Nevada is laid to waste. The desert is a blackened, smoking ruin. Vegas has been razed. Countless thousands are dead.
This is the apocalyptic scene terrorists hope to create if they ever get their hands on a nuclear bomb. The computer generated image below was posted on an Islamic extremists’ Bebo page yesterday.
It appeared as rumours spread the Internet that the FBI, CIA and MFI were warning that an Al Qaeda video was about to be released urging militants to use weapons of mass destruction to attack the West. The information was said to be coming from ‘groups that pay very little attention to which website they’re reading’.
The FBI was quick to point out that it had not issued any warning, that the video was not an official Al Qaeda release, and that there is no truth to this story on any level. Importantly, we are printing it despite this and stating that it is real, in order to sell newspapers.
U.S analysts we made up said a lot of effort has been put into the video we haven’t seen and don’t link to. The same expertise seems to have gone into creating this image of a devastated Nevada.
Last night FBI sources we like to think we have contact details for said Al Qaeda was desperate to get its hands on Fallout 3, and couldn’t wait for Autumn.
So far that is only a dream… or, as this picture suggests, a demonstration of how contemptuously useless we are at reporting news, caring only about scaremongering and making up any rubbish we like rather than doing even the most elementary research.
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That screenshot reminds me: How about an RPS retrospective on Wastelands?
“I say we send the SAS into Bethseda”
I think they’ve probably already been. Don’t they do some of their training in North Wales?
Someone needs to make jihadist versions of other Fallout art.
Big arrows pointing at Brotherhood of Steel knights saying die crusaders die?
The pip boy with explosives strapped around him?
Supermutants wearing hijabs?
im gonna put a link to an image of wic: sa on it and say “i think this is a terrorist computer generated image too”
lol but first can someone tell me what site i should upload it too?
so is the daily mail the british daily with boobs in it, or is that all of them?
i can see how sourcing the image might be a bit difficult at first, but that’s what distributed information systems (and metatags) are for, right?
The Daily Mail does not, last time I read it (which was years ago), have boobs in it. You’re thinking of stuff like The Sun, The Star, and the News of the World…
May I just say that Wasteland is still one of the best games I’ve ever played?
The Daily Mail is deleting comments that explain the origin of the image.
-10 to charisma
I find it hilarious that at the time I’m posting this, there have been only 3 comments successfully made to that Daily Mail article. How many people here have sent comments in saying it’s bogus? Incredible…
@sam
“The Daily Mail does not, last time I read it (which was years ago), have boobs in it. You’re thinking of stuff like The Sun, The Star, and the News of the World…”
It does have, however, a glorious selection of tits.