That's because TV's no longer come with decent audio because they are made as thin as possible for whatever reason.
schadenfreude
Damn I just learned this word today from the latest Tom Scott video. Baader-Meinhof phenomenon in action.
I would imagine the background is animated in some way, perhaps even changing every time you launch the game
It's a matter of taste. I set the contrast so that the brightest pixel in the scene is 100% white, and the darkest 100% black, so there is the highest possible dynamic range (and nothing is over or underexposed). The vanilla kind of looks like there is mist everywhere since it's so washed out.
That's how you know constellation headquarters are in Mexico.
I’m not saying color grading is a bad thing, but I personally prefer natural lighting in games over “cinematic” filters.
See more examples: https://imgur.com/a/z6zyTo4
GPT4 definitely isn't cheap to run.