That’s totally fine, but don’t comment on the content of it in that case.

You literally engaged by commenting.

lot of people voting and commenting that didn’t read the article.

You didn’t read the article.

This is an extremely normal and common opinion.

It’s not a different “description”, it’s a fundamentally different set of rules governing how the facts are arrived at.

I mean, this is just factually wrong. Different types of authority are, very obviously, meaningfully different in more than just “backstory”.

If people are insulting you its because you’re just being pretty obnoxious and childish. It’s easy to get annoyed by someone who is convinced that they are right and everybody else is wrong, especially when they are so obviously wrong.

I mean, I assume you’re a troll? I don’t get offended by trolls. But I engaged with you here on the off chance that you’re not, hoping that you might see some reason. But instead you’ve just doubled down on your own crazy ideas. Like, best of luck to you (if you are indeed genuine), you seem relatively harmless. Try and broaden your horizons, it’ll do you good.

Nobody is taking you seriously enough to get offended.

Ok, I’m having a slow arvo so I’ll throw you a bone and try to explain what’s going on here.

Everything you’ve said here, you talk about as if it is a given that it’s true. e.g. “When you concentrate on a thing you ignore pretty much everything else. Do it enough and that ignoring becomes blindness. And habitual.”. The reason people are laughing at these claims is because its just provably false, at least as an ironclad rule. Most people know people or know of people that this just isn’t the case for. I personally know a bunch of scientists, artists and engineers who are highly successful at their job and also very well rounded people with a wide range of interests. Even if there was some general data on tendencies towards the kind of behaviour you claim, you don’t provide it.

So, the fact that your “unpopular opinion” is based on a fact that basically only you in the entire world believe to be true, means that everyone thinks your post here is nonsense, crazy, a very young child, or trolling. I assume you’ve had some experience with the kind of people you’re talking about, but even if every single person you ever met had this exact characteristic it would still be a hopelessly small sample size to make any claims about the population at large. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof, and you provide exactly zero proof for this extraordinary claim.

Why would I waste my time doing that.

There’s a difference between unpopular and nonsense.

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There’s no way this is real, right?

No WAY.

Right?

I call this the Jersey Shore Effect. Something starts out as an object of ridicule but through media saturation people are exposed to it so much, for so long, that it becomes normalised and then aspirational, purely through conditioning; it’s in people’s brain all the time so at some point they decide they like it.

It’s the same way that music worked back in the days of radio: play something enough and undiscerning people just start liking it, because its in their head all the time.

These comments are a real Dunning-Kruger festival.

Yeah the bleakness of From’s settings is definitely an inherent part of their worldbuilding.

Elden Ring has the deepest, most complex worldbuilding of any game ever made, and it’s not even close. For anyone interested in worldbuilding I strongly urge you to watch some Elden Ring lore videos from The Tarnished Archaeologist to learn about the techniques that the Elden Ring devs use to put incredibly deep and subtle worldbuilding into their games. It’s changed the way I think about worldbuilding in any context.

https://www.youtube.com/@tarnishedarchaeologist

As a young nerd obsessed with RPGs and William Gibson’s work I was outraged at the idea of putting fantasy into cyberpunk. But then I picked up a damaged copy of the Shadowrun rules from a bargain bin and was blown away by the worldbuilding, they really found a way to make it all fit thematically and logically and I ended up running the game for years.

I pretty regularly say or think “Have my years of wild hedonism finally caught up with me?”