—End transmission.

Yes. It counts more. The DVDRip audio is a character in itself. The stereo downmix compresses the roar of the hotel basement bloater into a muddy wall of noise. The dialogue sometimes ducks under the gunfire. There is a persistent, low-grade hiss that never goes away.

But here is the deeper truth I’ve been wrestling with: For a huge portion of the global audience—kids in dorms, players in countries where a $70 game costs a month’s rent, archivists in low-bandwidth zones—the DVDRip was the canonical experience.