Is "fiction writer" the only profession where one is expected to be a little crazy?

Is "fiction writer" the only profession where one is expected to be a little crazy?

Nah pretty much every profession asks you to be crazy in specific ways
You have to be seriously fucked in the head if you can survive working in a call center

>profession
fiction is for feminine soyboys who are lost in a fantasy world because they can’t deal with real life. get a real job and stop jacking yourself off to how “eccentric” and “unique” you are you fucking pretentious weaklings

There are a lot worse jobs.

big if true

self defeating soyboy here. its true. now hurt me daddy

Yoko Taro, Hideo Kojima, Phil Fish, and some others have made "game designer" a profession where, while not entirely expected, craziness is seen as "not uncommon". Phil Fish isn't exactly respected like Kojima and Taro are though (nor should he be, he's an idiot). This, however, is arguably a subset of fiction writer.

Military Generals, however, have to have something severely off in their heads to even handle a job like that.

>videogames
Are for children. Fuck off.

Most psychologists are pretty nutty.

Probably, but they're expected to not be. I suppose artists in general get a pass.

Once you understand literature opinions like these just engender pity. I know you're baiting but I'm sure about a quarter of /pol/ would agree

No.

I work in an office. On the wall next to my cubicle hangs a poster that states "You don't have to be crazy to work here, but it helps!". Gives me a good chuckle every now and then. haha

this.

To be a Creator and not merely a consumer is a quasi religious calling. So a degree of craziness is expected.

Since when is Veeky Forums facebook-tier?

>a quasi religious calling
How so?

Imagine Oog,the first Artist ,sitting in the cave along with his Neanderthal peers, all chatting about the last Big Hunt. Instead of chiming in and bragging about his own derring do, he picks up a half burnt branch out of the fire,and starts to draw. Stick men and a stick masterdon, duking it out. He obsessed over it,forcing his tiny synapses to fire up the Epic Tale,and with a mouthful of cadmium yellow,spits over his hand to declare,"I did this,I was there,and this is what happened." Something forced him to do that,a void within,a need to fill it,something new and terrible and needing to be appeased.

Art.

Every artist shares that spark,contains that hungry void. We Bow to it.

dam...

babbies are trying to prove their worth by rejecting an entire medium

Can confirm this. In less than six months people would get really angry and frustrated, the company would hire all the time, because they couldn't keep the employers, of course the salary didn't help, but there are jobs that pay even less and don't cause the same problems.

This. Anyone who bring up video games should be bullied

"porn actress"

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is this the most wagecucked post in Veeky Forums history?

vidya is intellectually bankrupt. Its not a gud test of intelligence or creativity on the part of the player. Being good at dark souls is like being good at throwing a football.

I would not place an athletic skill at the same level as a video game. If we consider the position of an NFL quarterback, there are only an extremely small handful of people alive who can do that well. Anyone's retarded cousin can be elite at a video game. Mastery of the physical body is as much an art form as sculpture or music.

wrong. pro gamers are literal god of their game. arteezy is 1 in billions and here the boy is playing some damn beautiful lone druid for us.

>Mastery of the physical body is as much an art form as sculpture or music.

Bullshit. Anyone can be an artist at any moment if they have the mind for it.
Only so many people can be a quarter back like you said but this is after following the prerequisites of being born a good height and a good build and putting in so many hours of practice and eating such a diet and working out for a sufficient time. Its contingent on so many arbitrary and mechanical details that have nothing to do with personal ability in the way an artist has it.
Which is why so many artists get away with being absolutely lazy depressed nutjobs with unhealthy lifestyles. The sort of life an athlete could never succeed on

Which one is more retarded I wonder.

>Mastery of the physical body is as much an art form as sculpture or music.
???