{"id":20040,"date":"2013-06-08T23:22:21","date_gmt":"2013-06-09T04:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20040"},"modified":"2013-06-08T23:22:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-09T04:22:21","slug":"tomb-raider-ep2-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=20040","title":{"rendered":"Tomb Raider EP2: Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UYsqJtv8hnw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UYsqJtv8hnw'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>Adding to my commentary on the beartrap scene: I was confused over where everyone was going, but there&#8217;s still this problem where the group decides that Lara will go after Roth and they will go after Sam.  Lara says okay to this, but once everyone leaves she goes and takes a nap or whatever. I understand why she needed a sit-down, but I couldn&#8217;t help thinking, &#8220;If you weren&#8217;t up to the job, why did you accept it? Why didn&#8217;t you say you needed a rest? There were lots of people left to look for Roth.&#8221; It&#8217;s just that &#8211; to a non-player observer &#8211; it would kind of make Lara look a bit like an irresponsible jerk. (Imagine if Reyes said she was going to look for Sam and then jumped in a hammock.)<\/p>\n<p>The funny part is that if the cutscene had ended and left you standing there, I would have immediately turned around and returned to the campfire anyway to check my equipment and see if I leveled up, and I wouldn&#8217;t have felt like an irresponsible jerk for doing so. Heh. I mean, I&#8217;m sure Roth is a nice guy and he might need my help or whatever but OMG LEVEL UP POINTS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) Adding to my commentary on the beartrap scene: I was confused over where everyone was going, but there&#8217;s still this problem where the group decides that Lara will go after Roth and they will go after Sam. Lara says okay to this, but once everyone leaves she goes and takes a nap or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[208,138],"class_list":["post-20040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-spoiler-warning","tag-tomb-raider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}