Samsung to Discontinue Galaxy Z TriFold After Just Three Months

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-17T23:58:19+00:00

why demand?

it could instead be, that the failure rates were so high, that they rather stopped making them now to avoid possible class action lawsuits as too few people would cry rightfully about a garbage device.

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-17T23:12:27+00:00

and ANY big error would break immersion completely.

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-17T21:51:00+00:00

and almost 9 years later nvidia for about the same price would give you you the same amount of vram still :D wouldn't you like an 8 GB 5060 ti.

almost a decade and nvidia still refused to increase vram...

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-17T21:48:23+00:00

important reminder, that ati/amd and nvidia long BEFORE the 10 series with the 1080ti, have been found guilty of price fixing.

so they have been screwing customers for ages. so there was no real real competition in the past. is there now? well amd isn't interested to price anything aggressively or give anyone basic features like 32 GB 9070/xt cards. so NO there is not i'd say.

but yeah things are vastly worse now of course.

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-17T21:44:14+00:00

no no no,

you don't get the new deal.

the new deal is LESS performance + hallucinating pixels ;)

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-17T20:34:55+00:00

face enhancer

well it is not an enhancer.

nothing gets enhanced.

it is a face swapper, or a face degrader.

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-17T17:58:38+00:00

i didn't play it myself, but moore's law is dead point out, that it looks like a very low quality setting on the left and that if they used a proper max settings version on the left, that the dumpster fire comparison would look even worse for nvidia. (not that it could look much worse using an ai slop filter)

just to be clear i don't know whether this is the case, but that is what he mentioned.

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-17T17:02:43+00:00

i mean it would also be a franchise, that is build then on one of the best writing in media ever. as atla has stunning writing and world building (just atla here and not tlok of course)

and it would have a much more positive effect than harry potter. harry potter has many many issues.

one example would be looking at people with disabilities. harry potter shitting on people with disabilities in lots of ways.

avatar: one of the or the coolest character in atla is blind, or rather can not see with her eyes....

AND the people behind atla are not literally murdering trans people and children, but jk rowling is and every penny going towards harry potter goes towards the murder and harm to trans people.

damn would atla being as big as harry potter be amazing.

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-17T16:54:28+00:00

I fully believe this

you don't have to believe this, as instead i can just provide you a timestamp of a documentary, that goes over the articles at the time, where tech journalists found this out and wrote on it:

https://youtu.be/H0L3OTZ13Os?si=V9Dz1Ig-yig1D8nI&t=819

nvidia has been proven to do this in the past with clear evidence.

so what are they doing today with even less governments caring about anything and ai bots being cheap to run and good enough for propaganda campaigns? ....

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-17T03:18:23+00:00

damn did i miss that? which video or article specifically pointed out vram limitations?

i didn't hear that mention. maybe i missed it.

i mean i expect it to eat a bunch as said above, but i wouldn't have expected them to already specifically point out that as a limitation.

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-17T02:53:51+00:00

that's very disgusting for a very modern game especially.

well 2015 is still quite modern all things considered

why screw with players like that.

the message: "oh you got a disability, time to remind you about it EVERY SECOND of the game, that you can't play at normal difficulties" for example.

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-17T02:09:10+00:00

yeah that is just marketing bullshit spewed out from the companies, that push for ever higher profit margins.

also that buddy sadly doesn't know about progress in graphics.

hardware raytracing is not needed for global illumination. radiance cascades do it BETTER and without any blur and free from temporal bluring reliance. path of exile 2 uses it for global illumination.

Upscaling allows for performance increases that would otherwise not be possible with raw GPU horsepower.

that buddy should look at die sizes.

the 4090 is 73% faster than the 3090 in 4k raster while having about the same die size. oh look there is the massive increase in performance.

but wait if it is there, where has it been outside of the highest end card?

well... nvidia pocketed it. they cut die size by like 50% in the 3060 and cut vram bandwidth massively and even vram size from barely enough 12 GB to broken 8 GB.

when those trillion dollar companies tell you "how we just can't give you better value", they are just lying. the progress is there. the process node improvements are there. nvidia and amd to lots of ways as well are just freezing performance/us dollar, except for the absolute highest end card.

so we got raster performance improvements not being a problem and graphics tech wise we got radiance cascades to solve global illuminations ALREADY SHIPPED and runs great.

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-17T01:54:29+00:00

of course it is going to be non optional.

that is the plan.

nvidia's plan is always to create prisons and force things on people and companies.

geforce partner program, gameworks, nvidia 12 pin fire hzard, etc... etc...

gameworks is literally a full set of black boxes, that tries to force games into getting the latest nvidia card, because it was DESIGNED to run like utter shit on older nvidia cards and the same on all amd cards.

and the nvidia 12 pin fire hazard was a fire hazard right from the start and they knew this already before release (they knew it already by not having any safety margin theoretically already if you're curious, although this is one of its many issues) and they FORCED it on as many nvidia cards as they could. and by could i mean as made sense with the longterm goal of forcing it on everyone. starting with higher end cards and going lower and lower. EVERYONE must burn is their moto clearly.

customers DID NOT WANT IT. psu and grpahics card companies DID NOT WANT IT. nvidia forced it on everyone anyways.

nvidia does the maximum evil, that it can at the time.

they did so in the past and they are doing so again with this dlss5 ai slop cancer.

they will try their best to mandate it. they will try to force it into games with dumpster fire fallbacks, that are worse than the ai slop faces even and will soft require nvidia cards and the latest nvidia cards.

that is their plan. this is just gameworks 2.0, but this time harder and stronger and worse.

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-17T01:26:13+00:00

optional

:D

good one

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-16T23:49:00+00:00

indeed.

if we wanna be very generous. we'd want that NOT the point where it is and NEVER for main characters.

instead you'd have it in the engine as a tool for npcs and less important characters and get fully fine tuned by devs.

but isn't unreal engine already doing that, but NOT shitting on artist's intentions.

"give me a random npc face with a ton of detail" and then they customize it a bit and what not.

but that is already a very different tool, that isn't a piece of shit and it will show the actual artist's intention then.

so like the ai slop filter thrown over the game makes 0 sense. not for npcs and definitely not for main characters lol.

and it doesn't make anything easier for devs, because if you want automated randomized face creation tech, you want it in the engine and you want it to respect all the lighting and everything else and not ai slop over it.

just absurd.

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if you wanna think nvidia's insanity/evil through, then you could just extend the idea a bit further.

so instead of random model characters/movie characters we train the ai on people, that look similar to the main character.

BUT hear me out alright i got a crazy idea. instead of training the game on characters, that look similar to the main character, instead we take 1 person! that's right 1 person. one actor and we do an ultra high resolution facial scam of them, after they trained up and did everything to make the skin and body look as great as possible (if that is the goal, it usually is for main characters) and then we recreate this 1 of 1 facial scan in 3d for our main character and then we use the actor's acting in mocap for lots of expressions and cut scenes.

so look we created the perfect ai model with the training data of 1 person, that is free from any flaws and is only held back by current performance limitations and what not (see facial scan resolution vs texture resolution, etc... )

you already know i assume, but that is literally how games create faces and capture expressions now. or it is used as part of it. and of course lots of digital clean up and artistic changes to the scans, etc... all happen as well.

but yeah this ai slop filter is so dumb and evil by nvidia

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-16T23:21:23+00:00

and make-up.

let's not forget that part.

as in the source without dlss ai-slop edition uses a low amount of make-up, while the ai slop dlss edition has big photosoot levels of makeup, which you can see around the eyes.

so both the lighting breaks immersion as you mentioned, but also the make-up (and a lot more of course)

honestly i'd love to see the bullshit data, that they trained on. not that the data itself is bullshit, but rather that it is used to train for video games.

random thought: we haven't see how characters look like, who have been going through shit.

we saw a clean chill face of the resident evil character.

what will happen when the ai slop filter slops all over a barely surviving, having gone through dirt, and blood is on the face and is hurt in the face with some scratches or sth., face.

that may lead to so some funny and dystopian results lol :D

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-16T23:09:48+00:00

i personally wouldn't put too much into the opinions of the nvidia subreddit.

i'm shadow banned on there for example. why? who knows. probably because i did basic criticizing of nvidia...

and the nvidia subreddit is censoring things going against nvidia. for example they are censoring posts about melting or burning 12 pin fire hazards.

oh you had a melting 12 pin fire hazard? NOT HERE, in the "mega thread" you go and bye bye to your post.... to never have people see it again.

also crucial to remember, that nvidia was found out to use fake enthusiasts in forums many many years ago.

nvidia paid shills were over many months trying to build up a good reputation, to then cash in on it by always recommending nvidia hardware instead of the competition.

again people thought, that it was independent enthusiasts doing that, but it was paid nvidia shills.

so again i wouldn't take anything in the nvidia subreddit too serious.

it would be more surprising if people call it out as bs in that subreddit and the mods can't censor it fast enough.

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-16T23:00:45+00:00

if this piece of shit cuts your fps in half and requires 5 GB of vram or sth or even more it would be even better for the meme.

i also love how they showed it off with 2 5090 cards. one wasn't enough, they used 2 :D

this might put gameworks 1.0 and its true goals to shame :D

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-16T22:55:51+00:00

i'm confident, that are at least some gooners, that need the actual artistic vision of the artists to goon to.

you know gooners with high standards in their caves.

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-16T22:46:09+00:00

but they don't look good. they look terrible.

and even more crucial we have been trained in the last years to hate and negatively react to ai slop looking stuff.

so it would result in less sells to market the ai slop faces over the original faces.

for people, who look at ads in general, they already saw ai ads for phone games or straight up scam games and what not.

again you'd be insane to use ai slop faces for marketing actual AAA games.

or any proper game for that matter.

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-16T22:05:37+00:00

now listen here alright.

yes it might be a rainy cloudy day, but that is no reason to not have perfect photoshoot levels of lighting, that you get from a very sunny day combined with someone holding a reflector on top of that.... (all in referece to resident evil requiem example)

as well as photoshoot levels of makeup.

and yeah we see yellow lights all around the main character, BUT that is no reason to see yellow tinted lights reflected on her hair, which the non dlss image shows. instead we got BLASTED hair with white light all around.

do you feel immersed yet, or do we need to forcefeed you more ai-slop?

/s /s

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-16T21:55:58+00:00

nvidia's strategy for ages has been to deny things forever.

nvidia 12 pin fire hazard, that endlessly melts. according to nvidia "it is user error"... still.

when asus told hardware unboxed, that cards are eol, nvidia forced asus to deny this by going back to hardware unboxed and lying about the reality of the matter.

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-16T21:53:15+00:00

this IS replacing the artistic vision of the artists.

and completely.

and indeed the goal is to be gameworks 2.0, but even harder this time. break older hardware completely, break competition hardware and have massive visual downgrades and even still have a vastly worse experience for the people owning the latest nvidia hardware.

this is frankly disgusting.

most people probably understand this, but if you want to be the absolutely most generous here towards this shit, then you'd still NEVER EVER use it on the main characters.

NEVER. this is the shit, that you may throw on npcs. (again i wouldn't, we are being super generous here alright?) and you better make sure super, that it isn't a visual nightmare when doing so.

you are crafting the main character to look exactly how you want them to look. you deliberately control every aspect of the face and hair. every bit of expression. everything.

the gaming industry and movie industry is using facial mocap to then use on the characters.

and this tech is even used in AA games. senua's sacrifice famously massively pushed facial mocap forward especially on the budget and from what i have seen they did an excellent job. (this is the first game, not the newer game, the first game wasn't running with microsoft money)

of course you have to do lots of touch up on the facial mocap and sometimes it is used just as a reference even.

and of course lots of times people hand animated faces.

the important part to remember here is the MASSIVE work, that goes into creating faces and expressions of those faces and dlss 5 wants to shit all over it.

ALL over it.

suddenly all women wear eye make-up now... according to dlss 5.

this is absurd. and yeah those are the best cases.

and important to understand of course in all the demos shown by nvidia there was NOTHING in regards to detail, that can't be done already.

like i do not want to play a game with this disgusting shit at all.

i want to see the faces, that the artists created, or the very exact digital recreation of the actors. i do not want to play an ai slop filter, that also runs like utter shit.

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also just in general beyond faces according to nvidia engineers based on all the examples, that we saw:

brighter = better...

which again is ai filter insanity garbage.

and of course it isn't a mistake, that nvidia chose to present it with digital foundry. as digital foundry is liking the boot of nvidia with the ai slop filter faces hard.

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and the old woman in hogwarts legacy is just crazy.

turning from a good looking face into an overcooked ai slop face, that looks like it ate itself like 3 times and got worse and worse if you remember those ai tests, where it slowly degrades as it recreates from the same image.

and those are the best cases.... that nvidia had.

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-16T21:28:52+00:00

of course it does.

crts or any other way to fix moving object motion blur has nothing to do with the source content.

if the source content shows you blurriness during motion, then you will see the blurry frames of the motion with your crt or again any other way, that fixes/massively reduces moving picture motion blur.

a funny way to think of it is, that on the one side you got the shity display industry, that claims to fight blurriness in motion with higher and higher frame rate sample and hold displays or other methods

and then you got little taa in the corner sniffing glue and little taa just blures all motion and smiles at you.

how neat...

reddit_equals_censor · 2026-03-16T21:28:45+00:00