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One "fail-forward" or "yes, but" thing approach comes to mind: if a character fails a check, instead of not seeing something, or not knowing something, they spend some resource like "inspiration" or "willpower" and it still works. I could see an implementation where this is limited to certain...

I recently tried out Shape of Dreams. Enjoyed it so far. It's a Rogue Lite, which I haven't played that many before. You're in a dream world and move from areas on a map, at each spot you have to fight some enemies and can collect memories (powers) and upgrades. Your character comes with some...

I am not debating that it's more than just upscaling the picture, but it is still inferring graphical details that do not exist in the original picture based on machine learning. It's still not fundamentally different. The upscaling cannot guarantee that all the pixels look how the original...

But what does that mean? AI has no intent, no vision. But does it it strip out intent? It's a tool, we don't expect it to add intent. The reason it might not be copy-rightable might be because the AI itself would alwasy be creating derivative work, because it is fed with millions of pieces of...

No. DLSS any version is generative AI. It uses artificial intelligence - based on deep learning - to create an image that isn't in the original content made by the artist. The game is rendered in a lower resolution and possibly at a lower frame rate than is later put out on screen, DLLS upscales...

Technically, we enforced the rule, but almost every multi-classed character managed to avoid the penalties by staying within the limitations. Except one character, I think, some Fighter/Paladin/Cleric/Hospitaler mix that he had min/maxed fairly well and spend an evening before game night to work...

I would also absolutely recommend it to anyone. I have not read the book, I watched it with another person that hadn't, one person that read the book and one that heard the audiobook. We all left pretty happy, it was a great movie. The book readers/listeners of course noticed that a lot of the...

I don't know, what does thsi "consistent with artististic intent" mean? And is artistic content something that is static? Did the triangle shaped Lara Croft chest area represent "artistic intent"? I doubt it. I think they would have liked to be closer to be something realistic looking. If there...

It's presumably an expensive show, with lots of sets, CGI and so on. So it's kinda understandeable that it needs to bring in a certain viewership to be considered worth it. I kinda feel like Star Trek's biggest troubles however are Paramount's business situation. Big transactions, big debts...

The weirdest thing is that you don't reincarnate, a new, completed body is created. That's clearly magic, but is that really reincarnation? I think reincarnation means you're literally reborn. You're not going on adventures unless your comrades are ready to change your diapers (assuming you even...

Well, if people can't afford it anyway, then you're not going to see many games rely on this feature. They need people buying their games, after all. Heck, it might be cheaper to simply disable the feature for the developers so they don't need to deal with people complaining about bugs and...

On the other hand, the GenAI face seems to look a bit more like it's a real person, it just isn't the one it's supposed to be. I would expect that an "artist" that has DLSS5 capabilities and can test it around might alter the original so the AI produces something more closely to the real...

Probably no one would have minded if Mass Effect: Andromeda's "artistic vision" had been disintegrated for the sake of the character faces and facial animations.

I found over the years that I am really bad at identifying make-up, and that I am not alone. "You look good even without make-up" is a compliment mistakenly made towards people that are using make-up (and, I learned, also not neccessarily hat big of a compliment as some think: Some people are...

"We don't know how to make our orphan-crushing factories not to crush organs, so we oppose legislation that would require us to operate factories without crushing orphans. But hey, going with the times, how about we offer you Noble-Orphan-Crushing-Peace-Prize?" I'd say: "If we can't figure it...

And the studio that is cut down development cost relying on crutches would have delivered excellent work if it wasn't for that pesky DLSS? I doubt it. I am looking forward to what the studios that have skilled artisans that care and have a nice budget can pull off with it.

8-bit graphics worked for a lot of gamers back in the day, but now the lot of gamers consists of a lot more people. :) I totally would enjoy if faces were even more realistic. I think of a game like Cyberpunk 2077 which really had amazing facial details and animations and yes, it matters to...

I don't see the washed out texture on the NPC in the original as an "artistic" vision. That seems more like "That's all we can do with what we have right now, it's good enough". The DLSS 5 one seems to say: "We can do more now!". And yeah, maybe that's 'yassified', but it also has facial details...

One could almost say... sloppy?

This might be the worst exaggeration that I have read ever, by which I mean in the last few days? Come on, games had day-one patches, micro-transaction, gacha-mechanics, forced always-online features even for single player games, kernel-level anti-cheat systems intruding in your systems, and so...