What Happened To You Today?

Accipiter

Search rainbow crits, there is also a script that lets you do it to anything

Ailea

So what happened today...I had some coffee, helped some colleagues while on call..went to sit down and start my computer..noticed rent was due. Opened my drawer and found a dead recluse spider. So then that lead to taking all the drawers out and looking in them. Yep desk of nightmares.. bunch of brown recluse carcasses all in the drawers in webbing. This is not my idea of Halloween in July. 

So I think the worse is there right?

Wrong

Flipped the desk over since I thought I should be thorough....I think I may be getting a noise reduction letter. Loud string of swear words, bunch of LIVE recluses WITH egg sacks. So in the middle of having a panic attack, I douse the...things in bleach.

If you have issues with spiders it's advisable to stop reading and looking at this post here. Especially since I have no idea how to use spoilers.

So....that is why I did not login to Achaea today. 

Edit: Spoilered for everyone's benefit.

Melodie

Fuck that noise so hard.

Cooper

Please don't post spider pictures. 

Sobriquet

Cooper said:

Please don't post spider pictures. 

This. Could we get them spoilered please?

Ismay

Someone must really hate you to have infested your desk with venomous spiders! I’m thinking it must be a trick of the Nihilists. Ingenious way to defeat the opposition, if you think about it!

Dunn

We don't like spiders either

Ailea

Thank you @Nicola! Sorry about that folks 

I would be grateful if someone would not mind messaging me or answering here how in the world you create spoilers.

Penwize

Ailea said:

Thank you @Nicola! Sorry about that folks 

I would be grateful if someone would not mind messaging me or answering here how in the world you create spoilers.

Well, @Ailea, you see ... when two plot points love each other very much, they do this special kind of hug and ....

Dumbledore kills Luke Skywalker.

Jonathin

Neat.

I had a pet tarantula when I was a kid. She still had her fangs and everything

Tjay

Saw spiders. Got chills.

Xias

Spiders I can handle all day. It's those popping zits/cyst removal photos and videos I can't do...

Sobriquet

Tjay said:

Saw spiders. Got chills.

Are they multiplying?

[Deleted User]

Xias said:

Spiders I can handle all day. It's those popping zits/cyst removal photos and videos I can't do...

There's so, so much worse on the internet.

Aegoth

if we're gonna censure spiders, can we censure puppies/kittens/snakes/llamas/etc too? I have a crippling phobia for those things, and it offends me to see people post those pictures. 

On a more serious note, spiders are no worse than any other animal, and just because people have a phobia doesn't mean we should be censuring them from the forums. This current policy is pretty absurd...

Cooper

      

Babel

Arachnophobia is a fairly common thing, the least you can do to be kind to your fellow players is to spoilerbox any images that might contain them.

It's less about censorship and more about being good to each other. No need to inflate it into a big issue.

Kriex

Sobriquet said:

Tjay said:

Saw spiders. Got chills.

Are they multiplying?

And im looooosing all controool

Ismay

Xias said:

Spiders I can handle all day. It's those popping zits/cyst removal photos and videos I can't do...

I am weirdly addicted to those videos...

Siduri

Ismay said:

Xias said:

Spiders I can handle all day. It's those popping zits/cyst removal photos and videos I can't do...

I am weirdly addicted to those videos...

All the nurses on my team keep talking about those. *shudders*

Rangor

Aegoth said:

if we're gonna censure spiders, can we censure puppies/kittens/snakes/llamas/etc too? I have a crippling phobia for those things, and it offends me to see people post those pictures. 

On a more serious note, spiders are no worse than any other animal, and just because people have a phobia doesn't mean we should be censuring them from the forums. This current policy is pretty absurd...

Through suffering they will be made stronger. Follow your faith. Bring the spiders.

Anze

Should just be safe and spoiler all photos because they come over huge on mobile. 

Caelan

Babel said:

Arachnophobia is a fairly common thing, the least you can do to be kind to your fellow players is to spoilerbox any images that might contain them.

It's less about censorship and more about being good to each other. No need to inflate it into a big issue.

To be fair to Aegoth, despite his obvious sarcasm:

... about 0.8 percent of adults, have agoraphobia without a history of panic disorder.

...about 3.0 percent of adults, have cynophobia (fear of dogs)

About 22.2 percent of people in the U.S are estimated to be going through Ailurophobia (fear of cats)

Stands to reason that if agoraphobia is common enough, the others are moreso.  that said, I despise spiders so, I approve Your message.

Nazihk

I just get irritated because people always get all dramatic about spiders. 

Somebody's afraid of dogs, they tend to suck it up and ignore the dog pictures. Somebody afraid of cats or heights or whatever else, same. Afraid of spiders? OMG A SPIDER I SAW A SPIDER DON'T SHOW ME SPIIIIIIIDERS I'M LITERALLY GONNA DIIIIIIIIIE.

Cooper

It is a good thing that fear of spiders is not agoraphobia, then!

Arachnophobia research varies, but the low numbers are 30% and the high numbers are 75%.

People also don't react the same to pictures. Most people who fear dogs and cats are scared because of knowing they bite. This is different than why most people fear spiders.

tl;dr your numbers are inaccurate and irrelevant. 

Tahquil

I fished, and then I caught a fish. Afterwards, I sold it for money.

Zbaco

Maddened and mesmerised by a gargantuan angler fish's distant lure, you claw at your eyes, drawing
blood and making a ruin of your face.

You dance aside nimbly, avoiding the attack.

Ok then...

Tvistor

I would like to continue my long history of annoying Cooper by pointing out that the first large-scale study on Google (Gender and age differences in the prevalence of specific fears and phobias) indicates a prevalence of [2.2% - 4.9%] at a confidence level of 95%, and the NIMH states that the total prevalence of specific phobias within the past year was 9.1% (that is, across all acknowledged specific phobias in the U.S). The lower bound being 30% does not sound right in light of this, unless statisticians are conspiring to help their arachnoid brethren. These numbers must be talking about a weaker, general 'spiders are spooky' feeling.

I tried to resist, but the siren song of the tl;dr was too strong. Forgive me, father.

[Deleted User]

Your soul cries out in ecstasy as it reaches new heights of power. You have advanced to level 101.

Also placed 4th in the mini Great Hunt! Thanks to @Kyrra, @Ryzan, @Penwize, @Khaibit, and @Journee for your help keeping pace. 

Aesgar

Ailea said:

So what happened today...I had some coffee, helped some colleagues while on call..went to sit down and start my computer..noticed rent was due. Opened my drawer and found a dead recluse spider. So then that lead to taking all the drawers out and looking in them. Yep desk of nightmares.. bunch of brown recluse carcasses all in the drawers in webbing. This is not my idea of Halloween in July. 

So I think the worse is there right?

Wrong

Flipped the desk over since I thought I should be thorough....I think I may be getting a noise reduction letter. Loud string of swear words, bunch of LIVE recluses WITH egg sacks. So in the middle of having a panic attack, I douse the...things in bleach.

If you have issues with spiders it's advisable to stop reading and looking at this post here. Especially since I have no idea how to use spoilers.

So....that is why I did not login to Achaea today. 

Edit: Spoilered for everyone's benefit.

Fuck I'm glad my desk is made of glass