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Postby skor » Tue Feb 19, 2008 8:59 pm

I'm sure most of you have heard of a little man called Jack Thompson.
For those of you who haven't you might want to google him... or rather don't, that would just bring him more attention.

But anyway, like any ignorant, misinformed blow-hard bent on tooting his own horn, little Jacky obviously has a lot to say about the recent violence on college and university campuses.

Keeping that in mind i was mildly surprised to find a news story that actually exposes our dear friend as the self-promoting publicity whore that he really is.

Read on and discuss:
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Personally i think Ms. Winda Benedetti nailed it.
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Postby juraji » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:03 pm

tl;dr.
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Postby dgrams2000 » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:06 pm

I dont doubt that video games have some sort of influence on violence that we hear about, but its probably a very very small piece of the puzzle.

Jack sound like he was very arrogant the way he acted when on air.. .even plugging his book? Wow.
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Postby Scutch-Nukem » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:07 pm

Guitar Hero made me kill people who wore green, red, yellow, blue and orange shirts. :laugh:
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Postby skor » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:07 pm

Scutch-Nukem wrote:Guitar Hero made me kill people who wore green, red, yellow, blue and orange shirts. :laugh:

QFTW
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Postby juraji » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:08 pm

Scutch-Nukem wrote:Guitar Hero made me kill people who wore green, red, yellow, blue and orange shirts. :laugh:

Lmao
Guitar Hero is a bad influence on society! We should kill it!
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Postby lucianorivera » Tue Feb 19, 2008 9:20 pm

ah christ this has been disscused so many times in so many forums...and my answer is always the same....IT DEPENDS ON THE PERSON,if the user is mentally ill then he'll probably do the same thing he does on games.period
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Postby DreamOnMan92 » Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:02 pm

Everything is open to interpretation. It is a person's responsibility to decide if the message is right or wrong. Video games are meant to be ENTERTAINMENT. They do not tell people to blow other people's brains out, or bludgeon them to death, or rob them. This is why parenting is ever so important; kids must be taught that things that may happen in, say, GTA San Andreas are NOT okay in real life. Moving on, this has happened before. People hated the counterculture movement of the '60's because they falsely claimed that rock 'n roll music was bad and led people to do bad things. (While it may be true in some cases, one cannot assume this is true for everyone who was a hippie.) Anyone could (and people certainly do) just as easily claim that rap music leads people to murder, rob, and rape others.

Jack Thompson can officially kiss my ass. Video games rule, and he can't stop them.
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Postby Bissrok » Tue Feb 19, 2008 10:44 pm

To be fair, I don't think anyone takes Jack Thompson seriously, aside from FOX.

You've got angry, mentally unstable kids with access to firearms. No one in their right mind is going to blame an FPS the kid played several years beforehand. Plus, there's hundreds of millions of people playing video games and these kinds of tragedies are still rare enough that they become national news for a week every time it happens.

Even if video games were directly responsible for this, and even if they could actually teach you anything about how to kill, I still wouldn't think that games were a problem. There's only a problem when these kids manage to get a hold of a bunch of guns and ammo.
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Postby vedicardi » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:21 am

I stopped bothering with him a year ago. If you can't tell he IS ******** in human form, then just give me a sec to click the "ignore" button on the top of your post.
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Postby Gerinych » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:33 am

Jack Thompson is an unreasonable a**. Every gamer hates him.
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Postby skor » Wed Feb 20, 2008 2:59 am

I agree with you guys completely. It is a known fact (as in cited in an encyclopedia) that Thompson is nothing more than feces.
But what surprised me the most was that someone from the "non-gamer" community finally realized what an ass-licker he is... There may be hope for the liberal media yet.
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Postby hzac » Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:01 am

Someone I know strummed their little heart out.

Suicide.
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Postby vedicardi » Wed Feb 20, 2008 6:11 am

No, EVERYONE but fox news knows he's insane by now. Jesus christ.
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Postby TheFitz » Thu Feb 21, 2008 8:18 pm

God, what a jerk... It's folks that take what people like him say to heart that affected my childhood, preventing me from getting any videogame time until I was finally kicked out for playing them at a friends house when I was 15 years old... Sickening and despicable...
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