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:
The Story
Personally i think Ms. Winda Benedetti nailed it.
Finally A Voice of Reason
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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.
Jack Thompson can officially kiss my ass. Video games rule, and he can't stop them.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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