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[Zeo]

Sorry if old, I searched.

http://gc.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=5883

Osaki Kim is the father of a high school boy beaten to death with a baseball bat by a 14-year-old gamer. The killer obsessively played a violent video game in which one of the favored ways of killing is with a bat. The opening scene, before the interactive game play begins, is the Los Angeles courtroom in which the killer is sentenced "only" to life in prison after the judge and the jury have heard experts explain the connection between the game and the murder.

Uh.. yeah, just read the whole thing.

 

[bjork]

Someone should take him up on that and make it. Put his likeness in it, like Pat Riley Basketball, but have JT be the end boss or something.

In the end, you take said bat and cornhole him with it. But lovingly, with soft and slow strokes.

 

[Tellaerin]

I'd love to see Take-Two produce this, then market it as 'Jack Thompson's Murder Simulator 2006', complete with Mad Jack's smirking face plastered across the front of the box. Give him a designer credit and everything. I'd love it even more if they actually made a good game out of the concept, and made the name of Jack Thompson synonymous with violent splatterfest entertainment in the minds of gamers (and parents) everywhere.

 

[ZombieSupaStar]

his 15 minutes seem to be up

 

[Tellaerin]

his 15 minutes seem to be up

We can only hope.

 

[rs7k]

:lol :lol :lol

Wow, this guy is actually fucking crazy. I'd love to play a game like that though.

:lol :lol

 

[D3VI0US]

They should totally tweak that plot and use it in the next GTA game! :lol

 

[Scrow]

his 15 minutes seem to be up

if you ignore people like Jack Thompson they have no power and will disappear after a while.

 

[SolidSnakex]

You get the feeling reading alot of what this guy writes that he's the one people should be worried about, not some gamer sitting in their room playing GTA.

 

[ninge]

what. the. fuck?

The supidity of this man never fails to impress me. Perhaps i should send him the mod we made for quake 2 while working at (company name deleted) so we could all run around the office at lunchtime shooting each other? I don't recal any of us bringing real guns into the office and actually killing anyone tho! pretty sure that would have stuck in my memory...

i really do fail to see what he is attempting to achieve with this latest ploy. Videogame companies dont want to make games about shooting themselves? not likely.. all it's going to prove is that videogame companies wont make games they wont sell and will never take designs from people outside of the company..

Give me the $10,000 and i'll write it in flash and sell it for you jack!

 

[ManDudeChild]

if you ignore people like Jack Thompson they have no power and will disappear after a while.

That would be the logical solution. But fanboy websites and idiot forum goers just won't stop giving this chode attention.

That aside, who does this fucker thing he's kidding? $10,000? That's nothing when compared to game development costs. What Take-Two should do is donate $10,000 itself, then thank Jack. :lol That would take some wind out of his small, child-like rantings.

 

[solarplexus]

O.K. pushes on to Los Angeles. He must get there by May 10, 2006. That is the beginning of "E3" -- the Electronic Entertainment Expo -- the Super Bowl of the video game industry. O.K. must get to E3 to massacre all the video game industry execs with one final, monstrously delicious rampage.

That's not funny.

Jack Thompson has a serious problem, is he braindead?

 

[Blackace]

if you ignore people like Jack Thompson they have no power and will disappear after a while.

I don't think it is us that have to ignore him.. we already say he is insane.. it is all the moms and dads that don't play video games that have to ignore him and people like him to make them go away

 

[Scrow]

I don't think it is us that have to ignore him.. we already say he is insane.. it is all the moms and dads that don't play video games that have to ignore him and people like him to make them go away

outside of the Internet does this guy get much coverage? From what I can tell he's only known within the hardcore gaming circles for the most part. I doubt the mums and dads that don't play video games have ever heard of him through newspapers, TV or radio. But I honestly don't know what the case is because I don't live in America, and that's the only place he seems to have a voice.

Is he a well known name off the internet?

 

[Blackace]

outside of the Internet does this guy get much coverage? From what I can tell he's only known within the hardcore gaming circles for the most part. I doubt the mums and dads that don't play video games have ever heard of him through newspapers, TV or radio. But I honestly don't know what the case is because I don't live in America, and that's the only place he seems to have a voice.

Is he a well known name off the internet?

Hmm good question, I can't answer that. But of course he isn't the only person who says that games are evil... But for some reason he reminds me more of Jack Chick than anybody else... maybe a second pen name???

 

[Rahul]

Jack Thompson and his issues are irrelevant until you see them on CNN and BBC World during main viewing hours more than once. Until then (eg. never), there's nothing to worry about. Just let him keep at it! At least he's putting his energy into it. Keeps'em off the streets, eh?

 

[Tellaerin]

That's not funny.

Jack Thompson has a serious problem, is he braindead?

The point is that if no one steps up to produce his game, he'll claim that it's because they all know that videogames are training kids to act out the scenarios they play, but refuse to admit it. He'll say that they won't make a game like this for fear of bringing violence down onto themselves, rather than because it's a pretty crap concept for a game. That's the main reason I'd like to see someone actually do this, to debunk his idiotic theories and expose him as the ambulance-chasing fraud he really is.

 

[Scrow]

The point is that if no one steps up to produce his game, he'll claim that it's because they all know that videogames are training kids to act out the scenarios they play, but refuse to admit it. He'll say that they won't make a game like this for fear of bringing violence down onto themselves, rather than because it's a pretty crap concept for a game. That's the main reason I'd like to see someone actually do this, to debunk his idiotic theories and expose him as the ambulance-chasing fraud he really is.

No thanks. That’s just giving him more and more attention. If you truly want to remove all merit from the things he says you simply need to ignore him.

When a crazy person is raving about an imminent armageddon that will bring the fiery wrath on the lord upon the earth you don't try to reason with him and make valid points as to why he's talking crazy. You just keep walking and pretend like he's not there.

We're only still hearing what Jack Thompson has to say because there's a demand to hear what he's got to say, whether it be for entertainment value or some sad belief that the stuff he says is worth listening to.

 

[Tellaerin]

No thanks. That’s just giving him more and more attention. If you truly want to remove all merit from the things he says you simply need to ignore him.

When a crazy person is raving about an imminent armageddon that will bring the fiery wrath on the lord upon the earth you don't try to reason with him and make valid points as to why he's talking crazy. You just keep walking and pretend like he's not there.

We're only still hearing what Jack Thompson has to say because there's a demand to hear what he's got to say, whether it be for entertainment value or some sad belief that the stuff he says is worth listening to.

I'd agree with you if it wasn't for the fact that we're not his 'core audience'. We all know he's a flake. But he's playing on the fears of uninformed parents, people whose only knowledge of videogames comes from the clips of Doom that run on the news every time games are implicated in a murder case, or 'special reports' on the local news about how the hottest game this Christmas has you running around a city carjacking and murdering people. (Yes, there've been news pieces like that here in the tri-state area, and I'm sure it's the same way all over the rest of the country.) As long as the media continues to perpetuate this myth of videogames as a cesspool of anarchic violence, Mad Jack is going to have an audience. Us ignoring him isn't going to do a damn thing.

Thompson's influence will inevitably fade as this generation matures. What I worry about is the damage he may do in the interim. That being the case, I'd rather see an active effort made to discredit him, rather than turning a blind eye while he rallies the credulous and those looking for a convenient scapegoat for society's ills (and there are no shortage of either, especially here in the US) to his banner.

 

[Scrow]

I'd agree with you if it wasn't for the fact that we're not his 'core audience'.

i wonder about that

We all know he's a flake.

Yet we continue to talk about him and give more power to his words because what he says bothers us.

As long as the media continues to perpetuate this myth of videogames as a cesspool of anarchic violence, Mad Jack is going to have an audience. Us ignoring him isn't going to do a damn thing.

But is he even getting that coverage in mainstream media? Like Rahul mentioned, he isn't featured on news programs like CNN and BBC World. What exactly is his audience?

That being the case, I'd rather see an active effort made to discredit him, rather than turning a blind eye

That's a difficult thing to do in situations like this and besides like they say, all publicity is good publicity. Make no mistake, this is a money spinner for him and the more attention he gets the more we line his pockets.

 

[SKOPE]

I'd rather see an active effort made to discredit him, rather than turning a blind eye while he rallies the credulous and those looking for a convenient scapegoat for society's ills (and there are no shortage of either, especially here in the US) to his banner.

Start here.

 

[impirius]

It's Jackson Browne, not Brown

 

[∀ Narayan]

Ironic.

 

[atomsk]

nice fucking avatar zeo

some of us are at WORK

 

[Scrow]

nice fucking avatar zeo

some of us are at WORK

huh? what was it?

 

[DDayton]

To be honest, I'm not sure how this would be any worse of a game than most of the generic titles that have been pumped out over the past few years. He's not dictating the gameplay as much as the story, really.

 

[atomsk]

i'm assuming he hotlinked someone who didnt like it, and put up a some naked chick instead.

normally i'd appreciate, but not during the hours of 8-5

 

[Dr_Cogent]

Good, he's been deserving a ban for a while IMO.

 

[Scrow]

oh i see, the silly bastard didn't host his own image. what a dumbass.

 

[Kai Dracon]

Oh, Jack.

Whatever will we do you your precocious self.

 

[Gek54]

I wonder if a simple flash game would count.

 

[Unison]

Here's Thompson's proposal (italics are his, not ours):

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." The Golden Rule

That sounds like a violent revenge game to me! Manhunt 2, starring Jack Thompson.

 

[Dr_Cogent]

That sounds like a violent revenge game to me! Manhunt 2, starring Jack Thompson.

Yeah, someone should put his likeness in a game and do a parody on this guy. That would rule if done right.

 

[Christoff Yurievich]

wait, he'll donate $10,000 to a charity if a company uses their time and resources to make this game? And what then after they make the game? Will he take them to court for making a violent video game?

Brilliant!

 

[rawk]

$10,000. I love it. He's proposing what sounds like a GTA-styled, multi-million dollar production, and he'll donate $10,000 to charity. Maybe George Lucas will make Star Wars 7 if I donate some bean cans to the Salvation Army.

 

[Robert-GCA]

That being the case, I'd rather see an active effort made to discredit him, rather than turning a blind eye while he rallies the credulous and those looking for a convenient scapegoat for society's ills (and there are no shortage of either, especially here in the US) to his banner.

We've got some things lined up on the editorial side already from our top writer.

 

[APF]

if you ignore people like Jack Thompson they have no power and will disappear after a while.

He's not a pundit, he's bringing cases into court and is involved with politicians drawing-up legislation. He does newsworthy things and that's why people report it as news.

This is a less-than-newsworthy PR stunt however.