Quote Originally Posted by Equitable_Remedy View Post
What many posters actually want—but will not say—is for game difficultly to be exactly calibrated to allow them to clear content but to prevent the maximum number of other players from doing so. This allows them to be counted amongst the elite but for that elite group to be as small as possible while still including them. There's also the phenomenon of people talking big on forums whether or not they have to skill to back it up in-game.
Tell me you're projecting without telling me you're projecting: