“Between dealing with minority oppression, general uncertainty, and the rush to replace artists and those who pursued knowledge with machines, it feels like there is no future for me or my craft.”

Jesus...

Well, according Nvidia, they're all wrong, so who are you going to believe?

When a product's most promosing feature is you can turn it off, you might have a problem.

I'm just gonna copy & paste my comment from another thread on the topic:

They don’t care. Nobody thinks this is a meaningful announcement, it’s just another pretense to justify AI as Nvidia and much of the entire US economy are so deeply sunken-cost invested in the “future AI ecosystem” that they just need any headlines to keep the machine churning. That’s what this is. Doesn’t mean it isn’t real and gamers won’t have to suffer with it, but no point of this is actually to make anyone’s gaming experience better in any way.

Someone: Hey nvidia, make this look better!

Nvidia: i got this bro!

My thoughts on this corpulent technology can be summed up by some brilliant thinkers.

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction." – E.F. Schumacher

"The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components of a computer system are those that aren't there." – Gordon Bell

"Keep it simple. A simple solution has elegance. It is the result of an exacting effort to understand the real problem and is recognized by its compelling sense of rightness. I stress this point because it contradicts the conventional view that power increases with complexity. Simplicity provides confidence, reliability, compactness, and speed." – Charles Moore

I just want my games to be fun. Without 2x 5090's.

We should make a DLSS5: on meme community.

I guess the big question is how customizable this will end up being - all the arguments against it seem to assume there's just an on-off switch, and that seems pretty stupid as anything but a tech demo.

Please don't lynch me. I'm asking because I don't know. Could this be used to change the old games' graphics? It could be a nice addition to modding communities. I would like to play Old Republic games with these graphics again.

"we interviewed only haters and they all of them complained about the thing they hate"

What a garbage article.

I'm playing the devil's advocate here because modders have been using other people's assets with or without consents for almost as long as video gsme existed. Sometimes they make things of beauty like skyblivion and sometimes they turn the ugly snake lady of the last resident evil into shrek and sometimes they add big tiddies to every single NPC.

I agree with the previous comment: the modding community never gave a flying fuck about the creative design of games. Hell, often even devs of the game themselves don't give a flying fuck when you see the "outfits" of some Korean MMORPG.

Do I think what Nvidia does is smart? Absolutely not. I think it's hot garbage and I think Nvidia CEO will end up in prison when the bubble pops. But I think it makes little sense to jump on moral high horse to argue against what they are doing.

To me, the decision on how you want to play a game and how you want it to look is for the player to make and nobody else. You offer me a game, I buy it. It's mine. If I want to play vanilla, I'll do it. If I want naked big tiddies shrek instead of Mario, it's my right. I bought this right.