2007 means more Jack Thompson lawsuits |
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The virtue vigilante is at it again. This time, he's decided on what to add to his list of new year's resolutions, and opted to share it with the public. You can guess what it's all about, we're sure. Despite failed attempts to get video games labeled as public nuisances, Jack Thompson is vowing to do more of the same in 2007. A recent emailed press release assures us of his continuing efforts to target M-rated games, even going so far as to call his attempt to make Bully a public nuisance a practice run.
His email reads:
ThompsonÂ’s 2006 suit to stop the sale of Take-Two/RockstarÂ’s Columbine simulator Bully was just a practice run for what is to follow. The courtÂ’s order of the production of the Bully game prior to its commercial release sets the precedent for what Thompson will do again, but this time with Mature-rated titles that the Federal Trade Commission has recently found are being sold to children across America 42% of the time!
Since his continued legal presence against videogames is basically assured for next year, the only thing left to wonder about is what games he'll be suing for 2007. Our main predictions: the next Grand Theft Auto game from Take-Two Interactive, for obvious reasons, Halo 3, because Master Chief hides his genocide behind a mask, and Mario Mario, because he's a shroom-sniffing communist.
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Lets all email this guy at his website like in the email say stuff like thank you for suing rockstar about the bully game. If you wouldnt have sued them i would never had found such a fun game. i mean its so good i bhought 10. 1 for each of my neices and nephews
Don't sue the people who make the games for making someone's kid shoot 3 cops because he thought he could get away with it! SUE THE PARENTS YOU F*CKING MORONS!!!!!
Why does he need more suits? What's wrong with the cheap polyester suit he's wearing in the picture above?
noobs. you eat shrooms you don't sniff them ya dumfvck.
He's such a freak.
jack thompson sniffs mushrooms...
Call of Duty is a war simulator etc. etc.
NBA live makes me want to dunk.
Jack Thompson is a jerk simulator
By calling it a "Columbine simulator", he belittles the dead and makes them martyrs for his own selfish cause.
Jack Thompson is a know-nothing scumbag. I hope he dies soon.
someone could make a paypal account, and we could all donate some cash (10$ or something).
I´m sure that, sometime next summer, we would have enough cash to hire a hitman to kill him!
But i guess, that would prove him right lol...
Jack Thompson sues Rockstar? Oh Please!!! The only reason Jack Thompson is sueing rockstar is because he is retarded, becuase he is so retarded he can't play GTA.
As for Mario he wants to butt F**k Mario so hard that Mario's Moustache falls off.
Damn I hate Jack Thompson and the way he blames video for all the troubles in the world.
If they were no video games then what would us guys do?
So I got 2 words for ya jack Thompson "F**k Off!"
He just wants attention.
Hahaha, i feel sorry for you stupid americans!!
Without games, I think its highly likely that we would have more aggressive people than we do now, and their ownly outlet would be real violence.
If you grow up without something because you've been told its bad, your even more likely to get involved in it later in life.
One of my own relatives is a great example. Her parents are good people, but WAY strict and controlling, wouldn't even let her watch tv shows such as the simpsons, because its too destructive (this is at the age of 16 btw). Sure enough, as soon as she was able to leave home, she did, and became a drug addict, knocked up by her ***** boyfriend that beat her.
I guarantee that wouldn't have happened if she had a normal childhood.
Jack Thompson, will your son turn out the same way? Probably.
Who's fault will it be? Take-two or your own? Don't be such a dumbass, instead of trying to ban the games, educate parents about the potential dangers and improve the laws with regards to selling to minors. Parents need to learn wether their own child can handle such games, and moderate their use.
My parents were very sensible, if I had wanted GTA when I was under 10 years old they wouldn't have allowed me. But as I grew older they learned to trust me and my moral judgement and I was playing any game I wanted by the time I was 15.
Do I have the urge to kill people? HELL NO! Do I still enjoy it in a video game? Sure, if its a good game. But I had a normal childhood and can tell the difference between virtual violence and real violence. A childhood I bet Jack Thompsons own son isn't getting.
Why is he talking in the third person? The article says it's his email, and he keeps referring to himself as "Thompson"...
Hahaha Columbine simulator? This guy is worse than those religious cult fanatics
this is just one of those people that will never change, no matter how much you prove them wrong....
Jack Thompson (whose name should be bleeped out as a curse word), why don't you go after the "movie" or "pornography" market instead of the "video game" market?! Because he's got something personal about the gaming market... but what could that be?
Maybe he could never get past the first level of Donkey Kong back in the 80s, so he's taking it out on all of gaming.
i I like this guy^^^
THIS GUY makes me wanna be violent, everytime i hear something about him i wanna kill him..
oh and QJ, Shroom sniffing Comunist...GOLD..HAHAHahahahaAHA HAH
Yo hero;-
All my mates are on EMA and so am i. England is the best place to live, i'll tell you that right now. We get paid £30 a week just to attend college, and we get £100 bonuses almost every term. I also work part time, i get around £150 a week and if you add the EMA, i get around £300, and i'm just a full time student. I spend it mainly in games or clothings. I'm gonna save aroud £500 for ps3. I bet americans wish they had a good and caring system like the british do.
hope this guy would run in Leone Salvatore's way !!
Videos games can be a release to kids....
kid gets his psp stolen
goes home plays gta and takes his anger out on it
Now if gta got banned or w/e
kid gets his psp stolen
goes home gets dad's guns and goes to school next day and kills everyone
little extreme but you get the idea lol
Hey sue the NBA franchise's cuz all the kids will be like ooh i played as Carmello Anthony he suckerpunched a guy in the face like a puvssy. I'm Carmello HEAR ME ROAR *beats the crap out of friend he is playing against*
Hey Jack Thompson. How is Bully a Columbine simulator when there are absolutly no firearms in Bully?
wait isn't bully rated T what an ass
The next thing he will try after he fails this attempt is try and sue all the shopping mall Santa's, saying that because they have little children sitting on his lap he must be a child molester.
Needs to shut the ***** up and make himself invisible. When people are buying their own games, the choice is theirs.
gay *****!!!
is there a 'get jack thompson to shut the hell up' petition i can sign somewhere?
We all love games, including me, an i've been playing for two decades now. I've played just about every genre out there, and after seeing it all develop over that time, i have to say that wether anyone likes it or not, Jack Thompson DOES have a point. But its part of a much bigger picture. Its not just some games alone, but a combination of specific Games, Television, Movies and Music. I've seen it steadily change and get worse over time. The truth is it really all boils down to greed. Rockstar know fine well who'll buy their games, an they also know why. They'll obviously never admit it, an they can say what they like to settle the media, politicians do that all the time, but at the end of the day, they still get rich.
Blaming the parents an saying they should be the ones to answer for their kids playing these games is a fair argument, but theres no way it can be applied to everyone. As a lot of parents are just rushed stupid by the stupid demands of modern living to be able to supervise all the time.
Movie's an tv dont help, Lower ratings on movies = more people can go see them an buy the dvds. 12A rating = Money strategy. Remember Aliens? Anyone remember the Aliens toys? Hmm, wasn't that film an 18 certificate? How could there be toys out for it?
He is making the claim that violent video games is causing violence in children..... so he proposes to ban violent video games from being made.
I'll make the claim that alcohol sold in liquor stores is causing children to get drunk.... so i propose to ban the sale of alcohol in the United States.
Do these two scenarios seem pretty identical in their proposition? They should, because neither of these claims fix the issue that's complained about nor will they help the economy. These propositions, if accepted by the legal system, will only CAUSE MORE OF what they're trying to prevent...
I'm sure some people remember the Prohibition of 1920, well... they'd also remember the speakeasies and bootleggers that resulted from the act (at least until 1933 when the law was overturned by the 21st Amendment). I'm only saying this because a form of those entities will show itself if the ban of violent video games became a reality here in the United States.
So my reply to you, J*** T*******, is that you should either go find a better case for your trial (because the excuses you're using right now aren't legit enough to win anything in the court of law) or you give up and SHUT UP.
this guy is a major douche! he needs to go home right now and pull his panties out of his ass
Jack is such an idiot. bully is not an M rated game and it't nowhere near a "columbine simulator" you wanna see something worth protesting? you jack, and your obsession with eradicating our 1st amendment.
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances."
it's just entertainment!
you do realize that if this guy has his way and we "stupid americans" lose our cool games it wont be profitable to make them for europe or anywhere else either
He needs to die. Who cares about voilent games, if he doesn't like them, he should just IGNORE THEM. *****tard.
I also think that violent games are a good thing. Not only are they a lot of fun to play, but they give me a way to burn off steam. Without them, I'd probably be a serial killer by now! BTW, Jack Thompson should seriously change his first name to "Jackass". Now that would be funny.
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Jack Thompson is the devil
LOL!
I absolutely agree with your point. I just wish that Jackass Thompson would listen...
HE IS!
Cool, he is only increasing the fame of a GTA game each time one of them is released on the home consoles & PCs! Lolololol! Rockstar really do like & hate him at the same time! Weird!
And those hair, eyebros & mouth of Jack's do sure look funny in a way...