Jack Thompson makes me angry

Bounty · Last edited by Bounty on Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:48 pm; edited 1 time in total

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/22/news_6129609.html

Zombie · Gender: Joined: 21 Jul 2005 Posts: 33

Why stop there? Let's ban the entire Mario series before our young'uns start jumping on turtles and eating mushrooms!

Nimrods.

desert_drum · Gender: Joined: 01 Feb 2005 Posts: 462

God, does everyone's sense of logic just *entirely* die on issues like this?
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Inkmonkey · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 1:11 am Post subject:

I don't think Thompson's ever played Sims 2. All that crap he's talking about are only accessible via user customization and isn't included in anything EA releases. You might as well sue pencil companies because you can use them to draw penises.
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ash_wednesday · Gender: Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 749 Location: Canadia

There're JUST games people...I don't know why everyone and their grandmother makes a big fuss about it.
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Aramor · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 6:48 am Post subject:

Munan · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 2:18 pm Post subject:

Jack Thompson makes your what angry?
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Aramor · Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 3:27 pm Post subject:

His " ".
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Bounty · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:48 pm Post subject:

my? what my? >.>
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EchØ · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 3:54 pm Post subject:

Bounty · Posted: Mon Jul 25, 2005 8:42 pm Post subject:

that was an april fools joke Razz

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Hivequeen · Gender: Joined: 25 Jul 2005 Posts: 119

Yeah, like that twisted Bonsai Kitten crap. Laughing

EchØ · Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2005 4:55 am Post subject:

meh, whatever.
it was a funny read though Razz

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Bounty · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 3:09 am Post subject:

this twisted sonofabitch is targeting another rockstar game, one that hasnt even come out yet called "bully" where you basicly play as a schoolyard bully. fuck jack thompson.
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AAATripper · Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 10:14 am Post subject:

Death to him. Then Joe Lieberman (or however you spell that)
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Isaac · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 7:59 am Post subject:

http://thompsonlol.ytmnd.com/
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Holly Resurrected · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 1:33 am Post subject:

Jack Thompson has recently had run-ins with the artists of the webcomics Ctrl+Alt+Del and VG Cats. It's really funny, because it turns out that Thompson is totally fucknuts. I mean, he emails the VG Cats guy and then accuses the VG Cats guy of harassing him, denying that he sent the first email. So the VG Cats guy does a strip in honor of Thompson's crazy. And so does the Ctrlaltdel guy. They're both great.

"Jubblies!"
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Blazewing · Gender: Joined: 08 Aug 2005 Posts: 43 Location: IL

BAN CHEERIOS OMGWTFBBQ!

...Always nice to find another webcomic geek. Jack Thompson's essentially an idiot because he's only targetting games with sex. And sex doesn't kill people.
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Aramor · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 10:59 am Post subject:

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Holly Resurrected · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:23 pm Post subject:

That's exactly the problem. The games were on the shelves until the eb0l boobies showed up and then they're adults only. As if the bloody violence and drugs and cursing weren't enough. Personally I think only adults should play those games, but you don't have to remove them from the shelves of EB Games, you just have to check ID before selling them. There's no point at all in making them AO since people under 17 can't buy them anyway.

I just don't understand why sex is the last straw for these wierdos. It seems like of all the stuff that goes on in those games sex is the one to be least concerned about, but that's where our values are now.
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Aramor · Posted: Tue Aug 09, 2005 8:43 pm Post subject:

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Holly Resurrected · Posted: Wed Aug 10, 2005 1:01 am Post subject:

Yeah, it would reduce the number of kids that get ahold of it, no question. My problem is that the ratings system would be perfectly effective if parents were more aware of what their kids were buying. I know you can't always be watching them, but if you're paying attention you're sure to notice them playing it or talking about it or whatever. Plus most of the kids who buy it use their parents' money. It's only right the parents know where their money is going.

Making sure something's properly labelled is one thing, but policing something so that no kids can get ahold of it is really going to far. Even booze and cigarettes are sold in corner stores, and they're right on the shelves, not locked behind glass like games are. Well, at least the booze is.

And again the whole thing was started because of very well hidden sex that you need a hack to get access to. Not because of the drug running or hooker beating or rampant f words or anything like that. Before Hot Coffee there was a lot of complaining but no actual move to control the games.

In ''The Economist" there's a front page article called "Breeding Evil? The real impact of video games." It's sitting at the counters at the bookstore I work at, and I'm amazed at how many people look at it and say, "See, I told you video games cause violence." The thing is the article is very well balanced and researched, and supports the idea that video games do NOT cause violence, but that a combination of lack of parental supervision and mental instability are the true cause. But people just assume. It's a simple case of shifting the blame for negligence onto a scapegoat. Argg. Makes me mad.
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