Month: December 2017

You Can Now Play the First LGBTQ Computer Game, For the First Time

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You Can Now Play the First LGBTQ Computer Game, For the First Time

thetransintransgenic:

Caper in the Castro is a legendary video game, not because
legions of die-hard fans continue to play it, but because it was thought
to be lost forever. Now, what is largely considered to be the first
LGBTQ-focused video game (it was released in 1989) is on the Internet Archive for anybody to play.

The game is a noir point-and-click that puts the player in the
(gum)shoes of a private detective named Tracker McDyke who is, in case
you couldn’t guess by the name, a lesbian. McDyke must unravel the
mystery behind the disappearance of Tessy LaFemme, a transgender woman,
in San Francisco’s Castro district, an historically gay neighbourhood.

OOOOOHhh!

The game was released as charityware – freely, with a strong request to give a donation an AIDS Charity of their choice. I’d like to push towards still following that and donating, if you’re able.

(And you might also want to donate to the Internet Archive, who is hosting it now, while you’re at it – they’re in the middle of a donation drive, and could use your support.)

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airyairyquitecontrary:

luckyandbad:

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aph-shy:

spirits-of-kin:

suaimhneas-peace:

saisai-chan:

imagine being able to read lips and reading the lips of someone who’s lip-sinking a song, except they don’t know the lyrics at all so they’re just mouthing bullshit and hoping to get by w/o anyone noticing, but you do. you notice. you know

i think about this a lot

as someone who can read lips, it’s actually really annoying

#i imagine this is the equivalent of knowing morse code and hearing random things at a tapdancing class – @saisai-chan

when Mom was in language school, there was a dude that knew/was learning morse code, and of course all the students decided that meant they had to mess w him (bc they were students and needed to have fun in class?)

everytime this dude started nodding off and half-sleeping someone would start tapping their pencil on their desk and pretty soon the dude would snap up and call out a random word like “Tree!”

and then realize what’s going on, and get super annoyed at everyone

My middle school history teacher stopped teaching Morse code because kids were using it to cheat on tests by blinking answers to each other.

excellent, excellent post, terrific contributions, all of you

my Grandfather knows Morse code, and when he was teaching had 2 kids cheat on a test by tapping pencils to send answers to each other. When they handed their papers in he tapped “you have both failed” at them without looking up from his newspaper.

this is some shit those Stranger Things children would do