We need to separate “tech” companies from videogames. This level of ghoulishness is insufferable. This is not progress in visual tech. This is defacing of an art form by people with ugly souls.

https://www.digitalfoundry.net/features/nvidias-new-dlss-5-brings-photo-realistic-lighting-to-rtx-50-series

@yurisizov I find it hard to believe that someone would have been satisfied at this and call their creation complete.

@JigenD Why? And why does it matter what you think is qualified to be the end result of someone else’s creative process? Open the article, if you will, there are screenshots from other games, including the new RE. Even if you are somehow an authority on what constitutes finished art, I’m sure that example will be sufficient.

But like… What the fuck is wrong with you? Hell!..

@yurisizov The idea that everything that already exists is pure and complete and perfect and new things are to be shunned and hated isn't a new one, but it is a bad opinion to have.

There's some objective problems with the tech they showed off, and some imagined ones by the community, unfortunately. I probably wouldn't call it 'good enough' to get the DLSS title, but I also think it is objectively improving the fidelity 80% of the time.

@JigenD @yurisizov this has nothing to do with "complete" or "incomplete". you're assuming the point of art is to just keep iterating towards some weird ideal perfect realism bullshit.

the issue is that this is just replacing actual art with auto-generated slop bullshit, leaving no room for actual artistic intent in the first place.

@joshg @yurisizov There is objective truth here. Correct lighting is better, anti-aliasing is better, correct shadows are better, and lighting that illuminates polygons correctly is better.

No artist intended these incomplete aspects of real time 3d game graphics.

These are objectively more complete, and to not have them is incomplete.

@JigenD @yurisizov you should ask actual artists about that, buddy
@joshg @yurisizov You should take a step back and look at the mental gymnastics you're doing to hate a specific piece of graphics rendering technology and how it's making you behave.
@JigenD
You're a guy, right? I'm asking because, if you were a woman, you would have seen (I mean really seen, as in pissed off) all those "ai improvements" performed on women's characters through video games, also known as "making them look as smooth underage dolls with massive boobs and impractical clothing"... And you would understand the problem.
When artists create something, they intend something. Allow this crap now and tomorrow, the feature will be user configurable. Then all women will look like the gamer's favourite porn stars with their next door neighbour's voice, all Blacks and Latinos will be white, and so on. 1/2
@joshg @yurisizov

@JigenD
Then all those games where you shoot Nazis or Gangsters or whatever, will be revamped in real-time to shoot women with blue hair, or Black dudes raising cardboards asking for justice.

There is an issue at stake here.

And I mean, why stop here?
Let's apply this filter to all Pixar animations, anime, cartoons, and so on. These can surely be rendered in a more realistic way, after all. It's not like anyone cares about intellectual property or art any more.

And someday, those guys will have nice glasses and, with a click, they will apply a filter on the woman they are having sex with. And they will have reached their goal.

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@joshg @yurisizov