#scrambled review

[ganondoodle]

*listening to schubert: complete symphonies on low volume*

*LOUD CRUNCHING NOISE OF SOMEONE EATING CHIPS DIRECTLY INTO YOUR EAR AT FULL VOLUME and a guy starting to say 'sorry you missed that solo-* before managing to hit reload, now wide awake

being used to having adblock on everthing unfortunately makes you very vunerable to getting jumpscared by an ad on youtube slipping through

[uraosol]

SO I FINALLY MADE A LETTERBOXD ACC AND DEAR LORD!!!!!! THIS REVIEW OF BE OHHH MY GOD MY F CKN HEART, IT'S WHY THIS SERIES HAS BECOME SUCH A COMFORT SHOW FOR ME IMMM SOOOO

[blueskittlesart]

profs will set the due date for the final as april 24 and then STILL NOT HAVE THE FUCKING ASSIGNMENT UP TO SUBMIT THE PAPER BY 11PM ON APRIL TWENTY FUCKING THIRD

[astralleywright]

thinking about "murder is okay" still. more than anything i think a lot of people just say shit in meta bc it sounds evocative and vaguely gestures at an actual point

[porto-rosso]

brother where is the charles appreciation

[deepfriedseagullfeet]

gonna start filming today for youtube!! i want to make clay items for my family for christmas and i think it would be fun to share the process and maybe inspire others with gift ideas?? idk ive been really wanting to film something cool, i have all of this week off work (BAD) so im going to try and be productive with my time. as well as apply for other jobs

[thatenbyreviewer]

Scrambly Gaming App

*this link is an affiliate link* I started my "game for pay" app journey with Mistplay, so I'll be comparing most of the apps I review here to that. Mistplay used to pay out pretty instantly. However, recently they seem to use a 3rd party to pay out which now seems to take a couple of days. Paypal payouts are my default unless an app doesn't offer them, and then I'll usually go for Google Play credit to boost the other apps that do offer Paypal.

I haven't been on Scrambly for long, but I was able to cash out $1.00 pretty quickly by playing Merge Hotel Empire: Design. This is your typical merging game, and it's fun enough. I didn't see too many ads and it was enjoyable enough to play for that. The payout went through quickly - that being said you DO have to verify your identity by uploading your ID and a selfie.

Feel free to ask any questions about either the game or the scrambly app. I will post an update at a later time after I've been on the platform longer.

[rooksgambits]

had to lowkey tell my prof i need an extra couple of days for an assignment due today coz i didn't realize it has to be like 2 pages long......

[pallases]

i lov. not studying <3

[floral-hex]

Got a month’s prescription of klonopin. Wish I could find out how other people are affected by it, but all I find are posts about getting fucked up. I mean, I guess good for y’all, but not very helpful for me 🤷🏻‍♂️

[brothersperspectiveartvid]

Underground Feed Back Stereo - Brothers Perspective Magazine - Personal Opinion Database - dont ever respect colonial oppressors #colonialoppression #woke #africa #brothersperspectivemagazine #france #dutch #UK

Underground Feed Back Stereo – Brothers Perspective Magazine – Personal Opinion Database – dont ever respect colonial oppressors Black People suffer in a place many are void of Self Awareness and Dignified Liberation. These europeons stole the land by killing the natives of lands but not to share with the original inhabitant or those they enslaved. These tyrants are negative to the core and cant…

[13flowersandfoxes]

Man I love when I lead a review session and every question is met with blank looks. But half the questions I asked are the same as their professor asked in lecture this morning.

[universalsatan]

sometimes i forget how distinctly american my mother is, and how we are generally a product of our surroundings

[iloveabunchofgames]

#JakeReviewsItch

Absolute Blue

by joemanaco

Price: Name your own price

Included In: Bundle for Ukraine

Genre: Shooter

Pitch: A horizontal shoot-them-up set in space.

My expectations: The overly smooth, shiny, pre-rendered art style, with all its mismatched pieces, is so working for me. Itch doesn't usually attract the harshest critics for free, little indie games, but the average user review score is a shockingly low 1.3/5. Good or bad, I'm psyched to take a crack at this for myself.

Review:

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A spaceship flies to the right, shooting enemies, weaving through tight spaces, and collecting power-ups.

There’s nothing wrong with a space shooter that sticks to genre conventions. (See my glowing review of 1993 Space Machine.) We know what works. Konami established the modern horizontal-scrolling shmup in place with 1981’s Scramble and cemented the form with Gradius in 1985. It is a solved genre. Absolute Blue knows how these games are supposed to work, but it has no idea why they work. It bungles all the details.

Long stretches without enemies or obstacles are common. Sometimes they’re littered with a few items. Most of them just add to the score (yippie…), though some increase weapon spread. Get one or two, and holding down the fire button nearly fills the screen with rapid shots. Enemies go down quickly and inflict minimal damage, which is good, because their shots are all but impossible to see among the relentless barrage of excessive, glowing explosions.

Walls, however, are instant death. They’re also often obscured by explosions and particle effects, and thanks to the spaceship’s eight-directional, single speed controls, precise moves are out of the question.

+ Looks the part. + Raining death in all directions

– Boring, slapped-together level design. – A baffling mix of ridiculously easy and punishingly cruel. I couldn't get through the first level. There are three difficulty levels, and as far as I can tell, they're all identical. – Excessive effects make it difficult to see what's happening and cause way more slowdown than a sprite-based, 640x480 game should on a modern PC. – Runs exclusively at 640x480. On my 1080p TV, full screen is a blurry mess, and windowed is itty-bitty. I messed around with dgVoodoo 2 to force better scaling options, which does look better, but this game is not worth that kind of effort.

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Bottom Line: Not abysmal, and it's free, but with hundreds of better horizontal shooters, why would you bother?

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[rickchung]

Scrambled (dir. Leah McKendrick).

Being a (single) woman (past your mid-thirties) seems pretty terrible. McKendrick makes a charming and blunt comedy about the perils of waiting until you are "ready" to settle down when everyone else and even your body considers you past your prime.