Jack Thompson: a bit confused

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

"I will say this though, the 'video game community' (what's next, 'the necromancy community'?) surely seems exercised about someone who is a 'joke' and who is accomplishing nothing. You all seem rather bothered and worried about a nonentity. God is in this battle, and I am privileged to be a foot soldier. You all should be concerned, not about me, but about Him."

I know now what I must do.

I shall cast aside the shackles of my sinful ways of video game making, and take up the sword of bitchiness and whining lawyers!  And from this day foward I will do my best to prove that video games are evil!  That my very own character who I created, Otis the goose, is a satanist bent on creating a hell on earth!  And that The Prince of Shapir, one of the best heroes ever, is really a demon from hell using his evil sword of purity and honor to brainwash the world into hating god!

Thank you, Jack Thompson, for now I am free!

Praise the lord!



EDIT:  I was wondering... If there are going to be kids shooting people by mimicking those violent murder games, does that mean that we're going to have some kids dress up in gold armor with warhammers attempting to control "the light"?  Or trying to summon water elementals & hurl fireballs?  One can only imagine...

[jetxl]

Learn more about Jack and his fabrications.
Note how he is responsible for almost every bad media hype about video games, and that he hasn't won any cases agains videogames. The guy is just full of lukewarm air. Ignore him.

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

"A fake/edited copy of Jack Thompson's email has also been spotted, possibly a "reply" email. In the edit the crazed father is shot dead by a security guard before he kills anyone."

Whoever made up that idea is a sure as hell genius 
This is great.  Hillarious.  I have gained a new respect for the "Penny Arcade" webcomic.  I wonder if Thompson realizes how useless his life is... and how many people want to put him in an empty pool and piss on him until it's full.

[Nikolas]

Everyone should read jet's read (thank you jet!).

I quote something chich shows just how nuts Jack is:

The Bible doesn't promote killing innocent people," Thompson said. "Grand Theft Auto does. Islam does. Islam promotes the killing of innocent people. The Quran requires the infidel, whether Jew or Christian, to be killed. … That's a core essence of the religion. … Muhammad was a pirate who killed infidels and who advocated the killing of infidels. Not a nice guy. Osama bin Laden is in keeping with his fine tradition.

Now, how about that?

Please don't turn this thread into a religous discussion, but fuck this guy is completly crazy!

[Haddas]

http://www.penny-arcade.com/docs/jackdocument.gif

Damn those dirty employees of Penny Arcade and their dirty disgusting harassment schemes and donating cash to charities!

[SSH]

Muhammad was a pirate

Yay! Pirates of the Persian Gulf! yarrr! Cap'n Jack Saladin  at your serive, ye scurvy sea dog

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

I'm not so sure that "computer geeks" and "idiots" are valid legal terms...

I'd bet the people from Penny Arcade actually wrote that whole "modest offer" section, when it really starts insulting Thompson.  This guy should really go back to law school for a few years... I mean, he's just stupid with the way he says everything.

[Nikolas]

King_Nipper: I would like to believe that he's stupid, but I don't think so.

I would say that he's nuts! Somewhere along the line of his life he's lost it. He hasn't got a clue about planet earth!

[Kinoko]

How many people believe he really wrote that though? Do we know for sure? Seems a little immature, even for a crackpot. He IS a lawyer, and he doesn't use proper legal terms in that thing.

[Nikolas]

How many people believe he really wrote that though? Do we know for sure? Seems a little immature, even for a crackpot. He IS a lawyer, and he doesn't use proper legal terms in that thing.

I think that you do have a point, but on the other hand, would you believe that a lawyer of his status would attack the SIMS, for fucks shake? The whole thing is totally stupid. I'm starting to consider that the whole story is either fake or to shake things up a little, to create some noise.

Generally a good marketing solution if polarization (if I'm using the correct term here). And anyway all the information I'm getting is through the interent, where everything can happen.

And I just realised that I'm backing you up here Kinoko. I think you're right... I just extended it a little...

[IM NOT TEH SPAM]

Or, Jack Thompson wants publicity.  And lots of it.  Not fake per se, just bullcrap this guy made up thinking "Hey!  This is a good way for me to give me the spotlight!"

[Vince Twelve]

I can see how you would like to believe that the things this guy writes and says are fake, but they are not.  He wrote that modest proposal and then retracted it, calling it merely a "parody" and also calling all of the people on the internet who started posting it everywhere "idiots" for not realizing how funny he is.   And regarding $10,000 dollars he promised to give to charity if someone followed through on his challenge, as the Penny Arcade guys put it so perfectly: "we must conclude that his financial offer was also satire, some new breed of satire apparently that I'm sure is just hilarious to people in need."

But this is also the guy who actually went up to Janet Reno at a public debate during his 1988 political campaign against Florida Attorney General Janet Reno (who would later go on to become Attorney General of the United States), which consisted of calling her a closet lesbian who was afflicted by various mental disorders and being blackmailed by the mob, and actually handed her a piece of paper that read:

I, Janet Reno, am a
[ ] Homosexual
[ ] Bisexual
[ ] Heterosexual

and demanded that she check one of the boxes. 

The guy is certifiable.

I agree with what some people are saying.  The guy deserves to be ignored.  Getting into an uproar only plays into his insane hands.  However, the nutbar is getting on CNN, 60 minutes, FOX News, any media source he can get his face on, and spreading the crazy to the general population -- the generally ignorant, believe-whatever-the-media-tells-us, population!  Someone needs to get onto a soapbox that's at least as high as his and let the world know that this man deserves no ones ear.  He's about as credible as the voices in my head.

[Barbarian]

The guy is just a big wind-bag looking for attention... It's like the old expression goes, "The squeeky wheel gets all the grease", or something like that.

I never even heard of this a-hole untill a couple weeks ago, but, hey, there's always some scum-bags like him trying to blame various social problems on the likes of video-games, music, movies, books, etc...

Everthing ya never wanted to know about this tool:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_%28attorney%29

[Kinoko]

I didn't mean the original offer was fake, just the letter to police. And, I didn't even mean that, I was simply throwing the idea of the possibility out there.

[SSH]

I'm sorry to say that Jack Thompson has now found AGS, and more specifically the Princess Marian games. Some of you may recall that in Princess Marian part II, the player character, Princess Marian, could hit Super Scottish Hero with frying pan. Jack Thomson represent a John Thomas filing for divorce in Gulliville, Ohio after being assulted by his wife with a cooking pot. Mrs Thomas had downloaded my game and played it, and this obviously establishes an irrefutable link to the violence being inspired by my game. I'm going to have to sell the car and house to pay for this if it is successful, so please any support from the AGS community is much appreciated.
:'(

[esper]

Well, hell, so that explains the lawsuit being brought against me by the residents of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, whose ancestors that died in the WWII nuclear bombing felt inclined to get up and walk around town eating people after playing The Town on the Edge of Darkness...

[Kinoko]

Wow.

Cirque de Zale may well be responsible for hundreds of missing people all around the world, deciding to get themselves sent to other dimensions.

Or possibly, yet another circus. What's worse?

[Nikolas]

Unfortunately I've not made any games yet but I can claim responsiblility for all the suicides in the last 10 years. This is the time that I started making serious music! Man, I would never believe that my music is so influencing!

[esper]

So, you wrote Gloomy Sunday?

http://www.phespirit.info/gloomysunday/

[Nikolas]

Yes! you got me!

Although I'm dead since 68, jumping to my death, I still linger these earth looking for individualks to lure to their deaths! And in the meantime I surf in these forums!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA