A cow-orker of mine mentioned this card a few months before it was actually released. "Transparent water," he would say, wistfully. I wasn't convinced it would

A cow-orker of mine mentioned this card a few months before it was actually released. "Transparent water," he would say, wistfully. I wasn't convinced it would be that interesting. We both bought cards. I was convinced. I really wish I'd gotten back into game programming then (I was doing mostly systems stuff, boring things like storage and operating systems). It would have been a lot of fun.