{"id":25614,"date":"2015-01-07T18:32:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T23:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25614"},"modified":"2015-01-07T18:37:01","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T23:37:01","slug":"last-of-us-ep34-giraffes-are-cool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=25614","title":{"rendered":"Last of Us EP34: Giraffes Are Cool"},"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\/6ARsQVBfYM4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen class=\"embed\"><\/iframe><br\/><small><a href='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6ARsQVBfYM4'>Link (YouTube)<\/a><\/small><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>At this point in the game &#8211; just as we finally enter the home stretch &#8211; I&#8217;m finally going to get to play The Last of Us for myself. I now own a Playstation 4, along with GTA V and TLOU. These arrived via UPS with no note or indication of who bought them. I have my guess, but I don&#8217;t want to say anything until I know for sure. The important thing is that someone was very very good to me and I am very grateful. This is exactly the package I would have picked for myself. <\/p>\n<p>This is the penultimate episode of the season. It&#8217;s been a good run. I feel sort of bad about stepping all over our discussion of the ending in <a href=\"?p=25593\" title=\"Experienced Points: In The Last of Us, Joel Had It Right\">my column yesterday<\/a>, but I think there&#8217;s plenty of stuff left to discuss beyond, &#8220;How stupid and useless are the Fireflies and are they worse than Cerberus?&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m curious: Can you shoot these animals, and does Ellie react? We didn&#8217;t want to do the experiment and risk the wrath of Mumbles if it turned out the Giraffes were mortal.<\/p>\n<p>The scene just before you leave the Giraffes behind is kind of interesting. As far as either of them knows, this shouldn&#8217;t be a big deal. Ellie is just expecting to be &#8220;studied&#8221;. They should be relieved to be done with travel and danger and fighting for survival for a few days.  But the dialog flows as if they both know this is going to be a bigger deal than any of the challenges they just faced. The only explanation I can think of is that Joel thinks they are about to part ways. <\/p>\n<p>And finally: Exhibit Z in the &#8220;Proof that the Fireflies suck at everything&#8221; files: The tunnel leading to their hideout is the most heavily zombie-infested place in the entire game. How long have they been here and not dealt with the monsters on their doorstep? Don&#8217;t they need to come and go once in a while? And while we&#8217;re at it, I should point out that with no viable means of trade or farming, <em>there&#8217;s nothing for the Fireflies to eat<\/em>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Link (YouTube) At this point in the game &#8211; just as we finally enter the home stretch &#8211; I&#8217;m finally going to get to play The Last of Us for myself. I now own a Playstation 4, along with GTA V and TLOU. These arrived via UPS with no note or indication of who bought [&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":[439],"class_list":["post-25614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoilerwarning","tag-the-last-of-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25614","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=25614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}