| Yet another Jack Thompson 'triumph'. [message #202662] |
Tue, 06 June 2006 02:10  |
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Yet another Jack Thompson news post, this time it's about, guess what, VIDEO GAMES! I fucking hate this man. My mom always told me not to hate anything, and I never did, until I read some of this dipshit's thoughts. I bolded the part I found to be completely and totally wrong.
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Jack Thompson has resurfaced again and this time he is directing investigators in a Louisiana murder case to investigate the angle that suspects may have been motivated by video games to murder.
The crime took place in West Feliciana Parish, an unincorporated part of central Louisiana. Two teens were arrested for first-degree murder and armed robbery of 55-year-old Michael Gore on Wednesday.
Thompson stepped in when he heard the reports describing the nature of Gore’s wounds. "Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you’re a hit man or a video gamer," Thompson commented to The Advocate.
Thompson also related the crime to Grand Theft Auto since the sixteen year-old suspect confessed to the police that they killed the man because he wouldn’t let them borrow his car, "the same scenario in Grand Theft Auto."
"I think [the murder] goes beyond video games, but who’s to say?," Captain Spence Dilworth, an official involved in the investigation told The Advocate. Nonetheless, police did search the teen’s home and seized several M rated games.
Both teenaged suspects will be tried as adults in court.
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http://forums.cheatcc.com/blogs/news_by_lindsay/archive/2006 /06/05/226219.aspx
| Aircraftkiller wrote on Wed, 31 May 2006 22:30 |
I've been Nodbuggered. =( =( =(
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| Re: Yet another Jack Thompson 'triumph'. [message #202718 is a reply to message #202662] |
Tue, 06 June 2006 10:39  |
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Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you’re a hit man or a video gamer
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Of course, unless you count that a bullet to the head is probably the quickest way of death (short of snapping the spinal column), and by far the surest.
No, of course. Bullets to the head only came around AFTER video games. Before the age of Grand Theft Auto, nobody even thought of shooting people in the head, right?
</sarcasm>
I'm willing to wager money that this man has never sat down and serriously played a video game in his life.
| DarkDemin wrote on Thu, 03 August 2006 19:19 |
Remember kids the internet is serious business.
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| Re: Yet another Jack Thompson 'triumph'. [message #202731 is a reply to message #202662] |
Tue, 06 June 2006 11:11 |
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Remember, this is coming from a man who wanted to sue EA because The Sims had "graphic nudity". OH NOS! THE CHARACTERS WITHOUT THE BLURS LOOK LIKE KENS AND BARBIES! WE SHOULD SUE MATTEL AS WELL OMGWTFBBQLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111
Also, he was the one who came up with A Modest Video Game Proposal, and then renigged on the deal after someone made the game he specified.
More on Jack Thompson and his shenanigans can be found here.
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| Re: Yet another Jack Thompson 'triumph'. [message #202797 is a reply to message #202662] |
Tue, 06 June 2006 16:35 |
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The idea behind all this hype is that people are constantly trying to find new scapegoats to place the blame on, instead of themselves. It isn't video games they should be worried about, it's the people who play them and can't distinguish between reality and a game. Those are the people that make the headlines, and those are the ones that get overblown by the media.
Do we see anywhere in the mainstream media about the POSITIVE effects of videogames? Is the media interested in the story of a 13-year-old who was able to save his brother's life, due to him playing as a medic in America's Army? Do we hear about Child's Play, which last year alone raised $605,000 to buy toys for children's hospitals? Do we hear that because of videogames, normally shy and timid gamers are now becoming more open, since they now have a community that does not shun them away like regular society?
No. Because if it bleeds, it leads.
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8-Bit Theatre. The power of evil compels you!
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| Re: Yet another Jack Thompson 'triumph'. [message #202918 is a reply to message #202662] |
Wed, 07 June 2006 12:15 |
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I think somebody needs to sit ol' Jackie Boy down with a nice shooter, then take him to the shooting range afterwards and see if he still thinks games have anything at all to do with shooting people. My hunch is that he's never handled a mouse or a handgun.
I don't know about anyone else, but I notice the opposite effect... I'm a damn good shot IRL, but my aiming in gaming leaves much to be desired. ^_^
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| Re: Yet another Jack Thompson 'triumph'. [message #203001 is a reply to message #202662] |
Wed, 07 June 2006 19:27 |
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Just two? Here I thought the fuckers multiplied the way mosquitos do...
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief would ensue were (the law-abiding) deprived of the use of them." - Thomas Paine
Remember, kids: illiteracy is cool. If you took the time to read this, you are clearly a loser who will never get laid. You've been warned.
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| Re: Yet another Jack Thompson 'triumph'. [message #203114 is a reply to message #202662] |
Thu, 08 June 2006 15:17 |
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Stagnant water, stagnant politics...it's all the same, one's just a little harder to purify.
"Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. Horrid mischief would ensue were (the law-abiding) deprived of the use of them." - Thomas Paine
Remember, kids: illiteracy is cool. If you took the time to read this, you are clearly a loser who will never get laid. You've been warned.
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