Jack Thompson (1976 – 2008)
John Bruce "Jack" Thompson is an American activist who was an American attorney often cited in the media for his extreme views on the effects of obscenity and violence in popular media.
Actually, it is working, as your post indicates you don't get it. You haven't even read the studies. Duh.
Nobody shoots anybody in the face unless you're a hit man or a video gamer.
Sims 2, the latest version of the Sims video game franchise...contains, according to video game news sites, full frontal nudity, including nipples, penis, labia, and hair.
The games are not under lock and key in... Best Buy,or Wal-Mart, for Heaven's sakes. They're being sold openly to kids as young as nine years of age, as Senator Lieberman proved in December. Stop making this nonsense up. Jack Thompson
It's not harassment to post on a public site with one's real name, Chief Justice Cynic. What 3d world law school did you not graduate from?
As Usual Dennis McCauley Has Told a Fib... Get out your own copy of GTA: San Andreas, as I did. Measure three inches up from the bottom. You'll find that a 3-inch square does not cover nearly as much of the cover as McCauley depicts. How typical. Hey, Dennis, you could get a job marketing porn to children for Rockstar. You've got the right mindset. Jack Thompson
Jack Thompson Here
"Another culture's take on the effects of games on children"? Is Dennis McCauley kidding. "Culture has nothing to do with the "take." :Science is science. All of the science coming out of Harvard and elsewhere shows the demonstrable harm done to underdeveloped, young brains by these games. There is no debate left.
2+2=4 in Japan, too, Dennis. Wow, talk about me being ethnically confused. Oh, and here's a heads-up for you all
Hey, Genius. You able to read this line in the study? See below
"Nonetheless, the Commission finds that all three industries CONTINUE to advertise violent R-rated movies, explicit-content labeled recordings, and M-rated games in media with large teen audiences.
Honestly, are all of you gamers on drugs, or what!
It's his personal office, you moron. He has repeatedly misrepresented that he is a "columnist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press." Two editors there have now said that is NOT the case, and one of them called me to thank me for telling the paper about his continuing misrepresentation in that regard, which has gone on for months after he was told he should knock it off. He has an office from which he runs this ridiculous site, misrepresentations, shoddy reporting, and all. Enough said, idiot.
Any letter from a video gamer like you would deepen his concern. Are you actually so confused that you think gamers have any influence on anyone? Gamers are considered by normal people to be cretins. Get used to it.
More Death Linked to Kids Trapped in Pixelated Fantasy
Read the below and weep. How sad that months ago I pointed out the inescable link of pixelated reality to numerous suicides, yet in doing so I was the bad guy. You all are the ones who should be ashamed that you have fled reality, and the below is proof of the danger. You want no restrictions on the access of kids to garbage. You all couldn't care less about the deaths and their link to how you fill your idle, nihilistic lives.
By the way, Dennis McCauley, look at the number of posts on this thread. It is largely because of the hatefest that my postings spawn. You stories about which I don't comment, and, relatively speaking, nobody cares. You get increased revenue from advertisers based upon the number of hits on your site. Dennis, you're welcome. Jack Thompson
"Feeble." Honey, I'm deconstructing the industry you love while you call me feeble. Dream on. Jack Thompson See below
Jack Thompson: DEAR M, FOR MORON The retailers are selling M-rated games to kids with no parents in sight. Did you miss the last 10 years of the debate on this issue, or what? Jack Thompson
Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. You're next, Mr. McCauley
No, you are not art. You are... a public nuisance. We're about to ban you. Hooah.
Jack Thompson keeps racking up wins and you gamers just can't handle the truth. What's the truth? It is this: Adults with common sense and common decency who respect law enforcement are still running this country. Video gamers are not, and never will...
No, sorry to inform you... That you are not the entire universe of gamers. Duh. The American Psychological Association found in August 2005 that among those who play the violent games, there is a demonstrable increase in aggression and violence. Harvard has now found the same thing. Your argument is aking to saying that because you smoke and don't have lung cancer that smoking doesn't cause lung cancer. The idiocy of your argument proves the harm that the games have done to you. You can't even think straight anymore. Pathetic. Jack Thompson
JACK THOMPSON = BEST THING THAT EVER HAPPENED TO GAMEPOLITICS It's simply amazing. The only news stories that garner any interest, any substantial number of posted comments, are the ones either about Jack Thompson or ones at which I post and then you pixelante nazi thugs Pavlov-style. Happy to make Dennis McCauley money. Moving on to Patricia Vance, however. I am today asking Elliot Spitzer, the Attorney General in New York who is presently running for Governor, to act upon Harvard's unasailable findings that the ESRB ratings are a sham. Spitzer, most of you don't know because you don't read the news other than GameInformer magazine, specializes in criminal actions against the entertainment industry. I think the intentionally coquette-ish Pat Vance, her head alluringly and unprofessionally tilted to side to make her appear comely, would look delightful in an orange Rikers jumpsuit, don't you? She should be in one, since she and her ESRB having knowingly participated in (conspired) to adult entertainment into the hands of kids in violation of prohibitions against fraud. Patricia, get a good lawyer. You're going to need one. That excludes Blank Rome. Best, Jack Thompson