hey guys, sorry if i accidentaly put this in the wrong place, if i do have a Mod move this to the correct forum.
anyways, recently jack thompson has been acting up in the media again. and since the recent story hasent been brought up on the forums, id thought id send it around here.
(my thoughts about this are in "quotation "marks.)
If you do not know jack thompson, he got GTA San andreas turned from M to AO because of the sex minigame that was hidden in the coding and not ment for anyone to see.
Jack Thompson is not Jonathan Swift – not nearly as clever. So when he titles his idea for a video game A Modest Proposal, he is degrading the beauty that is Swift’s infamous child-eating scenario. But that’s exactly what Jack Thompson did – he is offering $10,000 to charity for anyone who makes his proposed game.
Essentially, the game involves Osaki Kim, a father whose son was “beaten to death with a baseball bat by a 14-year-old gamer.” The guilty party was “only” sentenced to life, even after finding a connection to video games and the murder, so O.K. (as Thompson abbreviates) goes on a killing spree to avenge his son – he kills the publisher (Take This, a not-so-subtle reference to San Andreas publisher Take Two), followed by all parties involved in the trial, merchants of GameStop-like store and arcades – and, of course, any cops that get in his way.-Joystiq.com
"Why hold the money ransom!? Donate it without having to get something in return! Bast*ard!"
well, someone actualy did do this. they created a San andreas PC mod(ification) and it was relleased as planned.
A team of GTA modders called the Fighting Hellfish has created a San Andreas mod for the PC that Jack Thompson could have designed—that is, if he included himself as the vengeful father he proposed earlier, on a murderous rampage through the video-game industry. And there you have the story of JT and his Banman alter ego in Defamation of Character: A Jack Thompson Murder Simulator.
But that’s not all: not only is he unsatisfied with the mod, he claims his earlier proposal was merely intended as satire, to “highlight the patent hypocrisy and recklessness exhibited by the video game industry’s willingness to target cops, women, homosexuals, and other groups with some of their violent games.” (So the $10K offer to charity was satire, too?)
He then proceeds to ridicule gamers and the “video game community” for their lack of insight into his keen wit. Wait a second here, hasn’t Jack seen any of those open letters posted online for him on various game sites and blogs these days? If he won’t address these arguments directly in an objective setting, then how can there be any chance of a real dialogue?
-joystiq.com
"lieing son of a Bitc*
also he had a fight with penny arcade around a few days ago when he called them to thank for donating money with the childs play charity, but apparently turned itno him yelling at them.
thus in spite of all wrong lieing and cheating us out that jack did, P.A did soumething that i didnt see coming.
Jack Thompson may not be able to keep to his word, but Tycho and Gabe of Penny Arcade have no problem picking up his slack. After Jackie Boy deemed his Modest Proposal as satire and refused to pay the $10,000 he promised after a few games and mods responded, these two video game do-gooders put up $10,000 of their own money to the Entertainment Software Association Foundation (the charity where, Tycho predicts, TakeTwo president Paul Eibeler would have wanted the cash donated).
The best part? They donated the money in his name, which is just a slap in the face at his claims that we as a community who has “little frontal lobe activity” and promised the money was real in the same comment.
You know Gabe and Tycho are your new heroes.
Update: Jack Thompson sent Tycho and Gabe a little message: “This story is completely false and defamatory. Take it down or else.” Ironically, we got almost the exact same comment from him earlier today. Thanks, Mike Meunier.
____Joystiq.com,agian__________________________________________
wow.. thats amazing what they do to help people. these guys truely are icons in the gaming community for howmuch they help out people.
Jacko on the otherhand, is being an ass.
he really doesent like other people winningo. so he does what he always does. Threaten.
Jack Thompson has made a plea to Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, demanding that Penny Arcade’s $10K donation (in Jack’s name) be considered criminal harassment. If you’re curious about Washington State’s stance on harassment, read here. Not sure that Jackie-boy has much of a case…
When will it end? If we stop posting about Thompson, will he go away? Or, would making a collective agreement to shut him out of the gaming press leave his banter unchecked? Should we keep following his moves in an effort to make the uninformed public (are you reading this post?) aware of his antics?
sorry for long ass post.
Thoughts?
anyways, recently jack thompson has been acting up in the media again. and since the recent story hasent been brought up on the forums, id thought id send it around here.
(my thoughts about this are in "quotation "marks.)
If you do not know jack thompson, he got GTA San andreas turned from M to AO because of the sex minigame that was hidden in the coding and not ment for anyone to see.
Jack Thompson is not Jonathan Swift – not nearly as clever. So when he titles his idea for a video game A Modest Proposal, he is degrading the beauty that is Swift’s infamous child-eating scenario. But that’s exactly what Jack Thompson did – he is offering $10,000 to charity for anyone who makes his proposed game.
Essentially, the game involves Osaki Kim, a father whose son was “beaten to death with a baseball bat by a 14-year-old gamer.” The guilty party was “only” sentenced to life, even after finding a connection to video games and the murder, so O.K. (as Thompson abbreviates) goes on a killing spree to avenge his son – he kills the publisher (Take This, a not-so-subtle reference to San Andreas publisher Take Two), followed by all parties involved in the trial, merchants of GameStop-like store and arcades – and, of course, any cops that get in his way.-Joystiq.com
"Why hold the money ransom!? Donate it without having to get something in return! Bast*ard!"
well, someone actualy did do this. they created a San andreas PC mod(ification) and it was relleased as planned.
A team of GTA modders called the Fighting Hellfish has created a San Andreas mod for the PC that Jack Thompson could have designed—that is, if he included himself as the vengeful father he proposed earlier, on a murderous rampage through the video-game industry. And there you have the story of JT and his Banman alter ego in Defamation of Character: A Jack Thompson Murder Simulator.
But that’s not all: not only is he unsatisfied with the mod, he claims his earlier proposal was merely intended as satire, to “highlight the patent hypocrisy and recklessness exhibited by the video game industry’s willingness to target cops, women, homosexuals, and other groups with some of their violent games.” (So the $10K offer to charity was satire, too?)
He then proceeds to ridicule gamers and the “video game community” for their lack of insight into his keen wit. Wait a second here, hasn’t Jack seen any of those open letters posted online for him on various game sites and blogs these days? If he won’t address these arguments directly in an objective setting, then how can there be any chance of a real dialogue?
-joystiq.com
"lieing son of a Bitc*
also he had a fight with penny arcade around a few days ago when he called them to thank for donating money with the childs play charity, but apparently turned itno him yelling at them.
thus in spite of all wrong lieing and cheating us out that jack did, P.A did soumething that i didnt see coming.
Jack Thompson may not be able to keep to his word, but Tycho and Gabe of Penny Arcade have no problem picking up his slack. After Jackie Boy deemed his Modest Proposal as satire and refused to pay the $10,000 he promised after a few games and mods responded, these two video game do-gooders put up $10,000 of their own money to the Entertainment Software Association Foundation (the charity where, Tycho predicts, TakeTwo president Paul Eibeler would have wanted the cash donated).
The best part? They donated the money in his name, which is just a slap in the face at his claims that we as a community who has “little frontal lobe activity” and promised the money was real in the same comment.
You know Gabe and Tycho are your new heroes.
Update: Jack Thompson sent Tycho and Gabe a little message: “This story is completely false and defamatory. Take it down or else.” Ironically, we got almost the exact same comment from him earlier today. Thanks, Mike Meunier.
____Joystiq.com,agian__________________________________________
wow.. thats amazing what they do to help people. these guys truely are icons in the gaming community for howmuch they help out people.
Jacko on the otherhand, is being an ass.
he really doesent like other people winningo. so he does what he always does. Threaten.
Jack Thompson has made a plea to Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, demanding that Penny Arcade’s $10K donation (in Jack’s name) be considered criminal harassment. If you’re curious about Washington State’s stance on harassment, read here. Not sure that Jackie-boy has much of a case…
When will it end? If we stop posting about Thompson, will he go away? Or, would making a collective agreement to shut him out of the gaming press leave his banter unchecked? Should we keep following his moves in an effort to make the uninformed public (are you reading this post?) aware of his antics?
sorry for long ass post.
Thoughts?
