I was bored at work today and had only two classes to teach, so I amused myself by reading up about this a bit on a few sites. Really funny stuff! I love how they pushed his buttons and sent in a check in his name - there's a scan of that on their site, too. The memo says something to the effect of "Donated in the name of Jack Thompson because Jack Thompson won't"

I just wish I had popcorn.

it is bound to get even more interesting really. PA has a great lawyer now after some hairy legal issues back in the day. This means they have the benefit of a guy who can tell them exactly what they can and can't do legally in public with 'ole Jack.

If what he is saying is true, then "Whack-a-Mole" is a trainer for animal abuse.

Heh heh......I just envisioned a lively game of "whack-a-kitten".........

As of around 3pm PDT yesterday, the Seattle PD hadn't received ANYTHING from Thompson. It looks like it was a media grab, since he DID send the fax to just about every major media outlet there is.

The man is a joke, plain and simple.

I dont much like the Vice City games either, but trying to blame a game for an idiots actions is dangerous in itself.

One of the problems with Jack is that while many people can see him for the idiot he is, he is still being called upon by CNN and other outlets as an expert in gaming violence. He is still spewing untruths about gaming and it's being released by news outlets as fact. While Penny Arcade has a wide readership, it's still just a gaming/online comic site and doesn't have the reach of a CNN. So, some people are in the dark as to Jacks ass-hattery. Hopefully, that will get fixed and quick.

a few good articles on www.brokentoys.org (aka The Rantings of Lum the Mad redux, sans in-depth game criticisms.)

there should be no way that Jack actually wins

as stated on the forementioned site, there should be no way that this guy gets airtime. Period. Giving people like him any attention (namely the widely transmitted kind) is teh r00t of all 3v0l! It's not that he truely passes for normal or that millions of people will become phobic of gory videogames after listening to his rubbish, but that out of hundreds of couch potatoes that say 'uhh... guess so' before flipping the remote back to their regularly scheduled skin flick, 1 or 2 of them will stop and say 'damn right!' and form a small loyal following to what this quack preaches... all because he makes appearances on venues that at least have an ounce of credibility. And it's a loyal gathering that makes people like him, Jim Jones, Falwell, McCarthy, Stalin, the Spanish Inquisitiors, et al, extremely hard for the aphony majority to ignore.

Actually, I am pretty disgusted by GTA, or are you suggesting that it makes no statement at all?

Actually, I am pretty disgusted by GTA, or are you suggesting that it makes no statement at all?

I would suggest that you haven't read the article.

Troll.