VMSolidus 3b6d0f20ec Light Sensitivity Refactor (#22386) ...

The last time the Light Sensitivity code was changed, I remarked in a
review that "This should probably be a component so that its code isn't
being run on every mob forever". Well I've gotten around to doing that
myself, except I figured out it's even better off as an Element in this
situation rather than a Component. So this is now my first time adding
Elements to the repo. It turns out they're really awesome when paired
with signals.

This PR removes the hardcoded check for the light senstivity and dark
phobia traits from the Life() path, replacing them instead with two
Elements which hook into the pre-existing signal used to handle vision
updates for human mobs. I've mainly done this to help cut down on the
overwhelmingly high cost of the Life() codepath, which is currently one
of the most expensive paths we have.

While I was at it with refactoring these two, I noticed that there
wasn't a trait selection for either of them, so I added selections for
both traits to the disabilities tab so that players can opt-in to being
light sensitive or afraid of the dark!

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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/a1e60e83-d899-44df-8ea3-0cd5a87c231c"
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2026-05-18 19:21:19 +00:00

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dark_afraid.dm

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light_sensitivity.dm

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