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Jack Thompson's "Modest Proposal"

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Se7en:
a LAWYER claiming money is the root of all evil?

I havnt laughed so hard for months.


"hmmm... have a read of THIS ONE. "

Yup. It can be summarised as "well i rang him up and he was nice to me since he thinks im a legitimate journalist, so im going to stick my fingers in my ears and ignore all the other times he has been a total ass, because i know that controversy gets pageviews"

Also, the bloke who wrote it thinks having worked for the inquirer gives him legimacy? SO WHAT! i have worked for them too. It always amuses me to see IT journalists get on their high horses about standards of journalism, because eventually we get down to the truth that every last one of us is a cynical bastard who writes whatever he damned well pleases.

Gryff:
Thompson's automatic response to everything is to threaten "legal action". The dude who does VG Cats was threatened for emailing him a couple of times, when it was Thompson who emailed him first.

He seems to think he is some kind of righteous master lawyer that people shouldn't fuck with. In reality he is a deplorable, ignorant little shit-stirrer with little knowledge of the games industry and major misconceptions over his own importance.

Does he even read this shit before he sends it out to the world?:


--- Quote ---Evil people sometimes have to be stopped, or at least their evil has to be stopped. You can cite all the studies and all the findings and keep giving your video game report card to Congress, and it will not matter unless somebody gets into the trenches and stops these people.
--- End quote ---


I am fucking exasperated to see him compare the games industry to the Nazis:


--- Quote ---Liberals, like you, love to label things and then think that the labeling has accomplished something. If that had been the case, then Churchill's calling Hitler a Nazi would have ended the war. But no, people like me had to get into the trenches and stop the Nazis. And there were always those tut-tutting back home about what a nasty business it is to stop the bad people, and can't we all just "get along."
--- End quote ---


I agree that the US needs a better ratings system, and I think restricted games should not be made available to chldren. It seems simple to me, so why does Thompson take it upon himself to wage war against the entire video game industry?

The guy is just a giant douche with an extremely tenous grip on reality. Luckily it seems that people are starting to realise this, and nobody is willing to take him seriously.

TrueNeutral:
And now the boy who got sodomized by a machine from a penny arcade machine is sueing those generous men from 'penny arcade'.

"It is critical to establish that this letter isn't anything to worry about. We've been sent worse by better." - Tycho isn't worried. Neither am I.

Gryff:
I cannot understand the letter that Thompson sent to the police. What does he want them arrested for? All he does is blather on about "constitutional rights", and how San Andreas is a "'cop killing' murder simulator". The only evidence he gives that Penny Arcade have harassed him is the "I Hate Jack Thompson" t-shirt that they are selling, which is of course completely legal (not to mention a constitutional right). Obviously this is "criminal harassment" on par with emailing people or animating 'threatening' AIM buddy icons.

Tycho's response: "We've been sent worse by better".

Seriously, Thompson is a muck-raking, fundamentalist wack-job who thinks that he can frighten people with empty legal threats. All he is doing is making enemies, and hopefully undermining his already rapidly disappearing credibility further.

Thank you, Penny Arcade, for standing up to the guy, and taking the high ground while doing it.

Valrus:
Does the man sleep? How does he find the time to send crazy-eyed emails to anyone who dares impugn him and still be a full-time lawyer?

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