Poor-design Memes

You boot up a fresh game, ready to adjust the brightness, invert the Y-axis like a psychopath, and turn off motion blur because you're not a monster. But nope! The game immediately throws you into an unskippable cutscene or tutorial where you're forced to experience their "artistic vision" with default settings that make your eyes bleed. It's like the devs sat in a meeting and said "You know what players love? Being forced to watch our intro with the gamma set to 'flashbang' and the audio mixed for someone else's headphones." Just let us tweak the settings BEFORE the cinematic experience, please. We're not asking for much—just basic human decency.