Motion blur is the worst effect in games (confirmed)

We've been running a knockout tournament that puts graphical effects in games against one another in a fierce battle of public opinion. Each round saw two effects go head to head, and only one made it out to fight another day. We whittled it down to just two effects, chromatic aberration and motion blur, and after 7,000 votes cast across the tournament, we can finally declare the effect that sucks the most with near-scientific certainty:

It's motion blur. By an absolute landslide.

Which is worse, chromatic aberration or motion blur?

Here are the results of the poll. We received close to 2,000 entries.

Votes (%) Data Product Value Chromatic aberration 20 Motion blur 80

Not to completely disenfranchise our engaged readers or make the past couple of weeks putting these together a complete and utter waste of time for yours truly, but it was always going to be motion blur. I knew this. You knew this. …