I watched Sixteen Candles for the first time this week. I don’t what exactly I was expecting from it, but goddamn the male characters have not aged well. They go from infuriating to chilling in the space of about 40 minutes, and nobody comes off well as a result.

Ugh, it’s like that Episode app got turned into a TV show.

Yes.

I’d argue a lot of things are better than Spaceballs, to be honest.

I don’t have a horse in this race (having yet to watch either film) but I feel like there’s two things in play here. I mean, Blazing Saddles may have something more meaningful to say than Young Frankenstein, but is it funnier? And is that a distinction the BBC made when putting this list together?

I’m glad I’m not too fussed about getting a SNES classic because the idea of jumping through this many hoops for a goddamn box of emulators is ridiculous. I mean, I hope you enjoy it, but it sucks the stars had to align just so you could preorder it.

I want to read this comic.

I think this was probably the best path Lego could have taken for a project like this. If The Lego Movie (and the likes of Clutch Powers) have shown us anything it’s that making a properly Lego-ified animation needs a lot of money and effort throwing at it to look halfway decent. Sidestepping that and acknowledging…

Apparently the ‘girlified’ Lego is far more popular with its target audience than the conventional stuff; it’s not a case of Lego foisting a stereotypical view of femininity on girls so much as girls preferring the design of those sets. And really, I suppose that’s all that really matters.

My starting world was a toxic planet where I died within 15 minutes because I didn’t know mining in full sight of the robots was a bad idea. Trudging across the wasteland for a good half an hour with failing life support just to fix my ship made for an interesting start.

Here in the UK, Lego rereleases last year’s Winter Village set around the same time as the new one. I was able to get the updated Winter Toy Shop last year as a result.

This looks lovely; I’m a big train fan so this is basically a must buy for me. It’s a shame last year’s holiday train was a bit crappy, though.

I am so glad I left secondary school before smartphones (and technology) reached this level of ubiquity in our lives. It sounds like a goddamn nightmare.

If we are treating Stranger Things as a mashup, it’s only because we’ve reached a point in our culture where creating something truly original is next to impossible. From that perspective, it’s only natural that we think about TV shows or films or what have you in terms of their similarities to other TV shows or films…

It’s a Fun Pack, which means no story component; just an Adventure World to play in. It does raise the question of how it got greenlit as a Lego set, however.

I imagine the number of Switch owners who will never ever take their Switch out the dock is vanishingly low, to be honest. In any case, that is beside the point. I should be able to buy an expensive piece of hardware without it literally distorting from general use.

The problem with Sonic CD is that its levels aren’t quite geared up to exploit the time travel mechanic, and seeing everything the game has to offer quickly devolves into busywork. The special stages are technically impressive, but infuriating to actually play. You can’t really treat it as a conventional Sonic game,…

Since the Wii supports both Gamecube games and component cables, it undermines this line of thought a bit. Unless you’re wanting to play GBA or GB games at 480p, but how big a group of people is that?

You do know there was actually a sequel to this, right?

I Kickstarted the PDF and just got the last instalment. It’s a painful, powerful read, and exactly the sort of comic that needs more attention. Getting it turned into a film is a great idea.