I Posted This To Pillowfort Earlier But A Couple Days Ago I Did An Unfinished Redraw Of This Older Sketch

i posted this to Pillowfort earlier but a couple days ago i did an unfinished redraw of this older sketch from 2023 of Salesman Barry and High-rank Craig together :3 Barry had a really rough day trying to sell his gramophones and he's struggling to deal with his financial issues and pressure to uphold a family tradition, and Craig can understand how he feels as he has to work for a pretty shitty boss (cough cough brains), and his job as a scientist, while enjoyable, was partially pursued out of being pressured as well.

(the old drawing in question)

(you can't even see them properly....)

additionally: i have created a digital redraw that's still a work in progress but i thought it looked good so i'm posting it :) i have been trying a newer style from my earlier digital stuff and i think it works well with the Jetpack Joyride characters!!

the Pillowfort post has an earlier version with slightly different tears and colouring and stuff, i wanted to put a more up to date version here. also fanon Craig with colour for the first time!?!?!?!?? what!!! i like to think Craig wore a similarish kind of outfit to Runingunin when he first appears in Brains' lab in AOZ. i like to think Craig would wear a "Trust Data Not Lore" t-shirt underneath his coat loll

WHAT THE GFUCK IS GOING ON

WE ARE REACHING INTO PSYCHOLOGICAL JHORROR TERRITORY WITH THIS ONE IM. THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY INTRIGUING???!?? i LOVE the idea of legit research being secretly super fucked up!?!?!!! PETER SIMPKINS!?!?? HELLO??!?? is. is Criag a clone of Barry's dad?? is THIS what's happening??? i think. Brains had a vlose relationship to Barry's family, probably founding Legit Research with good intentions, however he fell into villainy unable to properly deal with Simpkins' death..,. also HE TURNED AUSTRALIAN AT THE END THEY TURNED HIM AUSTAALI. HE'S AUTRALIA. HE'S DEFINITELY RELatED TO BARRY IN SOME WAY!!! he was able to break through solid metal like his son!!! am j. im hoing insane HOLY cow holy shit im. sorry this is very incoherent i literally just woke up

cool epic guide on how to unlock Barry in DTM for free without needing other people to download the game!!!!

exactly what it says on the tin, a little step-by-step guide on how to unlock the goober himself without having to harass five friends (and then lose five friends) to download the game!!!

what you need:

two mobile devices that can run DTM (both can be real phones or one or both of them can be emulated; either will work as they function exactly the same). one of them will be your main device that you want to unlock Barry on, while the other will function as your "friend"'s device.

at least five separate gmail addresses that do not have any Google Play Games data related to DTM (protip: you can just keep making as many new gmail addresses on your main mobile device through the Google app as you need without it eventually asking for your phone number)

DTM on your main device

(oh and make sure you're logged onto your Google Play Games account on your main device before you do this. also: this guide only works with Android devices. i don't have an ios device to test this out with im sorry apple users)

step one: open your "friend" device and create a new Google Play Games account using one of the five gmail accounts you made before doing the process. make sure that you set it so that account can be searched via its associated email (meatball menu -> settings -> "Let others find your profile using your email address" under Profile and Privacy). on your main device, open the Google Play Games app, tap on your profile, search up the email address of the friend GPG account (located under your tag) and send that account a friend request.

step two: on your main device, tap on Barry in the character selection menu, tap the "OR GET IT FOR FREE" button on the purchase popup, tap the "INVITE NOW" button on the invite popup, then tap the "INVITE WITH EMAIL" button on that popup. it should directly open to gmail for you to send a referral link to your "friend" account (if it doesn't, the "MORE" button should let you open gmail there). send that email and hope it finds your "friend" well.

step three (very important): on your "friend" device, open up gmail and install the game directly using that link. it won't work if you install the game from google play without clicking that link. wait for it to install and make sure to sign in with your GPG account before doing anything in the app. if all is well and you're signed in, play through the prologue in its entirety.

step four: if this works correctly, you should be able to open DTM on your main device and see that you have received the King's Goon reward.

step five (also very important): on your "friend" device, exit out of DTM and go into the GPG app, go to your profile settings and delete all of your data associated with Dan The Man, then uninstall it. you can delete your data from GPG's settings. the reason this is necessary is to prevent any data fuckery with the game thinking you've already done the prologue even if you're signed in on another account, as that data is also stored locally on your device. delete the game and its data, and then log out of that GPG account as it will not be needed from now on. you can also delete that account too if you want to, but it's not super necessary.

step six: go all the way back to step one and create a new Google Play Games account, this time using another email that hasn't been used for this before. repeat this process until you receive Barry Steakfries on your main device. if you mess up, create a new gmail address and delete all your DTM data on the "friend account".

this process is kinda long and tedious, but it works really well and is pretty much the only way i can think of getting Barry for free without needing 5 other people and having to rely on a modded apk that doesn't even work when you install it anyway. this SHOULD be all the steps needed.

SIR A SECOND JETPACK JOYRIDE LORE DUMP HAS HIT THE LABORATORY

WHAT THE GFUCK IS GOING ON

WE ARE REACHING INTO PSYCHOLOGICAL JHORROR TERRITORY WITH THIS ONE IM. THIS IS ACTUALLY REALLY INTRIGUING???!?? i LOVE the idea of legit research being secretly super fucked up!?!?!!! PETER SIMPKINS!?!?? HELLO??!?? is. is Criag a clone of Barry's dad?? is THIS what's happening??? i think. Brains had a vlose relationship to Barry's family, probably founding Legit Research with good intentions, however he fell into villainy unable to properly deal with Simpkins' death..,. also HE TURNED AUSTRALIAN AT THE END THEY TURNED HIM AUSTAALI. HE'S AUTRALIA. HE'S DEFINITELY RELatED TO BARRY IN SOME WAY!!! he was able to break through solid metal like his son!!! am j. im hoing insane HOLY cow holy shit im. sorry this is very incoherent i literally just woke up

something about Cohost going read-only last week feels very... deeply saddening to me in a way i'm not sure i can verbalise with emotions alone. like there's a sense of bittersweet sadness seeing everybody pour their hearts out for the dying platform, celebrating the life it had, saddening eulogies and pieces of vibrant art, joyfully commiting all the css crimes they can before the inevitability of read-only mode hits them... and then suddenly, when the clock strikes 12 on the last day, it all goes silent. the posts stop being posted. the endless voices of the users go eerily quiet. the site freezes in time, not quite dead yet but very much not alive anymore. it has effectively become a rotting time capsule, slowly waiting for the day everything goes offline for the final time ever. we all knew it was coming, and yet it still feels like it took us all by surprise when it happened. Cohost is now a shell of its former self. it feels like walking through a hall of crumbling stone people, captured in their final moments of celebration, sadness, reflection, all no longer living but still looking as though they were, terracotta ghosts slowly rotting away.

i think the quote "I felt a disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced" fits really well with how this makes me feel. this sounds like a VERY strong way to feel about a silly website with eggs and bugs and css tomfoolery, but it's always sad to see a cornerstone of the internet that held a tight-knit community of thousands of people disappear into the ether, especially in such a slow and quiet way. looking at the site in the state it is now gives a lonely sort of sadness. staring in the face of a community frozen in time and knowing it was once vibrant and lively just a year ago. it's a very weird feeling.

crack game theory: these two are the same person in different universes

i mean like. lookat em. they're both so similar to each other. the flower motif, the messing with ancient magic (Everfree's magic and the nightmare fuel magic of The Constant), the evil ruler monster transformation that brings incredible power to both Gloriosa and Charlie including the ability to manipulate nature... in the Legend of Everfree Movie, Timber Spruce tells a story of an ancient spirit who is basically the guardian of the forest of Everfree named Gaea, who is first seen emerging from the darkess with nothing but two glowing eyes being visible, and Gloriosa later scares everyone when she walks towards the campfire in a similar way (which is foreshadowing for her later role as a villain). in the 'A New Reign' cinematic for Don't Starve Together, Charlie emerges from the shadows just like Gloriosa, with her eyes being the first visible thing to appear from the darkness. and like... she's literally the thing that kills you in the darkness. conclusion: Gloriosa is Charlie's mlpsona /j