I know this has been an infuriating topic for a while now, but gosh it's getting on my nerves. I'm trying to watch Secret Level, finally, and I can't see half of what's happening because so many scenes across many of the shorts are pretty much pitch black.

Why?? Why not, y'know, just give us a little bit of fucking contrast? Instead, I have to choose whether to have a light on or to not see the scenes.

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[–] 51 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Picard season 3 is very much a standout for this trend.

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Light is expensive in the 24th century.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It actually took me several seconds to notice the man in the first picture

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That is odd. It looks fine for me. Are you running a really old display?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago*

    I didn't have any problem with the guy in the first picture either, but I would be willing to bet that many of us are viewing this thread using very different display brightness/contrast settings.

    I'm currently looking at it on a laptop. My laptop has no light sensor with automatic brightness adjustment, and I use the laptop in a wide range of environments, so I need to use brightnessctl on Linux to fiddle the brightness, usually between about 10% and 60%. It's not like there's one single "correct brightness" when I'm in a ton of different environments.

    My desktop's monitor doesn't have a light sensor with automatic brightness adjustment either.

    There's probably some way to go get a brightness sensor and a daemon to auto-fiddle the thing on the desktop


    webcams, which often have automatic brightness adjustment themselves, aren't great for this. But, well, I never got around to it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    I don't see the problem? I can see the character's expressions, their stances, their clothes and clothing decorations, the objects they're holding... I don't necessarily agree that this should be the way a federation starship would be lit, but I don't see why people would say they couldn't see anything.

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