Doing away with them because of a phobia, is ridiculous. You know your fear is irrational. Work on it.

I don’t like spiders but cutting them out of games just doesn’t sit right with me. Spiders are one of the scariest things known in real life and I think it would be weird not to include them. We would be cutting off a piece of world culture. Chances are each culture has at least some sort of lore about spiders.

Yeah, this was my thought too. Like if I see a spider in real life, I damn near have a full blown panic attack. But I don’t expect every developer to remove any ounce of spiders just because I don’t like them.

Some might call me an asshole for this but, there is no line to draw. As a dev, you make the game you want to make, it’s not on you to account for the whims or irrational fears of any one player. The amount of people who might suffer from something like Arachnophobia to such a degree that they can’t even see a virtual…

This is a dumb thing to ask for. I have arachnophobia. I scream like a little girl when I find one bigger than an asprin in my house. The asprin and smaller size ones just give me a heart attack, but I’m able to deal with them myself. The bigger ones, I scream for my wife or kids to come kill it.

As devs, where do we draw the line for this stuff though? Are we supposed to have options to cut out “triggers” for all people who have some sort of phobia?

No AV Club, I do not want to sign up for your news letter.

If you can’t fit your project plan into 40 hour work weeks your plan sucks. Especially when your project plan is “making a game, a thing no one needs”

Y’know...if we collectively agree to stop giving these miserable fuckwits the attention they so goddamned desperately, pitifully claw at, they’ll eventually just go away and be forgotten like they should be.

I don’t see how that’s even remotely possible. 100 hours to 100% EVERYTHING in the game doesn’t seem believable whatsoever. Keep in mind I’m going for top ranks and every reward across all adventure maps and that includes DLC. I probably put 100 hours into the first adventure map alone. I’ve only reached the level cap…

The technical term for that is “scope creep”.

I don’t understand Twitch. It’s like someone opened a garbage store, then one day decided, “I can’t have all this trash lying around here!”

Race essentialism. It’s what Jim Crow was based on. It led to the Separate but equal doctrine, and Whites Only laws. It’s a very bad idea.

Or does this articles author think only people of color are going to meet and vote in private?

None of this is race related. It’s all made up by soft people with no spine, a victim complex (Karens), and are attention seeking. Call it husband/ wife. Who cares? No one with working brains. 

Two trips to the Thrallway in the Whisper mission was enough to get 1000 Shotgun kills for me. About 25 minutes total.

That’s a binary and straw man argument. Nobody is arguing that cops should kill people (unless they are an active threat and the ONLY option is lethal force) - but to equate that with trying to stop someone who flees from police (even if it’s HILARIOUS in a Smart. . . gotta admit that is funny!) is itself ludicrous.…

Nah, that would be silly as that’s obviously not that part of your take that is progressively biased.

OK, first four are cut out and being sewn now. I’ll send these to my elderly in-laws, then I’ll make as many as possible.

I think the bottom line should be that wearing something, anything, that covers your mouth and nose is better than absolutely nothing at all (IF you handle it properly).