Game Graphics Lies We Need To Destroy (Anti-Consumerism Lecture)

A strongly opinionated critique of the modern PC gaming graphics ecosystem, arguing that the industry has deliberately degraded vendor-agnostic image quality (TAA, MSAA, ambient occlusion, shading models) to create dependency on Nvidia's proprietary upscaling and AI hardware. The author contends that DLSS vs FSR blind tests are misleading because they compare against intentionally worsened native rendering, that path tracing in games like Resident Evil 9 is a marketing rebrand covering up regressions in basic rasterized graphics, and that tech influencers and sponsored journalism perpetuate false narratives. The piece advocates for hardware-agnostic rendering techniques like competent MSAA, proper BRDFs, and optimized shadow maps as the pro-consumer alternative.