# on non photorealism raytracing artstyles as woke re: capitalist realism and photoreal gfx not only a cool tshirt idea but an actual argument screamed loudly by mother's basement dwelling techbrochuds sporting $5k garming rigs (yet still somehow running at suboptimal fakeframes 60fps w/ taa smearing and microstutter) that is if yer garme don't have all the (default) shiny bells and whistles permanently switched on you're probably a blue haired muscle lacking socialist furry garmedev who should be removed asap from their holy untouchable realm of mmms make-it-more-shiny gfx there's always been something suspicious about photorealism which at it's (shiny generic) surface seems jas (just another artstyle) except it seems it's not been mas (merely an artstyle) for a considerable time now and more an ideology directly running parallel to capitalist realism c-r is the mass psychological (ie ideological) notion / delusion there's no real(tm) alternative to capitalism ala "that's just the way things are" bs except capitalism isn't remotely real but only ever hyperreal cinematic photorealism however (especially the raytraced kind) seems to have mutated up into its final form as a symbolic marker of garming purity which takes the following bizarre form: "i'm superior because shiny realistic gfx" in this regard epic megacorportion's unreal engine (wow remember that) appears at the bleeding edge of this ideological status marker that is the more generic the more soulless the more plain-vanilla and shiny the more safe familiar for anyone lacking an imagination // republic of bob