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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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This fucking guy 😑

I think the stuffie that my boyfriend chooses to cuddle instead of me is like the physical embodiment of a custom slur that is made just to target me, and to fully encompass all of what makes me, me in a degrading way.

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I think the stuffie that my boyfriend chooses to cuddle instead of me is like the physical embodiment of a custom slur that is made just to target me, and to fully encompass all of what makes me, me in a degrading way.

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who is this lost sassy child and why is it on a battlefield

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I'm IN LOVE with the way you draw the Domino Twins. They are so goofy, I love them so much (Canon can not hurt me if I close my eyes)

THEYRE MY ACTUAL FAVORITES i tried to reunite them on my shelf but couldnt find them from the same brand so now i have this kind of big echo and his tiny brother fives

one of them asked for no pickles idk who tho

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have some uhhhhh clone content based on sth from one of @tattycoram 's incorrect quotes :]

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you just hate the cis because of the things that they did

I hate the cis because it is led by the treacherous count dooku

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Man I can't help but feel so bad for poor Katz. Like literally the Mystery Inc are trying to pull his damn face off, thinking it was a mask.

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freaky barber who does freaky barberous things

also muriel ^_^ and my human design for courage..poor little guy in the middle of nowhere just wants to keep his adopted gramma safe

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🐱🐶

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dickie grayson sketches….. is this anything.

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i saw ubausagi (top right) from the unused pokemon leaks and immediately entered a trancelike state and did not stop until i was done drawing this. if ubausagi has one fan that fan is me 🐰

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digital painting practice ft. strawbaby jellycat 🍓

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Ok so I had been recommended Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn series by someone a while ago but only recently dedicated to collecting used copies of some of his books and relaly digging in. This was after I'd heard a little of the type of person he is and was genuinely interested in his work. So I just finished the original Mistborn trilogy, consuming it in like a casual week and a half of bedtime reading and I NEED to know if other people have thoughts on how he handled the philosophical discussion on religion!

So I personally was really blown away with his writing skills in many ways and got really invested in the characters with only some slight nitpicks about overall story structure and a few choices. But I'm also a big philosophy nerd who focused on ethics in general and philosophy of religion (im a staunch athiest btw). And so Sanderson's thematic elements and also just bare philosophical questions on these topics were super fun to engage with for me. I also was always interested in the difficulties of running democracy in a pre-technological age which was also heavily explored in the second book.

HOWEVER, Mr. Brandon here really let me down near the end of the last book when it came to Sazed's whole religous journey and the philosophical discussion of religion it led. So while I'm an athiest, I was fully expecting and happy to see Sazed regain his belief in something by the end, and was actually very excited to see the arguement made in favor of this choice. Like I read Aquinas' proofs for god and many other arguements, for fun. I enjoy eganging with these well thought arguements for religion. I also was super impressed with his discussion on how non-religous belief works, such as Vin and Elend's belief in each other because its a fascinating topic a lot of religous and athiests like to ignore. BUT THEN after an entire books worth of Sazed making some of the strongest basic philosophical arguments against religion (and most not even made as much of a strawman) through his desperate search for something to believe in, Brandon just gives us the most simplistic and uncompelling reasoning for believing in any one religion?!?

Like this completely caught me off guard. He just decides that because one of the times he begged for a sign, someone said something to him, after the countless other times he begged and no one said anything. And that doesn't really even answer why he chose the religion he did choose. Like the reason he chose that one is because it was actually real and he literally had received direct proof that it was real prior and especially after that point. But he also compares this with the belief and trust Vin placed in the crew, which he had already kinda explained through the story why that was different. Vin didnt just choose to trust them without ever meeting them or having any proof they even exsist! Like she got to know them and then based on her experience with them, decided to trust them. But the icing on the cake here is that Sazed's belief wasnt actially justified in the end. His trust that someone else would make it all right in the end didnt happen, he himself had to instead take it into his own hands to make everything alright, LITERALLY he took up the power of the gods himself and fixed everthing. This resolution of Sazed's story along with the themes about interpersonal trust and belief actually better serve as an argument supporting something like existentialism, making your own meaning and believing in those around you. Did anyone else find this part of Mistborn to be pretty weak and disappointing? Especially after all that build up with a lot of solid philosophical discussion?

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How it feels to have friends and hang out with them

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im telling you all... its so worth it to spend a whole evening make 100 million homemade gyoza (even though it takes so long) and freezing them all to have perfect delicious gyoza just the way you like them anytime you want at a moments notice. they seriously take like 10 minutes to prepare from frozen and they are so good. i just had a dumplings and noodles feast you wish you were me

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My faith in humanity has been restored

A strange alien doctor stands near the unconscious body of Padme Amidala. “It appears she has lost the will to live.” A older man with a limp hobbles closer with the aid of a cane. “That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard,” says Dr. Gregory House.