eldebryn

Lol no they won't. Consumer buying power keeps diminishing as a % of the overall market. Businesses just sell to each other and everyone outside of mass ownership is being turned into a surf for feudalism 2.0 (now with digital circus slop).

It is reasonable to want a good product that makes you happy, I get and support that too. Games are meant to be fun.

But games also have another nature, which is creativity and artistic expression. When you buy a game copy you're just witnessing another person's or teams vision and you either appreciate or you don't. It's like paying tickets to see a painting or art installation, at least in part.

You can absolutely go see the mona Lisa while wearing distortive funny effect glasses (mods), all the power to you for doing so.

But DLSS isn't just that. It's the guy who was sponsoring the painter now demand that he not only uses his own BrightColor TM. dyes, (which is mostly reasonable) but they are now saying the artist should give Mona Lisa a wider smile and colorful blouse or paint a 2nd version with those attributes because "people find it pretty".

DLSS 5 is genAI pushed into gaming and genAI in art is terribly problematic anti-humanist process that kills the creative soul of human work and promotes whatever the capitalist free market considers "good" at the time while oppressing anything alternative as an instrument of the elite class.

I'm not going against mods simply because this level of control I'm taking about exists. Gamers want thomas so they make Thomas as an option, everyone is happy.

The problem with DLSS 5 is that it's being marketed as an upscaling or even "an improvement" which is frankly insulting for everyone who works on the art and visuals of a game.

Not OP but this actually looks really nice! Good job mate, I will probably DL later to try it out.

I'm not absolving governments at all so I'm not quite antithetical to this position either. I understand that a GPL license might have meant less corporate incentives but I also do despise how most corporations are moving these days so it is what it is I guess.

Drilling machines are not made by forcibly kidnapping diggers and making them motion-capture their movements for a robot that pollutes and consumes water by ignoring previous green regulations.

If they're gonna make proprietary black boxes of spying, I'd rather they spend their own money for it rather than using the code created by the selfless FOSS contributors, ngl.

Just because fascism-lovers desire a dystopia doesn't mean we have to make it easy for them.

Googling is easy. We had mostly capitalism before, the industrial evolution just pumped it even more.

Plus the IE wasn't a single date but a period. And my point is that previously held ideas of how markets work affected People's hopes of what competition in a capitalist market would be like.

...in spite of how the industrial evolution created industries (lol) and markets so vast that they became larger than any human or any family trade ever was, intergenerational behemoths that are simply too resistant to competition because of how it takes literally multiple lifetimes to reach their level without already being a competitor.

At a quick search the total debt for all US households is 18.8trillion.

For AI tech companies that is 0.7t, though this probally doesn't include shadow banking credit, which reports say is estimated to be dangerously high.

The that that these numbers are only one decimal order apart is despicable. We're talking a handful of AI megacorps vs literally every single individual.

Even if it worked it wouldn't. Neoliberals and free-market advocates will tell you that competitors would rise up if there were no regulations.

But some industries (like silicon and microchips and other advanced tech) are just impossible to breakthrough without years or decades of setting up and operating without profit vs current players.

And those current players, given no market regulations, will still use their money to do anything possible to stifle upcoming competitors or buy them out.

The dream of capitalism was born pre industrial age, under models of "apples sold at the farmers' market".

The reality is we have advanced a lot and need mixed economies to keep things fair for most people.

Many TVs these days form a mesh network using the TV of your neighbor, or his own neighbors until they find a device with WiFi access in order to call home.

No reason why cars can't do that now that they've been made into computers with wheels. A trend that I absolutely despise.