An interview with Jack Thompson - 7outof10.co.uk

"I am still continually referenced by the industry and gamers as the industry's Public Enemy Number One. They are afraid that I shall return, and I shall, full bore, stronger than ever, the irresponsible elements' within the industry worst nightmare. I love it."

[retrohive]

Luckily almost no one takes him serious.

[-Alpha]

Which means he is motivated to be more of a nuisance.

I actually don't fully disagree with Thompson, but he doesn't know how to make arguments. It's sensible enough to believe that people are influenced by violence and suggestive themes in video games. Children especially have impressionable minds. People who refuse to blame video games at all are just as wrong as people who only blame video games.

There is a fine middle area that neither gamers or guys like Thompson takes and that's the sad part of it.

[pangitkqb]

= Total D-bag.

It is one thing to raise awareness as an individual about something you feel is important. It is a whole other thing to act so terribly as you go about it that you 1) end up almost Universally hated (by several industries, such as Rap Music, not just Gaming) and 2) have your license to practice law REMOVED BY THE STATE YOU LIVE IN. Yup, the state of Florida literally disbarred him for creating so many unnecessary problems for the State.

He also once claimed Janet Reno assaulted him after she put her hand on his shoulder.

Oh, yes, he is also trying to sue Facebook for $40 million right now because of the disparaging things people have said about him on there.

In other words, this guy lives to create controversy and problems for other people. Jack Thompson = Total D-bag.

[Millah]

This guys is just an attention seeking dlck face with delusions of grandeur. People should just ignore him and not feed into his ego, he probably got a boner knowing that a website wanted to interview him, and he probably gets off reading people talk about him on the Internet despite it being overwhelmingly negative. I mean listen to him, talking about himself being public enemy number one and that he "loves it." some douches just get a thrill out of being the villain. Either way he wont be doing much now that his license has been taken away, the courts know this guys a clown and won't take him seriously.

[jadenkorri]

"Sure, all the Grand Theft Auto games are still being marketed and sold to minors. Amazon.com, also, has completely abandoned IDing the age of on-line buyers. I may be filing a suit shortly against it. There is no rest for the wicked."

Like WTF, seriously, I barely got a credit card when I was 21, I guess alot of 12 years olds must have very good credit. Maybe instead amazon should have a pop up, how old are you. Maybe that will shut Jack up. Even if a kid/teen has a credit card, not alot do, so its a acceptable way to validate age. but ultimately it comes to one factor "PARENTING"....
And if Jack thinks a ban will happen on video games in America, he's honestly the biggest idiot on this planet. It would be like a ban on movies, it just wouldn't happen with the amount of revenue movies and games bring in yearly. His line of thinking will be shot down with one statement, its the parents responsibility to make sure their kid not be playing M rated games.

[koehler83]

I refuse to read this. I simply need to comment to ask why?

Giving this turd a voice demeans us all. Stop it!

[DigitalHorror81]

I don't have a problem with you keeping games like Grand Theft Auto out of the hands of minors, but don't you DARE take them away from guys like me who are damn near 30 and well within my rights to play. If you're planning on being like that scumbag Lieberman, you've got a whole army of gamers to deal with.

That is all.

[Anorexorcist]

"They are afraid that I shall return, and I shall, full bore, stronger than ever,"

That sounds like something Hitler said right before the cyanide pill took it's effect.

"...I love it"

That portion of his statement has cemented his status as a sanctimonious douche, in my opinion.

I'm curious, does anyone know his religion affiliation? I don't mean to start a whole argument on that, I'm just curious.

[-Alpha]

I am about 90% sure he is a Christian.

Yeah, he's a Presbyterian: http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

[Anorexorcist]

Videogames are his Jews.

[Kratos Spartan]

Alot of us gamers are grown up now, you try to take our games, we'll take your ass. Remember, GTA taught us how. How you like me now.

[air1]

when is this guy going to realize that everyone including his wife think of him as a joke.... a mistake in every way including his birth, ouch... lol

[Baka-akaB]

Number one ennemy ? Nah we leave that to actual treat , like that former australian general attorney .

At best Thompson was number one clown , and that was two years ago

[worm2010]

i think this guy is great.

you sinful people should be ashamed of your selves for having a hobby that requires you to have a job to pay for the games you buy. paying tax and making a contribution to society.

[Maldread]

Is a bum-looking Jackass Thompson hoping to make some quick cash.

"I am still in the fray, being contacted by families harmed by these games, contacted by legislators and other politicians, still doing interviews on Murdoch’s Fox News, etc. I never left the fray. Too bad for GTA. So sad."

Families harmed by games? Says who, other than Thompson? Sure, you may have some that thinks all was right within their family until the horrible videogame came along and ruined everything, but such conclusions are way too simplistic and downright wrong. If Thompson really is so worried about the possible effects of videogames, why hasn`t he read up on media research, instead of just assuming crap out of his ass ? What`s next, hot coffee forced me to me have sex(that`S a GTA-joke by the way)?

Still doing interviews on Fox ehh. Quality assurance right there Jack.

[Rafa]

Come on, guys, JT is the best entertainment option we've got, hands down.

I've never loved laughing my boxers off everytime he shows up. It's even funnier the fact that his own son plays GTA...AT HOME. Jack himself admitted this while interviewed in a magazine.

Nobody, I mean nobody takes him too serious. I'm waiting for the day when US government will ban him for complete foolishness because he keeps annoying people for no reason. That used to be irritating: now it gets funnier by the day.

Bring it on, Jack! Show some homie love!

[air1]

yea i must say it was entertaining watching him fvck up his career over video games (other things too), and now to still hear him think that he is going to come back even stronger after he got disbarred is hilarious...

[lh_swe]

"Thompson later drew attention to the game's main character, a 15-year old male, being able to kiss other boys. Thompson wrote to ESRB president Patricia Vance, "We just found gay sexual content in Bully as Jimmy Hopkins makes out with another male student. Good luck with your Teen rating now." The ESRB indicated that they knew the content was in the game when they rated the game." - This guy is openly homophobic. I mean if a person in the game in the game is able to kiss girls why should he then be dissallowed the possibility of the opposite if that may be his/her preference? (this is about Bully (or Canis Canem Edit))

[Rafa]

He's all around, 100%, church -going Christian. What else'd you expect?

[lh_swe]

I mean not only is he uneducated when it comes to the things he attacks but he's extremely prejudice, arrogant & outright unprofessional.

[karlowma]

Rockstar should parody this douche in the next GTA game. MAKE IT SO!

They could model a character after him to be some drivel-spewing sanctimonious moron on the street. Or maybe just patch GTA IV to make that religious zealot outside one of the apartments in to Jack Thompson. Or get an interview with him on one of the GTA radio stations. The possibilities are endless.

[Rafa]

They already have...in GTA IV.

There's this lawyer who even tried to sue God because, according to the game's online newspapers, He made it rain on a given day where a whole lotta people came out prejudiced.

Rockstar never admitted, though, but it does sound a lot like something good ol' Jackie would do.

In the game, the lawyer's name is Goldberg, I think...

[Metzhara]

The shortform of my comment is that I agree with most of the things Thompson does. Being a lawyer he knows he cannot go after parents to stop their children from doing these things. Most parents treat their kids like little adults. This is the beginning of terrible things for our society, and really any society. Children are NOT little adults. They do not grasp things such as meaning and context until they are allowed to experience them in due time. GTA is a good example of why this is bad as it is essentially all sorts of pop mob culture thrown into a mix. Most people have grown up properly get that, especially those who develop the games. I think in the end, Thompson seeks something which isn't really so ridiculous: Responsiblity.
Is it wrong to ask that those who make these games which become more and more gratuitously violent to simply assist the culture around them instead of helping in it's decline?
I wouldn't pass that line of logic out of the door so quickly simply because you enjoy something. I too enjoy violent games but I have also grown up in multiple cultures seeing how each one treats these things and can honestly say that here in the US we do it wrong most of the time.
I've seen 13 year old kids walk up and purchase M games from game stores. I've seen these same kids verbally pimpslap their parents and walk off with their parents castrated organs.
Is it me, or am I the only kid who woulda been back handed into the middle ages if I did that?
It's really that which begins at the core of the matter and having people who take advantage of that in our society only makes the issue that much more sad and important.
I think Jack seems so crazy to most because it's hard to remove oneself from the equation and realize we might be part of the problem. Is it so wrong to ask for responsiblity in those with whom our posterity seeks entertainment? Just a little?
-Adam

[Rafa]

Wah-wah-wah, yada-yada-yada...

You typed and typed and typed and all I could read was "Thompson fanboy".

Of course children are not little adults and of course JT can't do anything about parents who buy M-Rated and Adults Only branded games for their 9-year-old son.

But you know something? Neither he SHOULD do anything about it. Why? Because you can't. teach. people. to. raise. children. Parents are the only ones responsible for the gird of their loins' education and personality formation. If a daddy is a MORON because he bought his kid Grand Theft Auto IV its that dad's fault only, not the freakin' game.

You should learn to make better judgement of people before talking trash about things you obviously don't understand.