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In the initial ruling, the judge requested Take-Two to show him the game Bully. They came back, showed him a tape of the game footage, and he said something like "you could easily see something like that when you turn on the TV." He allowed Bully to be released this coming Tuesday.
But this doesn't silence Jack Thompson. http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/jack-th...dge-207578.php This is an interesting letter. He insults the judge himself, saying he dismissed the case too soon. The hilarious point of this is during this letter, he mentions the very CORE of the argument about violence in video games and totally misses the entire point! Quote:
THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. THE PARENTS. |
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Didn't he also pull out a slingshot and not say anything as if it was supposed to produce some kind of phoenix Wright shocking evidence. When infact I am pretty sure there are laws about bring a concealed 'weapon' into a courtroom.
I'm pretty sure he is either just fighting for his 'pride' or he is bat**** insane. |
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Most judges are as sick and tired of Jack Thompson's **** as most of the people who play video games.
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I can't wait til this $h!t passes. I remember my parents talking about how their parents thought rock 'n' roll was the devil and it possessed the minds of youth. Televisions censored Elvis shaking his pelvis. A good 50 years later and rock is still around and it sure isn't the devil and we're lucky if pelvises are the only thing we see on television. So, at this rate, it will be about 2020 before no one cares anymore and there is a "new devil."
But, yeah, the point is entirely missed in everything Thompson does. |
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Since when can minors buy Mature games?
Those ****ers at Target WANTED ID WHEN I BOUGHT A T RATED GAME. Maybe it's like the whole parental advisory stickers on music where stores aren't supposed to sell to minors but most do anyway. I dunno.
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It depends where you live I suppose. I live in a small area, so stores don't bother to check IDs (unless it's something like booze or cigs) because they aren't required to do so by law (unless it's a company-wide policy, but even then people don't check unless the point of sale system makes them). My credit card has "See ID" on the sig line in huge capital letters, but no one EVER checks my ID. But when I go to the big city in my area, people check your ID for anything except taking a dump.
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I'm sure I don't have to tell you about those people who don't have what you would call "scruples". |
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Here's the thing though. 10-year olds can't get money.
If 10-year olds aren't getting money, they can't buy games. So right off the bat, it's the parent's fault for giving them money without asking what it'll be used to purchase. Then the kid gets the game. There it's the store's fault for not following procedure. Then the kid gets it home. Now it's the parent's fault again. It's not like the kid is gonna hide the box; it's gonna sit out with his PS2. And the parent will eventually pass by that PS2 and see the most recent box out. And that would be the M-rated game he just bought. Parent's fault. Stop suing companies for making games. You have no case. |
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EVEN IF 10 year olds get the money, they cannot buy the game because you have to have photo ID proving you are 17 or older in order to buy the game.
I also dont know why he thinks that videogames are related to violence, because the Bureau Of Justice statistics actually say the opposite, because crime rates have actually reached the LOWEST LEVELS EVER RECORDED among age group 12-17. Look at these graphs, released by the Bureau Of Justice, which is the information that the FBI uses to determine crime rates. Last edited by Icefenix45560; 10-15-2006 at 06:17 PM.. |
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i seriously doubt that insulting a judge will get video games off the shelf, but moving on
he claims that it's immoral for kids 10 or under to buy M games; i had my first M (Perfect Dark) when i was 8-9 years old. i never dared to carry out the game's plot in real life. i probably played my first "violent" game at age 6. i have ADHD and Impulseitis (not sure how to spell that), so does that mean that i'm gonna do a drive-by on anything that moves? |
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Jacky ignores the "I am a gamer who has played violent games for years and have never killed anyone." argument. He just has his own mindset that all games are the devil and ignores all other factors in trying to discredit video games. Factors like television violence, psychological matters with the kids who do these things, crime rates, real-life applications, and where to place the blame.
Kid shoots up a school? Must be video games. (circa 21st century). Kid shoots up a school? Must be that rock music. (circa late 20th century). |
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jack thompson has set himself up for this anyway, he's pissed of so many judges with his ranting its not even funny.
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All this seriously reminds me of the Salem Witch Trials
Except video games are the witches 666
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Why are you attacking the game in the first place, Jack? All you did was read a summary/watch a video/whatever. BUT OOPS WAIT A MINUTE DIDN'T YOU JUST SAY THAT YOU CANNOT MAKE A REAL JUDGMENT ABOUT A GAME WITHOUT PLAYING IT IN ITS ENTIRITY Sorry, Jack. You just invalidated every argument you've ever made.
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Am I the only one who thinks Jack is very clever? I don't care if he is serious at all, look at all the attention he is getting. $100 says he knows he is full of ****, and is just trying to go down in history by attacking a popular item in youth. It apparently has worked extremely well, evidence being on television and the internet. Bravo Jack Thompson, you really are clever. I'm serious.
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Any press is good press, right?
Jack's not marketing himself. He's getting himself kicked out of bar associations. Sure, he'll go down as the raving lunatic who was like those old geezers in the early days of Rock and Roll saying it was tainting their children. How is he any better than Uwe Boll, who is now famous for making impossibly horrible movies AND picking fights with weaker people in a sport he excels in? |
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I believe there was a man back in the 50's screaming about some Red Scare....
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Jack Thompson loses a case?
AND THE POPE IS CATHOLIC?
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