Is anybody else watching Justified?

It's been a really good season of tv, and last night's episode now has me thinking that this might achieve what (so far) only The Shield and Breaking Bad have done. I really think this last half-season is gonna do justice to the themes and style of the show, and are gonna be surprising, yet inevitable. I'm pretty excited about it.

BioShock trilogy is on Steam for $11.30 right now, y'all!

Owen said it perfectly, with a forum format, we all have exactly the same context if we're willing to not be (very very) lazy.

Hey y'all! In case you didn't know, they have made Unreal Engine 4 now completely free to anyone and everyone! I'm fiddling around with it for a pet project one of my coworkers suggested, and it is quite, quite delicious!
And I'm still totally blown away by how many free resources there are for being creative.

NEW CONTENT?!?

[voice cracks four octaves too high]

Update on my adventures in Tomb Raiding post:

Tomb Raider (2013) was excellent. It has a handful of tombs (tricky but simple puzzle-solving), so it's not so much Tomb Raider as Lara Croft: Origins. However, as far as a reboot beginning to tell the story of how Lara became Lara, it's really, really impressive. It leans towards third-person action, with all the classic jump-and-climb stuff, but I think it's really satisfying. I am thoroughly impressed. And oh my god, the environments are utterly gorgeous. And I don't recall another game (well, except for the Mass Effect trilogy) where I was this immersed in the game. Lara gets repeatedly and seriously fucked up by the environment, and I could almost feel it. I totally recommend this, even at full-price. I will definitely replay this in the not-too-distant future.

Tomb Raider I: Goddamn, it holds up well. I only ever played the third one as a kid, so this was new to me, but it does have some interesting and mind-wracking puzzles. I was gonna play it out of historical interest, but it held my attention all the way through. And, holy crap, the whole game was designed and made by a grand total of six people!
(Also, this might be the premiere animal-killing game. Yikes.)

Tomb Raider II: Equally fun and quite a bit harder, but still good. Although the level design can get confusing and needlessly complex (if you can complete the whole game without once referring to a walkthrough, I salute you).

On to Tomb Raider III, which I last played half my life ago....

edited: to make that a 4-period ellipsis. because, you know.

Paulou has a point though (pre-Klansmen comment), and also there are two complicated issues concerning this:

Misogyny and audience
Until Paulou brought it up, I just read avatar's post and brushed by it. Usually I speak up if something bothers me, so now I'm bothered by the fact that I didn't speak up. Sure, I get the whole thing of this is a small, close forum, so it meets most of the requirements for "know your audience" but on the other hand, some of our forum members are women, and Paulou's right about the comment being irrelevant and misogynistic. I wouldn't want anyone to feel that this is anything other than a safe environment. That kind of comment isn't something we want to encourage (and, in my book, based on everything that has been happening in America since August 9th, not speaking up about something is just as bad as endorsement. I'm not gonna argue this point, if you disagree, fine, but I'm not debating that).
I get the whole thing of "hey, relax, it was a joke", but gosh, that's really too easy to fall back on as an excuse. It's subtle, but that very quickly becomes "my sense of humour is more important than you feeling comfortable".

When and how to speak up
Teague has a point, too. Paulou's initial comment was terse and brusque. It has sharp edges to it, you know? And while I agree with why Paulou didn't like avatar's post, I don't think the tone of the response was that wise. I've spent the past 7 months trying to have discussions with people (close friends and strangers) about important issues and problems, and fuck, even with a kid-gloves approach, people get fucking defensive when you call them out in any way whatsoever. And it's even worse when it comes as an attack. There's a better way to confront people about stuff.

Though, of course, this is further complicated by the fact that the whole "hey, let's have a discussion" thing. If you're too far along the "everyone's entitled to their opinions" thing, it often just ends up with people "agreeing to disagree" and continuing with less-than-non-shitty behaviour.

Absolutely, yes.

You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Chrystie, and I won't have it! Is that clear? You think you've merely stopped a podcast. That is not the case! The fanboys have taken billions of page-views out of this network, and now they must put them back! It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity! It is ecological balance! You are a young man who thinks in terms of communities and peoples. There are no communities. There are no peoples. There are no fanboys. There are no fangirls. There are no geeks. There are no nerds. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast and immane, interwoven, interacting, multivariate, multinational dominion of social-media. Page-views, shares, follows, favourites, and retweets. It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today! And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature, and YOU... WILL... ATONE! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Chrystie? You get up on your little 128kbps audio stream and howl about Narrative and Payoffs. There is no Narrative. There are no Payoffs. There is only DIF, and FIYH, and WAYDM. Those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the fanboys talk about in their councils of state, the Hero's Journey? They get out their page-view counter, clicks-per-minute, social-media-network graphs, and compute the price-cost probabilities of their advertising revenue streams, just like we do. We no longer live in a world of commentary and character-arc, Mr. Chrystie. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of clickbait. Podcasts are a business, Mr. Chrystie. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Chrystie, to see that... perfect world... in which there's no fanwank, hit-whoring or entitlement. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Chrystie, to preach this evangel.

It's a good thing that Humphrey Bogart and Benedict Cumberbatch became actors, because the only other place we'd be destined to see those names appear would be on a sex offender register.