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ompuco
@ompu.co

last post on this for now, since i don't want to litter my account with slop that doesn't represent the kinda stuff i like making with my own hands

ompuco
@ompu.co

if you expose a setting to this feature in your game in any earnest way because you simply couldn't author your rendering well enough after laying off your overworked tech art team, i will make you regret it

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ompuco
@ompu.co

hot take: i think efficient & unique style-transfer rendering can be interesting when done with technical intent & nuance but to gate it to one brand of gpu and market it as a feature for improved intended fidelity, while embracing the arbitrary visual clutter of modern slop, is unbelievably stupid

pup quat
@highlysuspect.agency

it's this type of "i paid for the whole gpu so i need make everything have #unbelievable graphics or my purchase was for nothing" gamer that really bugs me

ompuco
@ompu.co

i know i said i didn't want to post any more but i caved in and tried psychonauts 2 and i'm kinda freaking out at the nightmarish results it spat out

Scream-ge
@takesiege.dev

does any of this stuff also work in motion and does it work on anything? could you make this work with the banjo kazooie decomp?

ompuco
@ompu.co

i will give it one thing: it's a much smaller model than i had expected (150mb) and it runs okay-ish on previous gen hardware, but none of that really impacts any of my actual criticisms of it being added into games. it's shit taste & a step in the wrong direction for both devs & consumers.

Sunfire 💚🤍💜
@starlight.garden

it's such a shame The Market™ or whoever has congealed around style transfer as a gimmick to impersonate influential artists... i yearn for a tiny style transfer machine that can make me arbitrary tiling textures of Rocks but Weird or turn heightmaps into Novel and Interesting Soup