Jack Thompson defends Mass Effect?

[darthrevan]

kotaku.com/349423/jack-thompson-defends-mass-effect

To: Brian
From: Jack
Immediate News Release - January 24, 2008
Grand Theft Auto IV to Be Released April 29; Culture War Begins Now

To: Jack
From: Brian
I like your new glasses.

To: Brian
From: Jack
Wow, as usual you're grasping the real news here.

To: Jack
From: Brian
I'm surprised you haven't been looking into Mass Effect.
kotaku.com/348692/ea-fighting-mad-about-fox-news-but-still-no-correction?cpage=2#viewcomments

To: Brian
From: Jack
Why would you be surprised. I don't see any problem with it. The guy who shot his mouth off about it had no idea what the Hell he was talking about.

To: Jack
From: Brian
You mean you're OK with mass effect?

To: Brian
From: Jack
Of course. This contrived controversy is absolutely ridiculous. Report that, why don't you?

I think a pig just flew by.

[jackred]

what that's it we gamers need to show that lawyer who's boss he's been involved with games for too long.

[Dja Majista]

OK this thread should just be dedicated to tired we are of Jack Thompson.

This, I found absolutely hilarious. It's just unnecessarily dramatized to a point, it could have been a soap opera. "Jack, oh Jack... big daddy..."

Nancy: Tonight, in Asheville, North Carolina, trial attorney Jack Thompson. We`re bringing in the rest of our panel tonight. Jack, bring me up to date. What is 25 to Life? Hey, Elizabeth, can you show me 25 to Life while Jack is talking?

And I also want to show everybody one after the next, after the next police officers that lost their life in the line of duty! Now, this is a video game, and you`re seeing at the bottom of this screen, real-life cops that lost their lives trying to protect you and me.

Jack, hit it.

Jack Thompson, Trial Attorney: Nancy, there are three cops that are dead in Alabama because of Grand Theft Auto by City, two cops and a dispatcher. So we know that these cop-killing games are leading to these killings because that`s what they are, they`re murder simulators. Xbox, of course, which this game will be available on, along with Sony`s Playstation 2 — you have to ask Bill Gates, What are you thinking? Here`s a philanthropist and a powerful man, the richest man in the world, and yet he`s making available to children around the world on Xbox a cop-killing game.

The military, Nancy, uses these murder simulators, killing simulators…

Grace: Oh!

Thompson: … to break down the inhibition of new recruits to kill. And therefore, of course it`ll have that same effect on teenage civilians. So the reality is that these games are leading to deaths, and in fact, there`s a University of Indiana study that came out three days ago that showed that kids process these games in the part of the brain that leads to copycatting.

[...]

Lombardi: We have movies where cops are killed, and we have many instances of people who have killed...

Grace: But kids can get this!

Lombardi: ... who we can show they can have watched such movies.

Grace: Jack...

Lombardi: It`s not...

Grace: ... children can get this, Jack Thompson!

Lombardi: Yes. The 1st Amendment, people who understand the 1st Amendment know does not protect the right of a company to sell an M-rated game to a child.

Grace: Jack, Jack, I`ve...

Thompson: Children don`t have a 1st Amendment...

I swear it's some kind of fantasy world
think I made this shit up? www.jackthompson.org/video_game_cases/other_cases.htm

[jackred]

that's the thing he thinks he's stopping us for being violent gamers and yet even Manhunt 2 got worse.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

Well it kinda did, they actually watered it down with the photoshopping and all.

[jackred]

but is he still saying crap and sueing the people behind the game is he! Now...

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

You ok?

[jackred]

sorry but that man really does piss me off i hate him better yet i would like for him to get killed doing what he is doing now and laugh at it saying finally that asshole is gone no more lawyer taking on violent video games.

Someone please shot him for me he needs it.

[Dja Majista]

I feel ya man. He really just needs to get kneecapped.

[jackred]

he needs that or to get his ass kicked on national television.

[Sinistrous]

Surprise, surprise and he's right to boot. The Mass Effect controversy is so stupid. Wow, an M-rated game has a thirty second scene where you can briefly see some blue chick's ass, big whoop. His motive is kind of obvious though, don't want newbies crowding up the field, ya know? Have to save some face, plus the young like to block the cameras.

By the by, in case you didn't know, Mass Effect sucks and you shouldn't play it; terrible Bioware garbage. You're better off playing some silly jRPG that I've never played like Eternal Sonata or whatever.

[jackred]

Dude i know that i'm pissed off that he won't stop doing that to games with M rating.

[Sinistrous]

You do realize that he does that to get a rise out of people, right? Everything he's done for his "cause" (exclusively referring to the violent video games deal) has been at most mildly consequential if at all, but you certainly hear about it and he's happy because that's all he wants.

Do you know why that is? It's because he likes the fact that gamers all over the country hate him, that they tally up his every "crusade", that they praise him with idle death threats and back-hand him with flowers; it's all a bunch of down payments into his messiah complex and proves to him that gamers really are the brainwashed idiots that he perceives.

Want proof? Go on down to his Wikipedia page (it's a popular one!) for gems like this one:

Jason Della Rocca, executive director of the International Game Developers Association, said, "It’s so sad. These massacre chasers—they’re worse than ambulance chasers—they’re waiting for these things to happen so they can jump on their soapbox," In response, Thompson referred to Della Rocca as an "idiot" and a "jackass" "paid not to connect the dots [connecting shootings to video games]," and compared himself to people who warned that the government should be more concerned about terrorism before the September 11, 2001 attacks.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_%28attorney%29

[jackred]

I know that already.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

nocturneinbm said:

Surprise, surprise and he's right to boot. The Mass Effect controversy is so stupid. Wow, an M-rated game has a thirty second scene where you can briefly see some blue chick's ass, big whoop. His motive is kind of obvious though, don't want newbies crowding up the field, ya know? Have to save some face, plus the young like to block the cameras.

By the by, in case you didn't know, Mass Effect sucks and you shouldn't play it; terrible Bioware garbage. You're better off playing some silly jRPG that I've never played like Eternal Sonata or whatever.

lolz.

[jackred]

according to Screw Attack only one is a more annoying video game douche and that is the dog from Duck Hunt.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

jackred said:

according to Screw Attack only one is a more annoying video game douche and that is the dog from Duck Hunt.

Haha, I still remember that Dog... he'd laugh at you when you'd mess up...

[jackred]

i played the only games ever made that were related to Duck Hunt you can shoot the dog.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

jackred said:

i played the only games ever made that were related to Duck Hunt you can shoot the dog.

What happened, did it kill the dog or just make it mad?

[jackred]

Four games were made that you can shoot the dog but the other two are flash games which you can actually kill him.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

I bet you enjoyed that. ;D

[jackred]

who wouldn't.

[darthrevan]

He's at it again.

[jackred]

someone needs to do something about this guy.

[Dja Majista]

nocturneinbm said:

You do realize that he does that to get a rise out of people, right? Everything he's done for his "cause" (exclusively referring to the violent video games deal) has been at most mildly consequential if at all, but you certainly hear about it and he's happy because that's all he wants.

Do you know why that is? It's because he likes the fact that gamers all over the country hate him, that they tally up his every "crusade", that they praise him with idle death threats and back-hand him with flowers; it's all a bunch of down payments into his messiah complex and proves to him that gamers really are the brainwashed idiots that he perceives.

Want proof? Go on down to his Wikipedia page (it's a popular one!) for gems like this one:

Jason Della Rocca, executive director of the International Game Developers Association, said, "It’s so sad. These massacre chasers—they’re worse than ambulance chasers—they’re waiting for these things to happen so they can jump on their soapbox," In response, Thompson referred to Della Rocca as an "idiot" and a "jackass" "paid not to connect the dots [connecting shootings to video games]," and compared himself to people who warned that the government should be more concerned about terrorism before the September 11, 2001 attacks.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_%28attorney%29

I agree 100%. The best defense people could make is if they simply ignored him, rather than wage war, make death threats, and thus turn him into some kind of quasi-martyr type hero. But we know that's not gonna happen.

[Dja Majista]

darthrevan said:

He's at it again.

He lost his train of thought.

[jackred]

he needs to stop it's pissing me off.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

I wouldn't worry about it too much Jack.

[jackred]

it just needs to stop i mean i'm a violent gamer and this prick is rooming around sueing left and right is a bit much.

[The Big Daddy C-Master]

But Joe is right, if we all ignore him he'll just go away.