Kotaku writer is scared by the Xbox One X’s holes
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How do these people function in everyday life? Everything gives them "anxiety", and they can't wait to complain about it, and share their "suffering" with the rest of us. How do they cope with actual adversity?
Calling it some kind of -ism and expect others to fix it for them.
They feel no anxiety.
Being thin-skinned is the bioleninist signalling their superior social status.
Trypophobia is just that feeling a lot of people get of their skin crawling from certain patterns with lots of holes. I've experienced it a bit from certain pictures. I doubt it from the Xbox with it being all black anyway it won't reflect enough light to see holes like that and even so it's not something that is a phobia it's just a weird feeling.
These people just want a debilitating disability for woke points so they will stretch anything they can into a "trigger". Where the hell did trigger come from anyway. When I was in school a trigger was a part of a gun.
My trypophobia is used heavily in my work because it's the most unsettling shit I have ever seen. Really gets that eldritch horror vibe across quite well.
Calling it a "mental disorder" is stupid, though, when in reality it's just your mind having a bit of a moan about something that looks completely unnatural.
I don't think that it looks "unnatural", in that it looks "insect-made". Like a honeycomb, that might be full of small, angry, biting/stinging things.
It's perfectly natural, like a cat mistaking a bit of hose or something for a snake; the difference is in learning how to control such a reaction when you learn the difference between "something to actually be wary of" and "something actually harmless".
The problem is that the humans are becoming more animal-like in their lack of self-control re: stimulus, while the non-humans are becoming more techno-stimulus savvy.
Things I'd read on it is perhaps it's a natural reaction built in to avoid skin diseases that used to all too common. Speculation of course but it makes sense.
You really get to the lack of self control thing. I'm pretty sure if I was a kid today under average modern parents I'd have been labeled with all kinds of disorders or "on the spectrum" and filled full of drugs and coddled into a useless ball of nothing. When I was a kid (particularly elementary school age), I was really bad in crowds and really shy in social situations. To the point that I'd freak out and want away from them. It would have been even worse but I tended to freak out more internally and not like throw a big noisy tantrum. I also have spells where I can't focus on anything and others where I'm essentially hyperfocused on things.
The thing is while if you look there's some things that still linger, today as a mid-30s adult I've had a solid job pretty much since I was 16, am totally independent and actually contribute in some ways to financially support my parents, can and have traveled to many places world and thrown myself into odd and uncomfortable situations, I have friends I do (or did, virus wimps) things with, but am still totally fine doing things on my own too. I really think people that knew me as a little kid are surprised by it all. I put it all the actual progress on not being babied as a kid. I'm not saying my parents were brutish about it, but never was I given the option of "Oh your poor baby, here we will do anything for you let's get you to your safe space. Be sure you take your medicine today."
I've never heard anyone in my life having such a disorder. Did they run out of bogus genders and mental disorders that they need to invent new shit?
If only they understood what snowflake meant, they still think it is fragility.
I've known about the phobia for several years - back in the day it wasn't uncommon for people to post shoops of tits with lotus flower holes in them on 4chan's /b/ or /x/ boards just to skeeve people out. While I'll give the writer credit that holes where there aren't supposed to be holes can be unsettling, for it to be so triggering that you can't look at a damn sunflower without being triggered is just being mentally fragile. They need some exposure therapy and to learn to get over it.
Can kotaku look at a cheese grater without fainting like it's a soccer match.
Wait, millenials can't cook.
The sight of a species' genetics imploding, perhaps?
I've known of this of this phobia for 20+ years because of the fucking lotus boob chain email meme. It's mostly nonsense invented by attention whores looking for something interesting to say about themselves.
Regardless, 16% is a RIDICULOUSLY high number to claim.
I mean, it's a legitimate phobia...but I was unaware that phobias were now mental disorders
It's like the fear of heights - it's not a phobia, it's just one of those generic fears built into us for the sake of survival. The going theory is it's an evolutionary adaptation for detecting disease or parasites.
I'm sick of hearing about these retards with this fake phobia
This one is at least older than the day they wrote it. I remember hearing about it before in like 2010 when it became a small meme.
But its such a minor effect from an extremely rare trigger its more novelty than serious. Like seeing the inside of a pomegranate, mildly uncomfortable.
Those things give me a phobia all right: the phobia of sitting there for hours trying to get the damn seeds out of your teeth.
RIP in peace, airflow lol
I was going to comment that such vents have been a prominent feature on computers for decades, but this retard actually beat me to the punch.
"How Airflow is Ableist and Transphobic" - Vice probably
I see they removed the "fight" portion of "fight or flight", any bets if that's because the author is just aware they can't fight their way out of a paper bag, or because they think fighting back is a disgusting, outdated, patriarchal response to dealing with threats so they're erasing it from the language?
I get that uncomfortable feeling when there are lots of little holes/cavities on something, but how is this at all a good article?
Are you fucking kidding me? The point of this article is literally just personal wanking over a stupid fucking involuntary response, and they end it with this idiotic goddamn swipe? How much of this fools negative reaction is due to an actual psychological revulsion response, and how much is simply because they never learned adequate calming responses to their "anxiety"(ie a pussy)? I'm leaning toward pussy.
As the author said, Trypophobia isn't recognized by the DSM-5, so they're shit out of luck for getting their therapist to get them an official diagnosis. They're also apparently unclear on the division between a general sense of unease versus an actual, crippling phobia versus something you can just get the fuck over.
I've seen plenty of trypophobia-triggering pictures over on 4Chan back in the day. Most common one is the shoop of a breast with lotus flower holes in it. That's the kind of shit that is unsettling - holes where there shouldn't be any. In this case? The holes are supposed to fucking be there. It's air-flow. It's cooling. Sure, they could have put in a grill vent with slats instead of a mesh grid, but that's an aesthetic choice. If she's that fucking triggered by it, then fine and dandy - that kind of pussified reaction isn't the people we want to be gaming with, anyway.
Imagine being this much of a pathetic bastard.
Desperate for clicks.
Those two statements cannot both be true, at least if the estimate is assumed valid. Even counting DSM politics, if one out of every SIX people had an irrational fear of something EVERYONE WOULD KNOW IT.
Of course, the two can be true if the estimate is total bullshit. Most people are unsettled by holes, such as this photo of a robbery victim with a through-and-through gunshot wound.
What a fucking faggot