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In the 90s, this company made a short-lived MUD called Metaverse and still has a trademark on that word. This company ran one of the most popular Austin ISPs in the 90s, Illuminati Online. Loyd Blankenship, known for writing the Hacker Manifesto under the alias The Mentor, joined this company as a designer in 1989. Mike Godwin of Godwin’s law fame publicized an event involving this company and was subsequently hired as a lawyer to help in the ensuing court case. The Electronic Frontier Foundation was originally founded to help this company sue the Secret Service for unlawfully raiding their offices (15[1])in 1990. In that raid, government agents idiotically claimed they seized a “manual for computer crime” from (-5[1])this company, which was actually a cyberpunk (*) RPG rulebook. For 10 points, give this gaming company that created the role-playing system (-5[1])GURPS and the card game Munchkin, which is (-5[1])named for its founder. ■END■ (0[2])

ANSWER: Steve Jackson Games [accept SJGames]
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Rob CarsonEdwardian Manifestation of All Colonial Sinsa neural-net processor; a thinking machine10015
Matt Jacksonscreaming into the public static void main(String[] args)Dianetics for Diabetics117-5
Vincent DuEight Megabytes And Constantly Swappingplaying emacs while my parents are arguing138-5
Swapnil GargWe Bought a Complexity Zoo StoryMacro Editors146-5
Jaimie CarlsonDianetics for Diabeticsscreaming into the public static void main(String[] args)1510
Vishwa ShanmugamMacro EditorsWe Bought a Complexity Zoo Story1510