Sep 20, 2013

Jack is back!!

Finally, the Enemy Numero Uno of videogames has returned!! He's still with his same old Games are evil crap, cause Jack Thompson can't be Jack Thompson if he doesn't do his games are evil and gamers are mentally impaired crap.

Original Article where Jack gave a reply

Here's Jack Thompson's comment (quoting it in case it gets deleted)
Call of Duty had EVERYHING to do with what this guy did. Finally, the massacre pigeons are coming home to roost in the board rooms of the video game industry. And I am assisting those pigeons. You can count on that. Jack Thompson, still the industry's worst nightmare. I wrote Take-Two this BEFORE we knew of the game causal link in the Navy Yard massacre: John B. Thompson, J.D., M.A. 5721 Riviera Drive Coral Gables, Florida 33146 305-666-4366 amendmentone@comcast.net September 16, 2013 Strauss Zelnick, Chairman C/o Legal Department Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. New York, New York Via Fax to 646-536-2926 Re: Illegal Sales of Mature-Rated Grand Theft Auto V to Kids under 17 Years of Age Dear Mr. Zelnick: As you know, I appeared on CBS’ 60 Minutes more than eight years ago to alert parents, that Take-Two the company of which you are the Chairman of the Board, fraudulently and thus illegally markets and distributes its Mature-rated video games to buyers under the age of 17 years, in violation of your own industry’s standards as set forth by the Entertainment Software Rating Board. Tomorrow, GTA V, the latest sex-filled murder simulation iteration of your Grand Theft Auto games, will be released. I see in today’s news that your company is “investigating” Amazon.com’s alleged distribution of GTA V ahead of the September 17 date. Far more troubling than this early release is the fact that Internet retailers like Amazon.com routinely sell M-rated Grand Theft Auto games to young customers in restricted age groups without attempting to verifying their ages whatsoever. The mere use of a credit card does not constitute, as a matter of law, verification of its user’s age. This commercial practice in which you participate at your own retail web site constitutes a fraudulent and deceptive trade practice by you and your company. As you know, you and I met several years ago face-to-face in your wealthy friend’s condo across the street from Central Park, and I simply asked you to stop marketing and selling your Mature video games to children. I promised to stop all efforts against your company if you simply lived up to video game industry standards in that regard. You refused. You promised instead to destroy me in front of our host who brokered the meeting, Rev. Larry Poland. Last month an eight-year-old boy in Louisiana shot and killed his grandmother after training to do so on one of your Grand Theft Auto video games. I didn’t conclude that—the prosecuting District Attorney concluded that. A day of reckoning is come, Strauss. Here is what is going to happen: Some kid to whom your company marketed and sells the GTA V murder/porn simulator will kill someone, and the surviving family will sue your company for the copycat killing. That suit will get through all the fabricated, lying defenses erected by your lawyers at Blank Rome and other firms, just as a plaintiff finally broke through against Big Tobacco and its lying lawyers. It is going to happen. It is not a matter of if but when. So congratulations, Strauss, for shepherding GTA V to tomorrow’s release of what all experts are predicting will be the most sex-filled, the most violent, and the highest grossing (no pun intended) video game of all time. But while you are sowing the wind, you will, I happen to know, reap the whirlwind. Consider yourself warned. Personal regards, Jack Thompson Copy: Rev. Larry Poland, significant others

That cute wall of text is Jack's Post. It seems like the real deal...  there is a follow up post where the e-mail exchanges between Jack and the writer of the original article, where Jack calls gamers "Mentally impaired".

I find it funny that all these shootings are being blamed on videogames. Anyone who's fired a real weapon, knows that a gamer with zero gun training would not be able to use these weapons correctly. I can say by personal experience that this is true and I wasn't using an actual gun... (It was an air rifle, but the recoil hurts like crap.)

We've seen the D-Eagle fail videos


or Shotgun fails



The thing is that UNSTABLE PEOPLE would be the ones that would do these mass shootings. Videogames COULD be something that sets them off, but a book,a TV show, McNuggets, ANYTHING CAN make an unstable person snap! But an Unstable person + Real weapon training (Pressing the Circle Button to shoot is not real weapon training) is FAR MORE DANGEROUS because of their Weapon Training than because s/he played videogames.

The only thing I agree with Jack Thompson is that the Ratings should be enforced more. Sadly, this relies more on PARENTS doing their job as parents... Something many are unfit to do and want the Government, Schools, TV Shows and Videogames to do their job for them.

I'm not saying Guns are bad. I' saying that Videogames are not these "Mass Murder/Porn Simulators" that people like Jack Thompson want us to believe.
Seriously, If we were to believe Mr. Thompson, then I'd be an excellent Attorney since I've recently Replayed the Phoenix Wright Games. I am a decent Mario Gamer, therefore I'm a decent Plumber, go-kart driver, and tennis player!! To fix Toilets all I need to do is step on Turtles!!

Then again, do I need to repost the video where the police instructor shoots himself in the foot?

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