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The entire last twoish years have have been doubly insane for people like myself, because:

Though I am not Jewish, my cousins all are. They are all secular, American, liberal to lefty Jews by the heritage and ethnicity of their father, and his culture that they maintain.

They are all against the genocide, but according to current, general, right wing sentiment... they either don't exist or are self hating.

I can only imagine this has all been even more insane for them.

Nearly every pro-Palestine protest on every campus in the US that I've read about or seem... has at bare minimum had sizeable numbers of Jewish Americans at it, if not being co-organized by them or headlining them as speakers.

... Meanwhile, I've been anti Zionist my whole life, and every single actual Israeli I've ever met has been a racist, anti-Islamic Zionist... and when I point this out, almost every white liberal or self described lefty has called me an antisemite.

Then on my own side of the family, my dad and my uncle just actually are racist anti-semites, making 'off color jokes' about Jews being greedy and money obsessed at fucking family gatherings literally in the faces of my cousins and their dad.

Oh well I guess?

Politics evolves to become defined by the hypocrises and contradictions no one is capable of having a rational discussion about.

Side effects may include the habitual use of a decaying rat corpse as an alarm clock

The Israeli media has been full of overt calls for and endorsements of just outright genocide for over a year now.

At one point a prime time media show was 'debating' just fucking nuking Gaza.

Israeli social media has also been absolutely full of average people with genocidal rhetoric for over a year.

... They just say it in Hebrew, not English... most of the time.

This isn't suprising to anyone who can use google translate, or read supplied English subtitles/captions.

... does this just make you gamer-gender?

I mean, leasing is a thing a lot of people do, a lot of people lie about owning things they are actually renting, or pretending they outright own something they're still paying the note on each month...

..., and also, various automakers are now actually beginning to explore the concept of cars as an actual subscription service:

Stupid expensive per month, but you can switch out a convertible in the summer for an SUV in the winter, comes with benefits and insurance and maintenance and other services and what not all baked in.

Sorta an evolution of car rentals.

This doesn't look like it has anything to do with what you are claiming, being banned for 'believing in copyright'.

It looks like people going to comms specifically set up to share AI generated images, and banning people for bitching about how AI image gen involves disrespect of copyright.

I am no fan of AI gen imagery in about 99.9% of scenarios you'll actually encounter it or hear about it in.

... So I just blocked these communities that are all about that, because they do not interest me, and do not interact with them.

... You can also see that these are comm specific bans, not instance wide bans, as say .world did initially, and then rolled back when people were cheering the UHC CEO getting assasinated.

Looking into a few of these users that have been recently banned, from the modlogs on dbzero... it seems like these users have been getting various comments deleted, with mod explanations why, for days or weeks now, and whoever is modding these StableDiffusion comms just decided to ban them.

Here's the actual dbzero modlogs:

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/modlog

... Also as far as you being a worry wort about 'all of lemmy being banned'... pretty sure that's not possible, the whole point of a federated structure like lemmy is that different instances both host and police themselves.

Could a single instance get taken out? Sure. ... All of them? Seems unlikely without a massive coordinated effort, and afaik, db0 (the instance creator) is pretty tech savvy and has a reasonably secure hosting setup.

Disclaimer: I am neither a dbzero admin nor mod, just a member of the instance.

It needs a remake because Ubisoft spent 10 years developing a mega expensive AAAA pirate game ... with the gameplay and monetization and time wasting of a mobile gacha game... and this (and other things) nearly bankrupted Ubisoft when it utterly flopped.

Basically every prominent game reviewer either indirectly or directly said 'wtf, this is nothing like an actual pirate game, how is this possible, you idiots made black flag, just do that again with some tweaks and/or new content.'

... So Ubisoft is now in ultra conservative 'make only winning bets' mode, now that they've... kind of functionally split into two different Ubisofts, following a shareholder and board member revolt...

So they're just remaking the pirate game they already made, because they know people did actually like that one.

tl:dr, it needs to be remade because Ubisoft has no concept of how to do anything new that works, they've realized that, and are now trying to stop hemmoraghing money.

You can run FSR natively on many games now, but they don't all support it in the same way, nor the same version, and it also varies by your hardware.

You can also hack FSR of various versions into various games via ... well, the FrameGen addon on Decky, for the Steam deck, is really a collection of a whole bunch of other hacks/mods/implementations for other games, and you can run a lot of those independently on linux or windows ... but there are a lot of variables when you get this specific.

They did in fact say that, and that is in fact nonsense, verifiable in many ways.

Perhaps they misspoke, perhaps they are misinformed but uh...

Yeah, it is fundamentally impossible to do what he actually described.

Intelligent temporal frame upscaling is getting better and better at producing a frame that is almost as high quality as a natively rendered frame, for less rendering time, ie, higher fps... but its never going to be 'better' quality than an actual native render.

No upscaling algo produces a 'more accurate' image than native rendering, that's absolute nonsense.

It produces a (slightly to significantly) lower quality, but same res image (significantly to slightly) faster than native res, but never 'better quality'.

The SNR of a native image is... 1, 100%, no loss.

The SNR of any upscaler is... some smaller number, there is always lost quality.

If you mean to say that intelligent temporal upscaling produces only slightly lower quality images a good deal faster than native, enabling a higher fps... than yes, I don't think anyone disputes that...

But the cost and literal wattage powerdraw of cards capable of doing that, with modern high fidelity AAA games, at 4k... such GPUs are essentially as expensive on their own as a well cost-performance-optimized 1440p entire PC.

The whole point of this tech was originally marketed as being able to enable high quality, high speed gaming at 4k, by essentially branching the proverbial tech tree ... and it hasn't worked, the result still is that such GPUs are still massively expensive and only attainable for a tiny % of significantly wealthy people.

Huh, interesting.

Thanks for doing the research!

Also yes, Lena Heady also gave an incredible performance!

Eh... The latest versions of DLSS and FSR are getting much better image quality in stills...

But they also still are not as good image quality as actually rendering the same thing, natively, at full resolution, as was the quote you are disputing.

Further, the cards that can run these latest upscsling techs, to reach 4k60fps, 4k90fps, in very demanding games, without (fake) frame gen?

Its not as as bad with AMD, but they also don't yet offer as high calibre a GPU as Nvidia's top end stuff (though apparently 9080 XT rumors are starting to float around)...

But like, the pure wattage draw of a 5080 or 5090 is fucking insane. A 5090 draws up to 575 watts, on its own.

You can make a pretty high powered 1440p system if you use the stupendously high cpu performance per watt, high powered 9745hx or 9745hx3d cpu + mobo combos that minisforum makes... and the entire PSU for the entire system shouldn't need to exceed 650 watts.

... A 5090 alone draws nearly as much power as basically the one resolution step down system.

This, to me, is completely absurd.

Whether or not you find the power draw difference between an 'ultra 1440p' build and an 'ultra 4k' build ridiculous... the price point difference between the those pcs and monitors is... somewhere between 2x and 3x as expensive, and hopefully we can agree that that in fact is ridiculous, and 4k, high fidelity gaming remains far out of the reach of the vast majority of pc gamers.

EDIT:

Also, the vast majority of your comment is comparing native + some AA algo to... rendering at 75% to 95% and then upscaling.

For starters, again the original comment was not talking about native + some AA, but just native.

Upscaling introduces artefacts and innacuracies, such as smudged textures, weird ghosting that resembles older, crappy motion blur techniques, loss of lod style detail for distsnt objects, sometimes gets confused between HUD elements and the 3d rendered scene and warps them together...

Just because intelligent temporal upscaling also produces what sort of look like, but isn't actually AA... doesn't mean it does not have these other costs of achieving this 'AA' in a relatively sloppy manner that also degrades other elements of the finished render.

Its a tradeoff between an end result at the same res that is worse, to some degree, but rendered faster, to some degree.

Again, the latest versions of intelligent upscalers are getting better at getting the quality closer to a native render while maintaining a higher fps...

But functionally what this is, is an overall 'quality' slider that is basically outside of or on top of all of a games other, actual quality settings.

It is a smudge factor bandaid that covers up poor optimization within games.

And that poor optimization is, in almost all cases... real time ray tracing/path tracing of some kind.

A huge chunk of what has driven and enabled the development of higher fidelity, high fame rate rendering in the last 10 or 15 years has been figuring out basically clever tricks and hacks in your game design, engine design, and rendering pipeline, that make it so realtime lighting is only used where it absolutely needs to be used, in a very optimized way.

Then, about 5 years ago, most AAA game devs/studios just stopped doing those optimizations and tricks, as a cost cutting measure in development... because 'now the hardware can optimize automagically!'

No, it cannot, not unless you think all PC gamers have a $5,000 dollar rig.

A lot of this is tied to UE 5 being an increasingly popular, but also increasingly shit optimized engine.