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Bobster
Profile Joined January 2011
Germany3075 Posts
October 24 2011 16:52 GMT
#281
Ridiculous. This phobia isn't even real. I don't even want to legitimise it by giving this thread a proper response.

On October 25 2011 01:43 Gnosis wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 25 2011 01:31 rANDY wrote:
Ok so I watched this video during my lunchbreak 4-5 hours ago and I've been itchy all over ever since...how do I stop it??


Your 'itch' is caused by the suggestion that you will itch.

Seriously. People are so easily manipulated.
LFHaunt
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States102 Posts
October 24 2011 16:52 GMT
#282
if a unit is causing peoples phobias to trigger, i'd say the people at blizzard are doing there job extremely well
Freak705
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada231 Posts
October 24 2011 16:56 GMT
#283
As far as I can tell, if the artwork for a Zerg unit is making people uneasy, the artists have done their jobs well :p
ZenZombie
Profile Joined September 2011
United States58 Posts
October 24 2011 16:59 GMT
#284
Personally, I have no problem with the design, I just wish the swarm host had more than 2 come out at a time, perhaps it could have like a full group on its back, much like some frogs have eggs on their back, and once it uses up all, lets say 10, eggs it has to recharge them two at a time or only send two at a time. Sadly this would be hard to balance, because 50 of anything is a significant number of free units. If it is legitimately a large problem for people to deal with swarm hosts, I would say that changing it to eggs on the back instead would help greatly.
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aevealon
Profile Joined June 2011
Singapore80 Posts
October 24 2011 17:05 GMT
#285
The last 2 pictures were just horrible. In fact the whole video was kind of creepy, seeing stuff pop out of the holes.

But I'm actually ok with the Swarm Host, though it could use a better name.
Cyber_Cheese
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Australia3615 Posts
October 24 2011 17:17 GMT
#286
On October 24 2011 20:20 Peksi wrote:
No, I didn't make it till the end because I got bored. I have no problems with the current artwork. Not that I would mind if they changed it because it looks kinda lame to me.

Pretty much this, I made it the whole way, but the temptation to quit out of boredom was huge.
The moment you lose confidence in yourself, is the moment the world loses it's confidence in you.
FuzzyJAM
Profile Joined July 2010
Scotland9300 Posts
October 24 2011 17:17 GMT
#287
I used to have pretty bad arachnophobia. In games, that's is actually really bad - for example, in Oblivion I literally had to close my eyes when fighting the spider enemies and just hammer buttons until I thought it would be dead and would sometimes have to just switch it off if it got too bad, and those weren't even close to realistic. Thankfully I'm a bit better now and will hopefully be able to play through all of Skyrim without closing my eyes, but that's not really the point.

See, lots and lots of people have arachnophobia. It is, I believe, the most common of all phobias. And yet, games very regularly have spider enemies. That's just the way things are, and you have to accept it - you have an irrational fear and you can't expect the world to bend over backwards to deal with it. This isn't even a real phobia and yet somehow you think a game should change design to not include "holes" or whatever? I mean, really?


In answer to the original poll, I itched during the damn explanation of the video before any of the supposed "itching stimuli" came up and then switched it off because it was such nonsense. You itch all the time, especially when you think of itching, and you will obviously notice it more when people point it out. This whole thing is a joke. If you have to watch a video to find out you have a problem with something that is everywhere, you don't have a problem worth talking about or making others change things to fit around.
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Fluttershy
Profile Joined August 2011
47 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-24 17:20:28
October 24 2011 17:19 GMT
#288
>Should a minority kill a perfectly good unit design ?

why balance the game at the top end? who gives a shit about the minority of masters league players? they're like 1% of the players! put destructible rock walls outside the natural to prevent all rushes it's too hard at the gold level!
TotalBiscuit
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United Kingdom5437 Posts
October 24 2011 17:20 GMT
#289
On October 25 2011 02:19 Fluttershy wrote:
>Should a minority kill a perfectly good unit design ?

why balance the game at the top end? who gives a shit about the minority of masters league players? they're like 1% of the players!


This is an awful analogy.
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Savern101
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United Kingdom859 Posts
October 24 2011 17:22 GMT
#290
I'm pretty Trypophobic (knew I was a long time ago) but can't say mine is bad enough to be set off by the Swarm Host.
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JackDragon
Profile Joined February 2011
525 Posts
October 24 2011 17:26 GMT
#291
On October 25 2011 02:19 Fluttershy wrote:
>Should a minority kill a perfectly good unit design ?

why balance the game at the top end? who gives a shit about the minority of masters league players? they're like 1% of the players! put destructible rock walls outside the natural to prevent all rushes it's too hard at the gold level!


Not the same thing.

I have to agree with some people in this thread. It isn't a phobia just because you feel unease or disgust.

"A phobia (from the Greek: φόβος, Phóbos, meaning "fear" or "morbid fear") is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed, often being recognized as irrationa" From wikipedia.

I think a better poll would be. "How many people would stop play or watch starcraft 2 if the Swarm host model isn't reworked"
Weird
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States832 Posts
October 24 2011 17:26 GMT
#292
I haven't gone throught the whole thread, but has anyone else googled this term?

Here's what came up:

http://www.popsci.com/trypophobia

In the article is this:

"It turns out that I’m not alone. I contacted roughly 10 psychologists for this story, and of those who got back to me, none had heard of it. The evolutionary psychologists I emailed were unwilling to speculate on the potential biological underpinnings for a fear of small, clustered holes. Trypophobia is not an official phobia recognized in scientific literature. For many (though perhaps not all) who have it, it’s probably not even a real phobia, which the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders says must interfere “significantly with the person’s normal routine.”
Deletrious
Profile Joined December 2007
United States458 Posts
October 24 2011 17:27 GMT
#293
Pretty idiotic of the youtube video to suggest the response they are expecting if they were attempting to have any real measurement. Not too mention the confounding variable of including other images that may make people uncomfortable, insects etc.

In a related idea, my roommate gave up the idea of playing the D3 witchdoctor, because the characters tics were setting off his own mild tics.
Bow before the Dongjwa.
whoso
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany523 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-24 17:29:20
October 24 2011 17:29 GMT
#294
there is treatment for phobia, while on the other side there are so many different phobias that there is no way you can make a game without hitting one of em. if your phobia really is that bad, go and search for help instead of requirung blizzard to change design.
NrG.ZaM
Profile Joined March 2008
United States267 Posts
October 24 2011 17:35 GMT
#295
On October 25 2011 02:20 TotalBiscuit wrote:
Show nested quote +
On October 25 2011 02:19 Fluttershy wrote:
>Should a minority kill a perfectly good unit design ?

why balance the game at the top end? who gives a shit about the minority of masters league players? they're like 1% of the players!


This is an awful analogy.


You expected something better from a 4chan user?
covetousrat
Profile Joined October 2010
2109 Posts
October 24 2011 17:39 GMT
#296
God the video is freaking disgusting. It has nothing to do with the Swarm host.
pbjsandwich
Profile Joined August 2010
United States443 Posts
October 24 2011 17:39 GMT
#297
I do have this phobia slightly

lol I totally expected going into this thread expecting something absolutely ridiculous but it's very hard to explain the feeling when looking at stuff like this.

I have it only slightly though and as far as I know this is the only phobia i have and it's not a big deal or anything but I can tell you people that it is real. Phobias are irrational and I completely realize the feeling I have when I see this thing is irrational but it really doesn't change the fact that I want to rip my eyes out when I see weird patterns of holes.

The Swarm Host does not give me problems though. I really don't have much of a problem with looking at strange patterns/holes that are CG tbh. So I have no problem with it
Xelnas
Profile Joined May 2011
Canada65 Posts
October 24 2011 17:46 GMT
#298
so then if we do this we shouldnt we change the zerg race away from swarming bugs? NO because the zerg are a distubing alien race meant to strike uneasyness into its enemys hearts and minds
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bored01
Profile Joined February 2011
Australia119 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-10-24 17:52:26
October 24 2011 17:49 GMT
#299
I have a friend who is is very scared of these patterns, to the point she feels like she's confronted with something dangerous and is about to harm her. I also have a slight fear of them (skin starts to tingle).
nekuodah
Profile Joined August 2010
England2409 Posts
October 24 2011 17:51 GMT
#300
This is taking metagame to a whole new level, yeah seeing real life holes and disgusting bugs swarming out makes me cringe/tingle or what not but not in the video game.
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