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VDT radiation, or something,
scrambles everyones' brains. All players lose 2 cred.
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IMMINENT DEATH OF THE NET PREDICTED |
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Attack |
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...by target.
Target loses 1 cred.
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IS THIS THING ON? |
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Attack - Sabotage |
Your parents become
"hip" and get onto the Internet despite your best efforts to
stop them. They confuse email with news postings, and write to you
about your acne problems and how they think they know a good
dermatologist, etc. Lose 1 cred as your carefully constructed
net.persona is exposed as a fraud.
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BOB DOLE |
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Attack - Politics |
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Goes around getting people mad at target's
net site and makes him lose 1 cred. Also, anyone playing offensive
music must throw it out the window.
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You are caught up in a massive troll
involving rec.org.mensa, rec.arts.startrek.misc, rec.aquaria,
sci.physics, alt.music.ska, alt.sex.bondage, alt.fan.hofstadter, and
alt.conspiracy (among others). You make a complete fool of yourself in
front of thousands of net.citizens. Lose 1 cred.
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You meant to do an email reply to
that...interesting...message in alt.sex.bondage. Instead, you post to
alt.activism.militia. Lose 1 cred.
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B1FF!!1! |
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Attack - Sabotage |
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B1FF HAS THIS K00L N3W ACC0UNT!!!111! 1'M
G0NNA P0ST FR0M 1T ALL THE T1M3!!1!!! Your younger brother gets hold of
your password. You'll never live this down. Lose 1 cred.
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Dave Hayes and Stephen Boursy
independently reveal your fiendish plans for usenet domination. All
players take a vote as to whether target gains or loses 1 cred.
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In a secret 4 a.m. IRC session with Dave
Lawrence, you are initiated into the Cabal. Gain 1 cred.
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Time Magazine writes an article on the
Internet and quotes you. Lose 1 cred.
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TIME AGAIN |
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Attack - Media |
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Time Magazine writes an article on the
Internet and calls you a "cyberpunk guru". Lose 2 cred.
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ETERNAL FAME |
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Attack - Fame |
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Someone creates an alt. group named
after you. Gain 1 cred.
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ETERNAL FAME ON AN EPIC SCALE |
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Attack - Fame |
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Someone creates an
alt.sex. group named after you. Gain 2 cred.
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ETERNAL FOOL |
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Attack - Fame |
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You create an alt. group
named after yourself. Lose 1 cred.
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You find something better to do than take
over Usenet. Lose 1 cred, but gain a life.
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DROP THE KEYBOARD, PUNK! |
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Attack |
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You get raided by the
Secret Service. Skip a turn, but gain 1 cred.
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SUMMON SHUB-INTERNET |
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Attack |
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You summon Shub-Internet and
wreak havoc on Prodigy and AOL. Gain 1 cred.
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MY AMIGA IS BETTER THAN... |
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Attack - Flame |
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You get involved in one
of those computer hardware flamewars. Get a life! Until then, lose 1
cred.
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BITE ME, MACBOY!!! |
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Attack - Flame |
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You start one of those
computer hardware flamewars. Lose 2 cred, you dweeb.
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An unusually stylish and eloquent
posting which contains polysyllabic words and polite, correctly spelled
English. If no one counters with another Righteous Rant
or Flame, gain 1 cred on your next turn. For each
person which adds or counters with another Righteous
Rant, each rant player gains a cred (i.e. 3 rants = each
rant (Advanced rules: 3 righteous rants in the
same turn automatically ends the game, as it is now a discussion and no
longer Usenet.)
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SECRETS MAN WAS NOT MEANT TO KNOW |
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Attack |
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You quoted an
entire 22k long flamewar about gay characters in Star Trek to simply add
"So do I!" at the bottom. Lose 1 cred.
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Chris Keroack, John Kovalic,
Anthony David
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ENTRY ACCEPTED INTO JARGON FILE |
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Attack |
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Gain 1 cred and
leave this card in your battle line, unless someone else immediately
plays TROGLODYTE FLAMER in which case the card is
buried.
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TNHD EDITION PUBLISHED |
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Attack |
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All players who have
ENTRY ACCEPTED INTO JARGON FILE cards on the table gain
2 cred. All such cards are buried.
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WARLORD OF THE WEST RESERVATION |
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Attack |
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The Inner Circle of
alt.fan.warlord shreds target's oversized sig block. Target loses 1
cred.
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You actually release a major
freeware project. Gain 3 cred and leave the card on the table.
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SERIOUS BUG REPORT |
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Attack |
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May only be played against
someone with FREEWARE RELEASE on the table. Target
loses 1 cred.
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CONVINCINGLY FAKE POST |
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Attack |
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You forge a post
that seems SO real that everyone picks it up. Major magazines publish
the post's content as the Gospel Truth. Little do they know that a
couple of hours with Photoshop hacked up those pix you sent out. All
other players lose 1 cred. (This comes from my ex-roommate, Slu Aspiks',
post to comp.sys.amiga.* about the A4000 we "beta-tested." Commodore
hated him so much they almost didn't grant him a developer's license
later.)
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