I couldn't care less about #crimsondesert or #gtavi. I don't care about graphics that much. It's literally the least interesting part of a GAME. A GAME should be engaging and fun. I don't mind if a game looks good but if it isn't fun or the story in an RPG is shit I don't care about the game. There are also RPGs who lean more on the childish side like Dragon Quest games for example. But they compensate the player with whimsy and good nostalgia it feels like watching your childhood anime. It's unapologetically cheesy but it's great. Eye candy doesn't have to consume as much electricity as 5 fridges...it can be a stylized pixel game. Also the games don't have to be 5 gorillion terabytes big. It's completely fine if they take 2h to complete and are 50MB big...I've played #ashes2063 which showed me again that you don't need to pay 80$ for a game. You can have it for free or give an enthusiast a couple of coffees and have a great game as well. Fuck big gaming become an e-wastelander buy refurbished, used or "broken" (which works but needs a bit of knowledge) hardware. Learn new skills fuck AI, become ungovernable. Be a menace. Be gay.

We are 8 trillion and they are only a handful of oligarchs

Fuck the slopification of gaming don't comply. You are your own king in your walls. You don't need slop. You need loving people to play local multiplayer and a self-sustaining gay poly relationship. You are more than what capitalism tells you that you are. Spit in their faces. Tell them to fuck themselves.

@neku I feel any recent progress in game graphics is either not visible for me (for eyesight and desk setup reasons), or I'm distracted by the game being laggy, the GPU fans being loud, or just the game not being fun. (Maybe these are to make low visibility games with less care, I remember specific highly demanding games as being set in foggy places.)

I care about graphics when I'm positively impressed by pixel art or games stylized in ways that seem to render more easily.