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Re: 25 Top Gaming Moments

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From: Brian Trosko
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 01:47
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In comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic magnulus <magn...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> "Tim O" <Tim...@REMOVE.hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:0617nvk9bghdt1sofntje1mvkulnmp3f5b@4ax.com...
> > On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 21:32:08 GMT, "Jonah Falcon"
> > <jonah...@mindspring.com> wrote:
> >
> > >It's a VERY common covert military tactic called "cleaning". A black ops
> > >team or plumbers make sure no witnesses remain.
> >
> > VERY common in bullshit movies and TV shows, that is.
> >

>   Yeah, think about it... all those dead guys have families, they'd wonder
> where are the bodies, etc.

>   More likely government tactic:  Put kiddie porn on Gordon Freeman's PC,
> forge some documents saying he's an escaped mental patient, etc., to
> discredit him.  Really, nothing more would come out of Black Mesa than some
> wild stories that will be chalked up right along with Chupacabra and the
> UFO's at Area 51.  He might get 5 minutes on Art Bell, then he could go
> sleep on a steam grate the rest of his life.

That's not the point.  The point was that the alien dimension was an 
unknown, and the entire facility was considered contaminated.  The 
scientists were gunned down alongside the aliens because the possibility 
could not be ruled out that they *were* aliens.

Dincha ever watch "The Thing"?
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Subject: Re: 25 Top Gaming Moments
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 01:47:53 +0000 (UTC)
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