Which Gobblers do you prefer? [Closed]

snowywinter • 1 November 2022 at 11:39 AM

Closed since i don't know how to edit polls and we now have a newer iteration of the Gobblers.

- please only take the poll if you've participated in previous years.
- please pay attention to the choices. I listed both the new and old, with choices for vision for both.

personal Opinion/observations:

I have a harder time finding the little tiny Gobblers and clicking on them. (And I am a person who normally only has my face about a foot from the computer screen, sometimes closer if I need to read something. No, using size/accessibility settings doesn't help me much.)
Though I have noticed a bonus. So far I haven't found any not fitting on the page like the old big ones.
(Using the old 'Selected Text' method, with the old Gobblers sometimes it would indicate that there was one there, but the second arrow couldn't be found anywhere. No matter how the page was tuned, expanded, resized, etc. - With the new small Gobblers, doing the latter helps. The one that was missing was found by rotating the page on mobile.)
Now with people being able to use more emojis around the site and tiny Gobbler icons, it makes it even harder for the brain to filter out the difference between a Gobbler and those.

And I struggle with depression/motivation/some other issues, and having the Gobblers show up less frequently leaves me feeling discouraged. Not finding one for half an hour drains me. Having them more frequently, getting that serotonin release helps keep me going. (Having the Seeds show up as frequently as they did really helped me keep going in Oct. - and my numbers certainly show the difference it made. Sure it was annoying having the seeds interrupt feeding flow, but the good outweighed the bad. And i found new and different ways to feed that minimized the interruption to flow.)

Edit:
Besides... How else do you expect the Gobblers to haunt me as hallucinations throughout the year if they only show up as tiny icons?
(lol!)

xxcouchxx • 1 November 2022 at 12:03 PM

@snowywinter

I picked the new gobblers without impaired vision, however, I also liked the old ones. It was nice for them to appear more frequently before, although I think the new ones are slightly easier to see since they're darker.

I also struggle with depression and use different activities other than the internet to improve my mental state (such as reading, eating healthy, and exercising). I understand these activities release smaller amounts of serotonin than playing games, but games are addictive since they release more serotonin and it is important to use diverse activities to achieve the same feeling. It is important to remember that this is just a game and it should be fun and relaxing, which is why many sit out during the gobbler event due to the stress of being able to see/find the darn gobblers.

snowywinter • 1 November 2022 at 12:13 PM

@xxcouchxx

both versions definitely have their pluses and minuses.

Good reminders about mental health and internet usage.

Ian • 1 November 2022 at 1:48 PM

Gobblers have been made bigger and more frequent again!