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Well, I definitely see that as feature, not bug; I hated the "magic problem solving" elements of 3.X. I was much happier moving the non-combat aspects of the game into skill checks and freeform narration. "Magic problem solving" generally boiled down to avoiding confrontations and conflicts...

<shrug> I don't know what to tell you. We always managed just fine without a rogue. MC dips, feats, UA class replacements, and PrCs all made it pretty easy to be a skill monkey with a caster chassis if desired. Nothing you're saying changes the underlying calculus that if you want to be...

I spent most of 2007 advocating for a core of warblades and warmages, with unified spell slot progression across all classes, to be the core of the nascent 4e. "Make everyone casters" was, to my mind, the single best advance of 4e. Casters are simply more fun to play.

A smart player, who knows their character is going to be acting as party face, certainly does. People don't make their characters in a vacuum; they discuss who's going to handle what role and plan for it. At least my groups do. A delta of a couple of points on a Diplomacy roll simply isn't...

It's only tangentially connected (outside of the Nvidia connection, this is about a neural network, not LLMs), which is one of the reasons the tenor of your posts seems so off. It's not like Nvidia is using their GPUs for PCs to support their LLM server farm GPU business; right now, it's the...

I mean, that's fine if you're not concerned, but that's the core of the argument around class tiers and class imbalance. I mean, I didn't care much either, but I was also savvy enough to look at the nascent CharOp sites and realize that playing casters was the better option, so that's what I...

There are more games available on Steam than I can finish in ten lifetimes. If every single game studio winked out of existence right now, I'll still have games to play till I die, as will my children and probably my children's children. There's enough to worry about with AI's ability to...

Yea, but that isn't really the argument. It's not about a specific player, it's about the integrity of the class niche. I agree that if a player in your group is playing a rogue, than using your wizard spell slots to cover stealth and lockpicking is a waste. Where the issue arose is if the...

At least with the extra lighting, my 47 year old eyes can see the bad cinematography. :)

Functionally irrelevant. At its core, 5e is a neotrad game based around demonstration of character concept, not player skill. If a player isn't able to demonstrate their character concept effectively, as a GM, you give them a bit of an assist. I'm the most skilled "operator" of the 5e rules...

For the record, this is a well-done post that communicates the drawbacks of the algorithm clearly. I appreciate you taking the time to do this. Other posters could do well to reflect on your method of conveying criticisms clearly and with a minimum of unnecessary rage.

I'll always upvote a Phineas and Ferb reference.

I'm a rando on the internet, it would be pretty silly to trust my gut opinion.

The clarity to recognize that this is something you have much more of an emotional engagement with than I do, and I mostly posted here because your initial presentation of your opinion was SO strident that it made me want to reflexively disagree with you. I still don't actually agree with your...

Venting outrage, then. Much like the DLSS 5 filter, I appreciate the improved clarity. :)

If you think your militant approach to this topic is winning hearts and changing minds, I have to inform you that it isn't working nearly as well as you might think it is. If your goal is simply to vent your outrage, then you do you, of course.

If your belief is that the designers who worked on the left-hand image didn't wish they had the tools to create the right-side image with real-time rendering, my gut feeling is that you're mistaken.

Sure, why not?

Obviously, until it's released into the wild we can never be sure; there will of course be situations where the technology isn't helpful or actively obscures the original artistic intent. How often it occurs, and how negative the impact is in those specific use cases, will be something to be...

The image on the right is obviously superior, in terms of looking more "realistic", than the image on the left. I don't play top-tier games anyway, so I imagine I won't see much of an impact on my personal gaming decisions until the 2030s. But the fact that this seems to be a technological...