Official Jack Thompson Thread
 

I felt our feelings on this guy and his insanity deserved it's own thread.

This is for discussion on anything Jack Thompson has ever done or said.

I'd say I initially felt the first stirrings of the contempt I feel for him now after the Columbine shootings. "These shooters trained on killers like Doom."

Just from that I knew he had no idea what he was talking about. I mean, I don't remember the details of the shootings, but I doubt the legions of hell or the BFG made their presence known at the time.

I mean, for that argument to have made any sense to me, he would have had to mention a game where you actually target with a gun. Like Duck Hunt. (Not that I would have agreed with the argument anymore then)

Ah, from such small things grow such great hatred. All it takes is a psychotic focus that ignores both facts and anyone who disagrees with you.

Is this completely necessary? I mean, we've pretty much done our part for JT. I don't feel much like battering him around anymore.

is this that guy that also blamed WW2 on video games? oh wait it is

in a vid that a cam got the shooters really did say "this is just like doom" whit that all the crazys and overprotectives that expected doom to rase there child. i have one thing to say to those Bassturds its not the games!

Um, what? I have no idea what you're trying to say here... okay, I have an idea, but that's as far as it goes. Dude, seriously, run a spellchecker over your posts and learn how to use interpunction. Lately it seems like every post of yours is severely misspelt, incoherent or both.

Has anyone ever actually read Jacks life story? Wiki offers much insight into this poor deranged lunatics troubled past.

I've read it before. it's interesting.

Why do you guys need to keep talking about him? This is exactly why he keeps being so stupid and saying such dumb stuff. Because it gets people like you riled up and he gets attention.

He's being sued and he isn't allowed to do anything in half the states in the US. If you just ignore him, the legal system will takecare of him so the only people who will care about him are in his own state (and perhaos not even there soon).

Oh damn! BURN!

Well then since he's a republican wouldn't he like how the army trains on video game? I mean he wants to get rid of the terrorists right? XD

While the shootings were sad and unfortunate...Final Fantasy? Guns weren't exactly in Final Fantasy in 1997...at all...maybe a cannon or something...but Final Fantasy should not be on that list...and Nightmare Creatures isn't even a good game...also Mechwarrior should also not be on that list...it's not like the shootings happened with a gigantic robot.

Excuse me? I know several Muslims...and none of them have tried to kill me for being Christian. Additionally the teachings of the Qur'an promote peace. Islam is in fact a wonderful religion that unfortunatly ass holes like Jack and his ilk slander because the terroists in the War in Iraq happen to be Muslim. I guess he doesn't realize that the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian faiths all come from the same basic back ground. He should really read up on that sort of thing before throwing out accusations about other people's religions.

It's really disturbing how he is not even covering up how much he worships shootings like this. They make his day.

Probably not, but then again, he is a prevaliant force in the gaming world (for HILARITY and FUNDEMENT [wait, that's poop])

Mirai gen is right. While it's sad that a pompous racist no-nothing asshole can get away with what he has (i.e. still being allowed to speak after all he's said) he draws power from attention, so until he does something new worth ranting about, can we let it die?

Jack is using the ol' get irrational, pissed off people who have no idea what the facts are to believe in you plan. Because video games don't appeal universally, he's trying to tap into the part of the population that's never held a controller.

He's got a bit of an edge here, seeing as a fair chunk of the baby boomers consider themselves too old to try em out, and they are a huge portion of our population right now.

The thing about this strategy is he knows he doesn't have a valid point. For all his faults and crusades, the man was smart enough to become a lawyer. He's not an idiot, and it would be foolish to think of him as such.

But by making as big a stink as possible, he can attract all the people who dislike video games for any inane reason that won't acquaint themselves with the facts.

Jack knows that in a straight up, logical proceding looking merely at the facts and nothing more, he doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell. Thats why he's hyping his stuff up and involving as much controversy as possible.

And the more he's mentioned, the more people hear about him. While he is good for (several) laughs, you have to realize that he's still getting attention and the more biased opinions we have about him (however valid) the more people can justify it by saying "well they're gamers, of course they hate him" after skimming a blog written in a frenzy of passion (or annoyance, rage, etc- pick your poison)

So if you absolutely must bash Mr Thompson, I suggest we keep it clean. I know he hasn't so far, but really, since when did you want to be like him?

i was pretty sure he was and still is a prick, when he claimed the youngsters trained themselves by playing the only shooter out there (in my knowledge) that doesnt even fricking work with a mouse. How can you train your shooting by playing a game wherein you cant aim!!!

edit: from wiki; all the shootings happennend by children who played videogames...so..are there still children out there who are in highschool that never played a videogame???

all hail democracy and its weakness for idioticy

All i want to know is what did porn have to do with anything?

Porn is lust.

Lust and the Bible hate each other.

They had a falling out.

heheh. Something I'd find funny: Jack Thompson, after all this time, having holdings and shares in companies like BioWare. He bashes them severely, they fight back, and it's really the best kind of advertising.

That's just an idea I've had- And for me a humorous one.

...

I'm gonna go and check now. O_o

Not just porn, sex porn!

Sex Porn is sexier than regular porn.

Oh man guys, let's go look at some sex porn sites!

Jeez, I'm gonna say that every day now.

Anyone know the name of the infamous Jack Thompson episode of Law & Order?

I think I saw that one.

Holy shit, I need to see this episode now.

He touts it around like its a case he won, when obviously the character must of been "for the other side".

He's accusing several companies, including Take Two, Kotaku, Gamespot, IGN, and Penny Arcade of... wait for it... racketeering. In case you don't know what racketeering is, it's usually a protection racket (Pay us and we won't burn down your store).

Here's how the "racketeering" works in this case: People have gone to Jack's residential neighborhood handling out "libellous" pamphlets, shooting at his house, harassing him online, threatening his son, and (my personal favorite) sending sex aids to his wife. It's racketeering because those sites are somehow "knowingly orchestrating" these attacks. Plus, every bully I've ever had was commanded by aliens.

A personal opinion of mine: this man deserves our wrath. He has constantly tried to destroy our precious freedom of speech all in the name of "stopping murder." Even if he was right, we would still give him hell over this. But I think that threatening his son over this is unacceptable. His son has done nothing wrong. He has to deal with having a dad that many people, including myself hate. If you hate Jack, man up and take it out on him. You're not a comic villain, you don't have to target his family. It is because of his son that he started the crusade against games, but his son still isn't at fault. Jack found him playing games of violent nature and was outraged and decided to bitch at the developers instead of parenting. Blaming his son for the "crusade" is like blaming racism on the other races.

Well, that's just my two cents, maybe seven but whatever.

Sex porn.... all this time I've been missing out.

So wait, this entire thing started ebcasue he doesnt look at what games his sone buys? Are you fuckin kidding me, the entire damn crusade is him hiding the fact HE was a shitty father!? HOLY FUCK!

You know what this means don't you? DON'T YOU??!!

We now know the CAUSE! If we know the CAUSE, we can change the EFFECT!!

...ANYONE??! *Tumbleweed and blank, confused faces*

TIME TRAVEL of course!!

All we need to do is find out WHEN these games were bought and then go back and stop his son from buying them... by buying them all first! It's so simple. We can erase Jacks entire crusade from history and finally have peace!

...Or am I just living in a dream world?

He was too busy reading his Bible.

This is too funny. This whole time I thought he was smart, trying to cash in on the publics uneducated knowledge of games, playing us like fools, but really, he made a stupid decision and want to cover it up.

Oh, I believe that he's trying to cash in NOW, just that it evolved over the billions of years he has been alive.

Also, I don't believe that his Bible Thumping is an act.

What the eff?
He actually compared himself to the goddamn BatMan!

I am laughing so hard right now. Oh my God. Do you have a link?

Right Here.

Poor poor Dr McNinja.

I know that it seems superfluous to say this, but this seals the nail of the lid of his detachment from reality.

Didn't he also create "pixelante" as a derogatory term? When some people on a board took it as a badge of honor (Sort of like how black people are allowed to say the N word) and he thought that they were too stupid to figure it out, calling them "pixelante thugs" and saying how anyone who would consider themself to be a vigilante is beyond help.

And he gets off comparing himself to Batman.

Another funny fact: He had a lame website called www.stopkill.com, but took it down because someone kept hacking it and replacing the content with a .wav of South Park's "Biggest Douche in the Universe."

Yeah, I forgot about that. The name is now used by some players over in Spacewarz as an empire name, The Pixalantes.

So that's another thing he's failed at then, coming up with a derogatory term for gamers. The fool!

Holy shit! You know it's only a matter of time now before that last thread of sanity snaps and he actually starts dressing up as batman and when he goes into court and starts ransacking gaming offices.

He already does think he is above the law.

HE IS THE LAW.

More like "outside the law." He aligned himself with Batman, not Judge Dredd.

Although I find the prospect of him referring to his vehicle as The Lawmaster and quoting Dredd in court highly entertaining.

HE IS THE LAW.

If this were a cartoon, I think right about here's where Bugs Bunny would hold up a wooden sign that reads "What a Maroon!".

What a second.... Batman is helping the law now? I think this is a much more important issue that needs to be got to the botom of!

Crap, the biggest school shooting in American history just happened at Virginia Tech. At least 22 dead and at least 21 injured. Jack is gonna be all over this.

If the shooter has ever seen or heard of a video game then Jack is gonna blame the whole thing on video games. Even if he hasn't he's gonna pull some bull shit idea out of his ass like how Take Two took control of his mind by using warlocks who chanted in the middle of a inverted pentagram drawn on the floor with the blood of babies.

When will that guy learn the "violent" video games actually release pent-up aggression? That guy is so ridiculous, he could argue that this (http://www.nuklearforums.com/showth...=Jack+Thompson) is a bad thing.

Jack indeed was on TV earlier. I've been watching Fox News since about midday. He came on and instantly started claiming he knows that video games were a factor even though the police have already said they don't know/can't release information about the shooter.

According to Thompson, “In every school shooting, we find that kids who pull the trigger are video gamers.”

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)

Another comparison - every school shooting, we find that the kids who pull the trigger are students. Should that mean we ban schools?

In this day and age all the kids have played a video game at some point or another.

So Jack can make all the crazy accusations he wants and most likely be "proven correct" later- odds are the guy did play games.

Yes, he probably did. But as have many people. And this guy has no right, no qualification to decide this is the ultimate reason that these kids did what they did.

But it's Jack Thompson. He has a direct mandate from God, and you can't stop him because Jack is just doing his job. I still can't believe he actually believes this.

It's like Divine Right of Kings, only for complete fucking morons.

I agree wholehartedly. When you rely on psychological bs and a holy burning crusade to deliver your point, you lose the dependancy on facts most lawyers have.Thompson is a classic rhetoritician, not going with the facts, but rather with what he believes to be the most convincing way to put his case forward.

And this hurts him. I can understand the bit about biofeedback controls, he would have a valid point there, except almost all the games I've played rumble when you are shot, not shooting.Or both, but never just when killing. According to his logic, we are teaching our youth that getting shot is good, psychologicaly.

For some people it IS the games that does it- but that number is drastically small, especially compared to those who did it because they were tught by violent movies or television. Jack isn't trying to get these forms of media banned because they are too well established- people will realize that it's not TV/Movies making people kill, it's crazy people killing.

Get 'em while they're young? Peer Pressure! Peer Pressure! I've found a few quote sites:

Armies have been known to go on rape rampages after battles because the violence stimulates sexual aggression. How lovely that GTA weds sex and violence in the same game.

It's lucky that Canada and America doesn't really have this problem, right?

You just watch. There is going to be a Columbine-times-10 incident, and everyone will finally get it. Either that, or some video gamer is going to go Columbine at some video game exec's expense or at E3, and then the industry will begin to realize that there is no place to hide, that it has trained a nation of Manchurian Children.

....I don't even have a proper response to this. I don't think video games cause violence, Jack Thompson causes violence among video gamers.

"Sims 2, the latest version of the Sims video game franchise...contains, according to video game news sites, full frontal nudity, including nipples, penises, labia, and pubic hair."

Does he even play the games he rants about?

"Kids don't have liberties. Do your research"

...How about the 'Youth Criminal Justice Act,' just for starters?

" 'EGM: You once compared Doug Lowenstein, president of the Entertainment Software Association, to Saddam Hussein.
JT: If I did, I want to apologize to Saddam Hussein. Doug is a propagandist to whom the facts don't matter.' "

You tell us that youths have no rights, but then you go on to harrass and insult those who do have said rights.

"I've been on more Canadian news outlets than you've been on welfare lines."

Are you bragging, Jack?

"The 'video game community' (what's next, 'the necromancy community'?) surely seems exercised about someone who is a 'joke' and who is accomplishing nothing. You all seem rather bothered and worried about a nonentity. God is in this battle, and I am privileged to be a foot soldier. You all should be concerned, not about me, but about Him."

They used to burn people like you.

"By the way, people who believe in the First Amendment don't ban people from Internet forums. Got that?"

...To all the forums on NPF - I wouldn't consider you unpatriotic or anti-American if you banned Jack from the forums. I'd congratulate you. Seriously - he's just bitter that the community he lashes out at doesn't support him. Go figure.

Now I'd never call someone a douchebag, but Jack is deserving of the bag of douche title. If you want to know more about his douchebagginess, go here: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)

Jack Thompson has implicitly proved that there were no violent acts committed against other people prior to videogames being invented.

Read this interview for other important historical facts:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/...in676446.shtml

I was unaware that kids took guns to school for years and didn't shoot each other, or that soldiers went on rape rampages because of video games. I'm glad that JT illuminated these facts for me.

Video games don't make people violent, Jack Thompson does.

EDIT: Check these out:

http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20050808 - Bathing Suit Area
http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/comic.php?d=20051012 - An Open Letter To Jack Thompson
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=158 - Coco Beans In Warm Water
http://www.vgcats.com/jack.php - The e-mail Jack Thompson sent after reading the above comic

Then seriously, why doesn't one of these 'corrupted by video games' kids put the hit out on him instead? If he's so damn sure of himself I'm sure he'd love to be proven right.

Honesty, I give him 5 months max before that actually happens.

Don't you remember? He went all Jack Thompson earlier when someone made the famous avatar, claiming that people were threatening his life.

I just wish someone actually did, instead of the faux "Hit A Caricature of Him Cause It's Funny" 'threats' that he got.

It's amazing how we can have snipers kill presidents, yet nobody wants to take a gun to this nuthouse.

what's more fun is to send emails to his account, warning him about other websites (Like GameFAQS) are planning stuff like that. he sends back very polite emails.

We all better hope that some smart-ass kid doesn't decide to "defend our honour" or whatnot and take him out. That would make him a martyr for his cause. We really need to just ignore him, and wait for time to do our work for us. Unless he wants to claim that Black and White corrupted God and wouldn't let him dodge mortality, then we win.

Why am I not suprised that he show up on Fox news? For someone who claims to be a champion of God, and a defender of what is right he certainly gets a mental boner whenever school shootings happens. I mean the bodies aren't even cold yet and he's already started parading around like he thought up the fucking theory of relativity. I mean this guy wouldn't piss me off nearly as much if he would give the families a chance to mourn and the police a chance to investigate before he swoops in on the corpses like a damn vulture.

What is his email? I have a document, a large essay on things like video games vilonce, and sacrlige in games, that I want to send him. I also have a few questions. Im not gonna like, spam hismail with threats, the smart, calm approach is always far more effective.

I already made that comparison, you are stealing my thunder!

Y'know I have never bothered to read up on anything about Jack Thompson other than about his "crusade" against video games, but after reading some things on wikipedia I've realized that this man has always been a complete jackass. I mean the things he's done over his entire career makes Fifth look like a goddam saint.

This is the first time I've ever thought that Janet Reno was awesome.

magiccity@comcast.net

Is what's listed at the florida bar's member page for him.

...kind of ironic, his email account is.

How ironic.

Really, the fact that he is still alive disproves his entire argument that gamers are violent.

Edit-
Isn't that the point?

I tried sending an email to that account, but it sent me back a delivery failure notification. Has it worked for anyone else?

Edit: After a google search, I found this email address. I haven't checked yet, but it might work better.

Edit2: That hasn't worked either, and after looking a bit more, I haven't found one that does work yet. If anyone finds one, please post it here.

I couldn't resist. The photoshopper in me just screamed out.

The angle of the source image wasn't perfect, but the glare of disgust in the eyes sold me on it.

That is without a doubt the greatest thing that has ever been created. I mean someone has got to e-mail that picture to him, I'd bet he'd get a chuckle out of it... or send you and e-mail where he curses at you then says he's gonna sue you for harrassing him.

This is the last thing we want. He would be a martyr. He'd be justified. And like the virus he is, a score of people would rise in his place. We'd be truly underfire, and this time they would have the ammunition they need to get truly gruesome.

What I wish I could do is stand up on national television and apologize to the world. I actually, because this is how bored I get and how furious Jack Thompson makes me as both a Christian and a Gamer, wrote up the speech I would use.

"I would like to officially apologize to the family and friends of victims of the Virginia Tech. What you have suffered is a tragedy that can not be expressed in words. I would also like to apologize for the actions of Jack Thompson.

This is not the time for fingers to be pointed, for blame to be given. This is the time that we, as a nation, as a people, need to rally around the survivors of this massacre and join them in the mourning of the fallen. His attempt to take this situation and use it as a tool to inflate his own podium is both disgusting and reprehensible.

There is no justification for his actions. No words to explain the rightness of his actions. And there shouldn't be, for this is not a time of words. I offer up my consolotory prayers to the students and staff of Virginia Tech, and my deepest feelings of sorrow for the loss of so many innocent."





I thought about chiming in about how I am a gamer and played violent games and blah blah blah, but did not want to turn it into a spitting match against JT, but rather a public slap in his face and redirection to what we as a nation should really be doing.

Guh, I fuckin hate him. Really. Fuckin. Hate him. As a christian, as a gamer, as a human being. I hate him.

No doubt there are many people who believe that Christians are stuck up, holier-than-thou pricks because of people like Jack Thompson.

I just wanted to go ahead and get that in, because usually I don't like posting in threads created specifically for the purpose of bitching and moaning about a specific thing or person that everyone hates anyway. But, I digress.

page limit, closed.