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I never understood being grounded. When I was a kid, we just snuck out anyway because what are they gonna do, super ground us?

It turned her into a completely different horse!

The real Maruzensky, for reference:

Surely this is just a marketing stunt they pulled in the hopes of temporarily pumping share prices or something? Despite their claims that it can be optimized before release, I think there is basically no way they get it running at playable frame rates without a second dedicated graphics card on current gen hardware. They're going to release it with terrible performance, promise to improve it, a few people who have dual 5090 setups will try it but almost everyone will ignore it, and the promised optimizations will either never materialize or they'll be much less impactful than promised.

“The reason for that is because, as I have explained very carefully, DLSS 5 fuses controllability of the of geometry and textures and everything about the game with generative AI,” Huang continued.

He seems to be thinking of it as basically a post-processing effect, but it's certainly the least performant one ever devised. Even if it's true that the art teams can tweak it to get exactly the effect they want, I find it hard to believe they'd ever be able to get it running on the hardware they're targeting, so it will just be an expensive novelty for games that want to promise the most bells and whistles.

Edit: Wait I just saw this,

"It’s not post-processing, it’s not post-processing at the frame level, it’s generative control at the geometry level," he said.

What is he on about? Surely it's not really mucking around with stuff earlier in the rendering pipeline? That would make it completely different from all previous versions of DLSS, why would they call it DLSS 5? I don't think he understands how it works at all.

I think the whole idea of grading kids like they're show dogs is pretty gross in the first place. "Welcome to the world, kiddo, the first thing you need to learn is that we're here to judge you, and if you don't bark on command you will be deemed to be a failure."

Fuck that shit.

That seems to be correct!

The original announcement was on their Facebook page, and links to https://www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com/

Note that they didn't raise their own prices (they absorbed 100% of the tariffs on products they make), so if you bought directly from them or through their Amazon listing, you didn't overpay and don't need a refund. If you bought from a retailer like Wal-Mart or Target, they'll start by refunding people who have a receipt, and then if there is money left over they'll try to refund anyone else who thinks they overpaid.

Where do they even get 30 people who can cast 3rd-level spells? That's like an entire region's supply of 5th-level characters. Are they in Eberron and using mass-produced wands of counterspell? Maybe they're the entire high-threat response team of a major empire or planar metropolis.

I'm trying to game out how many of my characters it would take to rescue the player if that's really 30 5th+ level antimages, and with that many counterspells on the field I think the answer is that they could probably shut down every spellcaster I've ever played, at least for long enough to take out the primary target. The only D&D character I've played who really has a hope of accomplishing anything is a very high level 4th edition fighter, and even at near-epic levels things still look dicey because I bet those guys are all packing a bunch of other spells like hold person and only one of them has to hit to really mess up his day. Maybe if he teamed up with the high level half-celestial paladin of freedom from 3.5...

Actually I just remembered you have to see your target to counterspell them, so actually some people like the 3.x Sublime Chord would be in the clear as long as they cast improved invisibility while out of sight, but I'm betting the anti-mages are prepared for that too, somehow. It might even things up though!

They are but some clerks are extra suspicious. When I was 24 (coincidentally!) I thought I definitely looked 20-something, but I walked into a liquor store and tried to buy some vodka and the clerk took my real, legitimate ID, squinted at it, accused me of not being the person depicted on the ID, held it under the UV light that reveals the marks that are supposed to make it hard to counterfeit, squinted at it some more, took it in the back and started making a phone call...

I thought she was going to call the cops on me, but eventually she came back and sold me the booze.

I read your comment, thought "Am I dealing with one?" and had to reach into my shirt to check if it had one or not. It turns out it does! So... I guess so. I'm irregular in other ways, though, so I might not be a good point of comparison.

Here's a much better article that explains the device's principle of operation, and how it compares to existing technology: This Nobel Prize-winning chemist dreams of making water from thin air

It looks like the patch has improvements for the server, so you might look into upgrading!

I have surpassed mere procrastination, and now I simply never do anything.