Disable the Vaseline Squad.
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Motion Blur
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Depth of Field
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Chromatic Aberration
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Film Grain
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Vignettes
If it makes the visuals less clear, it can go to hell. So also toss in floating numbers and, if they are truly ugly, enemy health bars.
this post was submitted on 15 Aug 2025
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Unpopular opinion: I consider antialiasing to be part of the vaseline squad these days.
not unpopular just highly depends on the method. super sampling wouldn't create that effect but approximate methods do.
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How does film grain make visuals less clear? Its main purpose is breaking up color banding
It adds pixelated snow to the image. I do love some film grain in movies but video games don’t really need it unless they are going for a film look.
Color banding is predictable. Grain is random noise.
Also, I grew up on 90s games. If there's no banding, is it even real?
I agree. Film grain is great if your monitor doesn't have 100% perfect color reproduction (and unless you have a high-end display, most will exhibit at least some form of color banding. see here for yourself)
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God of War (2018) defaults to using some kind of ML-based upscaling that made me think the whole thing was jpeg compressed. It didn't look good until I disabled that.
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Always adjust graphics settings first. Make sure the correct resolution is set, turn off bloom, turn off depth of field, etc etc.
Turn off shaky cam/head bobbing and motion blur.
Don’t forget to make sure Vsync, double or triple buffering is off.
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When you launch a game for the first time...
Exit Game
"Cool, it works. But I don't have time to play right now."
Last Played: 2019
In my situation it's usually a "you know what? I actually don't want to play a game after all."
Happens more often when I have a weed tolerance, and the high wears off before I can even go back inside to boot the computer. (Which is why sometimes I'll load up the game before I go outside to hit the dab rig. That way I'll at least get 10 minutes of enjoyment out of the game.)
As someone who’s been there, you really need to start talking to a therapist about substance use disorder. There is much more to life waiting for you after you put in the hard work to unlock it. There is help, you are not alone.
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Big true. You can't just start the game, you have to go into options to set the volume slider down to 3% so you can un-mute your speakers without shattering your ear drums.
And then there are games that try to immediately start the first mission to make things more “immersive”
y axis: inverted
Incorrect! Y-Axis: Normal
I hate games that default to inverted. Obviously, the superior option is the Halo trick: tell the player to "Look up using the right stick or mouse" and then set default inverse or not based on what the player does.
Both axes inverted 😎
"Both"?
All 5, babyeee
Yes! Why is this not default?
Also: vibration off
It used to be ... 🤷
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Subtitles on, vsync off, and then mess around with controls for half an hour in my usual experience :3
Ugh, tearing.
VSync on, always.
That's what variable refresh rate monitors are for.
As if I'm going to sit at a desk with a tiny-ass monitor when I could relax on the sofa with my cats and play some video games in surround sound.
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Gotta invert that mouse
Music 50%.
Master Volume: 30%
Music Volume: 40%
FX: 30%
Ambience: 35%
Dialog: 100%
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Where is the fov slider?!
Subtitles? Yes they're important, but the first thing I do when I launch a new game is go straight to the graphics settings. Controls come next. Accessibility options are the last thing I change before I launch a game.
Wasd -> zqsd
Dites NON aux jeux racistes
Render distance to whatever the max is, at the cost of literally anything. I played Skyrim all min except max render distance, 20fps was worth.
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Music volume 50%
Gotta change shitty default WASD to based superior ESDF
I love that there are still keyboard warrior out there fighting their own battles. I used to center around my left index finger on the J key (YGHJ), which basically puts the entire keyboard into easy reach of the left hand. I gave it up in the early 00's though once WASD had been pretty thoroughly standardized. (There were also a lot of games in that era with dogshit customization options due to consolification. At least customization is considered standard procedure these days.)
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