What's The Appeal?

What's The Appeal?
gamedev-memes, graphics-memes, modding-memes, reshade-memes, optimization-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

You know that one person on the team who "optimizes" the game by making everything pitch black and calls it a "performance enhancement"? Yeah, that's the ReShade modder energy right here. They'll spend 47 hours tweaking contrast sliders and saturation curves to make a perfectly good game look like it was filmed through a pair of sunglasses in a coal mine, then post it online with "FIXED THE TERRIBLE GRAPHICS" like they just discovered fire.

The original graphics are bright, clear, you can actually see what's happening. The "fixed" version? Pure vibes. Can't see anything, but at least it's cinematic. It's like when someone discovers CSS filters for the first time and applies every single one at 100% opacity. Sure, you've technically modified it, but at what cost? Your retinas?

This is the visual equivalent of a junior dev refactoring working code into something "cleaner" that nobody can read anymore.

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