boinga1 Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Is there any evidence that Jack Thompson really sent that? That reads like someone trying to imitate an evangelical Christian sent it in. Not that I've psycoanalyzed Thompson or anything, it just feels out of character, or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted January 22, 2006 Author Share Posted January 22, 2006 After seing the letters he sent to Scott Roomsair (artist of VGCats), Gabe and Tycho (of penny arcade), and various other, legitimate journalists trying to ask him a couple questions, I believe it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katarn07 Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Yeah, I hated this guy when he thought sex in video games is worse than senseless violence. Or his ignorance about how the 'nudity' in the Sims was created by the devs and activated with a simple cheat code. Because you know, that was a mod and patches or something are required to disable the blur. Why not rate all games AO. Just think of all the **** you can make in mods and have available for download? But now he's really crossed a line.... First, as said, kicking people when they're down and blaming video games as the cause of this tradgedy. Hey, I bet he watched TV, movies, listened to music, and read books too which are also forms of media that can just as easily be considered a waste of time because God doesn't say for us to go do them. Then, he gives Christians a bad name by saying God doesn't forgive people for playing games (which is probably the dumbest, most ignorant thing I've ever heard. According to the Bible, all sins are equally bad and equally forgiveable). Dumb ass. What's he gonna think of next? Not sure if I wanna know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 Then he'd have the chance to procreate and we'd have a bunch of little demon babies running around. With hooves. He has kids. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoxStar Posted January 22, 2006 Share Posted January 22, 2006 "he makes christians look bad" I say he makes human beings look bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IG-64 Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 That's sick and disgusting. O RLY? I think he meant "masturbatory" 1. Of or relating to masturbation. 2. Excessively self-indulgent or self-involved. But yeah, this is yet another sick and exploitive act committed by Jack Thompson. I think it would be interesting to see Bill O'Reilly interview him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 I think it would be interesting to see Bill O'Reilly interview him. I'd love to see that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-8252 Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 I think it would be interesting to see Bill O'Reilly interview him. Not really. He'd probably agree with him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Yeah, the guy's definately a major league @$$hole to the highest magnitude. I don't care how much he rants about video games causing violence (idiotic) but ridiculing and belittling a kid who got so sick of putting up with his life that he chose to end it, is beyond low. Then, to insult and ridicule the kid's friends as if they pushed him to it is just plain sickening. Thompson is just another wiener who would never take the blame for anything when it could be passed on to an idea, activity, or belief. But, hey, religion has always had it's extremists who give the rest of their own a bad name. We can thank "good god-fearing christians" for the Ku Klux Klan and David Koresh (doubt I spelled that right) Bin Laden, Al Qaida, and their host of terrorists and suicide bombers who make life hard for fellow Muslims. And Jews... well, they have been busy avoiding genocide to cause too much trouble off the top of my head. But, my point stands, Thompson is just the newest form of religious extremist that is trying to change the world against it's will to fit his agenda. And if video games and guns cause violence, then nail guns cause animal habitat to shrink. Take away nail guns and housing developement would stop in it's tracks. Take away video games and guns, and the world would be a pristine example of utopian perfection, just like before guns and games. I hate to call people I don't know, names, but this guy is a true idiot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK-8252 Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 And Jews... well, they have been busy avoiding genocide to cause too much trouble off the top of my head. Other than their occupation of Palestine, yeah, pretty much. But that's a separate issue. >_> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted January 23, 2006 Author Share Posted January 23, 2006 Hey, keep the hatred to Jack Thompson, and Douchebg Thompson alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 No hatred here. I was merely making a point of how he is just the latest in a long line of jackasses who give their religions a bad name. But agreed, the focus should stay on "Douchebg Thompson." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TiE23 Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Well, basically, we wish someone else whould kill him. Or he would die of a heart attack, not us to kill him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Windu Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Wishing death upon someone = still bad. With that justification you are comparable to Pelias or any other king in Roman mythology who sends Jason to do deadly tasks in hopes of getting rid of him. Of course, you end up dying instead... <_< But eh... specifics... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrion Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 You know, when you say you hate Thompson and want him to die you're only proving his point. I dislike the fellow myself, and I wish he would really stop this pointless crusading, but I reserve my hate for murderers, rapists, and people who talk at the theater... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Seeker Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 I don't wish him dead, I just wish he'd mind his own business. I never try to convert those who do not wish to be converted, nor do I consider myself better than those who disagree with me. If only everyone else could do the same, the world would be a far less volatile place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manoman81 Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Well, as much as I seriously dislike Thompson, I think that there is a bigger point to be made here. Someone has commited suicide. That is sad and the loss felt by the people in the forums and his family is greater than what anyone can do to help. There is nothing that we can do at this point about a lawyer who has too much time on his hands. Using someone's death in this manner is almost as bad as the death itself. I know everyone has had their bad times. Sometimes, the bad times turn to dark times. Know that there is help out there. I understand that this guy might have been a college student? There are always people on campus to help with depression. Usually it's free. If a campus doesn't have those services, I call it a joke college. There are usually some type of hotlines people can call in the community as well. I think we here at these forums would react the same way as the people over at metalgearsolid.com. It just hurts to try so hard to save a person's life only to fail. I'll echo this statement as well, don't drop to Thompson's level. IT won't help wishing death upon him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joetheeskimo Posted January 23, 2006 Share Posted January 23, 2006 Well if you're not insane people that hate everything but ourselves, that's including Douchebag Thompson, and he hate's everything but himselve. So wildjedi's statement was correct. In response, I'll quote you... Jack Thompson a christian? My ass! I don't know of any christian that would go and do something as f***ed up as this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Det. Bart Lasiter Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 If I say that I wish a potentially lethal accident upon him is that the same as wanting him dead? Also, his point has nothing to do with saying video games cause violence, he just wants to be lazy and not have to raise his kids. He wants them to "just happen" (watch the movie The House of Yes to see this quote in context...) and turn out right. People like him should be more attentive parents and if they don't like what their children are watching or playing they should take it away, not legislate their opinion, piss people off, and get hundreds (probably thousands) of developers fired because they slightly offended him in the form of small dots of light arranged on a screen to kind-of look like blood. He also has given me permanent high blood-pressure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Windu Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 people who talk at the theater... I don't mind whispering, but answering your cell phone and proceeding to have a conversation on it is ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagobahn Eagle Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 If I say that I wish a potentially lethal accident upon him is that the same as wanting him dead? Yes. Duh:rolleyes:. All of you gamers need to put down the controllers and get a life. The utter inanity of the vast majority of postings here shows how vapid "gaming" really is. Hey, let's all play MORE games, and ignore all the really productive things to do with our lives. Let's pretend to be shocked that a gamer might descend into deeper depression, as his gamer "buds," knowing he was killing himself, couldn't figure out how to call 911 themselves for him. That would have involved leaving their computers I guess. Kudos. A lot of gamers really don't have lives. And yes, many depressed people find much more support in volunteering for those who need them than they do in video games. And yes, calling 911 might have been better than playing detectives (of course, this is not the gamers' fault, it's more that the schools don't bother teaching us such trivial things as what to do if we, or a friend of ours, wants to kill himself. I didn't get to take Psychology until High School, and then it was a course you didn't even have to take ). Of course, the "Culture of Death" part is BS (unless he means the "Culture of 3D Models Dying as Players Shoot Them"), as is his exploitation of a person's death against the will of the people left behind. Oh, and on "masturbatory": mas·tur·ba·to·ry 2. Excessively self-indulgent or self-involved: “ [The play's] star... paces around his cell, smoking and snarling in a masturbatory rant” (Sam Whiting). Way to prove we gamers can use a dictionary, Herminator, looking up the wrong word:D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Kudos. A lot of gamers really don't have lives.That's an asinine assertion. A lot of college grad students don't really have "lives" either. Should people who may be depressed drop out of graduate school? Just because what some gamers choose to do with their time doesn't fit YOUR description of a 'life' doesn't mean you can judge them for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBob Posted January 24, 2006 Author Share Posted January 24, 2006 I can see that I opened up a big ole can of worms, and that this thread is going nowhere fast. I hope someone closes the thread before something ugly occurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toms Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 Well, a friend of a friend was a really popular girl at university.. always happy and cheerful, involved in lots of activities, big circle of friends, ran the student bar, etc.. and one day they found her hanging in her dorm room. I doubt she ever touched a game in her life, and she had what a lot of people would define as "a life". Sometimes though noone of that really matters... A lot of hardcore gamers are in that age group where they haven't quite figured out how they fit into life yet... but then as they get older life becomes more important/gets in the way and they become more casual gamers... its no differnt to teens who sit in their room listening to depressing music, or whatever else teenagers have done for the past 100 years... And since a lot of the rest of the world spends it's life sat infront of the tv, or in the bar, or in the gym its hardly any less constructive and valuable than any other hobby. As long as whatever the hobby is is kept in moderation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ET Warrior Posted January 24, 2006 Share Posted January 24, 2006 I think it's a good idea to end on toms wise words of wise-ness. wise Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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