Author Topic: WHAA....Jack Thompson proposes a violent videogame. (Read 13196 times)

PaLaDiN · « **Reply #25 on:** October 17, 2005, 01:16:26 PM »

The guys over at Penny Arcade fulfilled Jack's promise themselves and donated $10,000 in his name.

TMW · « **Reply #26 on:** October 17, 2005, 03:59:57 PM »

Holy crap.

My esteem for the PA guys just shot through the frellin' roof.

How awesome is that?

kirby_killer_dedede · « **Reply #27 on:** October 17, 2005, 04:10:57 PM »

Yuk yuk yuk yuk.

PaLaDiN · « **Reply #28 on:** October 17, 2005, 04:46:33 PM »

That is in fact pretty awesome.

Plus it's like the moral equivalent of raping Jack Thompson.

joshnickerson · « **Reply #29 on:** October 18, 2005, 08:21:56 AM »

Oh, it gets even better. Now Jacko wants the PA boys arrested.

http://www.gamesarefun.com/news.php?newsid=5680

BigJim · « **Reply #30 on:** October 18, 2005, 09:12:47 AM »

Wow. What... an... asshole.

I'm donating more to Child's Play this year. I'd like to say that I would donate more anyway, but I can't help but be compelled to make a statement of my own by giving the F-you to Jacko. Child's Play is going to do awesome this year. Lots of good will come out of this.

Pale · « **Reply #31 on:** October 18, 2005, 09:53:50 AM »

Yeah, check out PAs website if you can get it to load.. (it takes a lot of hits to take them down.)

Khoo is flying down to San Fran to donate the check virtually as we speak.

They have a scan of the check and everything... man.. i really think if this can hit some national press, it could be Jacks official downfall.

PaLaDiN · « **Reply #32 on:** October 18, 2005, 09:59:38 AM »

Is this the first time Jack's tried to use the police?

Because damn. The guy is scared.

Pale · « **Reply #33 on:** October 18, 2005, 10:25:34 AM »

Not the first time.... uhmm I'll see if I can find a link where he sent virtually the same letter about a stupid fan-made avatar.... brb =P

Edit: Here's the link...
http://gr.bolt.com/articles/jack/jack.htm

stevey · « **Reply #34 on:** October 18, 2005, 12:36:49 PM »

I want an "I hate jack thompson" shirt badly

KnowsNothing · « **Reply #35 on:** October 18, 2005, 12:54:15 PM »

I figured it was about time for the internet to have an arch-nemesis, Jack Thompson to the resuce!

Hey Jack, I don't like you and I will find out where you live and I will step on your foot and spit in your coffee.
I hope he tries to sue me for saying that

Djunknown · « **Reply #36 on:** October 18, 2005, 05:29:49 PM »

Spit in his Hot Coffee yuk yuk...

Anyways, this is pathetic. The boys at PA called him out and made him look stupid. Jacko Wacko shouldn't be joking about giving money to charity, even if he says its 'satire.' What about the kids man? What about the kids?

for PA, for standing up to him.

TMW · « **Reply #37 on:** October 18, 2005, 09:15:19 PM »

Yeah, its awesome and all...but do you seriously think you'll be seeing this on the national news? Like CNN or the like?

As much as it angers me, I don't see it happening.

kirby_killer_dedede · « **Reply #38 on:** October 19, 2005, 03:10:17 AM »

To Jack Thompson stubbing his toe when he gets out of bed tomorrow!

EDIT: WTF!? I was looking at his wikipedia entry to find a picture of him (which btw, he looks very stoned), and apparently his views on Islam are the same as video games.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #39 on:** October 19, 2005, 05:23:21 AM »

In all seriousness, Jack didn't issue his ridiculous challenge to some smartass who took five minutes to throw together a sarcastic text adventure with only one choice, one of the options of which was to kill Jack Thompson. I think the way the gaming community is dealing with this is only slightly more mature than Thompson himself (although it is awfully nice of Penny Arcade to donate $10,000 to charity).

Of course, Thompson is still a jerkass.

Artimus · « **Reply #40 on:** October 19, 2005, 09:12:53 AM »

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Originally posted by: couchmonkey
In all seriousness, Jack didn't issue his ridiculous challenge to some smartass who took five minutes to throw together a sarcastic text adventure with only one choice, one of the options of which was to kill Jack Thompson. I think the way the gaming community is dealing with this is only slightly more mature than Thompson himself (although it is awfully nice of Penny Arcade to donate $10,000 to charity).

Of course, Thompson is still a jerkass.

I thought the game Penny Arcade is referring to was a mod of Half-Life, not that text joke?

TMW · « **Reply #41 on:** October 19, 2005, 09:37:23 AM »

Actually, it was GTA:SA mod.

couchmonkey · « **Reply #42 on:** October 19, 2005, 12:31:09 PM »

OOPS!!! *Nothing to see here*...
Yeah, you're right. I take it all back.

Djunknown · « **Reply #43 on:** October 20, 2005, 05:46:45 PM »

Its now Jacko vs Penny Arcade[and fans].

The story so far...

Some clips:

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"Penny Arcade forum members wrote, edited and sent letters and faxes to the FBA detailing Thompson's activities and urging the review of his license to practice law." The article does not say specifically that an investigation had been launched.

But...

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Representatives of the FBA's disciplinary division said that despite "many complaints" filed over the past week, no new investigation into Thompson's activities had been launched as of this morning. However, the reps would not rule out the possibility of any future action being taken.

WTF?!...

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"They're brought by the lawyers who represented Howard Stern's station, because I got him off the air down here," he said, referring to his wider campaign against profanity in the media. "This is a very old strategy that I'm used to. Penny Arcade needs to be very careful, because I've been down this road, and they have not. They've now put themselves even more in harm's way."

Instead of going after the people directly involved (who are just Penny Arcade forum users), he goes after Tycho and Gabe. Where's the logic? Guilty by association? BS...

Someone take this guys's legal license. Then he's just a nut-job, for he's about fresh out of powerful friends...

Artimus · « **Reply #44 on:** October 20, 2005, 06:16:11 PM »

They can't take his legal license, he's done nothing. But he won't take action either.

Pale · « **Reply #45 on:** October 20, 2005, 06:48:30 PM »

He has stated blatant falsities (man is that even a word?) on national TV...

oh wait.. he's a lawyer.

Anyway, Gabe and Tycho have plenty of legal experience and they have lawyer(s) to back them up. They have proven themselves very good at knowing when they are beat and when they aren't. Of all of their legal issues, the only time they were beat is in the American Greetings / Strawberry Shortcake fiasco, and they took the proper measures to avoid a lawsuit of any kind.

No matter how hard Jack tries, nothing can be done to Penny Arcade about what the forumers are posting. The absolute worst case scenario is that they would be ordered to tell who some of the posters are, but the ones sending the letters aren't even trying to hide that to begin with.

The interesting part about the whole thing is that Gabe and Tycho basically said they aren't going to fight the fight... saying that Jack is basically harmless and its better to have an incompetent person fighting against the video game industry than a competent one. This could be because they were advised by their lawyer(s) not to mess with it, as it isn't worth it.

Djunknown · « **Reply #46 on:** October 21, 2005, 05:17:12 PM »

Jacko's up the ante.

The plot thickens...

His main gripe?

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"Penny Arcade, by means I choose not to specify because that would be really dumb to do right now, given what will be distribution of this information, have intentionally orchestrated death threats and other harassment toward me. I'll provide the proof, some of which these folks don't know I have, to the charging authorities. That's as specific as I want to be given to whom I am ulimately[sic] speaking. I'm not as dumb as I look."

It seems he wants some proverbial blood to spill. How far will this go? The Hauge? Try them for crimes against humanity?

PaLaDiN · « **Reply #47 on:** October 21, 2005, 05:27:39 PM »

By "Penny Arcade" does he mean "Gabe and Tycho" or "Penny Arcade, including the forums"?

nickmitch · « **Reply #48 on:** October 22, 2005, 04:03:03 PM »

Verbally, it's the site, but in actuality it's Tycho and Gabe.

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Author Topic: WHAA....Jack Thompson proposes a violent videogame. (Read 13196 times)