there is a lighting curve and vignette filter over this. it’s not just stock camera photo processing, which yes, pretty much all phone cameras do now.
the original image probably “popped” less. it’s not a horribly edited photo either, but it is heavily manipulated which is why people thought it was AI.
because its not just a quick photo taken by a phone as implied by the original poster. the image is heavily edited like an AI image may appear to be.
No, see, in the hive mind leopards eating faces is “bad thing happens to trump supporter”. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
You can say fuck in the internet, it’s okay… the Canadian can’t hurt you here.
I like when gear selection has impact and choice in my roleplaying games.
If you choose to value aesthetically pleasing characters you should just accept you’ll be playing with the non-optimal stats.
The ability to bypass this by transferring stats between items so you can have optimal build does make the game easier.
Ideally game developers and artists should be including ways to have balanced gear stats and aesthetics, but transmog and the like is just lazy on their part.
Just fyi this 2D projection is also distorted just in angles instead of area.