Let's Grind - CrossCode - Part 177 - Thank God it's Spiders

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Thrythlind aka Luke Green

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Published on February 6, 2021 11:00:09 AM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rt3bLaNS5q0

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CrossCode (2018)

Duration: 28:45

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There's a lot of storylines dealing with accessibility in gaming in this game and I'm only slowly noticing it all. It hadn't occurred to me that Emilie's phobia was one of these. It is difficult to avoid every possible trigger for mental issues because those things are hella personal and hard to categorize. But it did occur to me that the in-universe developers put the spiders in specific areas as ways to deliberately enhance the creepiness of those areas. There likely would have been a meeting that would have said "people are creeped out by spiders, let's put them somewhere" and maybe some hand-waving away concerns of people with phobias.


That sounds unrealistic, but seriously, I've had comments directed at me when I removed spiders from a tabletop campaign to account for a friend who is arachnophobic. Comments ranging from accusing me of making the matter worse and insisting I should try to help them out all the way to people who said that none of that crap was real and maybe if they had such problems they shouldn't be playing games at all.


I can totally see an out of touch corporation just not caring at all.



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