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Dec. 1, 2018 by Devin Jones

This was a way to connect with local people and get them to sign up for the BBS, O'Rourke told the magazine. "And I was like, 'Yeah, this is the way I got the idea of what that means,'" O'Rourke told Menn. He said that he later found some BBS-related videos online in 1995 that were about a new, "non-Western" game called "Spirited Away" that he claimed was based on a Japanese video game.

"It was like a video game," O'Rourke told Menn. "I was like, 'I just found a video game.' And I was like, 'Oh, shit.'" He is now running a blog called "Spirited Out" and has hosted at least three "Pizzagate" videos.

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In 1998, O'Rourke, who was then 23, was indicted by a jury in the District of Columbia for allegedly engaging in an online game called "Operation: S.H.I.E.L.D. II."

When this particular version of the game wasn't on BBS, O'Rourke was using his BBS to download games, which the FBI called "The Best Way to Access an Internet."

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As for whether O'Rourke's BBS was part of Operation: S.H.I.E.L.D., Menn reports that O'Rourke and his family were both charged with conspiring to distribute and access computer networks that hosted the game and other online games.

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In 2005, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder revealed that O'Rourke had used his BBS to download and play games like "Operation: S.H.I.E.L.D."

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O'Rourke's defense team has pointed to the fact that the FBI never said that he was in any direct contact with the cult of the dead cow.

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