I have a pet tarantula. I’d love to formally invite you around for tea at my house.
I mean dudes got a point. I have arachnophobia yet spiders in games never bothered me because they are indeed just pixels. I don’t understand how something that’s not real and is just pixels on a screen can scare you so it kind of goes both ways.
Also noone, including scientists knows what the deep ocean possesses. We’ve explored 10% of the entire ocean. Now that’s scary to even comprehend. Whenever I invision dark deep water, I think of the Mosasaurus from Jurassic World. Asscheeks clench
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I’ve grown up on WoW so the spiders don’t tend to bother me (unless the model is bigger than I expected, guaranteed to be unhappy about that fight.) The skinny ones don’t bother me anymore. The furry ones are pushing it.
Never gotten over my thalassophobia tho. Good lord the quest to get Derek Proudmoore’s body was just a constant “god let it be over please get me out of here Nathanos you’re undead you can breathe underwater why can’t you bloody do it yourself”
So exposure works some of the time, and not the rest of the time, I guess. Just learn to be good at the game with a blanket on your head, that’s how I got through Skyrim until I figured out how to mod it.
And a word of warning: be careful on the forums. I’ve been in a similar topic discussing how to get over fears in a game and someone decided to share with me a picture of a spider because they “didn’t know me irl and could be lying about being arachnophobia”. So yeah. Some forum people are jerks.
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I genuinely didn’t do this quest on alts it gave me THAT bad anxiety. And when you heard something was near and you had to turn the light off. Omfg.
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To answer your question, no. There isn’t.
I’m not exactly sure what to say to you. If you can’t stand spiders but want to play the game you basically have two options given that this game is chock full of them. Ether stop playing, or use the game to help you get over the fear by killing all the spiders.
You’re not going to get around them. You either need to go through them or you’re not going to last for very long.
I remember screaming in Stonetalon Mountains and asking for help from people because of big green spiders but that was… long ago when I was a kid.
Now only huge spider models irritate me a little bit rather than fear.
I don’t know why perhaps it is because of a movie that I watched in 2001-02, the movie was about a ship in the middle of an ocean, they were not aware of the multiplying spiders inside the ship. Spiders killed nearly whole crew but humans eventually killed all of them too, except one… The Queen Spider. It had extremely huge body and legs so that is my story I suppose.
I got rid of it mostly because I had no other choice and when your gf screams “SPIDER!” you shouldn’t say “I am scared of spiders, kill it yourself, I’m running away!” unless you wanna get dumped.
There is no other option but to adapt, during my college years I killed a rare one as big as hand and I suspect that one walked around my face a few times, I remember waking up upon feeling something…on my face.
Don’t overthink it, just live with it but try to reduce its impact on you as much as you can.
that quest was the most fun quest of bfa horde side ;D
Real question, have you tried to seek help in curing this phobia?
A quick google search shows most phobias can be treated, perhaps instead of seeking a convoluted way, a direct approach that tackles the source is better?
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I dont have a fear of flying !!! But flying into the dark blue yonder is scary as hell. With the spidy thing, just pretend they are all puppies.
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