Card game is-Illuminati: New World Order. There is also some about a virus. Many more in the deck that is suspicious.

  • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.uk
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    17 days ago

    It says nuke bud. Also, terrorist attacks have been common occurrences in the world for a long time. For a little while Americans started to feel like they were the exception to that, that somehow it “just doesn’t happen here”. That was not the case.

    It does look like the twin towers a bit, but that makes sense too. If you wanted an iconic building for your iconoclastic card art, what else would you have picked in the 90s? It’s hardly as if nobody had ever threatened the twin towers up until then either.

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        17 days ago

        I’ve played it. Or a later run, with updated art anyway. I grew up reading the books it’s based on, it’s all deeply unserious Discordian/SubGenius ironic bullshit awash in the cultic milieu of 20th century American conspiracy, the paranormal, and the occult. They were just aping Diogenes ultimately, but it was very compelling bullshit.