Spiders Are a Popular Video Game Monster. They're Also an Accessibility Problem

Hypnopedosnake2 said:
Okay, i will be serious here for one minute:

I have a huge phobia when it comes to wasps. It never bothered me that much in video games, except for that one time i went to that old house in Resident Evil 7, which was just way too fuckin real for me.

Anyway, Fuck this article. Why should a developer be considerate to every little shit thing on screen? If you can't take it, go back and play candy crush.
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At least wasps can be real pain in the ass, such as when your backyard is full of drunk ones and you need to pass through them.
 
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I have a personal spiderbro that was made for me. Wanna see?
WARNING: VERY SCARY SPIDER AHEAD

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I have a phobic reaction to spiders but jfc this is taking it too far. I say this as someone who has read the text of Lord of the Ring countless times but strangely the passage relating to Shelob’s Lair precisely once
 
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I demand that all my phobias be catered to in every game I play!
The full list of things to be removed is below:

Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection
Atychiphobia - Fear of failure
Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers
Androphobia - Fear of men
Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces or crowds
Domatophobia - Fear of houses
Deipnophobia - Fear of dining with others
Dextrophobia - Fear of having objects to your right
Chronophobia - Fear of Time
Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness
Chromophobia - Fear of colors
Cyberphobia - Fear of computers
Genuphobia - Fear of knees
Gynophobia - Fear of women
Heliophobia - Fear of the sun
Hydrophobia - Fear of water
Koumpounophobia - Fear of buttons
Logophobia - Fear of reading (or learning how)
Melanophobia - Fear of the color black
Negrophobia - Fear of Black people
Nyctophobia - Fear of the dark
Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8
Phobophobia - Fear of phobias
Sociophobia - Fear of social evaluation
Tachophobia - Fear of speed
Trypophobia - Fear of Holes
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Vestiphobia - Fear of clothing
Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women
Zoophobia - Fear of animals

If this game is playable in any way afterwards, that also needs to be removed because of my Technophobia - Fear of technology.
 
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L50LasPak said:
I'm powerleveling a bit with the communities I hung around with a few years back, but there is an extremely huge push against this kind of bullshit by people who run biology and nature blogs. For once I think their reeing is justified since I'm a biology nerd myself and I think the thoughtless way spiders are feared and reviled is just senseless. There is a decidated community of people on places like Tumblr (where else?) who go on massive rants about how much they hate spiders and wish to see them all destroyed. It can get quite psychotic sometimes.

Unless you live in a location where spiders grow particuarly large, you generally have nothing to fear from them living in your house. The overwhelming majority of the time they are not poisonous, they do not create infestations (they are fericely territorial and two or more spiders in the same location will usually kill each other), they don't try to get into your food like other bugs, and in general they're one of the few things that if it gets into your house you can leave it alone.

For the record, almost every page of a spider bite that has gone septic is showing an infection from an improperly cleaned wound, not the effect of the venom. While the venom may not be that dangerous to a fully grown human, spiders are still filthy wild creatures and their jaws can carry plenty of bacterial like any other animal. Its reccomended that if you get a bitten by a large spider, clean the wound out first and disinfect, then seek medical help just to be safe (allergic reactions are still common).

I say all of that as someone who is quite disturbed by bugs and who is glad I live in a northern climate where they don't get particularly large. The reason spiders get such a bad rap is mindblowing to me. For instance, scorpions are absolutely more dangerous than spiders and since they don't like to climb they can end up hiding in places where you put your feet. Like your damned shoes. But is there a sporpion content warning? No there isn't. In general the idea of having to fight just about any large insect or arachnid in a videogame sounds just as frightening as a big spider. I don't see the difference.
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I got a baby Mexican Red Knee Tarantula as a gift and while it was a weird gift I was fascinated by arachnids so I cared for it and watch it grow. It's a fairly docile spider so I was able to handle it easily. My dad taught me not be scared of spiders when I was a child so they don't bother me at all and like you say they're quite beneficial.

However, I am quite terrified by wasps and absolutely hate roaches in my home, especially brown banded cockroaches. That they are everywhere in NYC is really irritating.
 
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I'm definitely scared of spiders, but what the fuck difference does it make in video games? I've never seen a spider in a game that legitimately scared me because that shit is fake.

Having to get close to these fuckers while doing yard work or whatever else scares the piss out of me.
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Feline Supremacist said:
I got a baby Mexican Red Knee Tarantula as a gift and while it was a weird gift I was fascinated by arachnids so I cared for it and watch it grow. It's a fairly docile spider so I was able to handle it easily. My dad taught me not be scared of spiders when I was a child so they don't bother me at all and like you say they're quite beneficial.

However, I am quite terrified by wasps and absolutely hate roaches in my home, especially brown banded cockroaches. That they are everywhere in NYC is really irritating.
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smh, New Vegas should have had an option to disable the Cazadors and Radroaches, just for you.

JonesMcCannister said:
I'm definitely scared of spiders, but what the fuck difference does it make in video games? I've never seen a spider in a game that legitimately scared me because that shit is fake.
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The Frostbite Spiders definitely unnerved me in Skyrim. That said, I swear to god I have never understood the claims of video game spiders giving people PTSD attacks and such. If pixels on a screen actually freak you out to the point of hysterics instead of making you mildly uncomfortable, you need therapy.
 
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Feline Supremacist said:
I got a baby Mexican Red Knee Tarantula as a gift and while it was a weird gift I was fascinated by arachnids so I cared for it and watch it grow. It's a fairly docile spider so I was able to handle it easily. My dad taught me not be scared of spiders when I was a child so they don't bother me at all and like you say they're quite beneficial.

However, I am quite terrified by wasps and absolutely hate roaches in my home, especially brown banded cockroaches. That they are everywhere in NYC is really irritating.
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Wasps can sting you and roaches spread disease by shitting on everything, so those are not irrational aversions.
 
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