It would be hard to fight a creature with 8 arms and no bones. They would grab all of our extremities and still have four arms left to beat us up. To quote th

It would be hard to fight a creature with 8 arms and no bones. They would grab all of our extremities and still have four arms left to beat us up. To quote the esteemed Thomas Callahan the Third: "Run for your lives!!! Your weapons are useless against them!!!"