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- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 5 days ago:
Feel free to keep taking the stairs, elevators will get there someday.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 5 days ago:
I mean I’ve tried DLSS5 on a bunch of games in my library. On most of them, it tanks my framerates and sometimes looks like absolute ass. But in two of my games (Cyberpunk 2077 and Stellar Blade) it looks and runs incredibly, and it’s hard not to see the potential.
As far as everything else you’ve said I 100% agree. It’s just not there yet, I think one day it will be though. I’m lucky I got my 5070 right before the prices started getting jacked up, so I’m privileged to be able to experiment with what’s already out. And believe me when I say the results vary - at the moment. Even as a fan of the tech and I can confidently say it’s not ready. And yes, studios that cram it as a staple feature in place of good optimization and, quite simply, a good game, then they’re gonna fail because they released slop. But that’s not the destiny of every game that uses it. I’m telling you, one day this tech is gonna be in mass produced hand-held devices. At the current rate of Nvidia GPU prices, they’re not gonna be the ones mass producing it and winning. Only a matter of time till China comes out with a 32gb Vram, Blackwell tech x4 GPU for like $200, meanwhile the 16gb equivalents today will cost under $100. Because Nvidia (while I admit they do produce cool tech) are greedy capitalist bastards. All the AI slop companies are greedy capitalist bastards. And I continue to blame the capitalist bastardary more than I do the shortcuts AI unlocks. If the economy wasn’t so shit and things in general were more affordable, and one of these GPUs were affordable after a few months of saving like things were 20 years ago, we’d be much happier with this. However we’re overall unhappy with it because it’s not being developed for affordable entertainment, but instead being used for surveillance powered by datacenters that destroy our environment so a handful of lizards can make billions, while we’re literally struggling to afford groceries. I want to burn down those remote, gated billionaire communities and replace THEM with datacenters for OUR general use.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 5 days ago:
characters look worse, like AI slop filters were added over their faces and bodies
In many cases that’s true, but not in all cases. Makes sense considering that no games have had this technology to be used in their art direction, no wonder it looks like ass. If your only citation for this take is that one Resident Evil screenshot that made headlines then I suggest you look at the world deeper than just headlines and clickbait engagement farming articles.
creative vision of the people making the game is bastardized behind these “enhancements” altering the look and feel of the game.
I guess all these mods that revamp textures or do ENB shaders or lighting adjustments are “bastardizing” the creative vision too. I would argue that even running a game on low-medium settings for the sake of framerate is bastardizing the creative vision, as artists worked very hard to produce high quality assets meant to be seen in it’s highest fidelity. Do you consider running games on lower graphics settings a bastardization? Didn’t think so.
higher bar for entry for performance requirements and still getting poor performance if you do bite the bullet for a more expensive setup
Again, same with every new generation of graphics tech. It’s always a higher entry for performance, it’s always in the hands of the few first, and poor performance is also, again, not the fault of AI but bad optimization.
a lot of these games aren’t that good, don’t get me wrong a few are, but having to buy extra equipment and push your PC to get marginally better graphics to play an “okay” game isn’t gonna make people jump for joy.
There have always been games that are shit but pushed for graphics, in damn near every console generation since PS2. It’s a unique selling point to have shiny graphics. The good games that last on good gameplay and good optimization for good performance are lauded, and for good reason. AI won’t change that, if anything make even cooler stuff like HL2 did with it’s latest tech. You know what does make shitty games? Situations such as “Studio with best selling game lays off 40% of its developers.” And before you say “But they’re doing that because AI,” again AAA studios have always been doing that since way before, in other industries too, since Thomas Edison. All the EA and Ubisoft controversy? Way before AI. The problem is capitalism, and execs at the top making a buck at the expense of good quality products with planned obsolescence and cheaping out their workers. This is a problem in every industry, AI or not. But these stupid companies that are investing entirely into AI at the expense of good art, writing, and gameplay (whether it uses AI or not) will always fail because it’s slop. It’s the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory “Machines stole my toothpaste job” stuff, old man yelling at cloud behaviour. It’s the exact same logic that blames immigrants for stealing our jobs, without even looking at the bosses who are firing workers and replacing them with exploited immigrants.
I love AI for what it could be, but we’re not ready for it under capitalism. Cognitive offload is only a concern for people who don’t respect learning and understanding to begin with, I say get them out in the open. Smart people don’t fall for it. Capitalism is using AI to destroy itself for short-term gains and it’s happening right before our eyes - “Capitalists will sell you the rope to hang them with,” and all that.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 5 days ago:
What an utterly constructive addition to the conversation, cheers.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 5 days ago:
But that’s my point, people are complaining about elevators because there’s perfectly good stairs. I bet people did say that about elevators, calling them death traps and such, when the early implementations were less safe or less quality. My point is it’s the same with AI, people are afraid of this new cutting edge technology that our current capitalist society can’t handle.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 6 days ago:
What does it represent to you? Once upon a time the idea of robots or machinery doing all our work for us, it was a dream. Only under capitalism is that a bad thing, because then people won’t be forced to work for unedible money. AI could be a great thing. Under capitalism though, it represents something potentially terrible.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 6 days ago:
I’ve been a fan of the most cutting edge videogame graphics since that Half Life 2 E3 demonstration in 2002. Didn’t hear anyone complaining about better graphics for less performance at that time. The ragdoll physics, the water reflections, the smart new NPC AI, got people hyped to buy the latest 256mb or 512mb GPUs that were expensive at the time. Know what I didn’t hear? “Ragdoll physics is destroying gaming. The real way would be to pay a village of animators to do keyframe animations of every possible way a character can fall over, instead they use this tool as an excuse to cut back on animators. This is an affront to devs artistic vision and a slap in the face to animators who are now out of potential work.” I didn’t see these complaints when Nvidia release DX9, DX10, or DX11, that all required the latest GPUs of the time and slowed down framerates on the “more affordable” GPUs. Except now that this has an association to AI, people are being prejudiced.
I think the only reason people are pissed at this fancy new graphics technology, which once upon a time would have us excited, is because the economy is so shit and nobody can afford the GPUs anymore (thanks Trumps economy.) That and the association of AI not being used on our general QoL but at our expense so that a few people can make a buck. You’d have to be a very special moron to say “AI is the reason the economy is bad” and say all this is the fault of AI. It seems that everybody is still looking past the dominant religion of “capitalism” to blame our current problems on. AI implies fancy new tech that everyone could have access to. Capitalism limits that access, and then weaponizes it against us. And yet the current bandwagon is the “AI Hate Train” meanwhile turning a blind eye to Trumps economy and capitalism. Makes sense tho considering most gamers are pro-Trump, right-leaning, economically illiterate incels.
- Comment on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement 6 days ago:
If only a certain country and their president didn’t cause the prices of GPU and RAM to skyrocket, maybe it’d be more affordable. That’s not AIs fault, that’s capitalisms fault. Inb4 China comes out with RTX GPUs for a fraction of the price and leads to a democratization of AI technology. But “it’s unaffordable” is how all new tech feats always start, that’s how the shiniest new tech has always been. Were people complaining about this when Half Life 2 was being released with all its DX9 bells and whistles? No, because a brand new “512mb GPU” at that time was cutting edge and less affordable, but at least people were being paid enough to make that expense. Now that capitalism has destroyed our economy, people are blaming the prices and not the capitalism. It’s silly.
- Comment on [Video] The use of a microphone could lead to an arrest under the UK terrorism act 5 weeks ago:
Fascism is European… Europe is an inherently fascist culture. Mountains are reduced to gravel, and water tables are used for coolant, the land becomes uninhabitable and in the european mind this is called “development.” Capitalism, socialism, communism, regardless the whole universe and every living organism in it is open to this sort of insanity.
- Comment on It's rigged 1 month ago:
But I don’t see any blood on your gums.
Neither yours. I have visible, physical scars from fighting against capitalism and fascists. I don’t wanna eat them, I want them gone.
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 3 months ago:
Getting the top comments too.
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 3 months ago:
That’s what the top comments on this thread say, seems to be the most agreed upon take unforunately.
- Comment on We produce more resources than we could ever consume in the least sustainable ways possible. 3 months ago:
Haven’t you read the top comments on this thread? It’s impossible to feed people our excess and continue paying for things like USAID because of overpopulation… Apparently.
The “let them starve” eugenics propaganda is strong in the pseudo-science community.
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Take any exit off of almost any motorway in America and you’ll be met with this.
- Comment on How do you fight abandonment issues when people keep abandoning you 5 months ago:
It’s also a story you tell yourself, which is only as true as much as you believe it. Why do you hold onto that story? Why not make up a different, perhaps more positive story? It’ll only be as true/false as the one you currently tell yourself.
- Comment on How do you fight abandonment issues when people keep abandoning you 5 months ago:
Who is telling you that you need to meet a certain criteria, other than yourself?
- Comment on Never forget 5 months ago:
Thank you mushrooms, for teaching me that both my happiness and my anxieties are based on the made up stories I tell myself.
- Comment on How do you fight abandonment issues when people keep abandoning you 5 months ago:
What does “adequate” mean? Serious question.
- Comment on 18-26 year olds, How do you plan to dodge the draft? 5 months ago:
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a draft.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
The center of true political influence is at the dinner table with the people you share food with.
- Comment on ..? 6 months ago:
Oh sorry I thought everyone’s already seen this one before.
- Comment on ..? 6 months ago:
So long as they don’t democratically elect a socialist. Otherwise they’re getting a Western-backed far-right dictator forced on them instead to “prove socialism doesn’t work.”
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 11 months ago:
Well, 100% of the people you’ve met so far haven’t killed you. I would argue that at least 95% of the people you’ve ever encountered have been good, in fact.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 11 months ago:
Out of all the people you’ve encountered or interacted with, how many times were you murdered?
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 11 months ago:
You sound like a very sad and lonely individual.
During natural disasters where society and infrastructure completely collapses and is destroyed, it is in human DNA to help eachother, collaborate, cooperate, and rebuild. Your ‘ape-based species’ bullshit is not founded in science, but founded by eugenisists stupid enough to look at apes and say “we’re like, the same.”
Human history is nothing but a series of people figuring out how to get along with eachother. People who focus on all the war and violence stuff are scary, and need some serious professional help. Yes, I’m talking about you, HugeNerd.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 11 months ago:
They pretty much are.
- Comment on More like a bacterial infection imo 1 year ago:
They’re more like a malignant bone cancer.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Capitalism’s innovative creativity on full display.
- Comment on Something something far-left 1 year ago:
To somewhat even out the wealth gap I think higher taxes on the wealthy and more rights for unions is pretty much all that is needed.
I’m sure if we asked the billionaires and their paid-for politicians nicely, they’ll start writing and enforcing laws that’ll tax them more and give more rights to unions.
Hard /s
- Comment on There is no reason to fear brainslugs. Please don't get vaccinated against them. 1 year ago:
Earthworm Jim.