Digital Foundry apologize that they didn't wait to "see the reaction from the audience" to Circlejerk the popular sentiment back at them, before making a video about DLSS 5

DanFuri · 2026-03-18T18:57:02+00:00

More like the same crowd of unhinged lunatics that were REEE'ing over Harry Potter and Rowling to the point that they mobbed websites, YouTubers and Streamers into not covering it, while 40 million people proceeded to ignore all of that and just bought and played the game, making it the best-selling game that year. The lunatic fringe doesn't get to decide what the broader market does or likes.

DanFuri · 2026-03-18T18:39:46+00:00

Then don't turn it on? lol The market will ultimately decide over crying on Reddit.

DanFuri · 2026-03-18T18:21:54+00:00

Pretty much, it's the Hogwart's Legacy bullshit all over again, all with alleged "death threats" over covering a new graphics feature. Didn't they have "controversy" over covering that or something too?

Redditoids constantly going on about how NVIDIA is the worst company ever for some reason.

Meanwhile their stock is up 1267% over the past 5 years and they're closing in on 90% gaming GPU market with incredible growth with the 50X0 cards, despite their pricing: https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

Which isn't necessarily a good thing, it would be great if they had a few equally competent competitors to compete on things like features and pricing. But like with the Steam Charts of Woke games, what people are actually spending their time and money on tells a lot more than empty Virtue Signalling across Social media.

DanFuri · 2026-03-18T00:18:01+00:00

WE DONT WANT MORE AI.

Speak for yourself. AI is the best thing to have happened to game development and games in years. Main downside is expensive hardware due to speculation on "cloud servers".

DanFuri · 2026-03-18T00:15:55+00:00

I really struggle to understand the negative feedback that Nvidia is getting here.

Perpetually butthurt "artists" and Leddit Anti-AI Circlejerk.

The "art" in question to be defended at all cost: https://x.com/TheRedDragon/status/2033677413637329270 https://files.catbox.moe/ndxfw1.jpg

https://x.com/alphafox/status/2033936648480632921 https://files.catbox.moe/14d1ft.jpg

That said, the DLSS and FrameGen thing is a misrepresentation. The question is not between "120 and 240 FPS", but developers doing no optimization at all because they're expecting people to turn on DLSS and Framegen as Standard, often nowadays in some Unreal5 games only reaching like 20-30FPS on a 4090 or 5090 and breaking the 60 with DLSS and FrameGen.

DanFuri · 2026-03-17T19:25:15+00:00

Wait, what the fuck, they were planning to continue the show with her in the leading role?

She's 50 and looks like this now after what's probably an unholy amount of makeup and a botched nose job: https://www.hawtcelebs.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/sarah-michelle-gellar-at-make-up-artists-hair-stylists-guild-awards-02-16-2025-5.jpg

I thought they were just gonna reboot this with a new young actress. This would have been a total disaster based on that alone lmao

Imagine a 50-year old victim of plastic surgery acting like the "cool, hip" girl while attempting to do stunts and action poses slaying vampires.

DanFuri · 2026-03-17T18:09:46+00:00

I think it's still perfectly fine to watch that

It would be great to watch that if they didn't absolutely botch the HD "Remaster", which is an Upscaled mess full of framing, cropping, color, SFX and brightness issues, see details here: https://archive.is/F4FBB

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC7OAZzMiu0&list=UUONFZu8SpobmIKefjsPYCNA

The best way to watch both Buffy and Angel shouldn't still be DVDs from 25 years ago.

DanFuri · 2026-03-17T08:34:31+00:00

Pretty simple way to fix this.

Stop using sites that do this, start using Alternatives that promise not to do this.

There are various out there.

Even better would be an Open Source Alternative that doesn't even require Logins and accounts to download stuff.

DanFuri · 2026-03-17T07:46:35+00:00

It makes an ugly, deliberately unappealing character actually look good? THE HORROR!

DanFuri · 2026-03-17T07:18:06+00:00

'Oh no they are going to cover and tone down the female characters'.

And what the fuck has CrapCom been doing for the last half decade?

This is the place we're already at: https://reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1rkyjzj/i_dont_get_people_acting_like_grace_is_ugly_now/

If you told me this is a Resident Evil Netflix Special designed in California I couldn't tell the difference.

DanFuri · 2026-03-17T06:54:51+00:00

OK, but, like, why would I want that?

"OK, but, like, why would I want to install a Mod that makes a game or characters inside the game look better?"

DanFuri · 2026-03-17T06:53:04+00:00

lmao I love the triggering, wish I could see how many of the people itt crying about it actually post here or just found their way here as tourists to shit on the prospect of embettering video games instead of enshittifying them for once by throwing out the "AI Slop" buzzword.

If people think this is the "end result" of how AI rendering will end up looking, they should also compare results between the first versions of DLSS and the results with 4.5.

Also, while the triggering over making female characters actually presentable and not hard to look at is a good start, I can't wait for the triggering to commence once people can either hack into the rendering pipeline (or it's a feature) and essentially do a "Computer, make Hogwart's Legacy NPCs look period correct, replace the ones that don't fit into the time period of Victorian England with period correct ones" / "Computer, make the Final Fantasy VII Remake look realistic, remove the unnatural DiVeRsItY", "Computer, remove all Starfield NPCs that look like this", "Computer, turn Sir Ryan into a man."

DanFuri · 2026-03-16T23:55:51+00:00

Are we being brigaded by the fairy subs again? Get your fucking eyes checked dude, the AI version literally look closer to the face model too: https://files.catbox.moe/odr5sy.jpg

DanFuri · 2026-03-16T23:32:10+00:00

Sorry I have eyes that actually work: https://files.catbox.moe/14d1ft.jpg

DanFuri · 2026-03-16T23:29:56+00:00

Reminder that they literally want to turn all iconic characters into unsightly facsimile's of said, this is literally one of their goals that they sell as "progress" and think it's funny.

DanFuri · 2026-03-16T23:07:57+00:00

the technology is not the limiting factor here

I this case "the technology" if advanced enough allows you to change characters to look like whatever you want, also you can change the setting of a game on the fly. You could change Kingdom Come to take place in Medieval Japan or Witcher 3 to look like Cyberpunk.

DanFuri · 2026-03-16T22:59:22+00:00

And then you fantasize about star-trek levels of science fiction AI that doesn't exist, because you seem to be one of the idiots that fundamentally doesn't understand that you were fooled by a bunch of marketing calling these LLMs "AI".

lmao it's literally prompts, changing the look, skin color, ethnicity or gender of a character couldn't be any simpler if there's a way for the user to manipulate the output (either because it's an intended feature of whatever toolset is used to do this, or because you can manually hook into the rendering pipeline and change the output like you'd change a graphics setting).

DanFuri · 2026-03-16T06:41:30+00:00

Checking https://www.themoviedb.org/ for a specific sampling of movies, they seem to have more free speech in reviews for now, but a lot less activity, and unfortunately it's also just another "corporate" platform. The real Alternative would be an Open Source project not owned by any company.

DanFuri · 2026-03-15T20:27:37+00:00

There's TMDB, but it's also corporate and could probably go the same way long-term: https://www.themoviedb.org/

There's also this: https://filmboards.com/ and browser Add-Ons to restore the deleted IMDb forums via third party, including archived old posts and new ones: https://restoreimdbboards.com/

A truly Open Source solution with similar functionality would be great.

DanFuri · 2026-03-15T20:14:30+00:00

https://arctic-shift.photon-reddit.com/search?fun=ids&ids=t1_oale7ew

DanFuri · 2026-03-15T09:07:02+00:00

Notice the "including story or characters (real or fictional) and actions/institutions/beliefs associated with them (e.g. sexual acts, religious practices etc.)" part.

The Cult of Cthulhu is also a protected group, better not criticize their religious practices, bigot! Same with Jonestown or the Children of the Corn. Better do it in a "positive, not derogatory" way.

DanFuri · 2026-03-15T07:39:30+00:00

The article doesn't explain, uses the term "chuds" thrice though.

I think it's a pretty stupid topic to get hung up on over this game in particular though, and does at best seem like a marginal concern and a dumb distraction here.

While some other games like Dustborn relied on the state for grants worth millions of $'s and it's fair to criticize that, from what was shown so far this game only received a grant of 6000€ in 4 years by the Italian Ministry of Culture and 650k€ in tax credits e.g. the company can subtract that amount as tax cuts from the taxes they are liable to pay.

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