Author Tom Clancy Passes Away
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Just to be clear, Baltimore was nuked in the terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible, terrible film of the book The Sum of All Fears.Sgt. Sykes said:
In the actual book, Denver was the target.
There's been one good, and one sorta-kinda okay Clancy film.
I know where he died, I want to know how. It seems no one is up to this kind of intelligence-gathering stealth mission.arc1991 said:
DVS BSTrD said:
Ooh boy. Too soon man, too soon. XD
Goodbye Mr. Clancy, you will be missed. In his honor I will send one ping, and one ping only.
They haven't released an official cause of death yet. About the only thing they have said is it was an illness. Sadly the conspiracy theory nutters are already tuning up with the idea he was murdered by the "government".Blood Brain Barrier said:
The man smoked 11 million cigarettes. They probably killed him.
CAPTCHA: John Lennon.
Huh? Really?
CAPTCHA: John Lennon.
Huh? Really?
Yeah those stupid "conspiracy nuts" everyone sane knows that conspiracies are all made up and that the "government" never kills people without announcing it to the world first.Psychobabble said:
And don't try bringing up your unpatriotic "Facts" about how the CIA was heavily monitoring Martin Luther King and John Lennon as "potential threats" because everybody knows that the CIA and the government as a whole would never violate a person's rights, especially their right to life.
It's stupid for so many reasons, namely that nothing Tom Clancey has said or written would ever give anyone in the government a reason to want him dead. Sure some could call him a "whistleblower" of sorts because he attempted to expose some strange military activity and "Wargame scenarios" and a few of them ended up being disturbingly similar to events that later happened (that New York thing, you might have heard about it, not a big deal though) but our government always respects the rights of people that try to expose criminal activity within our government.
Should I keep going? Is the sarcasm thick enough?
When you feel the need to use "conspiracy theorist" as an insult, look up what those two words mean. There's nothing insane or crazy about being a conspiracy theorist. I am more worried about the sanity of the people that think conspiracies only happen in movies, and the scariest thing is that there seem to be a lot of those people.
What? He smoked cigarettes? Cigarettes leave no survivors, lung cancer death confirmed.Kristian Fischer said:
Case closed, murdered by tobacco. Wait do we know for a fact that he actually smoked excessively? Wait, we don't need proof, we have the truth on our side.
Cigarettes killed John Lennon!
Carpenter said:
Yeah because assassinating him now, years after whatever possible political damage he may have done, years after he has become a house hold name, makes perfect sense. Couldn't possibly be that people, even famous people, die rather unsensational deaths every day. "Oh noes he was famous it must be something unusual."
I use conspiracy theorist in a negative connotation expressly due to the reaction of folks like yourself. Folks so wound up in their personal fantasy lands that their immediate assumption when something mundane happens, such as one's car keys going missing, instead of looking for a logical conclusion, just jump directly to the theory they must have been stolen away by elves.
I don't think that this is how it works. His name will probably still be on the box. It's not Tom Clancy - the person, but Tom Clancy - the brand. I don't think that he personally had anything to do with any of the games. They just take place in the Tom Clancy Universe.SupahGamuh said:
Enjoyed him while in high school, though gave up after yellow saus...I mean, the bear and the dragon. Part of it was that I'd already read Red Storm Rising and part of it was how contrived the ending felt. Also, I just kind of stopped caring anymore.