You should always have some protest against gays or be a Grand Lord Wizard of the KKK or whatever in your background, so when you get inconvenienced for one reason you can incite the huge mass of dumbasses who think Christians are being persecuted into thinking it was for your exercising your freedom of speech.…

Aw, I wish that comment hadn't been deleted, just hidden so you had to click it. I always miss the fun comments, and then someone made a fun reply to me, and I didn't see even it. :(

It doesn't really have anything to do with Oz, it's just a mindlessly applied template that doesn't fit or comment on the characters or on society, aside from telling us about the presence of a handful of artists who can't imagine anything new. There were some interesting elements to the recent American McGee Alice…

Oh yeah, and trans-positive too!

It's amazing how Baum kind of accidentally made an incredibly feminist series of books, just because he wanted to make stories children love. Dorothy Gale was my childhood hero.

I wouldn't say Short's washed up; he seems to be picking and choosing roles he wants, leaving a lot of time for his music and family. That sounds like a good life.

I think you'll find, sir, that there was only one "Wizard of Oz" film, and there were never any sequels.

Well this sounds like garbage. I wish adaptations wouldn't take cues from that cruddy film (okay, it's a well-made film, but it does bad things to Oz themes and Judy Garland is pretty gross in her lolita dress), and used more of how Baum filled in the world in the sequels.

I can try anything because go to http://shopingonlineforfree… for all your online grocery shopping needs FOR FREE!!! but if I'm ever taken out of the whitelist, I'm going to be in SO much trouble. Disqus bot is just foaming at the mouth waiting for the chance to get at me.

Okay, let's see if this reply actually shows up in the discussion and isn't immediately marked as spam.

Now that I won't get spam blocked for this post, I'll explain that the code I added was "// ". That comments out the code on that line, disabling it and allowing you to be married regardless of gender.

Although the implication that computers are inherently homophobic IS pretty funny.

Edit: This post was complaining about the wrong thing; it turns out the Disqus bot has an extreme pathological hatred for fake C++ code, causing it to blacklist me from the site. I explain it in a little thread downwards if your search order is "newer", upwards if your search order is "older".

// if(a.gender != b.gender)
a.marry(b);

Ahahaha "The ability for same-sex relationships to occur in the game was not part
of the original game that launched in Japan, and that game is made up
of the same code that was used to localize it for other regions outside
of Japan."

This is in fact true:

My Snake story is that I misheard what he said in an early episode when he was accidentally freed from prison, and said to my friends in a perfect emulation of his voice, "All right! Time for a shopping spree!"

Unfortunately when it comes to the earliest video game, our computers are not yet fast enough to emulate it. "Tennis for Two" had players lob a ball back and forth across a "net". There wasn't any score and there was only one button to toss the ball in the opposite direction, so it was mostly just to show the…

Yeah, that's sloppy. The PDP-1 sold on release for US$120 000 in 1959, and was an amazing deal that got you top-of-the-line technology in an easily-maintained and extensible package. In 2014 bucks, that's around US$950 000.

Those would all have been remakes to my knowledge. This is an emulation of a PDP-1 playing Spacewar!, running off JavaScript. I don't know how long the MESS team's had this up and running, but it's quite a bit different and much closer to archival usability.