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No sir, looking at that shot it is NOT difficult to argue... The character looks like an AI generated character, not a video game character.

That makes the discussion quite easy in fact:

Like ai generated art? enable it.
Dislike ai generated art? do not enable it.

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It always surprises me seeing so many people talking about how stable manjaro is, then I remember it's arch based.
No offense to anyone, and nor am I hear to tell you what distro to use or not use, but I'm fairly certain how stable your manjaro install has been has nothing to do with manjaro.

In fact I'd wager if you could compile reliable data of people having major breakages with updates Manjaro would be a leader in arch based distros.
Now frankly there are some things that have become common grounds where you'll expect breakage: AUR packages, KDE, and Nvidia hardware.

As someone that hits all three of those, I assure you Manjaro is neither stable nor reliable (I haven't used it in quite some time, so perhaps it has improved!); and the issues I had on manjaro have not been present in ANY other arch based distro I've used.

For me though, many of the reasons people have abandoned Manjaro over the years aren't the reason I'll never (unless some sort of massive organization change happens) use it on ANY machine. That special rule of mine comes from the messy world of the Pine64-Manjaro relationship. It's hard telling what exactly was going on outside of blog posts from various people, and from that info I just can't in good conscience click the download button for Manjaro anymore.

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Looks cool, but not worth the price of admission. I also don't want to leave my home worried that I'm going to return to a pile of ashes!

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and yet something tells me people will still pay stupid amounts of money for the new cards. somehow. for some reason...

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I really do find it hilarious that someone put those two images together and actually thought they looked good. It’s like one of those edits some people used to do of the Horizon protagonist to make her ‘less political’, if you know what I mean.

Between this and the increasing prices, it’s becoming clearer to me every day that in future I’m going to stick to indies, emulators and the occasional game that somehow doesn’t fall too heavily into this bullshit.

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Quoting: tesfabpel

while preserving the control artists need for creative expression

Kinda doubt. It seems artists are losing control more and more with all these AI-assisted techniques.

Like, this video on Crimson Desert "denoiser" (how is that just a denoiser??): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlRpJ553RzE

More and more weird "vibes" on gaming...

Yep, looks more like they're making everything soulless and generic while pushing actual artistic expression away.

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Brace yourselves!
The AI slop is intensifying!

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Fake frames then? Nope, no thanks. Fuck Nvidia.

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Let me guess, 7090 graphics with the 6070??

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What's weird is that the RE Requiem example is the only one that looks like an "AI-ifyer", the others really just look like a Reshade addon (at 15x the computational cost)

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Welcome to the umpteenth iteration of "How Much Sawdust Can You Put In A Rice Crispy?" experiment. Alas, we find ourselves once again in the charade of "testing everyone's tolerance to AI slop", wherein CEOs spend a pittance on human labor as a gesture of apology. It's a meager step in the right direction, but still, disingenuous.

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I'm actually baffled, flabbergasted even that there isn't unanimous disapproval from what I checked online. What I saw wasn't enough. This will be the future of AAA games, if they weren't dead before, they're definitely dead now.

I'm not even close to the biggest AI hater by the way but this looks so bad it caught me completely off-guard.

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Oh great. Now all your games will look like the AI generated "art" invading our social media feeds. This fucking sucks.

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Quoting: tesfabpelLike, this video on Crimson Desert "denoiser" (how is that just a denoiser??):

Actually the point of ray reconstruction/regeneration is that the older denoiser techniques were less faithful to the intent of the developer by overly smoothing lighting features.
This is just an ML model's conception of photorealism regardless of the underlying art direction.🤮

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If this continues this trend, it will be like that camera app that didn't use the camera, just grabbed the GPS location and used generative AI to get an image of the place you were pointing at.

If I was a Capcom artist that had worked in the game and saw that image, I would be coughing blood.

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blink and you lose (sh)it

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Quoting: TheLinuxPlebWould suck to lose Manjaro. It's basically Arch, but with the Stable branch you can update every time when there is an update. You don't have the same sort of commodity with Arch where with updates stuff can easily break so you have to postpone updates and look info from packages a lot.

Same goes with CachyOS. There can be breakage happening on those much more easy.
Something that is Arch and postpones updates and have testing for those is much wanted IMO.

Ive been basically years with Manjaro and it has been rock solid for me. Would be sad to see it go.

Manjaro is/was no stable Arch branch, Manjaro did nothing to the held back packages to stabilize them; they only tested their own tools with those packet versions. You even increased the risk of breakage as AUR packages are often build against newer packages Manjaro was still holding back.

If you think of Manjaro as stable, thats Arch Linux's stability there and not Manjaros.

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Please tell me the left hand image is just lowest settings. Tomb Raider from 2013 looked better than that without any mumbo jumbo.

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AMD's writing drivers in python w/ AI, ngreedia's doing this shit...SAVE US, INTEL!

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The update is worth something, but "since it's such a big fuss" just to not LIE is just whiny loser talk.

To people who say "we shouldn't have to put AI disclaimers on things because people might not use/watch/buy it": That is called consumer choice. Some would say it's unfair that they have to show corn syrup on their ingredients because people avoid buying food made with corn syrup, even though it's perfectly functional food that tastes fine!

When I eat the Nestle-branded ice cream frozen dairy dessert and feel ill and unsatisfied, I should be able to look at the ingredients, see that corn syrup is at the top of the list, and make future decisions with that knowledge. That allows me to make a choice as a consumer instead of just thinking "I guess food is just terrible now" while they price out the competition by making evil fake ice cream.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalfoundry/comments/1rviuz7/disappointed_by_dfs_uncritical_glazing_of_dlss5/
This time Nvidia went too far with the Machine Learning. Previously we had artifacts now we have straight up hallucinations

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Quoting: dindonI think Nvidia smelled their own fart too much on this one...

Never heard this phrase and don't know its origins but it's uncanny how precise this description sounds

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Those two faces... the limit between enhancing and reimagining.

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It certainly looks like they've drawn over the in-game frame with AI art.
...why?

You know, with video games, there is already a neural network interpreting from the simplified rendering of reality and converting it into the image the player perceives - it's called a brain. They're removing abstraction that works in the favor of immersion. That's why games from the 90s and such could look "good" even though they couldn't be photorealistic.

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I think Nvidia smelled their own fart too much on this one...

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"DLSS 5 is the GPT moment for graphics"

That sounds chuffing awful.

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Disgusting. Again. Nvidon't 🤮

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I've been happily using Manjaro without issue for several years, but this latest news is disheartening, and I think it's probably time to distro hop. I've heard lots of good things about Fedora.

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while preserving the control artists need for creative expression

Kinda doubt. It seems artists are losing control more and more with all these AI-assisted techniques.

Like, this video on Crimson Desert "denoiser" (how is that just a denoiser??): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlRpJ553RzE

More and more weird "vibes" on gaming...

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