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Gary Gygax's FBI File: "Eccentric and Frightening"

Started by Just Another Snake Cult, June 16, 2017, 04:42:17 PM

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Dumarest

#30
June 17, 2017, 09:58:53 PM
News flash!

Quote from: voros;969313the internet is full of enough bs parading as fact.

Details at 11!

Voros

#31
June 18, 2017, 02:21:30 AM
That article is terrible. Reason is usually better. There's absolutely zero context given.

crkrueger

#32
June 18, 2017, 02:12:38 PM
Quote from: Dumarest;969497Have you been to Fresno? The whole place ought to be redacted. :D

Hey if you're ever stuck in or passing through Fresno, hit the...
Mediterranean Grill & Cafe
Sam's Italian Deli
Robertito's Taco Shop
Colorado Grill
It'll make the trip much better.
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Dumarest

#33
June 18, 2017, 03:01:42 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger;969641Hey if you're ever stuck in or passing through Fresno, hit the...
Mediterranean Grill & Cafe
Sam's Italian Deli
Robertito's Taco Shop
Colorado Grill
It'll make the trip much better.

Hopefully I'll never need these locations as I have no plans to hear that way anytime soon, but good to know. Once my kids are big enough to appreciate it, I'm hoping to drive to all the historic sites and natural sights around here (the Southwest) as there are some I've never been to and others I haven't seen since I was a kid.

Gronan of Simmerya

#34
June 18, 2017, 04:03:58 PM
Quote from: Elfdart;969203Hoover died while Nixon was in office.

Anybody who thinks that the FBI's antics started in the 60s, or stopped after Hoover died, will be interested in the beautiful ski resort I have for sale in Iroquois, SD.

(Go use Google Earth to look around)
You should go to GaryCon.  Period.

The rules can\'t cure stupid, and the rules can\'t cure asshole.

Gronan of Simmerya

#35
June 18, 2017, 04:05:23 PM
Quote from: CRKrueger;969206...or anyone who ever joined Greenpeace in college.

Or, say, the IWW (just to pull a name at random)
You should go to GaryCon.  Period.

The rules can\'t cure stupid, and the rules can\'t cure asshole.

Dumarest

#36
June 18, 2017, 10:17:39 PM
Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;969654Or, say, the IWW (just to pull a name at random)

Wobblies...they weeble and they wobble but they don't fall down!

Elfdart

#37
June 19, 2017, 07:18:24 PM
Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;969653Anybody who thinks that the FBI's antics started in the 60s, or stopped after Hoover died, will be interested in the beautiful ski resort I have for sale in Iroquois, SD.

(Go use Google Earth to look around)

Hoover was much more brazen than his successors, and much more base in his motives: compiling blackmail information on anyone who pissed him off. He cooled his jets with Johnson, who blackmailed him about Clyde Tolson.

Quote from: Gronan of Simmerya;969654Or, say, the IWW (just to pull a name at random)

Or the Women's Rape Crisis Center in Norfolk, VA.
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RPGPundit

#38
June 21, 2017, 04:23:50 PM
Quote from: Just Another Snake Cult;969138More info here:

http://saveversusallwands.blogspot.com/

Long story, but apparently the FBI thought at one point that the Unabomber might be a gamer. Also, Gary's alleged coke habit.

I heard a rumor that the FBI was actually given a lot of this "information" by, you guessed it, Lorainne William's TSR.


Williams may have actually tried to have Gygax investigated as the unabomber as a revenge scheme. Which, you know, just puts her pettiness as a human being to a whole other level.



EDIT: just saw that Oakes already covered this.
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