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Author: | DFK! [ Fri Nov 27, 2009 3:29 pm ] |
Post subject: | Waiting on your new gaming guide? Delayed by DHS! |
http://reason.com/archives/2009/11/27/m ... ttack-amer Quote: In July the Department of Homeland Security acted swiftly to protect America’s cities from Martians, giant dinosaurs, and Lovecraftian horrors from another dimension. The DHS intercepted the first shipment of a strategy guide for the role-playing game Monsterpocalypse—in which players attempt to conquer the planet using “collectible miniatures portraying the most fearsome giant monsters on Earth!”—when it arrived in the United States.
“There was a lot of head shaking,” says William Shick, a marketer at the guide’s publisher, Privateer Press. “We thought it was ridiculous.” Shick had a hard time convincing his loyal customers that the episode wasn’t an elaborate, publicity-seeking hoax. The company remains unsure why the government flagged the guide and held up its release for a week, though Shick speculates that “certain words like base caused red flags.” This isn’t the first time gamers have had trouble with the law. In a 1990 raid on the offices of Steve Jackson Games, Secret Service agents seized copies of a guide to GURPS Cyberpunk, claiming the game’s rules were a “handbook of computer crime.” Jeff Winkler (winkler.freelance@gmail.com) is a copy editor at the Northwest Arkansas Times. |
Author: | Nevandal [ Mon Nov 30, 2009 11:56 am ] |
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>.< wat |
Author: | FarSky [ Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:02 pm ] |
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You callous bastards. Don't you remember that horrific day when muslin terrorists burned alive so many Americans by summoning Cthugha? That our very Pentagon was demolished by Saa'itii, the dread Hogge? You call this overreaction, but we call it protection! We shall never forget! |
Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Mon Nov 30, 2009 1:04 pm ] |
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Hmm. I should bring a GURPS Cyberpunk book into an IT job interview to prove my security credentials. |
Author: | Vindicarre [ Sat Dec 05, 2009 6:31 pm ] |
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FarSky wrote: You callous bastards. Don't you remember that horrific day when muslin terrorists burned alive so many Americans by summoning Cthugha? Damn those cotton SOB's! |
Author: | Monte [ Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:24 am ] |
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Muslin terrorists, FarSky? What have you against cheap canvas? |
Author: | Darkroland [ Fri Dec 11, 2009 12:38 am ] |
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Monte wrote: Muslin terrorists, FarSky? What have you against cheap canvas? Mueslix terrorists, FarSky? What have you against toasted whole grains with raisins, dates, and almonds? |
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