I won't argue with that. Author wants to move up to higher power level systems when the interesting part was the labyrinth and immediately afterwards. I'd still frick shiro though. I like her bushy eyebrows.
If we're going go even further, I think everything from when she gets Pride is a bit mediocre as the story starts going into overdrive, giving her new skills every ten seconds and even the challenges turn into ways to bullshit out of them. But it was still enjoyable for a while.
>in human form
>dude look at these crazy new gore effects RE engine is capable of.
>excellent, lets finish implementing this right away, then we can start working on the spider enemies.
>WHAT THE FRICK ARE YOU CRAZY WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS SOME KIND OF HORROR GAME
Yeah, I mean LC has blood in it even though lots of people have a phobia of blood so bad they faint at the sight of it
FRICK YOU JANNIES THAT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME
oh but when I want to mod out brown people in my games,now I'm the bad guy?
Yes.
alright, i'll give up
Mods are in rare form lately
They've been doing this more.
I saw them put WEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL in a thread about the convicts from DR last month.
Hahaha imagine being scared of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
FRICK YOU
AT LEAST POST SEXY SPIDERS
Does anyone else see spiders when they're half asleep? My brain is disturbingly good at making me hallucinate the accurate movements of frantic spiders on my walls, once I'm fully awake they disappear.
you're not hallucinating, spiders are just good at hiding when people wake up.
>add a toggle for spiders
>add a toggle for bugs because you added a toggle for spiders
>add a toggle for maggots because you added a toggle for bugs
>add a toggle for rats because you added a toggle for maggots
>add a toggle for snakes because you added a toggle for rats
>add a toggle for closed spaces because you added a toggle for rats
>add a toggle for heights because you added a toggle for closed spaces
Where's the sensible cut-off point once studios start inviting such things?
>add toggle for bugs
usually that's called an "unofficial patch"
Frick you mod. I jumped and had a fear laugh.
i have been trolled
what the FRICK MOOT
How the frick is there a spider in the background
It's a shadow. Look behind you.
scariest vidya spider is Thief 1
It took me a while to notice the spider in my screen.
Arachnophobia makes sense everywhere but the UK. What do they have to be afraid of? They don't get big nor venomous ones.
The scariest part about the spider in lethal company is the legs and the creepy sounds it does when it walks. Does the arachnophobia mode change that too?
Yes
Woke means virtue signaling and kowtowing to anybody who complains loud enough
There's a phobia for literally everything
Arachnophobes are just the most vocal
certain phobias are different that just using the term. they are hard coded.
It took me too long to realize there was a spider on my screen.
dear diary
today the mods were not gays
AAAAAA
IT'S MULTIPLYING
FASTER
>Fear of spiders, some of which can kill people
>Fear of snakes, some of whicn can kill people
>Fear of the ocean or bodies of water where drowning and death is possible
>Fear of heights, you can fall and die or get injured
These phobias are considered "irrational"
Tbf it is irrational if you live a place that doesn't have poisonous snakes or spiders
they can still crawl in your ear and lay eggs
Have you considered that we, as in, human beings, developed these at the time when those threats were much more widespread? And when those you had descended from lived in different places? You do not exist in a vacuum, you're a product of millions of years of evolution.
pretty obvious why they're irrational. they make you LESS likely to survive an encounter with any of those threats. these phobias give you an OVERreaction to the threat which in itself is dangerous. and it gets especially bizarre if you live in Europe, for example, where spiders and snakes are all harmless.
I know people with phobias and without exception their behavior around the thing they're scared of is in itself a threat to their own safety, if not the safety of others as well. they will make sudden movements, flail their arms around, scream etc. phobias are absolutely obnoxious and pose real, completely unnecessary risks.
>snakes are all harmless
adders exist and are venomous
here in germany there are only two types of venomous snakes, both very rare, neither can kill you. I like hiking and I've never seen a snake, only fake snakes (reptiles with legs so small they appear to be snakes at a distance).
>them freaking out over a spider isn't dangerous lol
this is exactly the careless denial I would expect from somebody with a phobia, trying to downplay how idiotic and reckless they act when they panic. do you have a phobia? do you know WOMEN who have a phobia? I guarantee that actual deaths have been caused by the erratic behavior of panicking phobics. it's simply a matter of probability.
more people die of the things people have phobias about than your pretend scenario where someone dies from being scared and running away. i would bet people dying from erratic behavior regarding a phobia is probably fricking zero
one guy died of a snake bite in 2013, other than that no deaths due to snakes in Germany in recent history.
guarantee you accidents involving hysterical women running into objects or other people dwarf the impact of snake and spider bites in Germany. all it takes is ONE fast turn of the head while moving towards a sharp object and you lose an eye forever. if you get unlucky enough the object pierces through the eye into the brain and you die.
>Dark Messiah
they went the extra mile and gave them (crude 2006) hair. it makes them way creepier. also great animations including how they die. most game spiders are just sort of floaty, weightless and therefore intangible. the DMOMM spiders seem very alive.
then find one instance of that happening, if it happens all the time find something on it.
and you're immediately fricking wrong because a brown recluse killed a woman in 2015 in italy, so now i know you're willing to lie to make your moronic point
oh please. them freaking out over a spider isn't dangerous lol, and it certainly doesn't make them less likely to survive. they just go away from the spider, and maybe yelp
I wonder how many car crashes are caused by arachnophobes panicking over a spider in their car
there are venomous spiders in europe.
>>Fear of spiders, some of which can kill people
Step on them
>>Fear of snakes, some of whicn can kill people
Strangle them
>>Fear of the ocean or bodies of water where drowning and death is possible
Learn how to swim
>>Fear of heights, you can fall and die or get injured
Enter the FALLPROOF cheat
>Fear of heights, you can fall and die or get injured
Yeah but I know someone who can't stand on a step ladder, there is a point where it's irrational
>have fear of large bodies of water or being underwater
>literally never stopped me from enjoying vidyas, movies or going for a swim, im just careful and prepared
thats all
so why do spidergays shit, piss and cum their pants over literally nothing especially in vidya where they cant hurt you and demand that everyone else bend to their will, i literally dont get it.
because a phobia isn't a fear, it's a legitimate mental disorder. people who have it bad will have literal panic attacks from it.
phobias are also easily treatable through simple therapies with a near 100% success rate, but i guess most arachnophobes would rather complain.
>see a venomous spider
>keep a cool head and don't provoke it
>it doesn't do anything
Spiders ain't shit.
>is is is that a bunch of pixels on my screen????? AHHHHHH HELP ME SPIDERMAN I AM GOING INSAAAAAAAAAAANEEE
They're level of fear is the irrational part.
Most people are afraid of spiders, but not to the point of freaking out over a virtual one.
Do you really think I want to touch a spider, frick no.
Do the spiders in video games make me scared?
Frick no.
We are not the same.
Interesting gimmick for the thread I guess?
But I would consider the arachnaphobia thing lame as frick and borderline "woke" by catering to something moronic and innocuous.
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT
It's cool to have some fun interactivity with the mods
Everything has been too serious lately, poisoned by irony and politics
I miss having mirth
I actually jumped. Fricking kek
Same + face away from the monitor. Feels good to feel things.
If I ever make a game with spiders they won't be loaded assets like the rest of the enemies. They'll be described programmatically and deep inside nested object functions such that trying to remove them will make the game cease working unless you're willing to spend entirely too much effort to do so.
I don't have arachnophobia but whoever is the c**tfrick mod that did that can kiss my fricking ass, I actually jumped seeing that shit out of the corner of my eye.
>touch some grass bro
Frick you mods you got me
I wouldn't call it woke, but this shit absolutely comes from the similar place.
People who demand this shit implemented do not really care for the genre (or videogames in general for that matter), they just want to experience The Popular Thing™. But the thing that is popular at the time is either HARD or PROBLEMATIC or HAVE SPIDERS IN IT, and it upsets them. So instead of playing something else they demand changes that potentialy harm the integrity of the game.
If you can't handle even shitty polygonal representation of a spider, there's definetely something really wrong with your mental health. And I say it from the perspective of a person who is absolutely terrified of spiders and most insects.
nobody demanded them to change. its a fiction made up for people who like being mad
Damn mods got me
bro there's a spider on my screen right now how da fuq that's cool as frick
not but it is gay
What are games with the spookiest spider enemies?
Dark Messiah has some good ones, EverQuest, too
AHHH A SPOOKY GIF SPIDER
https://jiggie.fun/VtJQu7
autism
Woke is such a gay fricking term
It's so overused that it's lost all fricking meaning.
that's what happens to any term that conservative facebook boomers decide is their new boogeyman
It hasn't lost any meaning, but since leftists are experts on nonsense phrases and ruining words through ridiculous overuse, I'll forgive your projection this time
i feel like losing Internet Historian as well as the heelvsbabyface thing sapped a lot of the energy the right had. It's no longer really based, it is just skinnyfat people arguing with one another.
>i feel like losing Internet Historian as well as the heelvsbabyface thing
I barely even know who they are, nobody fricking cares
your echo chamber is not benefiting you
eh, I see people calling tf2 woke because the devs didn't notice some troony sneaking in troony shit
Just call it homosexualshit if you have any balls tbh
Was this even a change due to demand?
When was the toggle implemented?
Seems more like the dev put it in as a goof, the game's kind of a shitpost.
>open thread
>spider on my screen
LMAO
Well played Ganker staff
the STAFF earned their pay tonight.
We should double, nay, TRIPLE their compensation of $0
MODS = GODS
Why is this shit fine but homophobe safe fan mods are illegal
because homophobe mods attract an undesirable community to your mod community that 99% of people don't want anything to do with
You could say that about nude, fat and other sex/fetish mods but they're not deplatformed
>he doesnt know
no, those people aren't online shrieking about how games are troony games and spiderman is all about homos or whatever. they just make their mods and talk to each other
Why should that matter? as long as they're not breaking common-sense rules or laws they're still creating accounts and giving you traffic.
because they populate the forums and start talking about their obsessions with trannies and gays and calling everyone gays and start talking about minorities and woke shit and nobody likes dealing with that
I don't like dealing with trannies and minorities but try banning them off your platform and see how long cloudflare lets you hang around.
>entire regions and faiths are undesirable just because their cultural attitudes towards one specific thing s different from the West
Big yikes, sweaty.
yeah, lots of backwards cultures that you should go live in
Cool it with the cultural imperialistic rehtoric, xenophobe.
THAT SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME! THERES A HUGE FRICKING SPIDER ON MY SCREEN
>huge
Don't come to straya m8
maybe he's got a really big monitor
>not using a 16k monitor
fricking casuals.
hey i got a question australia anon. when i lived in arizona big spiders avoided cities cuz i guess the vibrations frick with them, do you guys have those monsters in sydney and shit?
uhhhh guys?! it's following me
I almost want to become a game dev just to throw in random spider jump scares into whatever game I make. It won't be a scripted event that happens at a fixed time, it'll pop up when least expected at any time and it can't be turned off.
MODS?
LOOKOUT ANONS!
>this entire thread
FRICK
SPOILER THAT SHIT butthole homosexual
Mother of Learning-esque game with friendly telepathic spiders when?
Yes I know they're inspired by Avernum, but in Avernum the spiders are a bit too...childish and low-intelligence
Need game with peppy and inquisitive jumping spider protag
I'd say so. It's sacrificing the integrity of your game to appease an incredibly small minority.
The only spider that's ever scared the monkeys hit out of me
Is the spider in the thread with us?
yes anon, it very much is
Where are my fellow bug frickers at
Don't you dare. Don't post a fricking thing. As a matter of fact frick it i'm turning off thumbnails. Why would you even tempt fate like that
I still remember feeling absolute disgust from some pic off /b/ where a spider-woman type of shoop/costume thing was sucking off some dude's dick. That was like, I don't know, 17 years ago, and it's the one time I remember being actually disgusted by this place, kek
i feel like I know the exact picture you're talking about despite not having seen it in well over a decade by this point
I'm sure it's also probably on ED somewhere
man. You think you see everything. And then one day on /misc/ someone posts a webm of a man fricking a slug until he blows it up with his cumshot. Not an animation. Real.
disgust
but also intrigue
It's one of the worst things I've ever seen on this site and I've seen a little blonde boy get stabbed to death.
i jerked it to that gif way back in high school, i might actually have it saved on an old drive.
frick that was a long time ago
Are you both underage? The only bug fricking that I've seen going on around here is in regards to fictional characters.
I have however seen the video of a dude getting a blowjob from his pet snake.
Thing latched on as soon as he whipped his boner out.
Ganker gets wild sometimes even these days. You click on an innocuous thread wondering why it has so many replies and bam. You get hit with a greentext of a guy cumming in his sisters hair with pictures and timestamps to prove it
some of those greentexts were alright
perhaps the best one I've read is the /k/ meet-up where one anon bought his "special" brownies
I've seen people fingering snakes but not getting a blowjob. I HAVE seen a few different videos of florida men fricking gators though.
This shit was commonplace 15 years ago. I miss it.
What's the point of playing a spooky game if you are gonna remove the spooks?
And why exclude only an ultra specific type of spook and not any other kind?
how many more arachnophobia threads do we ne- OH GOD WHAT'S THAT KILL IT
can I sue Ganker if I broke my monitor
I'm so fricking mad. it still works but it's got a spiderweb crack and whatever shitc**t homosexual did this needs to pay for it, I'm not joking
you made a home for the Ganker spider? That was sweet of you
FRICK OIFF
How do I get the spider?
Here's a bug I'd like to frick
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I just noticed the bunker spider's legs aren't as articulated as a normal spider, it reminds me more of a headcrab
nothing wrong with spiders
Get that fricking thing off my screen [/spidder]
>everyone hates spiders
>everyone loves spiderman
patriarchy is real
But do you also love Spiders-Man?
it's Spiders-Ma'am!
What the frick!? There's a spider in my monitor.
Mother fricker that spider scared the shit out of me
FRICK YOU MOD
Okay the lighting and sound effects are doing 90% of the work in this game, the actual models look straight out of garten of banban
I say we hear the spider out. I'm going to get 4 foot jobs at once baybeee
>You see christopher it's very important for the plot for the spider to be a sexy dommy mommy
>human Shelob
Miss me with that gay shit.
i never watched that short film but is it true the guy in it fricks that thing?
Yes. Then he freaks out after its revealed shes a horror waifu.
Gay
Yes. For months, and months.
i mean he fricks it in his mind prison that the spider was keeping him in to prevent him from realizing how horrible his actual situation was
i forget if there's any real hints that he's actually fricking the spider girl thing or if it was just mind sex
gonna be honest though greta or whatever her name was is a sweetie-pie
What's the name of this again? And the basic idea is that this dude is stranded and this alien creature is benevolent and gives him a fantasy to live in?
Disgusting.
The animations were sometimes okay but her 3d model still had less personality than the manga did.
>was never afraid of spider's
>One night before going to sleep see a big ass spider on the side of the bed
>Go get the broom
>Try pushing it outside
>Fricker gets on two legs and jumps towards me
>Now have nightmares with spider's
Everybody gangster until the spider attacks you
>pushing spider towards the door with broom to convince it to leave
You wouldn't do that unless this "spider" is a monstrosity the size of a small dog. Stop living in australia.
>arachnophobia mode
>makes all the enemies look like spiders
Mods, you're gonna jumpscare Australian browsers, that isn't cool
THEY ALREADY DID
whopever did this is living on borrowed fricking time, holy shit
Can someone explain how the skinwalker works? How does it mimic people's voices? Someone explained it like you just replace the monster's audio files with voice clips of you and your friends, but surely you'd know which phrases to be wary of?
I wonder if we'll see games that train an AI on your voice in real time.
just don't turn it on lmao
you can't avoid spiders that easily irl.
What ever happened to facing your fears? Or the fact that the POINT of a HORROR game is to be scared? If you are too much of a quivering pussy you should frick off.
>What ever happened to facing your fears?
Too patriarchal, masculine and ableist. There are no places for such toxic concepts in our modern enlightened society.
Turns out reality isn't like popular fiction heroic fantasy and if you're afraid of something on a biological level, you will always remain afraid of it and subjecting yourself to it repeatedly does not help either and just makes you stressed out and miserable which only serves to kill you faster. I wonder, who is it that benefits from killing people faster and frequently peddles ~~*psychology*~~, hmm.
exposure therapy is proven to work on phobias anon
as in, actually trying it, not "i keep seeing pictures of spiders on the internet but i'm scared every time :("
Exposure therapy is proven to not work on phobias. This is exactly what I'm talking about. morons parroting pop sci because they have no fricking idea what they're talking about.
>Exposure therapy is proven to not work on phobias
do you have any sources for that? because everything i can find says otherwise, but if you know what you're talking about then shut me up.
>morons parroting pop sci because they have no fricking idea what they're talking about.
Ironic coming from someone trying to rationalize arachnophobia toggles
I wasn't rationalizing anything. Game has big spiders - I won't buy it, simple as. They don't need to go out of their way to accommodate me and I was never asking for it either.
Nothing to rationalize. It's easy and there is no reason to not do it aside from cruelty.
You're being hysterical.
Never reply to me with this without posting the robots from Alien Isolation
You're being hysterical.
>spiders are le bad
Name one bad spider. You probably don't even know one bad spider. They're all based and cool, too.
>Name one bad spider
I always thought Charlotte was kind of a b***h
>t. Templeton
I have a crippling arachnophobia but I'm able to differentiate between something on a screen and something in real life. I fact, I find it enhances games that use spiders as a horror element because it tickles that latent fear in my head.
So arachnophobia settings baffle me a little because I understand *why* these pussies are seizing up at seeing a spider because I do the same thing; but not *why specifically* a video game spider that isn't fricking real and they know it is triggering them.
>crippling arachnophobia
> fine looking at them on screen.
I know a lot of people who would say you don't have 'crippling arachnophobia.' There was a time where I couldn't even look at a picture of a spider on a screen. At a time like that, it certainly didn't 'enhance' any horror elements to a game because I literally couldn't look at the screen. It was like nails on a chalkboard but for my nervous system.
I'm a big pussy I know, but that's why people who actually have crippling arachnophobia (the kind that's actually crippling in the sense you can't do shit when you see one) don't want them in horror games. There's a big difference between horror and abject terror.
I've been jumpscared by that one image of a wolf spider enough to be mildly desensitized to images of spiders. However every time I think I can handle a real one I see a spider bigger than my thumb on the wall and become short of breath and have to evacuate the room before I faint and ask someone to get rid of it.
I understand the struggle but people really need to get those mental barriers up when something 100% cannot hurt you in real life.
yeah, I get it. I've come a long way with regards to virtual spiders, but I get accessibility settings (I mean, I would NOT have been down to play RE2 remake if it had the frickin' car-sized tarantulas)
Fun fact, though: I'm an animator and me and 2/3rds of my team got laid off during the writer's strikes. I always said I'd work any job so long as I don't have to animate spiders.
Work is scarce though, and I wound up getting hired to work on an asymmetric horror game that has a giant spider as a character so frick me I guess lol. Had to get used to that shit really fast.
They should go that course that cures arachnophobia by interacting with spiders instead of being moronic.
Or just stare at pictures and play games with them in them until you don't care anymore.
it might just be whatever it is you're reacting to isn't as apparent in a game. most game spiders don't really move like a spider, but some people see the image and legs and thats moreso what bothers them. like for me looking at a photo of a spider is really uncomfortable and i can't really stand it. its not like i'm scared, i'm just having some reaction. then i can't get the image out of my head and theres a decent chance i'm gonna dream of spiders crawling on me or chasing me so its pretty annoying to experience. i've taken steps to diminish parts of it though, there's methods to mitigating shit like that. notably beta blockers plus exposure, but thats not really pleasant
>beta blockers
You're on drugs over this? What the frick, society really will medicalize anything
i'm not on drugs for this, its just been researched. i also just have beta blockers which are barely a drug. i got them because i'm a high volume nightclub bartender and its nice to be chill sometimes if you have a lot to do in that environment. i probably take one like twice a month if i know a shift is gonna be a shitshow
I wish games had a homophobia mode so when I played them I get approached by a giant red text "homosexual"
>look at png of spider
>meh not scary
>squint at it
>brain starts fight or flighting
So is the Lethal Company spider a girl or not
Need to make sure I'm not gay
>discover a spider living on a pipe in my bathroom
>start capturing shithead craneflies and other such nuisance bugs, dumping them onto the web, and observing the spider darting out and dragging it off
>urge to wear fantasy cultist robes and digging a giant monster pit in my basement now rising
I wonder how many people on Ganker shit on fear-specific accessibility options but shit themselves at the prospect of talking to a woman.
>women
>give you venereal diseases, steal your money, and break your heart
>spiders
>protect you from harmful bugs, spins beautiful webs in your home, will never break your heart
Will we get a gynophobia setting to remove women from games?
Sort of. It will replace women with trannies and gay men. You can't turn it off.
>game is filled with trannies
>they're all modelled as 10/10 natural-born women because it would be transphobic to imply in any way that they're uglier or different from women
>just don't provoke them and they won't attack or retreat
>worst case scenario, you can always pacify them by throwing a sneaker at them
Women are basically just big spiders.
Ah...so there's still a tiny bit of soul left in the jannies...
Settings like this in horror games are stupid, but it's fricking hilarious this way so I like it.
Anyone else seeing this? wtf
Seeing what?
Why are you on about, anon?
there's very few movies or games that portray spiders accurately and lethal company isn't one of them
Anyone who has a phobia is actually making it up.
I don't mind it because I get it. I used to have a crippling fear of heights as a kid. Bad enough that I couldn't even walk down flights of stairs without having panic attacks. Something that scares you to your core that deeply is beyond the normal idea of game horror.
Arachnophobia is also not something you have to force yourself out of.
Arachnophobia mode in a game like Satisfactory sure, why not.
Arachnophobia in a game about fear, no frick you get out of my game.
any arachnophiles in this thread?
For me, it's the kind that evoke BDSM imagery with their suspended webs, shiny black chitin and long, pointed legs.
did a random mod seriously put a spider gif for just this thread or something?
It's always been there, you just never noticed it until you entered this thread
What spider?
Yes. Options in general are woke
>Enter thread
>Get triggered
AAAIIEEEE
There's no reason to not include it aside from cruelty. It also makes no sense to not include it from a capitalist perspective
The bigger cruelty is enabling a player to bypass their phobia and further condemning them to a life lived in fear.
I think it's funny. It probably requires minimal effort to make that new asset, and it needs no new animations. Probably takes frick all to include the option in the menu, and probably even reduces load times and processing power. It's a joke, and it's one they made because it was low effort. Taking the time to quantify if it's woke is grossly disproportional to the amount of care that went into this joke. This does not cater to any demographic, it is a joke about arachnophobia in a horror game. It is a joke, and your need to quantify it's wokeness highlights how badly you need to be on antipsychotics.
mods not being gays today, quick buy a lottery ticket
That's a hilariously passive aggressive way to implement that shit, though
>passive aggressive
The whole game is a meme
The mods and the janitors are doing a cruelty. Take the spider out of this thread right now.
I agree, take it out of its cage and let it roam free across the entire board.
i removed it because i was scared of it.
>This is exactly what I'm talking about. morons parroting pop sci because they have no fricking idea what they're talking about.
>Arachnophobia is one of the most prevalent phobias among humanity, if not the most prevalent one. They wanted to reach the broadest possible audience they would institute toggles for the one of the most widespread and severely reacted to.
>phobias aren't scary