Gamers Against Jack

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Some of you may have heard of the anti-video games lawyer, Jack Thompson. If not, read the following:

Jack Thompson is an attorney in the state of Florida in the United States. He is reknown for his anti-videogaming crusade, in which he manipulates findings to find non-existant nefarious causes within the videogaming realm. Unfortunately, his ignorance is only surpassed by his arrogance. However, he will never admit his faults - rather circumventing the whole by manipulating and morphing his arguments to make it appear as if he were in the right.

He has targeted the game 'Manhunt', saying that the game caused someone to murder someone else. He then goes berserk, saying that all gamers are drug addicts and want nothing more than to kill and kill and kill. He's even targetted The Sims 2, claiming that the developers worked with the mod community to create a 'Nude Sims Patch'. If he had done his research, he would have found out that game developers never work with 3rd party companies or help them develop things such as nudity patches.

He also says that the game Halo 2 is a sniper training game. Again, had he done some research, he would have found out that Halo 2 is another First-Person Shooter. There are very, very few times where you have the opportunity to snipe your opponents. Even if you did, sniping, along with many other skills, cannot be learned through gaming. I'd like him to explain how moving a joystick and pressing a button teaches you how to load a gun, cock it, aim steadily, fire at a target, release an empty clip and load a new one in.

Remember the Washington, D.C. sniper? JT says that the sniper trained on Halo 2, despite it being well-known that the man was ex-military.

If you email him, he responds with incredibly rude insults which make it sound like he didn't even bother reading your message. In fact, sometimes he will go out of his way to find out your phone number and ring you up to insult you personally.

To join the fight against this senile lunatic, go to lololol edited.
 
Some of you may have heard of the anti-video games lawyer, Jack Thompson.
The name "Jack Thompson" has been mentioned in 187 threads on this forum.

That's what the search button does. It lets you search for previous occurances of words and/or phrases.

It is a wonderful tool. Perhaps you should consider using it in the future.
 
Um, yeah. Thanks for advertising.
 
You don't need to be against him. Just ignore him and he'll eventually self-destruct out of malice.
 
I have never heard of Jack Thompson and I would have never searched for him.

I'm glad you have brought this to my attention.

Now I know how to become infamous.

I just need to figure out an original way to piss off thousands of people.
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In actuality I'm sure I've ran across his exploits, but I realize he has little to no bearing on the gaming comunity so I do not fear what pitiful retribution he might cause to rain upon the gaming industry.
A man like that likely fears for his life, looking over his shoulder at every turn, keeping an eye out for that Halo trained sniper that threatened to take him out over that fateful phone conversation.
 
In the immortal words of CptStern...

"...what if instead of Jack, the anti gaming movement had somebody who was actually CAPABLE?"
 
Jack takes his power from attention. Ignore him and he will disappear.
 
decoy, here is a thread aboutjack thompson you will probably find interesting: http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showthread.php?t=86673
Alot of people in that thread e-mailed him, here are a couple:
Samon said:
I've had a response from him. He said I needed to remove my head from my rectum. I again replied, telling him that his response clearly indicated he couldn't counter my argument.

Chris_D said:
My e-mail to Jack Thompson:

Mr Thompson,
I'm 19 years old and I work in IT technical support and currently studying towards a number of IT certifications including CompTIA A+, Network+ and a number of Microsoft Certified Professional exams. In my spare time I go out with friends and I help run a website called Halflife2.net (http://www.halflife2.net) which is the world's biggest and busiest Half-Life 2 fan-site; Half-Life 2 being the sequel to the popular first person shooter game - Half-Life.

A link to your site was recently posted on the Halflife2.net forums. Naturally a large percentage of the members of that forum are avid gamers, like myself, and it upsets us as a community when we see sites like StopKill.com that seem to stereotype all gamers as brain dead, violent maniacs. You might see from the description of myself above that I'm not a maniac, in fact I'm a young, career-minded, sociable individual. Yes, I also read books. In fact, most of the studying I mentioned above is being self-taught.

I hate to say it, but I believe you're getting confused somewhere a long the line. Because you see, guns don't kill people. People kill people. And video games don't kill people. People kill people. What I mean by this, is that video games in themselves are entertaining and harmless, but it is the individual that may play them that is the murderer. Who's to say that without video games, the people who have performed horrific crimes wouldn't have done them anyway. Who's to say that they didn't pick up a sniper rifle and start killing because of the sniper scenes in Saving Private Ryan. Who's to say they didn't massacre their school because they were a mentally disturbed individual anyway and with or without video games they still would have become a murderer.

The point I'm trying to make is that there's millions of gamers in the world and mostly they're balanced, law-abiding individuals. I personally have a lot to thank for video games. If it wasn't for video games, I'd have never got into an IT career which I love, and I'd never have had such a great time helping to run Halflife2.net. I don't suppose this e-mail will change your views whatsoever, but at least I feel better now in the hope that you can see from this e-mail we're not all maniacs waiting to murder somebody, we're just people with a hobby for playing computer games.

Thank you for listening.

His reply:

couldn't care less.

I think we should now just realise that he's just one closed-minded, petty and immature individual and leave it at that.
 
We have all been pretty quiet regarding him of late and he is thankfully still managing to hasten his own demise by getting even more draconian in his lunacy. Destroy all copies of 25 To Life? Sure, whatever you say Adolph.
 
Is this an online petition? Now THERES an idea that will work!
 
OCybrManO said:
The name "Jack Thompson" has been mentioned in 187 threads on this forum.

That's what the search button does. It lets you search for previous occurances of words and/or phrases.

It is a wonderful tool. Perhaps you should consider using it in the future.

hehe I bet half of them are me alone
 
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and to be honest people like you don't do anything but give him fodder
so for christs sake, closed
 
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