I hate reshade. Hate it hate it hate it. "OH MAN I CRANKED THE CONTRAST WAY UP AND NOW MY GAME LOOKS SO REAL YEAH!" No it doesn't. It looks like you took a screen cap and cranked the contrast into a 1-bit image.

100% is one of the very best Sonic Youth songs.

ErickC wrote: Fri Dec 02, 2022 11:54 pm I hate reshade. Hate it hate it hate it. "OH MAN I CRANKED THE CONTRAST WAY UP AND NOW MY GAME LOOKS SO REAL YEAH!" No it doesn't. It looks like you took a screen cap and cranked the contrast into a 1-bit image.

What is it you don't like about it? I looked at some pictures and it looks like it just makes things clearer and brighter. Wouldn't have noticed anything odd without the reference.

I have never heard of Reshade. Is it a social media filter? Probably some sort of young person’s thing.

Jon

Barbo wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2023 1:32 pm I have never heard of Reshade. Is it a social media filter? Probably some sort of young person’s thing.

Jon

It's a set of shaders for computer games that adds way too much of everything people think makes games look "realistic," like contrast and bloom. The end result looks like a 7th grader just discovered photoshop effects.

ErickC wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2023 6:47 pm

Barbo wrote: Tue Jan 24, 2023 1:32 pm I have never heard of Reshade. Is it a social media filter? Probably some sort of young person’s thing.

Jon

It's a set of shaders for computer games that adds way too much of everything people think makes games look "realistic," like contrast and bloom. The end result looks like a 7th grader just discovered photoshop effects.

I can see kids liking that. When a display has poor brightness and cannot render good dynamic range (which is most LCD panels), one of the few avenues to perceived 'clarity' is to drive up the contrast and gamma curve.

Gamers as so obsessed with refresh and response time, they probably don't look at where a display's other performance criteria fall, or run a monitor calibration to maximize video white/black and where their color gamut and tuning sit.

I'm amazed that most "gaming" monitors still have less than 250-300 nit output, only 8 or 10 bit color channels, and can barely meet srgb color gamut. OLED displays fix a lot of that, but cost far more than an LCD monitor or cheapo LCD TV.

Another thread reminded me of how much I hate Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. It’s not just a difference of opinion, either. That book sucks.

Also, Joan Didion.

Search suggests I haven't posted this already, but Ballard.

There's The Index, which is brilliant. Everything else is a shrug.

Terrible.

Who am I looking at?