june gloom on 13/1/2014 at 08:13
I don't rememb- ohhhh, wait, nevermind.
Yeah, okay, my bad.
You're still a wuss though <3
N'Al on 13/1/2014 at 08:49
[video=youtube;JQ3hR8zuFJI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ3hR8zuFJI[/video]
SubJeff on 13/1/2014 at 09:21
yeah no no no no
I hate big spiders and I hate big spiders in games. The first spiders in Arx... shudder. The way they drop and plop onto the floor and then just walk slowly towards you is horrible. The first time I encountered them I panicked a little and got stuck in a ditch. I couldn't get out as it edged closer and closer annnnnnnnd I just turned it off.
This is in large part due to multiple encounters with massive spiders in real life. Ugh.
june gloom on 13/1/2014 at 09:35
I've had a black widow on me when I was around 11.
The sheer amount of terror pretty much overshadows any creepy feeling I get from giant fake spiders on a monitor.
henke on 13/1/2014 at 09:53
Stories like that are the reason why I'm staying in Finland where it's nice and cold enough kill any insect larger than a ladybug. :sweat:
SubJeff on 13/1/2014 at 09:54
None of the big spiders I've encountered have had seriously dangerous venom, so it's not the fear of poison that freaks me out - its the way they move and sound and look. Ugh. I don't like anything with loads of spines or legs. Someone tried to push a live lobster in my face once (claws tied) but they and the person who was stopping me from getting out of the kitchen were (unbeknownst to them) about 5 seconds away from me actually fighting my way through them to get away from those legs when they stopped.
Snakes don't scare me viscerally. I love to hold them, I love the way they feel and move and they are just beautiful bits of biomachinery. But the fear of the poison (in the right (wrong?) type of snake) is a totally different and urgent type of primal response to the visceral "yuk" of spiders.
faetal on 13/1/2014 at 11:54
The spiders thing is an interesting one as it's a genuine and prevalent phobia - my definition of phobia being a fear which is not based on logical risk assessment. It's almost certainly a primeval kick back to when spiders used to be a lot more of a danger and worked out and wore bandanas and shit. I remember once having to run round to a girlfriend's house because a spider had run out form under her dresser and I needed to come and deal with as she was paralyzed with fear. When I got there, it turns out a draught had blown a shed spider skin about a metre across the floor. Just the suggestion of a spider was enough to send her into paroxysms of terror. You couldn't even show them to her in books.
The fact that I have 2 of them tattooed on my person says a lot for how god damned irresistible I am I guess. :cool:
SubJeff on 13/1/2014 at 17:37
Quote Posted by faetal
The fact that I have 2 of them tattooed on my person
Come with us to Africa this December and I'll disabuse you of any notion that they are anything but pure evil in a terrifying form.
Muzman on 13/1/2014 at 18:03
I ascribe to the 20cent rule. If it's about the radius of a 20 cent piece (50p-ish) legs and all I mostly don't get too jazzed by them. Bigger than that however...
Even so I've run into (lol) a few quite big spiders that don't bother me so much. I don't handle them or anything nuts like that. But they can be quite placid and dozy and not terribly scary in manner (Golden Orb Weavers and even Tarantulas fall into this category).
So size, venom and speed/aggression are the three main criteria (as well as being spiders of course). Which makes the Brazilian Wandering Spider the worst spider on earth. It even looks more spidery that just about any spider I've ever seen. It's huge, angry, fast and deadly. They are living goddam nightmares.
And I was hoping to visit Brazil one day.
Interestingly for some people the unpleasant sensation extends to other things like crabs, large bugs etc. They don't really bother me at all. If something looks vaguely like a spider I twitch a bit, but then I see it's not and everything is cool.
How this works will never make sense to people who aren't bothered.
