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elpato84 wrote:

It's like some bad joke. I'm still waiting for the punchline.

The south is, in reality, smart?

... never!

Yup. Has he ever won a video game case?

He's nuts. One of those linked articles likened him to a forum troll, and that's exactly the feeling I get. His cute little nicknames for people, his bizarre deviations and turns of phrase, his absolutism and forcefulness... he'd fit right into MiniThink.

He should be converted to Japanese.?

reefdog wrote:

Yup. Has he ever won a video game case?

No, I don't think his cases ever get to court. With some settlements, tho, he's managing to set some informal precedent.

He's nuts. One of those linked articles likened him to a forum troll, and that's exactly the feeling I get. His cute little nicknames for people, his bizarre deviations and turns of phrase, his absolutism and forcefulness... he'd fit right into MiniThink.

Quite. Think he's there already?

NAG wrote:

Reminds me of that thread about the thumb up the butt arcade game.

It's... NAG!

There's no doubt that Rockstar was being irresponsible and deceptive in order to squeak by with an M rating for San Andreas.  Doesn't make Jack Thompson a hero, though...he's still a grade-A moron.

Press Release             Source: Entertainment Software Association
Video Game Industry to Sue Michigan's Governor
Wednesday September 14, 2:36 pm ET
 
Industry Seeks to Have Unconstitutional Video Game Law Overturned

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 14, 2005--The computer and video game industry will file suit in Michigan asking that the state's new video game law be overturned, the Entertainment Software Association announced today. Similar laws were previously found unconstitutional and thrown out in St. Louis, Indianapolis, and Washington State, costing taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars in legal fees.

"If this law is implemented, it will not only limit First Amendment rights for Michigan's residents, but, by virtue of its vagueness, it will also create a huge amount of confusion for Michigan's retailers, parents, and video game developers," said Douglas Lowenstein, president of the ESA, the trade group representing U.S. computer and video game publishers. "I'm confident the court will affirm our position given the rulings on similar statutes in other jurisdictions; indeed, the facts, the science, the law, and the U.S. Constitution have not changed since those decisions were handed down."

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/050914/145951.html?.v=1

Well, there's Doug Lowenstein. Expect Jack anytime. Plus

Wednesday, September 14, 2005 
Retailers Appeal to Governorator [September 14, 2005, 9:57 pm EDT]
This open letter from the Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association (IEMA) has the trade organization's plea to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to terminate the recent bill that would fine retailers found guilty of selling violent games to minors (story). Here's a bit

Re: Veto Request for A.B. 1179 (Yee)

"Dear Governor Schwarzenegger,

The Interactive Entertainment Merchants Association (IEMA) is the non-profit trade organization representing the leading retailers of computer and video game products in the United States. IEMA member companies collectively account for almost 75% of the $10 billion annual games business in the U.S. The IEMA, and the retailers we represent in the State of California, respectfully urge you to veto A.B. 1179.

IEMA members take the issue of retailer enforcement of policies inhibiting the sale or rental of "Mature" rated games to minors very seriously; however, we do not believe that legislation is the answer. The IEMA believes that A.B. 1179 is unnecessary, as retailers are firmly committed to voluntarily enforcing and promoting the video game rating system. Second, legislation cannot and will not replace the ultimate role and responsibility of parents in their duty to raise their children, and this bill usurps the rights of parents by restricting minors' access to certain games, even if parents have approved them for their child. Further, federal courts have consistently recognized that video games are constitutionally protected speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, and the restrictions in this bill impermissibly run afoul of that protection. Finally, the bill provides no meaningful standards to assist in determining whether games would fall within the legislation's purview."

And there's Yee again. Ditto.

http://www.bluesnews.com/

http://www.bluesnews.com/cgi-bin/articles.pl?show=798

New twist...

Rockstar takes a potshot at GTA critic
Ellie Gibson 15:29 16/09/2005

Jack Thompson issues furious response to website parody

Miami-based lawyer Jack Thompson has responded angrily to what he claims is an attempt by Rockstar to brand him a "sexual pervert".

For several years Thompson has slammed the developer's Grand Theft Auto games for their violent and sexual content, and recently he was a vocal critic of the GTA: San Andreas 'Hot Coffee' mod.

Rockstar recently launched a new website for forthcoming PSP game GTA: Liberty City Stories, which features a spoof email from "JT@CitizensUnitedNegatingTechnology".

...

Shortly after the website appeared online, US site GamePolitics received an angry email response from Thompson, in which he wrote: "Take-Two/Rockstar has created and paid for an actual Internet website for the purpose of furthering the notion that its most abiding and most effective critic, Jack Thompson, is himself a sexual pervert.

"When you click on the fake email [on the Liberty City Stories site], you will find that JT (Jack Thompson) likes to surf the Internet for pictures depicting deviant sex acts by teenage girls."

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=11598

What a self-serious maroon. Third person, yet... we are not amused. OK, we are.

He's a twerp.

Thompson says that he is too busy drafting the legislation to bother having a tit-for-tat verbal battle and he considers his position clear and the matter closed.

OMFG He said "tit"...label him AO!!!!

I just pulled out a guy's spine and use it to heft a molotov cocktail into a marching band.

Not specicially JT, but re: something above...

Schwarzenegger signs video game bill

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation on Friday to outlaw the sale to teenagers of electronic games featuring reckless mayhem and explicit sexuality.

The governor's approval of the bill was in doubt until the last minute, when he signed it as part of a series of measures that he said would protect children and strengthen families. The video game industry, which has sales of more than $7 billion a year and is largely based in California, lobbied heavily against the bill and vowed to challenge it in court, saying it violated the First Amendment's guarantees of free speech.

The video game measure is similar to bills passed recently in Illinois and Michigan but is expected to have far broader impact because of the size of the California market and the state's role in blazing national trails on social issues.

http://news.com.com/Schwarzenegger+sign … g=nefd.top

Hmm... I wonder how many tickets to Governator movies featuring reckless mayhem if not explicit sexuality were sold to teens. Well, I'm sure that's different... somehow.

And now even the anit-kiddie-gamer people are trying to disavow him. In retrospect, this Hot Coffee mod scandal was the best thing that could have happened. Good old Jackie boy took it as a sign of widespread national support of his neuroses and went all Joseph McCarty on everyone. And now he's been exposed for the smurf he truly is. Faretheewell Jack, we barely knew you. Fortunately.

I don't want anyone to attack Jack Thompson, I want Jack Thompson to stop attacking other people. Preferably, after he runs out of money from chasing ambulances.