HDR on my projector is generally too dark and less impactful for me personally than the 4K but it is neat
Someone must have done a NES style too many sprites slow down moment in one of these faux retro games.
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These are exactly the words I were looking for.
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discernment is both necessary and a curse
I find professionals are best served by developing split minds; at times Iāll play through the lens of a child, at times an exhausted and lonely person, at times a minmaxer
But always, always analyzing
you should see me on mind-altering substances
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Yeah the impact of HDR is more about the screen itself. Panels which can show a high color gamut. But also offer better contrast. lower black level AND higher peak brightness. For a lot of TVs, HDR is sometimes a color improvement, but only marginal in the contrast improvements. Due to the limitations of the TV itself. Could be a panel which doesnāt get very bright. Could be a panel which has high brightness, but only ok for the black level.
Some TVs which advertise HDR, arenāt actually HDR. Like there is an actual standard for it. And some TVs just fake it by juicing some image processing parameters. and then they go ahead and put āHDRā on the box.
Thereās also a problem where sometimes HDR doesnāt detect/work correctly and your picture can actually look worse. hooray!
I love framerate hitches during explosions (really, itās a form of meta-feedback? If camera shake implies a camera operator than this implies player knowledge of a computer). I get real sad that I get yelled at when I engineer these situations nowadays
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when i do this they call it mental illness
thats not a dig on you its just interesting that viewed through some eyeballs what you described is a flaw
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Is it through the lens of, does it affect everyday functions? My understanding (and teenage years spent running/drifting/corroding through the mental health system) taught me to define illness as a personality function rendered negatively impactful
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do digital foundry ever play/analyse games for more than the first ten minutes or opening stage
i remember them gushing over the first thirty seconds of vanquish pc without noticing the double damage bug that got patched a week or so after release
I spent too many hours the first week getting it to a āok everything looks pretty niceā point, so Iād rather not garble everything up between the pc hdmi-arc input and another for the PS4 pro. I hope itās solid HDR as a Sony LED, upper mid range series but might need to set aside anā¦afternoon to mess with it, see discussion around the model.
That Gran Turismo video definitely shows traces of what Iām looking for and see occasionally.
its through the lens of āwell there has to be SOMETHING wrong with youā but thats another story for another thread
it is kind of silly to think about how super-ableist a lot of video and audiophile stuff is, half the time Iām like āitās too dark to seeā or āitās too loudā
honestly a lot of things are too dark or too bright or too loud or too quiet for me, Iām always turning down the dynamic range on everything
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yeah i use VLCās built in compressor to just smash it down so that I can both (a) hear the dialogue and (b) not be blasted into space by the music. and i turn up the brightness on most games because fuck trying to see in their shitty dark spaces, i just wanna play this game
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also i will say i can notice the difference between 30 and 60 FPS, and Iāve seen monitors running at, like, >100 FPS or something, and it is noticeable! I will also prioritize framerate over graphics most of the time as well.
But, my biggest problem is consistency, not high numbers. So if I can get a consistent 30 FPS or a occasionally stuttery 60 FPS, Iāll go with 30 every time.
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yeah I appreciate the physiological reinforcing of the fruitlessness of getting it perfect
yeah i always have the brightness turned up so i can see, fuck your games mood
not YOUR game the ROYAL you
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iirc they did a whole thing about panzer dragoon a while back but admittedly that is an hour long game
motion is the video game fundament
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this and I also notice some frustration towards fidelity sticklers comes from a position of simply not being able to afford the high end stuff required for it, which is pretty understandable. I certainly see this stuff and think āwell thatās gonna be something I get to experience in maybe 5, 10 yearsā
this is how bernie can still win
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