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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 in 1990. In that raid, government agents idiotically claimed they seized a “manual for computer crime” from this company, which was actually a cyberpunk (*) RPG rulebook. For 10 points, give this gaming company that created the role-playing system GURPS (-5[1])and the card game Munchkin, which is named for its founder. ■END■ (0[4])

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