Beauty is an abstract concept
If you think video games look better now than they did before then think again because it's impossible to improve an abstract concept.
Some people think that video games looked much better 40 years ago than they do today and that's because beauty is an abstract concept.
You might be wondering why resolutions, texture maps, polygon count, and video memory have all increased in size over the years. and the answer is very simple; it's to make video games look 'more modern' because looking 'more modern' is not an abstract concept like looking 'more beautiful' is.
Everybody agrees video games today look more modern than they did 40 years ago but not everybody agrees they look better and it's the same with black & white television vs color television. Some people think that a 144p resolution black and video image is far better quality than a full color 8k resolution video image and that's because beauty is an abstract concept.
Victorian and Edwardian architectural styles aren't abstract concepts.
Beauty is though.
If it wasn't then you would see people making an effort to care of themselves and improve on things and attempting to do the best they can.
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