Sandworm and megalaphobia

[deergod]

Hello, I fell in love with this game and I really enjoy spending time exploring space. But there is one big problem. I never stop feeling panic about sandworms when on planets because I have megalaphobia. I cannot look at huge living objects that are in the air, but as we know, a sandworm jumps out of the ground and flies a certain distance.
Since I do not play multiplayer, I would like to know if it is possible to delete the sandworm in the game files exclusively for myself? it does not have any functions anyway, in fact it is not needed at all. It causes me panic attacks, because of it I cannot play comfortably

[aggressor27]

The advent of VR really brings these things to life. I don't know why people feel the need to make jokes. I don't suffer from phobias but using the spider thing from Skyrim as an example: I've played that game since launch with no issues but the first time I ran through Bleak Falls and saw that spider in all its three dimensional glory it legitimately scared the crap out of me at first. I can't imagine how someone with an actual fear would respond to that.

[Johnny in the Clouds]

Oh dear...
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[Khalunka]

Publicado originalmente por Shadow:

Hahahahahahahahahah this is the most rediculous thing i have ever read. stop trying to change the world based on your "singled out unheard of fears". The planet says in its scan description basically 100% of the time if there is sandworms there(ie:worm planet). Avoid those and youll be fine... but you should probably seek phsychological help outside of gaming.

Publicado originalmente por MROOD:

so lame, next gen bs right here.

Jesus, so many useless people . You guys have some serious mental problems. Please, seek help. Only miserable people make fun of other people's conditions. We understand you are unhappy with your life and so, you try to make others unhappy too. But that's not healthy my friends. Seek help. Be a better person.

Publicado originalmente por Johnny in the Clouds:

Oh dear...

woaaaaaaaah.

Publicado originalmente por aggressor27:

The advent of VR really brings these things to life. I don't know why people feel the need to make jokes. I don't suffer from phobias but using the spider thing from Skyrim as an example: I've played that game since launch with no issues but the first time I ran through Bleak Falls and saw that spider in all its three dimensional glory it legitimately scared the crap out of me at first. I can't imagine how someone with an actual fear would respond to that.

Spiders are scary. I've been playing many games that has them (since It's a common thing) and always someone makes a mod to either change them to another model, or make them smaller. It's really nice. There Is one game on steam, forgot It's name now. The developer himself made a mod to change the spider, that guy was amazing, quite an active developer In that time that I played the game.

[MP]

Spiderbros are chill, tho.

[lnomsim]

People are not just being cruel.
First, megalaphobia, that does not exist.

Megalophobia though, it's another story.
It's a fear of everything that is large or huge.

You know, like trucks, buildings, mountains, planets, space ships, etc...

The fear of huge flying living creatures, what is this? How many of those do we have on earth? the biggest flying creatures we have are 2m big, slightly bigger than humans.

It's like that 'fear' of holes and dotted pattern that appeared one day on the internet and suddenly everyone had it.

I'm certainly not saying people having megalophobia should be mocked. but two things.
If you have megalophobia, don't play games with huge things in them (hint, there are dinosaurs, huge freighters, ruins and most importantly, planets in that game. These tends to be kind of big.) Why would you buy a product that triggers your fear?

Secondly having mild discomfort when seeing or being confronted to something is not having a phobia, especially when it is extremely selective as it is the case here. (so selective in fact that it couldn't even be triggered in real life since the triggers do not exist in real life.)

Oh, and finally, I almost forgot, while looking for megalophobia on internet, I got ONE result on a health website.

All the others where either on printerest, reddit, or various blogs...
So, looks like it's mostly the kind of 'phobia' that is popular on the net instead of real condition.

[deergod]

Publicado originalmente por lnomsim:

People are not just being cruel.
First, megalaphobia, that does not exist.

Megalophobia though, it's another story.
It's a fear of everything that is large or huge.

You know, like trucks, buildings, mountains, planets, space ships, etc...

The fear of huge flying living creatures, what is this? How many of those do we have on earth? the biggest flying creatures we have are 2m big, slightly bigger than humans.

It's like that 'fear' of holes and dotted pattern that appeared one day on the internet and suddenly everyone had it.

I'm certainly not saying people having megalophobia should be mocked. but two things.
If you have megalophobia, don't play games with huge things in them (hint, there are dinosaurs, huge freighters, ruins and most importantly, planets in that game. These tends to be kind of big.) Why would you buy a product that triggers your fear?

Secondly having mild discomfort when seeing or being confronted to something is not having a phobia, especially when it is extremely selective as it is the case here. (so selective in fact that it couldn't even be triggered in real life since the triggers do not exist in real life.)

Oh, and finally, I almost forgot, while looking for megalophobia on internet, I got ONE result on a health website.

All the others where either on printerest, reddit, or various blogs...
So, looks like it's mostly the kind of 'phobia' that is popular on the net instead of real condition.

oh god, I wrote above that only worms scare me in this game, one person threw off the mod to remove them from the game
Don't talk nonsense, until you come across this yourself, you won't understand me and I'm used to the fact that most stupid people don't understand me. Someday you will have a similar situation where you will be the object of ridicule in life or in the game because of something incomprehensible to other people, but of great importance to you, then you will remember me.

[an entire Roman legion]

Publicado originalmente por TR666:

Publicado originalmente por lnomsim:

People are not just being cruel.
First, megalaphobia, that does not exist.

Megalophobia though, it's another story.
It's a fear of everything that is large or huge.

You know, like trucks, buildings, mountains, planets, space ships, etc...

The fear of huge flying living creatures, what is this? How many of those do we have on earth? the biggest flying creatures we have are 2m big, slightly bigger than humans.

It's like that 'fear' of holes and dotted pattern that appeared one day on the internet and suddenly everyone had it.

I'm certainly not saying people having megalophobia should be mocked. but two things.
If you have megalophobia, don't play games with huge things in them (hint, there are dinosaurs, huge freighters, ruins and most importantly, planets in that game. These tends to be kind of big.) Why would you buy a product that triggers your fear?

Secondly having mild discomfort when seeing or being confronted to something is not having a phobia, especially when it is extremely selective as it is the case here. (so selective in fact that it couldn't even be triggered in real life since the triggers do not exist in real life.)

Oh, and finally, I almost forgot, while looking for megalophobia on internet, I got ONE result on a health website.

All the others where either on printerest, reddit, or various blogs...
So, looks like it's mostly the kind of 'phobia' that is popular on the net instead of real condition.

oh god, I wrote above that only worms scare me in this game, one person threw off the mod to remove them from the game
Don't talk nonsense, until you come across this yourself, you won't understand me and I'm used to the fact that most stupid people don't understand me. Someday you will have a similar situation where you will be the object of ridicule in life or in the game because of something incomprehensible to other people, but of great importance to you, then you will remember me.

what makes you think that he dont already has issues like that? you assume alot

[lnomsim]

Publicado originalmente por Albob:

Publicado originalmente por TR666:

oh god, I wrote above that only worms scare me in this game, one person threw off the mod to remove them from the game
Don't talk nonsense, until you come across this yourself, you won't understand me and I'm used to the fact that most stupid people don't understand me. Someday you will have a similar situation where you will be the object of ridicule in life or in the game because of something incomprehensible to other people, but of great importance to you, then you will remember me.

what makes you think that he doesn't already have issues like that? you assume alot

That.
When I was a kid, I suffered from arachnophobia.
I didn't just fear spiders, they horrified me.

One day I awoke with a spider bigger than my head just above... well, my head, and I was paralysed. I couldn't even scream, or move, I just tried to hide under the blanket, but I couldn't.

After that, each time I saw a spider in my room I would hide under my bed and get paralysed.

Then it very, fortunately, evolved, to the point I was able to move, when I saw a spider, I hastly left the room or the garden/wherever I was.

By then, it was simply fear and discomfort. Then I learnt how to get rid of them by myself, with the classic bowl and paper trick.
At some point it evolved again in discomfort, nowadays, I can live peacefully by knowing there are spiders in my home or even in the same room as me. I still feel slight discomfort when I see one and am surprised when I notice them.

But that's not arachnophobia anymore.

See the difference? Not liking/feeling uncomfortable is not the same as having a phobia.

What happens when you see those worms? The same fear that when you see a jumpscare?

Or do you have a cold sweat, feel in great distress and unable to act rationally?
There can be other symptoms, I have a friend who enters into shock, can get violent spasms and even lose consciousness when she sees a butterfly.

While on the other hand, fearing getting stung by a bee or a wasp is not a phobia.

There is -excuse me the use of the word- a huge difference between them.

But, heh, we live in the label age now, everything needs to have a name and be treated as a disease so we can feel special, and treat the people who 'do not understand' as rude or a*hole.

All the examples you have given are in video games.
Can you even leave your home?

Because if a 'big' object on a small screen can trigger your phobia, I can't even imagine what a two-story building, a car or a bus can have on you in real life. And I'm not even talking about trucks and trees.

[lnomsim]

Publicado originalmente por davidb11:

If you truly had a phobia as bad as you claim, why act rude and insulting to the OP with his phobia.
That makes no damn sense.
I'm sorry, but you are not talking like someone who ever had a phobia of anything, even spiders.

You should be put in a room that is filled to the brim just about with the world's largest spiders. Then maybe judging your reaction to that, I can take you seriously. Maybe stuffing you in a room filled with brown recuses might be a fair test as well.
As long as you leave them alone, they don't bother you after all.

You just can't claim you had a phobia after acting like you were to the OP. THat just insults everyone who has a phobia.

I am nor rude nor insulting. Not once I have addressed the OP directly (except in my previous post, and I wasn't insulting.

Nor was I rude (except at the very end of my previous post, and once again, that is not directed at the OP.)

And you are proving my point. Anyone would feel distressed by being in a room full of giant spiders. just watch an episode of Fort Boyard, every person that goes through the bug challenge screams, trashes and tries to flee the room. That does not mean that everyone is suffering from arachnophobia.

[Dirak2012]

A lot of internet tough guys, telling other people what they should not be afraid of...
We know it's a game, we know the big mean monster is not going to jump out of the screen to grab us, even then one cannot control certain emotions and feelings.

[lnomsim]

@Davidb11

No, seriously, read attentively what I say. especially when you quote me.

When I say:

"Oh, and finally, I almost forgot, while looking for megalophobia on internet, I got ONE result on a health website.

All the others where either on printerest, reddit, or various blogs...
So, looks like it's mostly the kind of 'phobia' that is popular on the net instead of real condition. "

The 'Looks like' is kind of important, believe it or not (now I'm being rude, note the difference.)
I am not a psychologist, nor am I a doctor. is megalophobia a real condition or not? I don't know. that's why I do researchs on the subject. And what results do I have? Well, not a lot saying that yes it is a real condition, but a *ton of other that either aren't very serious saying it is, and a lot more not serious treating it like a joke.

So, what does my brain specialized in identifying a pattern says.
Sounds made up (note the 'sounds', it's important.)

Where, I repeat, WHERE do I say, OP doesn't have fear of big things?

Nowhere, that's where (I'm being rude again, I say it here because I'm not sure you actually know what rudeness is. I'm being kind of mean too because I'm treating you kind of like an idiot.)

What I say though is that there is a clear difference between having a mild fear/discomfort and suffering from a phobia.

I have no idea how the OP feels when they see big things. I'm not a therapist either.

There is no doubt he at least finds discomfort seeing big living creatures in video games. i am not saying they should man up, be tougher are anything. Actually, I even acknowledge people could be cruel, and people suffering from phobias shouldn't be mocked (but you might have missed it somehow, even though those two things had their own paragraph.)

But when you know you feel discomfort toward certain things, the best thing to do is to avoid them. or confront them if you actually try to get more accustomed to them.

There absolutely nothing rude in saying this.

I have the right to wonder why someone claiming to fear big things buy a game where everything is big. Rudeness is not involved at all, judgement either by the way.

Now, I made a point:

I said mild fear/discomfort shouldn't be called phobia and people feeling those shouldn't claim to suffer from a phobia.

Discomfort is something you can simply, and I'll capitalize it, SIMPLY address by changing your way of life. you know, like buying a better chair, changing the intensity of light, wearing ear protection, that kind of stuff;

Phobia on the other needs therapy, and sometimes even medication.

If you say those two things are the same, you are the one being rude.

Now, is OP feeling discomfort or really suffering from a phobia? I have absolutely no idea. And don't really care, to be honest, I am not their friend or therapist. (I'm being kind of rude again, but not against the OP.)

OP found their solution to their problem, good for them.

But don't go insulting ME and saying I'm rude.
I can apologize for not being clear in what I said, but unfortunately, I can't apologize for you completely misunderstand me.

That is no reason to be impolite and insulting yourself.

[lnomsim]

No probelm, as long as we can keep things civilized, I'm glad the misunderstanding has been cleared.

[markhoss]

You have to downgrade the game in order to do it I've done it myself if I remember correctly I've used a program and just grabbed the files from the manifest's found on steam db in the depots and just dragged the files to the main directory

I wouldn't recommend it however and for a very serious reason which is that you have to use your login information and put it inside of command prompt

[Barmy Nimrod]

I'm disappointed with some of the folks on this thread. I'd wager there's a possibility of hypocrites that protest and march due to cancel culture on here, yet stand behind the anonymity of a screen name and keyboard, to bully, berate and ridicule others. Social media isn't the death of compassion or civility, it just enables people to show who they really are.

And before any y'all try to get under my skin, remember; stick and stones. I couldn't give a lick what anybody says or thinks about me.

[Xautos]

Publicado originalmente por Uranium235:

I'm disappointed with some of the folks on this thread. I'd wager there's a possibility of hypocrites that protest and march due to cancel culture on here, yet stand behind the anonymity of a screen name and keyboard, to bully, berate and ridicule others. Social media isn't the death of compassion or civility, it just enables people to show who they really are.

And before any y'all try to get under my skin, remember; stick and stones. I couldn't give a lick what anybody says or thinks about me.

Yet you are the one to berate others and cancel their opinions because you are "disappointed" with these users. Or is it easier for you to attack them as another anonymous keyboard warrior as well when things have long settled, by claiming to have the right to the high ground by stabbing them in the back with your keyboard?

Your actions as you presented are there for anyone to see, and while you might not give a damn what others think of you, you didn't say you didn't give a damn about your own thoughts.

Publicado originalmente por TR666:

Hello, I fell in love with this game and I really enjoy spending time exploring space. But there is one big problem. I never stop feeling panic about sandworms when on planets because I have megalaphobia. I cannot look at huge living objects that are in the air, but as we know, a sandworm jumps out of the ground and flies a certain distance.
Since I do not play multiplayer, I would like to know if it is possible to delete the sandworm in the game files exclusively for myself? it does not have any functions anyway, in fact it is not needed at all. It causes me panic attacks, because of it I cannot play comfortably

I have a fear of bees and wasps.
You may have a fear of worms than large things in general, that doesn't erode your fear of something though, but if the sandworm is the issue specifically instead of a large ship, a space station or an alien tree, then it clearly isn't a fear of large things.

A sudden terror regarding sandworms jumping out the dirt would panic anyone in wondering if it was coming after you or wondering what that tremor was. much like a car backfire or a sudden loud sharp noise would grab everyone attention and make them jump.

I've seen these sandworms across three games, here, Mass Effect (Thresher Maw and Architect) and Osiris New Dawn. In all three games it will catch your attention.

I wouldn't settle on a world inhabited by sandworms or any burrowing lifeform and you should stay clear of it.