DLSS 5 will be the worst thing to EVER happen to video games

Pale Violet Light · 2026-03-18T05:54:59+0000

Autumnal said:
What’s “yassifying”? If it helps, please assume I know nothing about instagram filters beyond them existing.

Yazzify: to improve the appearance of someone by giving them short, bleached-blonde hair.

Tea Cozy · 2026-03-18T05:59:00+0000

Autumnal said:
What’s “yassifying”? If it helps, please assume I know nothing about instagram filters beyond them existing.

I don’t really know about Instagram filters either. I do know yassification in the context of game mods, however.

Imagine taking a character like Minthara from Baldur’s Gate 3, making her younger, giving her lip fillers, a nose job, makeup, etc. so she can look “prettier” to a certain subset of gamers. Minthara may then look conventionally pretty, but her character is gone. That is “yassification” in game modding.

I’d argue that the Grace character from Resident Evil was already mostly approaching a yassified AI face, and it just looks more apparent when details are added.

Marika from Starfield doesn’t look yassified at all IMO. The light makes her lips look slightly darker, and it reflects off them in a way that someone might interpret as lip gloss. That’s it. She looks normal.

trappedslider · 2026-03-18T06:01:21+0000

Horwath said:
Worse than EA?

According to one poll i have seen, generative AI is worse than several other historical tragedies,including all of WWII, the whole slave trade,and the covid pandemic granted the poll was of teens,

Autumnal · 2026-03-18T06:15:46+0000

Pale Violet Light said:
Yazzify: to improve the appearance of someone by giving them short, bleached-blonde hair.

Thanks!

Pale Violet Light · 2026-03-18T06:35:16+0000

Autumnal said:
Thanks!

Sorry, that was a facetious answer.

The real answer is: to improve someone’s appearance in a digital image by applying filters, usually in a very dramatic or over-the-top manner.

Comes from drag culture, apparently.

Autumnal · 2026-03-18T06:35:44+0000

Fair enough.

Pale Violet Light · 2026-03-18T06:46:33+0000

trappedslider said:
According to one poll i have seen, generative AI is worse than several other historical tragedies,including all of WWII, the whole slave trade,and the covid pandemic granted the poll was of teens,

The teens are the ones who’ll have to live in the AI-cooked (in both senses of the term) world which we leave them, so perhaps their concern is justified. Certainly none of the posters on this board are likely to have to deal with the long-term consequences of an immensely heat-generating technology that produces nothing of any significant value, but that doesn’t mean we should ignore them entirely.

Jahydin · 2026-03-18T06:59:29+0000

I remember hating the first poligonal games that came out in the 90s because I thought they looked terrible compared to the big, beautiful sprites at the time, but you know, the tech eventual improved to finally get my attention. Although this is certainly not anything I would use or want now, I'm willing to see how it progresses. If it eventually turns potatoes into princesses it might be another step towards making game development more accessible to the layman.

Right now though, I can't imagine what this would look like in motion. It would fire up all my "uncanny valley" senses and ruin any semblance of immersion for me. But everything has to start somewhere. At least the sports games could benefit from it right away.

Pale Violet Light · 2026-03-18T07:14:40+0000

Jahydin said:
I remember hating the first poligonal games that came out in the 90s because I thought they looked terrible compared to the big, beautiful sprites at the time, but you know, the tech eventual improved to finally get my attention.

Oh yeah, I still can’t play Neverwinter Nights - that early 3D is truly hideous.

Jahydin said:
Although this is certainly not anything I would use or want now, I'm willing to see how it progresses. If it eventually turns potatoes into princesses it might be another step towards making game development more accessible to the layman.

The problem is, it’s going to turn all the potatoes into princesses by sticking some googly eyes and lipstick on them.

Jahydin said:
Right now though, I can't imagine what this would look like in motion. It would fire up all my "uncanny valley" senses and ruin any semblance of immersion for me. But everything has to start somewhere...

It hits my uncanny valley senses very hard right now, but as you say, I guess it can only get better. Though soon no one is going to be able to afford a decent GPU, so I’m not sure how we’ll be able to actually enjoy the technology.

Paul Farquhar · 2026-03-18T07:18:26+0000

Gladius Legis said:
Do I really need to say anything else?

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Err, yes? There might be all sorts of ethical and practical issues around this software, but all I see are two CGI images. The left hand image is rather dark, the right hand image is better lit.