How y'all like this? (Graphics settings revealed)

The popularity of chromatic aberration in games is more of a mental aberration. It doesn't seem to be used very accurately, though; because as a photography term it's a fault of the lens where light of different wavelengths get refracted at slightly different angles, and result in a blurry image whose colors look split up and out of focus. Whereas in games they're imitating a f*cked up CRT that can't focus the RGB channels properly, resulting in a similar split up image. I believe the CRT error has another name. (Note that I'm not an expert; in fact I'm an idiot, and this is likely false.)

It looks OK in games where f*cked up CRTs have a thematic role, e.g. Alien Isolation. But anywhere else it's a stupid distortion for the sake of distortion. Though I guess its real purpose is to hide awful textures or sauce up 'cinematic' framerates, to make them look less like a slideshow by blurring the image up a bit.

Previously they were trying make people blind by excessive lens flares and bloom effects; now the challenge is to make people puke, I guess.