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ChoGGi on July 25, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Games Look Bad: HDR and Tone Mapping (2017)

I don't want realistic looking games, I want pretty looking games.

Look at movies that go all in on realism, can't see anything, can't hear anything. That's terrible.

happymellon on July 25, 2025 [–]

The fact you can't hear anything has nothing to do with realism. It's lazyness.

https://www.slashfilm.com/673162/heres-why-movie-dialogue-ha...

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