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literalHam
@literalHam

nuclear hot take: cutting edge hardware and software developers are in a reverse arms-race that literally no one else on the planet cares about except other people who work in tech. no one cares that the S23 can support a framerate 1 sextillionth of a percent faster than the S22, or that the newest version of android....i cant even think of a fake reason to give a shit about an android update for its own sake. software "improvement" justifies the need for hardware "improvement" to keep up, and the promise of hardware "improvement" justifies the need for software "improvement", because they can, and i guess no one who works in tech has ever seen Jurrasic Park. Nobody else on the planet wants this, but it keeps a few thousand people employed and extremely well-paid, and makes a handful of people obscenely wealthy. and they are so well-siloed in their little tech enclaves that they dont realize that their entire jobs are pointlessly making the world worse and more expensive for everyone else. or how much the rest of the world hates them


shel
@shel

Video game graphics never needed to get better than the PS3. Phones were doing fine in 2015. The focus needs to shift on how to maintain the same standards with increasingly affordable and sustainable products not continuing to make everything more power guzzling and expensive to produce to make it more powerful.


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in reply to @literalHam's post:

no this is actually a flawless take

since 2015 i have not upgraded my graphics card because new stuff looks better and i want that. no, i've done it because the new stuff is more demanding and technically looks better in nigh-imperceptible ways, and i need something capable of handling that

i'm still on android 10 on my phone because i look at the patch notes up to 13 and go "but i dont want that. thats not better." i still use a phone from 2017, despite it literally physically falling apart - seriously, the screen moves around now, the glue holding it in place has started to decay - because nothing released since is actually any better than my old oneplus 5

i dont care about "better" anymore! stop! give me that same tech but for 50 bucks instead of 500!! stop giving me things that really only look better on benchmark scores, but have no impact on my life, that cost 1500 bucks instead!!

in reply to @shel's post:

I'm a 3d artist and I couldn't agree more.

Granted, a lot of the reason art looks good from earlier eras was careful and deliberate design that takes additional work - the hours saved from not needing to teeter into photorealism with a km render distance would be unreal.

Too often 'graphics' gets boiled down to how realistic or high resolution something is rather than art direction and stylistic choice.

A great example is Metroid Prime. The game is almost 20 years old, yet still looks pretty because how great the art direction was. Sure, a remaster of a 20 year old game looks better, but the step up is really not so significant that it improves the game

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