Dex @Dex@scalie.club

i've made some strange licensing agreements over the years

an animatronic for that pizzeria that got shut down over health concerns

a pinata (photo pending on that one)

a plush so large it takes up most of the room

so for summer, here's a pooltoy that takes up most of your pool!

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art by @DarkOverord ! artist post pending

there's a city with ~100 buildings laid out in a neat grid

most are of equivalent size & shape, many stories tall
workplaces
homes
parks

the citizens never leave
there is a creature that casually pushes buildings into the ground (though they spring up again)

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I sit down at my keyboard and begin typing.

the longer the uk heatwave goes on, the worse my shitposts will get

...and a more mountainous follow up

a STEEP themed commission from @goattrain@birdsite, featuring @phenokage !

artist's submission: https://twitter.com/goattrain/status/1013542710563819527

I was outbid, i'll have to keep an eye out for any other cheap deals

just put a bid on a used iPad

my grandmother's iPad is the most important electronic device in her life
but she's having more problems navigating around iOS 11 than she used to be

the multitasking stuff keeps popping up when she's not expecting it
and I don't know the gestures to change things or dismiss them because the iPhone doesn't have them

and iOS 12 is meant to change them all the iPad gestures again

and often when i notice that i've hit a checkpoint in any game (be that an explicit one like a crate in crash, or just an auto-save at the right place), i'll (mentally or verbally) make the checkpoint noise from that game
(which was just someone saying checkpoint in a few dramatic ways, but still)

here's a quick example (just downloaded the trial on my old lumia 640 since the ms store seems to have forgotten that i own it???)

there was a time back in 2011/2012 when my windows phone (a samsung omnia 7) was the only web browsing device/gaming platform i had access to - literally everything else was in storage

one of the games i played a hell of a lot was chickens can't fly - an (at the time) exclusive game about plummeting down a tube and dodging hazards (https://www.amusedsloth.com/games/chickens-cant-fly/)

there are some nice quality of life improvements (stuff like the load/save interface being unified, crash 1 and 2 now having time trials... although i never liked those much in the first place, crash 2's secret warp room being easy to re-visit)

but i feel like they could have done a bit more?
subtitles would be a start
but i also don't think the addition of a "casual" difficulty would have hurt (even if that's just an aku aku after every death)

i got part way through crash 1 (second island), got a bit too frustrated, switched to crash 2

there are some odd omissions from crash 2
it feels like some cutscenes are missing (surely there was something warning you you were about to fight ripper roo?)
and i don't know what it was like on ps4, but on switch, the impressive reflection effect on the ice walls/floor in the snow levels is completely missing

i can't tell if i've just gotten bad at these games or if something isn't quite right with the controls

the movement does feel more fluid when using the analogue stick than I think it did in the original games, but at the cost of some precision when using analogue stick or d-pad?

i think i'm also having some trouble perceiving depth in some of the levels leading to more deaths than is necessary