From this article:

http://news.yahoo.com/terror-files-osama-bin-laden-bookshelf-144937919--abc-news-topstories.html

Quote"Website Claims Steve Jackson Games Foretold 9/11," article posted on ICV2.com (this file contained only a single saved web page)

Apparently Muslim fascist in chief was at least interested in an article about Steve Jackson games enough to print it out and put it on his book shelf.

I'm guessing it is the only thing remotely RPG related that was on his book shelf. But I'm calling for the full documents to be released.

If it turns out Bin Laden was also a Chthulu dice fan... that's it, I'm out.

(lots of snark and sarcasm implied)

God, the thumbless are gonna be short-stroking this thing all over the place.  Still, in the spirit of the card game, let's play.


Interesting that the 'Terrorist Nuke" card doesn't show a nuke going off, but an explosion in the upper third of the WTC right where the plane hit...:hmm:




Interesting that the "Pentagon" card, which doesn't represent an attack on the Pentagon at all, but the Pentagon itself, shows it on fire...:hmm:




Interesting that the article says the "Population Reduction" card shows "The WTC in flames" but that's not what it shows, it shows the skyline of New York without the WTC and a black cloud of death over the city, actually foretelling the bioweapon attack that has yet to materialize...:hmm:

Traced back to various pages at some website:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Acuttingedge.org%20illuminati%20jackson&gws_rd=ssl

Theres a couple of sites addressing that at least since 2009.

Also before that pepole were pointing at some of Stackpoles Battletech books as some sort of foretelling of yadda-yadda.

Its like the whole "Kubrick placed hints of his work on the moon hoax in The Shining!" gag. Sometimes linked with the Vrll who live in the hollow center of the Earth and... well you get the idea.

So did the Johnny Bravo cartoon on 4/27/01:



...as did The Simpsons:



...and Sesame Street:



...and the short-lived X-Files spinoff, The Lone Gunmen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rsMG2hHsLo

Also, fun fact: TSR got a visit from the FBI and Secret Service when early game notes for an upcoming espionage game (that later became Top Secret) were found in the trash in Lake Geneva and someone was alarmed at the content (assassinations, etc.)

Considering that they are in a theater. That poster in the Johnny Bravo one was probably for or a nod to Towering Inferno.

I have drawings of Skylab taking out the Twin Towers.

The Muslim Extremists (TM) had a well known hate on for the World Trade Center(TM) for a long time before 911.

Quote from: Shawn Driscoll;832785I have drawings of Skylab taking out the Twin Towers.

So NASA is in on this too, eh?  We're through the looking glass, people

Got a paper cut from GURPS Ultra-Tech once, does that count?

If not, how about the time my wife punched me in the chest after a particularly intense monster fight in Munchkin that turned viciously against her?

Quote from: thedungeondelver;832720Also, fun fact: TSR got a visit from the FBI and Secret Service when early game notes for an upcoming espionage game (that later became Top Secret) were found in the trash in Lake Geneva and someone was alarmed at the content (assassinations, etc.)

Actually they got raided over GURPS Cyberpunk which the FBI at the time thought was  a hacking manual , the story is here

The other game you are conflating was Killer which is a kind of assassination LARP played back in the day when the US wasn't so brittle.

My oldest kid likes Munchkin way more than a ttrpg.  So yeah, SJG is ruining 'murica.

I think SJG still secretly wishes it was so badass as to be on the radar.

They might have wished that before they actually got raided/looted by the FBI.

"Predicting 9/11" is pretty ironic, since it only seems prophetic if you don't notice the outright lie that attacking the World Trade Centers or even using hijacked jetliners to do it was unexpected. US intelligence agencies had been rehearsing that scenario for some time.

I played in a GURPS game in 1992-1993 where the players were in a US intel agency, and we ended up plotting attacks on the USA, including taking out the WTC with explosives (we had our moral reasons). We weren't prophets, and GURPS didn't give us any ideas to do that - but it didn't seem like a particularly original idea, since real-world "terrorists" had already tried to blow up the WTC once or twice before 1992, IIRC.