Re: Why are there spiders in Star Wars!!!
The real issue here is that you cannot separate fantasy from reality with regards to your fears in this game. This game isn't real, therefore the spiders aren't real.
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thats a little patronising. i see spiders on tv that arent real and still dont want to go near them. you dont understand phobia, and thats no crime, but you might have paused before you made that insulting comment i think, and thought about maybe phrasing it better. personally i dont consider my arachnobia to be irrational. i know EXACTLY the incident that triggered it. doesnt make it any easier to deal with saying that that spider is dead, the trauma is still there.
and a game you cant get immersed into the game world is like a movie you dont get into when watching - not worth playing or watching at all and you would have never gotten to the spider part because it was crap long before then
- @FluxFader A phobia is a real issue, inducing irrational fear triggered mostly by looking at the object, whatever it is. In this case that's spiders of course.
Anyway, it's a real thing, and the fact that it's irrational doesn't change that the induced fear, panic, adrenaline surge, tachycardia (that's a racing heart) is as real as if you're in real danger. And no, if you got a serious case of that, you can't make it go away by knowing it's not real. That _is_ the issue.
Luckily I'm not affected by that and enjoy spiders as the nasty monsters they are in any movie, game or even reality, but arachnophobic people don't just hate spiders or anything. They don't have a choice but go into uncontrolled panic mode when triggered.
Sure, you can do some stuff to control that better, also by controlled confrontation, but that's real work in many cases and I totally understand people who do not want that while they actually want to enjoy a game.
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