Arachnophobia Mode

[Spirit]

( Edited since I decided to word myself better )

I just wanted to suggest adding an Arachnophobia mode, this suggestion is if the developers are looking to make something like this, I don't necessarily expect it to happen.

It would be great if a mode like this is added, like for example if you toggle this mode on the spiders in the game would loose their legs and they would hover, or they will loose texture and become just balloons :D, maybe if this mode is toggled on the spiders will take another units form or become a blurred blob :DD.

As said, this is just a suggestion. I have arachnophobia myself and it makes me move irrationally and flinch. I personally think it's not too bad, but it might be helpful for other people with this phobia too.

[Myst Leissa]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Rodrigo:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Connatic:

Another game recently actually has an Arachnophobia mode. Forget which one in was.

Grounded

And Wurm Unlimited/Online, and Satisifactory, and several others. Arachniphobia Modes are not that hard to implement, all you have to do is replace the spider models with something else, whether it be a slime or a 2d Image of a kitten. I should note that such a mode is usually prepared client-sided as to not disturb players not using the function.

[This PC]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Hand of Gabriel:

Can't just "get over" something irrational by rationalizing it.

Like, I am not against arachnophobia mode, but this is so ignorant of a comment. Rationalizing my anxiety is exactly how I get over it.

I feel like stopping for a moment, breathing, and going like "this is just a spider in a video game, I can do this" is the first step towards getting better. I say this because I want the best for these people. ><

I understand it is hard however, and it's a big step. It was for me. I understand it's more layered than "just get over it bro", but they will never get over it with that kind of attitude. ;o

[SenseiDecay]

“ Too extreme? Okay, go tell it to the teenager who slit his own throat because of his extreme anxiety and depression. Obviously he was just being weak and letting his emotions control him right? All he needed to do was man up and get over it, not take medication and go to therapy, right?”.

Yes, taking your own life is one of the most cowardly selfish thing a person can do. If you don’t think I haven’t had serious suicidal thoughts you’re fooling yourself. It’s because I’ve dealt with all these issues I know it’s self weakness. When I didn’t leave my house it’s because of crippling anxiety and depression, again it was my weakness that kept me down. I needed to man up and stop letting emotions control me.

[Rubio DarkYeti]

Diposting pertama kali oleh jdtuggey:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Hand of Gabriel:

Can't just "get over" something irrational by rationalizing it.

Like, I am not against arachnophobia mode, but this is so ignorant of a comment. Rationalizing my anxiety is exactly how I get over it.

I feel like stopping for a moment, breathing, and going like "this is just a spider in a video game, I can do this" is the way to fight this. I say this because I want the best for these people. ><

I understand it is hard however, and it's a big step. It was for me.

Then I'd probably say you don't have Arachnophobia, or at least have a kind that is only very effective in real life.

A phobia is by definition an irrational fear. So if you can rationalize something to overcome the fear, then you do not have a phobia, just a plain old fear.
See what I'm saying?

[Rubio DarkYeti]

Diposting pertama kali oleh SenseiDecay:

“ Too extreme? Okay, go tell it to the teenager who slit his own throat because of his extreme anxiety and depression. Obviously he was just being weak and letting his emotions control him right? All he needed to do was man up and get over it, not take medication and go to therapy, right?”.

Yes, taking your own life is one of the most cowardly selfish thing a person can do. If you don’t think I haven’t had serious suicidal thoughts you’re fooling yourself. It’s because I’ve dealt with all these issues I know it’s self weakness. When I didn’t leave my house it’s because of crippling anxiety and depression, again it was my weakness that kept me down. I needed to man up and stop letting emotions control me.

Then you must have Acute extreme anxiety, or regular high anxiety.
Because Chronic anxiety is literally incurable.

[This PC]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Rubio DarkYeti:

Diposting pertama kali oleh jdtuggey:

Like, I am not against arachnophobia mode, but this is so ignorant of a comment. Rationalizing my anxiety is exactly how I get over it.

I feel like stopping for a moment, breathing, and going like "this is just a spider in a video game, I can do this" is the way to fight this. I say this because I want the best for these people. ><

I understand it is hard however, and it's a big step. It was for me.

Then I'd probably say you don't have Arachnophobia, or at least have a kind that is only very effective in real life.

A phobia is by definition an irrational fear. So if you can rationalize something to overcome the fear, then you do not have a phobia, just a plain old fear.
See what I'm saying?

Anxiety is litterally an irrational fear of upcoming events, leading you to perceive the worst outcome in future events. It becomes so crippling at time, that it makes you physically sick. It increases your heart rate, muscle tension, and makes you nauseous. The worst about it is, it doesn't strike just when you see a spider, it's always there.

Don't tell me I have no idea what an irrational fear is bub. I've lived 37 years of my life with an irrational fear of upcoming events. Lol.

It strikes even when you're looking ahead at positive events. Your brain will absolutely try to find the worst outcomes even in events that can't have any. ;o

And yeah, this ain't the anxiety the average people has looking ahead at a stressful event, this is on the level of a diagnosis that requires cognitive behavioral therapy.

I've learned in therapy that I can defeat that by rationalizing it. Telling myself "What are the chances that event X really turns into its worst outcome ? Almost nada". I'm simplifying it a lot, but yeah... It's been a process, but I certainly didn't defeat it by asking the world to bend around me and thinking I can't do anything about it. ><

[Dollop of Mayo]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Mikebeez:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Dollop of Mayo:

Survival =/= horror. Tension in games =/= horror. Super Mario Bros for the NES requires you to try and survive knowing at every turn you could lose your last life and have to restart. It's just a lack of awareness and/or common sense to think that Super Mario Bros for the NES doesn't possess some horror element.

But go off girl, dictate to people what their emotions are so you can take back your lost feeling of superiority.

Thank you for proving my point about your lack of common sense.

Can't formulate a proper response? Just say "common sense"! It's a cheat code for automatically winning arguments!

[Myst Leissa]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Hand of Gabriel:

I feel like this particular request is getting a lot of flak and the reasons against it are, essentially, "git gud." Phobias are, generally, irrational. Can't just "get over" something irrational by rationalizing it.

The idea that servicing an arachnaphobia mode is a bad thing by saying it's going to cause other requests is a good thing... it allows the devs to see a list of desired accessibility features that players are looking for to either allow them to comfortably play the game or access it at all.

I haven't checked the settings but if there are users with colorblindness who are struggling to play the game and servicing this causes a request to make it more accessible to colorblind players... that is *only* a good thing. There's nothing bad about making a beloved game accessible to players who had either physical or mental blocks between them and it.

+1 to arachnaphobia mode. I'm pretty arachnaphobic to begin with but, for some reason, I can get past it most of the time (aside from broodmother) in this game because I'm so focused on the battle part of gameplay.

Legit don't mind the spiders in this game so bad, but it would be nice not to have the fear factor; Vampires, shouldn't pray on the fear of their own players; Vampires are supposed to be immortal, and that dictates from a lore-prespective they shouldn't fear any spiders, which means the only fear/shock-factor is upon the human player not the character they're playing.

[Myst Leissa]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Rubio DarkYeti:

Diposting pertama kali oleh SenseiDecay:

“ Too extreme? Okay, go tell it to the teenager who slit his own throat because of his extreme anxiety and depression. Obviously he was just being weak and letting his emotions control him right? All he needed to do was man up and get over it, not take medication and go to therapy, right?”.

Yes, taking your own life is one of the most cowardly selfish thing a person can do. If you don’t think I haven’t had serious suicidal thoughts you’re fooling yourself. It’s because I’ve dealt with all these issues I know it’s self weakness. When I didn’t leave my house it’s because of crippling anxiety and depression, again it was my weakness that kept me down. I needed to man up and stop letting emotions control me.

Then you must have Acute extreme anxiety, or regular high anxiety.
Because Chronic anxiety is literally incurable.

incurable is not untreatable. There is a difference, only the foolish masses would think that you have to cure the underlying problem to treat the problem.

[GROTSTOMPA]

I would like my vampire to have wheel chair accessible castles, I'm offended. I would also like to have a wheel chair option for my vampire, so that people who cannot walk are not left out. Also, vampires scare me, can we have an option to replace vampires with Sasquatches?

In all seriousness, I understand phobias, my partner has some other phobia issues. However, neither myself or she would ask someone to do something about it in a game. The issue is this takes time, money, and development away from really big issues. We're going to live in an overly sensitive world where everything has to have every option for every mental health problem, and it's going to implode or backfire if it keeps up.

Not being mean here, maybe this game just isn't for you? This genre and theme comes with all the spiders, slimeys, etc. if you really do have a problem then please get a psychologist, etc., these things can progressively get worse mentally.

If the dev's want to, then cool, and there's nothing wrong with nicely asking either (with no expectations), it might just be the way your question was worded. Cheers

[Hand of Gabriel]

Diposting pertama kali oleh jdtuggey:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Hand of Gabriel:

Can't just "get over" something irrational by rationalizing it.

Like, I am not against arachnophobia mode, but this is so ignorant of a comment. Rationalizing my anxiety is exactly how I get over it.

You know what you're right and I worded this very poorly. I apologize. I mean to say that it's not a goal, nor is it even possible, for some people to get over certain phobias. Some of them don't intersect day-to-day life and it's not reasonable to expect other people to conquer fears that, after having conquered them, may have such a miniscule improvement it made them not worth confronting.

Again, I apologize for how I worded it the first time. It came off as absolutist. I'd say that "getting over it" isn't always useful, though, in the same sense of abolishing absolutism from the equation.

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[This PC]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Hand of Gabriel:

Diposting pertama kali oleh jdtuggey:

Like, I am not against arachnophobia mode, but this is so ignorant of a comment. Rationalizing my anxiety is exactly how I get over it.

You know what you're right and I worded this very poorly. I apologize. I mean to say that it's not a goal, nor is it even possible, for some people to get over certain phobias. Some of them don't intersect day-to-day life and it's not reasonable to expect other people to conquer fears that, after having conquered them, may have such a miniscule improvement it made them not worth confronting.

Again, I apologize for how I worded it the first time. It came off as absolutist. I'd say that "getting over it" isn't always useful, though, in the same sense of abolishing absolutism from the equation.

Very nice reply. ♥

[Rubio DarkYeti]

Diposting pertama kali oleh jdtuggey:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Rubio DarkYeti:

Then I'd probably say you don't have Arachnophobia, or at least have a kind that is only very effective in real life.

A phobia is by definition an irrational fear. So if you can rationalize something to overcome the fear, then you do not have a phobia, just a plain old fear.
See what I'm saying?

Anxiety is litterally an irrational fear of upcoming events, leading you to perceive the worst outcome in future events. It becomes so crippling at time, that it makes you physically sick. It increases your heart rate, muscle tension, and makes you nauseous. The worst about it is, it doesn't strike just when you see a spider, it's always there.

Don't tell me I have no idea what an irrational fear is bub. I've lived 37 years of my life with an irrational fear of upcoming events. Lol.

It strikes even when you're looking ahead at positive events. Your brain will absolutely try to find the worst outcomes even in events that can't have any. ;o

Umm, I never said you don't know what fear is. And I also don't see how you managing to breath, eat and sleep for 37 years has anything to do with an understanding of deep emotion. I've been around for 23 years btw, and am in college for becoming a professional therapist. Im not saying that means I know more than you, but you seem to think that information is relevant somehow.

And did you not read ANY of my other messages? I fully understand how irrational and constant anxiety is. Because guess what? I have anxiety too, and I can guarantee that I've experienced just as much anxiety as you have, though I'm not trying to compete.

I would explain certain anxiety experiences of mine, but from your message I assume you will only try to "one-up" me with a more extreme version.

I understand what you are saying, I was only trying to explain that you have ANXIETY, not a PHOBIA. I never meant to say you didn't have anxiety, nor did I mean to diminish any anxiety you do experience.
My point was simply saying that a phobia is different from anxiety, simply because a phobia cannot be rationalized.

If I did say something rude or insulting, I am truly sorry. I might've accidentally responded to you instead of someone else, since I'm holding like 3 conversations at once in this thread lol

[Rubio DarkYeti]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Nysch:

Diposting pertama kali oleh Rubio DarkYeti:

Then you must have Acute extreme anxiety, or regular high anxiety.
Because Chronic anxiety is literally incurable.

incurable is not untreatable. There is a difference, only the foolish masses would think that you have to cure the underlying problem to treat the problem.

Oh my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ god. Read my other ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ replies! I've already stated that a Chronic illness cannot be cured but only treated. It's been one of my main points in half of my messages. Read the situation before entering it and making uninformed statements.