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Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Game Reviews: Risk 2210 A.D.
Risk 2210 A.D. has been drawing a lot of people lately, including myself. What I noticed, that was so interesting, though, was The Exiled States of America. I honestly couldn’t help but think about it.
Here is the exiled states of america, highlited in red.
It raised some suspicious thoughts, for instance, I also noticed that it was the Republic of America, and the Republic of Quebec. I looked into the company who made the game. Wizards of the Coast. For a good Catholic, or even Christian, the name may sound rather unpleasant to our ears. However, I have purchased a couple of games from them in the past, including MLB Showdown, which is no longer made, and Axis and Allies. Both were very high qaulity.
Here is a list of games that they made:
Board games (produced under the Avalon Hill name)
Axis & Allies (Revised Edition), as well as D-Day, Europe, Pacific, and Battle of the Bulge spinoffs
Betrayal at House on the Hill
Monsters Menace America
Nexus Ops
Risk 2210 A.D. and Risk Godstorm
RoboRally
Vegas Showdown
Collectible card games
BattleTech Trading Card Game
Codename: Kids Next Door
Duel Masters Trading Card Game
Dune
Eye of Judgment
Harry Potter Trading Card Game
Hecatomb
Magic: The Gathering
MapleStory iTCG
MLB Showdown
NBA Showdown
Neopets Trading Card Game
Netrunner
NFL Showdown
Pokémon Trading Card Game (publishing right transferred back to Nintendo in 2003)
Star Sisterz
Star Wars: The Trading Card Game
The Simpsons Trading Card Game
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (previously Jyhad)
Xiaolin Showdown Trading Card Game
Note the Jyhad game. How do you pronounce it? It decided to go a little more in-depth on that one also. Here is a verbatim quote from Wikipedia: “Jyhad” redirects here. For the Islamic term, see Jihad
A little suspicous, huh? I also couldn’t help but noticing, how many of the card games were focused on magic. That threw my suspicions a little off them for being a New World Oder-ist, and focused my attention on the occult.
For instance, the setting for the game: Vampire - The Eternal Struggle is such: (Qouted from Wikipedia)
The game is set in the World of Darkness, drawing mainly from the Vampire: The Masquerade role-playing game. After the events of Gehenna ended the official World of Darkness storyline, VTES is considered a sort of alternate reality of the setting, as it continues though White Wolf, Inc. publishes no further official products for the roleplaying game.
In VTES, each player takes on the role of a “Methuselah”, an ancient and manipulative vampire, who is not itself present in the struggle, but acts from afar. Each Methuselah will try to eliminate all others by nullifying their influence and power. To that end, the Methuselahs will control and manipulate a number of minions (mostly younger vampires) to attack and destroy the other Methuselahs’ resources.
Methuselah, huh? You kind of recognize the name but can’t place it.
Here is a little refreshment:
Methuselah or Metushélach (Hebrew: מְתוּשֶׁלַח / מְתוּשָׁלַח, Standard Mətušélaḥ / Mətušálaḥ Tiberian Məṯûšélaḥ / Məṯûšālaḥ ; “Man of the dart”, or alternatively “when he dies/died, it will be sent/has been sent”) is the oldest person whose age is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. According to the Bible, he reached the age of 969 years. Genesis 5:27 states, “And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died” (American Standard Version). Genesis 5:5 states, “So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.” (American Standard Version). Assuming Adam’s life began at the time of creation, Adam was alive when Methuselah was born. This makes Methuselah the human link between Adam and Noah (Assuming Methuselah died at the time of the flood, or at least after Noah’s birth). The name Methuselah has become a general synonym for any living creature of great age.
Methuselah is mentioned in Genesis as the son of Enoch and the father of Lamech (father of Noah), whom he fathered at the age of 187. A close reading of the dates in the Old Testament reveals that Methuselah is said to have died in the year of the Great Flood, but the Bible does not indicate if the cause of his death was by drowning. Some have interpreted his name as a prophecy: when he dies, the Flood will come. In that case, the long life has an allegorical dimension, showing that God withheld judgment on humans for a very long time.
However, in the ancient texts from which the English Bible was translated, there are variations of the ages of the patriarchs in different versions. The Samaritan Pentateuch gives his lifespan as 720 years. Other versions of the Septuagint give dates which would have him surviving the Flood. Some Bible scholars have suggested that the age has been adjusted in order to exactly match the flood.
Methuselah is also mentioned in the apocryphal Book of Enoch as being the son of Enoch and as having brothers. The writer tells Methuselah of the coming Deluge and of a future Messianic kingdom.
That threw my suspicions on the one and only group that covers both Occult AND New World Order. To be continued……
Here is the exiled states of america, highlited in red.
It raised some suspicious thoughts, for instance, I also noticed that it was the Republic of America, and the Republic of Quebec. I looked into the company who made the game. Wizards of the Coast. For a good Catholic, or even Christian, the name may sound rather unpleasant to our ears. However, I have purchased a couple of games from them in the past, including MLB Showdown, which is no longer made, and Axis and Allies. Both were very high qaulity.
Here is a list of games that they made:
Board games (produced under the Avalon Hill name)
Axis & Allies (Revised Edition), as well as D-Day, Europe, Pacific, and Battle of the Bulge spinoffs
Betrayal at House on the Hill
Monsters Menace America
Nexus Ops
Risk 2210 A.D. and Risk Godstorm
RoboRally
Vegas Showdown
Collectible card games
BattleTech Trading Card Game
Codename: Kids Next Door
Duel Masters Trading Card Game
Dune
Eye of Judgment
Harry Potter Trading Card Game
Hecatomb
Magic: The Gathering
MapleStory iTCG
MLB Showdown
NBA Showdown
Neopets Trading Card Game
Netrunner
NFL Showdown
Pokémon Trading Card Game (publishing right transferred back to Nintendo in 2003)
Star Sisterz
Star Wars: The Trading Card Game
The Simpsons Trading Card Game
Vampire: The Eternal Struggle (previously Jyhad)
Xiaolin Showdown Trading Card Game
Note the Jyhad game. How do you pronounce it? It decided to go a little more in-depth on that one also. Here is a verbatim quote from Wikipedia: “Jyhad” redirects here. For the Islamic term, see Jihad
A little suspicous, huh? I also couldn’t help but noticing, how many of the card games were focused on magic. That threw my suspicions a little off them for being a New World Oder-ist, and focused my attention on the occult.
For instance, the setting for the game: Vampire - The Eternal Struggle is such: (Qouted from Wikipedia)
The game is set in the World of Darkness, drawing mainly from the Vampire: The Masquerade role-playing game. After the events of Gehenna ended the official World of Darkness storyline, VTES is considered a sort of alternate reality of the setting, as it continues though White Wolf, Inc. publishes no further official products for the roleplaying game.
In VTES, each player takes on the role of a “Methuselah”, an ancient and manipulative vampire, who is not itself present in the struggle, but acts from afar. Each Methuselah will try to eliminate all others by nullifying their influence and power. To that end, the Methuselahs will control and manipulate a number of minions (mostly younger vampires) to attack and destroy the other Methuselahs’ resources.
Methuselah, huh? You kind of recognize the name but can’t place it.
Here is a little refreshment:
Methuselah or Metushélach (Hebrew: מְתוּשֶׁלַח / מְתוּשָׁלַח, Standard Mətušélaḥ / Mətušálaḥ Tiberian Məṯûšélaḥ / Məṯûšālaḥ ; “Man of the dart”, or alternatively “when he dies/died, it will be sent/has been sent”) is the oldest person whose age is mentioned in the Hebrew Bible. According to the Bible, he reached the age of 969 years. Genesis 5:27 states, “And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died” (American Standard Version). Genesis 5:5 states, “So all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years, and he died.” (American Standard Version). Assuming Adam’s life began at the time of creation, Adam was alive when Methuselah was born. This makes Methuselah the human link between Adam and Noah (Assuming Methuselah died at the time of the flood, or at least after Noah’s birth). The name Methuselah has become a general synonym for any living creature of great age.
Methuselah is mentioned in Genesis as the son of Enoch and the father of Lamech (father of Noah), whom he fathered at the age of 187. A close reading of the dates in the Old Testament reveals that Methuselah is said to have died in the year of the Great Flood, but the Bible does not indicate if the cause of his death was by drowning. Some have interpreted his name as a prophecy: when he dies, the Flood will come. In that case, the long life has an allegorical dimension, showing that God withheld judgment on humans for a very long time.
However, in the ancient texts from which the English Bible was translated, there are variations of the ages of the patriarchs in different versions. The Samaritan Pentateuch gives his lifespan as 720 years. Other versions of the Septuagint give dates which would have him surviving the Flood. Some Bible scholars have suggested that the age has been adjusted in order to exactly match the flood.
Methuselah is also mentioned in the apocryphal Book of Enoch as being the son of Enoch and as having brothers. The writer tells Methuselah of the coming Deluge and of a future Messianic kingdom.
That threw my suspicions on the one and only group that covers both Occult AND New World Order. To be continued……
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