Seizing three computers, two laser printers, and the master copy of GURPS Cyberpunk. Why did they do this
On March 1, 1990, the Secret Service raided the offices of Steve Jackson Games
Asher Bailey
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Jeremiah Kelly
bump for how this guy knew what he did when he did. who is this guy really?
Zachary Jones
How does Gary Gygax know so much about the "underdark?"
Alexander Sanders
???
Adam King
Jose Sanders
Do you actually not know? Someone was accessing things they shouldn't have been from the offices of Steve Jackson Games.
Seems pretty obvious.
Daniel Anderson
I don't know. Why don't you tell us?
Julian Johnson
Parker Gray
You lazy niggers.
>sjgames.com
Why was SJ Games raided? That was a mystery until October 21, 1990, when the company finally received a copy of the Secret Service warrant affidavit – at their request, it had been sealed. And the answer was . . . guilt by remote association.
While reality-checking the book, Loyd Blankenship corresponded with a variety of people, from computer security experts to self-confessed computer crackers. From his home, he ran a legal BBS which discussed the "computer underground," and he knew many of its members. That was enough to put him on a federal List of Dangerous Hoodlums! The affidavit on which SJ Games were raided was unbelievably flimsy . . . Loyd Blankenship was suspect because he ran a technologically literate and politically irreverent BBS, because he wrote about hacking, and because he received and re-posted a copy of the /Phrack newsletter. The company was raided simply because Loyd worked there and used its (entirely different) BBS!
As for GURPS Cyberpunk, it had merely been a target of opportunity . . . something "suspicious" that the agents picked up at the scene. The Secret Service allowed SJ Games (and the public) to believe, for months, that the book had been the target of the raid.
Alexander Rivera
i dont know but steve jackson was a pretty good running back
Josiah Wright
Liam Davis
this.
thanks but what about the illuminati stuff
Jack Jackson
>why did they do this
>Those numbers
>that date
>that logo
I don’t think they did
James Price
that card is from a different game. That is the illuminati box set, Not the collectible card game which predates it.
Kayden Ward
oh hai cia user
William Bell
>>thanks but what about the illuminati stuff
This is why I raw dog millenial women and let you cucks raise my children so they won't be as lazy as you wetbacks.
SJG's Illuminati BBS was the BBS that Blankenship was also playtesting GURPS Cyberpunk, and since HIS BBS was taken down they also took down SJG's BBS since he posted on the forums at IO.
>sjgames.com
The Illuminati BBS officially went online on April 1, 1986. It ran on T-Net software (written in BASIC) on an Apple ][+, with a screaming 300-baud modem. Our first hardware upgrade was a lower-case chip for the Apple . .
The sysop was Fearless Leader. The actual identity of Fearless Leader was officially a secret. It wasn't Steve. Who was it? Good question.
The board's original purpose was game playtesting, discussion, and customer support. But soon it was clear that the Illuminati's online community was interested in much more than just games. Over the next few years, the user base grew to more than 1,000 – most of them paying long-distance rates to call – to discuss everything related to science fiction, fantasy, comics, gaming and general High Weirdness.
Fun with the Secret Service . . . Not!
Late in 1989, we switched to WWIV, a popular commercial software package which promised the capability to link to other BBSs nationwide. But that was not to be . . On March 1, 1990, the SJ Games offices were raided by the Secret Service, in a now-famous "hacker hunt." They took the Illuminati computer (among other things) and loads of software, including our WWIV disks.
The TCG is far more hilarious.
Brandon James
Remember, aim for the glow.
Jayden Foster
LARP. Why doesn't Jow Forums create a card game like this? A completely un-PC'ed non-faggot (but with faggots who are we gonna beat) wizard sleeve of a good time
Juan Cox
checked, thanks for the input user
Levi Davis
Checked back at you.
FNORD.
Jayden Torres
Because
>Is over there. Even if it's Jow Forums the TCG.
Luis Cox
>666
!
Grayson Baker
Did I just win?
Justin Smith
The Mentor from The Legion of Doom worked there.
Ethan Roberts
> wizard sleeve
fresh wordfilter for ass?
Joshua Johnson
Guess not
Carson Rivera
A wizard's sleeve is flappy cunt lips
Ian Wright
Connor Diaz
>wizard sleeve
Hi old friend.
Connor Johnson
is this game actually being played by a group of elites, but in real life?
Brayden Thomas
Good to see you brother.