#notallpenguins #auckgate

The one thing that works amongst Rogue's endless collectables is the sea shanties. Every time you find one your crew learns a new song, which they sing while you sail the high seas. It's so simple - if you make the collectables give you a tangible reward for each one, finding them becomes an exciting thing rather than…

Ladies pinch, whores use rouge.

That's the one! I especially remember the first level in the chateau, mainly because the game was so hard. Lots of fun though, and great graphics for its time.

I'm talking about The Dead and the Dying. I probably undersold my enjoyment of the book above. It was really good! The shorter stories did perhaps feel a little light compared to previous volumes (although yeah, they're interconnected) though. I had heard a lot of people say Last of the Innocent is the high point of…

Which is why I wonder if there isn't something more to it.

So what did everyone else read this week?

I heard this opinion a lot after the announcement of the new Thor, and it does make sense, but I wonder if it's been addressed in the comic yet. Anyone?

GREAT SCROT!

That whole sequence is such an incredible spoof. Watching The Graduate years later, I laughed when I saw how bad an actor the guy in the gas station was.

Well, at least it does provide a convenient reason for the villains to be back to villainy after their change of hearts. Normally any kind of natural redemtion arc is undone with painful and clunky retcons.

Same here. Sometimes it sucks to be a trade-waiter when you see a particularly exciting #1 hit the stands.

I actually find the page quality in those Ultimate/Complete Collections to be a bit flimsy compared to the smaller TPBs. I still prefer them to those hulking great omnibuses though. They're just too big!

Learn to Fly and Breakout are the lesser tracks on that album, to me. Sad, because those songs are probably the biggest singles from it, and I really don't think they're indicative of the tone or quality of the album.

I think it was that fourth album that lifted them up to stadium rock status. The Foos were pretty much my favourite band as a teen in the 90s, and I remember always thinking they were underrated in (ie. missing from) magazine "Top 100 albums" style articles at the time. But One by One was the turning point, which is…

Now True Lies on the Mega Drive/Genesis, that was a great Arnie tie-in game. I think. I sure played it a bunch anyway, so it can't have been terrible. Hmm.

One of my favourite subverted tropes was in a little indie platformer that I now can't remember the name of (sorry). It's a game with a GLADOS-like unreliable narrator, and the first prompt you are given is something like "press space to jump". Pressing space makes your character explode.

Yup. Mmmhmm. That's right. Yeahyeahyeahyeahyeah.

That gladiator dude is called Gladiator.

It's just a simple sample.