Enough time has passed since the initial DLSS5 detonation for us to have passed through the initial response (bad) to a coalition of contrarians, much-smarter-than-yous, and engineers who feel slighted by proxy. Digital Foundry most affected - you could have toasted marshmallows over their subreddit. They praised it like crazy and were subsequently exposed to solar heat, to the extent that they had to post a video called "We Should Have Waited," and now proponents of the technology are mad at them for that. Ah, yes. I remember the Internet.
It's not our job to make sure nVidia's fucking shit lands. It's my job to identify when their shit has not landed and has, in fact, remained suspended in mid-air. It's not a great metaphor. And I guess I say it's not our job, but that's not really true; they're the entire economy. We all work for them, in a literal way. The rational play here is to suck as many dicks as possible, and to suck them on an industrial scale. We might suck a dick here, a dick there, but we need to be thinking about these firm rods like a Henry Ford or a Ray Croc. You better clap to keep this fucking fairy alive or your gramma is gonna have to live in a hedge like a witch.
I saw impressive environmental lighting for sure, but that's not what punched people in the gut. All people did was respond viscerally to Grace Ashcroft. That's not who she is. We had an uncanny valley, and now we have… I dunno. An "Eerie Mesa." We don't like that either. And when I say we don't like it, I mean our bones don't like it. There's a Eurogamer article on nVidia's response, which is to say that we don't know everything and are thinking about it wrong, which is a great pitch. I talked to Gabe a couple years ago about how eventually nVidia would just… do it. Do it all, do the whole shebang. Expound mathemagically on base assets and shim the whole thing. I wish I'd said so at the time! I could link back to it, and simply deploy the Lemmy Face. In the meantime, it's not clear to me that the developers I'm interested in are gonna feel like jacking this thing off until their game doesn't look scary.
This isn't DLSS as we've understood it. It's something else, and it should be called something else.
I consider a demand for realism in art to be indistinguishable from a fetish. When Playstation Home came out, and you had to wait in virtual lines to do virtual things, I wondered why they had ported scarcity. As I said at the time, "This is like having the ability to shape being from non-being at the subatomic level, and the first thing you decide to make is AIDS." I feel a similar way about some of these weird faces. We invented a machine that can dream, and this is your highest virtue?
(CW)TB out.
