To Lower The 3D Engine's Rendering Load, This Tree Was Placed In Shinagawa, Tokyo

Cyberpunk 2077 running at "over 30 FPS" on a MacBook is being celebrated like it's some kind of groundbreaking achievement. For context, Cyberpunk 2077 is notorious for being one of the most demanding games ever made, and here we are in 2026 bragging about barely hitting the frame rate that console gamers were roasting in 2013. The sarcastic title is chef's kiss because Mac gaming has been the punchline of the gaming world for decades. While PC gamers are chasing 240Hz monitors and arguing about ray tracing, Mac users are celebrating the ability to play a AAA game at slideshow speeds. The bar is literally on the floor—no, it's underground. Nvidia's RTX 4090 can probably render this entire scene in the time it takes the MacBook to load a single frame. But hey, at least it runs, right? That's basically the Mac gaming motto at this point.

Oh, the AUDACITY of modern gaming rigs with their instant boot times and RGB everything! Meanwhile, that beige tower from 2003 is out here taking a full coffee break just to POST. You could literally make a sandwich, contemplate your life choices, AND question why you're still keeping that ancient machine in the closet before it even shows you the Windows XP logo. But hey, at least it gave you time to mentally prepare for the underground racing glory that awaited. Those were the days when "fast boot" meant anything under 5 minutes and you genuinely had to schedule your gaming sessions around boot time. The newer generation will NEVER understand the character-building experience of watching that loading bar crawl across the screen like a sloth on sedatives.

The skeleton weightlifter speaks to the eternal cycle of developer optimism! You start each weekend thinking "This is it—I'm finally going to finish that side project!" Then reality hits: 48 hours later, you've got another GitHub repo gathering digital dust. It's the dev equivalent of buying gym equipment that becomes an expensive clothes hanger. The real workout was the mental gymnastics we performed convincing ourselves we'd actually complete something this time.

CD Projekt Red really said "you know what, let's give everyone a FREE next-gen upgrade for Witcher 3 regardless of what platform you bought it on" and every other game studio just stood there like 👁️👄👁️. While most companies are out here charging you $70 for the "deluxe remastered ultimate edition" of a game you already own, CDPR is teaching a masterclass in not being absolutely insufferable. PlayStation Studios and Rockstar Games taking notes like they're in detention, desperately scribbling down "maybe... don't... milk... customers... dry???" It's honestly wild that treating your fans like actual human beings instead of walking wallets is considered revolutionary in the gaming industry, but here we are.

You know that feeling when you buy a game on sale, play it for 2 hours, get distracted by another sale, and suddenly you've got 247 games with a 12% completion rate? Yeah, that's every programmer's Steam library. We're collectors, not finishers. The kid taking one bite out of each apple and moving on is the perfect metaphor. "I'll come back to finish Witcher 3 after I try this new indie roguelike that's 80% off." Narrator: They never came back. It's the same energy as having 47 side projects in various states of abandonment. We're excellent at starting things, terrible at finishing them. The Steam library is just our GitHub repos but with better graphics.

So NVIDIA's DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling) has reached the point where it's just... generating entire human faces now. Left side looks like your character model rendered at native 480p with a potato GPU, right side is what happens when you let the AI "enhance" it. The technology has gone from "upscale some pixels" to "I'll just draw you a whole new person, thanks." Fun fact: DLSS started as a way to render games at lower resolution and upscale them intelligently. Now it's basically doing the rendering FOR you. At this rate, DLSS 10 will just be an AI playing the game while you watch. Why even have a game engine when the graphics card can hallucinate the entire experience? The irony is gamers will still argue about whether this counts as "real" graphics while enjoying their 240fps on a 4060.