Is my spider GAY?

[F0B!C]

Just wondering after playing the intro, why is my spider trying to save His boyfriend? Is this intentional, am i missing something? I kinda prefer to save my girlfriend if possible is there an option to pick which gender i am (and hence my love is)?

[Psymon²]

from the store page

Webbed is the story of a happy little spider on an adventure to save her boyfriend from a big mean bowerbird

so relax

[KR8-C-Pete]

two things...

1. This game is so fun that the fact that I was playing with a "female" character barely crossed my mind.

2. Female spiders are way bigger than male spiders, so logically female spiders should be stronger than males, so I don't mind my girl rescuing me as long as she does not LITERALLY eat my ass after having sex!!!

[F0B!C]

Originally posted by Psymon²:

from the store page

Webbed is the story of a happy little spider on an adventure to save her boyfriend from a big mean bowerbird

so relax

I'm relaxed... was literally just asking how to change my gender. But if i have to play as a female, that's fine.

[Hemito]

How did you even come up with this? Stop my cry. Perhaps I don’t understand this, since in Russian it became clear that I play for a female character from the very first lines due to the peculiarities of the language structure, we have different words in relation to women and men. As I understand it, in the English localization, there is no hint of this in the text?)

[Ziehen Freund]

t. speed reader

[DucksQuak]

Ofc there are only two genders in this world: males and... gays. Females don't exist.

[unnamed]

Bro wtf is this post, just enjoy the game.

[Sayomi-san]

just like certain species of duck, certain species of male spider are more colourful and attractive for the purpose of winning the love of a female mate. This was high school biology level logic, even if it DIDNT occur to you, that you are the female spider it should at least occur to you when you are told to save "your boyfriend" that you maybe a girl that would be the 2nd obvious, and rational reason. Sure for the sake of argument lets say the 3rd MOST likely reason would be that you are a gay spider. What on gods sweet earth does it matter? It's a game and gender plays such a minor unnoticeable part in it. If you are bothered about gay spiders, or 'being forced' to play as a female I feel for you.

[MarkoDarko]

she only wants to save him so she can eat him as female spiders do

[animalec]

Originally posted by MarkoDarko:

she only wants to save him so she can eat him as female spiders do

well.... yes and - no.
Though spider among other arachnids and invertabrates (predation on sexmate is rather uncommon) will always try to have a nice course after intercourse, this isn't a rule.
There are many species that won't attack partner and some even live in groups and colonies.
Generally if there's a big gap in terms of size difference(which is true for nearly all species) - male's gone.

Webby from the game is a jumping spider though, and they are known for many unbelievable things and even though every now and then some male will end up on the wrong side of web cocoon they generally pecefull towards each other.
The happy dance from game is in fact real thing and every single jumpy species has it's own, unique set of moves and steps.
Those dances were developed to prevent being killed.

[Grimlock9]

Imagine caring what gender and sexuality your pixelated spider is. This is just sad

[Kistloror]

Protagonist is female, no way to change it and no reason to, as far as I see it. Gender doesn't matter since it could just be a "boy who's a friend" if it bugs you so much. It's a cool game where you play as a spider, don't let sexual preference of a fictional character get in the way of enjoying the game.

[Kaezeribato]

Originally posted by animalec:

Originally posted by MarkoDarko:

she only wants to save him so she can eat him as female spiders do

well.... yes and - no.
Though spider among other arachnids and invertabrates (predation on sexmate is rather uncommon) will always try to have a nice course after intercourse, this isn't a rule.
There are many species that won't attack partner and some even live in groups and colonies.
Generally if there's a big gap in terms of size difference(which is true for nearly all species) - male's gone.

Webby from the game is a jumping spider though, and they are known for many unbelievable things and even though every now and then some male will end up on the wrong side of web cocoon they generally pecefull towards each other.
The happy dance from game :spider_dance: is in fact real thing and every single jumpy species has it's own, unique set of moves and steps.
Those dances were developed to prevent being killed.

:spider_dance: :spider_dance: :spider_dance: :spider_dance: :spider_dance: :spider_dance:

I love findding informative post on random forum on the internet. Thanks.

[JLsoft]

Originally posted by Hemito:

How did you even come up with this? ... As I understand it, in the English localization, there is no hint of this in the text?)

The moth at the start calls the player 'buddy' directly several times, and used that way is usually a towards-a-male thing...like 'Hey buddy, lend me a hand?'

[animalec]

Originally posted by JLsoft:

Originally posted by Hemito:

How did you even come up with this? ... As I understand it, in the English localization, there is no hint of this in the text?)

The moth at the start calls the player 'buddy' directly several times, and used that way is usually a towards-a-male thing...like 'Hey buddy, lend me a hand?'

He means that in some languages like Russian (all slavic btw) and Proto-Indo-European in general have masculine and feminine pronouns. It means that one word that refers to character always defines the gender (plus in slavic lang. one word can describe gender, time, status - what's happening to person/object).
That applies to every noun doesn't matter if it's Her majesty Queen or a trash in the floor.