The first thing I ever read about Tomb Raider was years ago and one of the developers was gleefully explaining the genius behind the game which was, “She’ll be like a new Mario but better because Mario doesn’t have tits”.  There are people to this day who think girls don’t play games as much as guys because girls aren’t good at them.  There might be deeper reasons.  Anyway, I am not here to slag on sexist nerds, they do that well enough themselves, I am here to talk about Lara Croft, who has remarkably made the move from missile sized and shaped breasts on legs to a rather interesting character.  The new Tomb Raider is not really the greatest game I have ever played but I did find myself appreciating the Lara Croft not only has characterization but is not really a collection of stereo types, be it bad ass girl with guns or giggling sex kitten or whatever else it could have been.  I mean, I am not trying to convince anyone that this was written by Betty Friedan, this game is closer to snuff porn than Jane Eyre (seriously, the sounds they have her make! I guess it’s only snuff porn if you are as bad at the game as I am but still the moans and sexy whimpers and coos when she is hit or killed… plus, bosoms still heave, tank tops are still tight, I mean, they do have to move product.)  But my point is it is nice the game isn’t just, “She’s better than Mario, she has tits,” because she definitely fills an archetype that a lot of people have always found attractive, which is the real reason she’s here.  Strong, smart, sexy women of action.  She is touch, she is bad ass, but still feminine and with a tenderness.  It really makes her no different than a lot of the real people who get posted here, I don’t know them, none of you know them, but we know the image they project, which is a type.  We find the type appealing, it appeals to part of our personality, probably how we see ourselves as well.  Then also they are hot, though I am of the belief that’s not enough, there are a lot of hot women if you just check the tag for boobs, not all of them evoke a following or passion.  I seem to have lost any sort of point here, which is cool cause I don’t know that everything needs a point.  Well, if it does I will just claim the point is today I want to fuck Lara Croft.