This should be illegal, companies should be forced to open-source games (or at least provide the code to people who bought it) if they decide to discontinue it, so people can preserve it on their own.
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2023
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You really jumped in here to tell me exactly the contents of a comment I made just below it in the thread, as if I didn't already know it.
I jumped in to point out the flaw in the YouTube experiment you're referring to.
Can you think of a better visual example that a simple person could see and understand?
Imo, an easy way to remove YouTube's postprocessing from the equation would be to copy a video file to and from a nas or other computer several times and compare it with the untouched file.