@vriska luckily there's only 20 of them.

@lisyarus to put it another way, the version on the left looks like it is like 20% of the way to being really slick diorama water, and the version on the right looks like it is 80% of the way to being windwaker water.

RE: https://btfree.social/pub/objects/01KGM8KEYPG3ZM7ZN4QZEGTM3N

In lieu of today’s @firesidefedi episode, I give you a picture of my sick hat

(Sick because I’m wearing it while down bad with the FOSDEM flu, and because I think the hat is pretty neat!)

See you next week, friends! and thank you for the well wishes 💞

@eniko (classics include Big Top https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Top_(video_game) , Prince of Persia 1 and 2, Doom, ZOOL and ZOOL2, Bananoid, Future Wars, Lemmings, Pipe Mania https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_Mania , Mortal Kombat 3, North vs South, Secret Service II)

Lewdbrarian: Will that be all, sir?

Me: I... The other day I was thinking of an old jav idol... The one with the sexy...

Lewdbrarian: That is Sally Yoshino, sir.

Me: And... do we perhaps have any vi

Lewdbrarian: You should look in the gray drive, sir. I trust you remember the password.

Me: yes. yes.

Lewdbrarian: We do not have any video. But there are pictures saved from usenet. Just look under ..\Alt\Binaries\Pictures\Jav\Y\

Me: Thank you.

Lewdbrarian: Glad to serve, sir.

@eniko OK so here's SOME that I keep in my DOSbox because of nostalgia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackthorne which I loved for the “shoot behind your back” gesture

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiendish_Freddy%27s_Big_Top_o%27_Fun where you have to play circus tricks while a capitalist sabotages your actions because he wants to buy the circus.

HoverTank, a shareware game that you can find here https://cheesysoftware.net/alphaomega/index.html that allows hotseat 1vs1 play (it's tanks shooting at each other, very fast, very funny sounds)

and then some classics.

@lisyarus I like the depth dependent water better. I think it wants to be fancier though, like maybe fake caustics in the shallows, blur the depths, something on the shore line, some surface wiggle + some specular highlights.

I think the reason the plain version doesn't feel like it is missing anything is because it doesn't really look like water beyond being symbolically recognizable as semantic water. The plain version would actually be better if it was opaque imo.

Some other #MastoBlaster screenshots, from the emulator