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Jack Thompson harrassing little old ladies now

Euhm that's not bull****, that's smart. A whole lot smarter than banning games all togheter.
I mean you can't rent certain type of movies when you are below a certain age, why would you be able to rent/buy any type of movie when you are say 12 years old or something.

True, but it's the parents' duty to raise their child not the government's. Oh and don't tell me you haven't watched a movie that was 16+ when you were younger.

A couple of years ago some one went on a rampage in Belgium and killed 3 people with a huntingrifle. They wanted to blame games untill some one said to stop blaming it on one thing. It isn't only games that can affect certain people's behaviour. It's a mix of Games, movies, books, music, surroundings, education, etc. There will always be people that say games, movies, music and/or music should be censored or banned and afaik they are succeeding. But is all that censoring helping? AFAIK it doesn't, banning or censoring a game or movie mostly brings out 2 reactions: people who activly search for the censored or banned content and people who don't really care. Like that hot Coffee mod for GTA SA, no one really cared about it untill it showed up in the media and even then most people were like "whatever, they're pixelated boobs, who the fuk cares?" Some people just have the tendency to overreact and blame things on something that has nothing to do with it.
 
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Lol, somehow I doubt he actually wrote that, if sites like CSNation and Gtaforums are the only sources on it... Ya gatta learn to be more sceptical people! :p

Even if he is IS a major a-hole, he is a lawyer after all, so no way would he open himself to the kind of lawsuit that letter would get him into. Regrettably, he's not *that* stupid...

Actually, he is just that stupid, and he has done things that are even worse in the past, i really think he is mentally ill, he seems to have all the trademarks of someone who is seriously dillusional.

http://kotaku.com/commenter/jackthompson/Seriously, don't insult my site. Thanks.

Anything that is even remotely associated with CS derserves to be ridiculed, deal with it :p
 
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ya know people, the word you dont want to hear now is mantra. if he keeps on saying it, people will start to believe it, think about it, he gets out to many people who know and hear nothing fromt he gaming industry, if those people continue to hear him, but no refutes, then they will believe him.

he does have some semi good points ( i cant believe im saying this ).. those being that really young children shouldent play very violent vid games. but where hes wrong is saying that because of that the games should go poof, its the parents fault. if you cant raise your kid and teach him/her what is right and wrong, and you use the tv/compy as the baby sitter, then you are a moron.

lastly, im sick of his kind in general, as a christian myself im sick and bloody tired of people who cloak their own ideas/motivations behind the cloak of " heeey its what Good wannntsss". sick moron should go read a friggen Bible some time and practise what he preaches to believe in.....

edit: i like how the verse he quoted to strauses mom refutes everything he says

But maybe the explanation for your son's corporate sociopathy is to be found in Old Testament Proverb 29:15:
"The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame."

exactly jackA$$, kids unwatched by parents attaining video games not meant for them, is THE PARENTS FAULT
 
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One thing to consider: sure, it's the parent's duty to raise up their child, to make sure the child won't go astray somewhere (for example after watching a porn flick/ playing Womanhunt 69/ whatever). Sure, those parents are morons if they let the PC/TV do the baby-sitting.
But does telling morons that they are morons make them any less moronic?
 
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He, himself, originally posted it on Kotaku (along with other such letters if you'll note his post history).
http://kotaku.com/commenter/jackthompson/.

Ok, so you now you're telling me a famous lawyer and conservative christian has an account on Kotaku and makes regular comments on the articles? Kotaku is a major site for sure, but *come on*... :rolleyes:

Seriously, don't insult my site. Thanks..

I wasn't trying to insult, it was more like suggesting that sites dedicated to 'violent' video games like CS or GTA might not be the most unbiased source when it comes to the doings of Jack Thompson. That is all.
 
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Does treating everyone else like they were idiots too make the morons less moronic?;)

It seems it doesn't. But it's a fail-safe against morons, so that they don't raise up more morons. Now, if I were a parent, I wouldn't feel that too much of my liberty would be taken away by a game that would be rated "mature audiences only".
Sure, my kids could disagree, but it would be up to the authorities to prove that I would be taking away from their personal freedom by prohibiting my kid to play games I'd feel were inapropriate for him/her.
And with moronic parents who don't care, or who lack the imagination, someone has to make the effort for them. Naive, innit, no?
 
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...but it would be up to the authorities to prove that I would be taking away from their personal freedom by prohibiting my kid to play games I'd feel were inapropriate for him/her...

No, that's your call. This realm isn't the government's business, pure and simple. Parents are allowed to restrict; the government does not, and never should.
 
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There is no government in the world that doesn't restrict personal freedom to a certain degree. That's just the way it is and it's okay too or else you'd be living in anarchism. The question is where to draw the line.


lol, you again. Basically you're saying "I'm not free, and I'm fine with that". You're a sock puppet of the government. No offense.:)

I'd be careful with what you tolerate, mate. Feel free to stick your head in the sand but don't come complaining when you finally do realize you're not as free as you think.

On the subject of violent videogames, I think this should be the responsibility of the parents. My parents have always been fairly careful about this kind of stuff. For example, I remember I played a game called "Operation Wolf" when I was about 8, and my dad didn't like that. :p Looking back I understand why he was saying that, because kids need to understand that it isn't real or normal to do the kind of stuff shown on the screen. It can corrupt their minds if you're not careful. Still, even after playing violent videogames in my childhood, I like to think I came out fairly okay. :p

Age restriction isn't a bad idea to me, although it has never worked. They put these 16+ ratings on them but usually kids can still buy them, and even if they can't, they'll just let their brother buy it or something. Banning games isn't neccesary imo, it still should be the parent's responsibility.
 
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Nimsky, your notion of "Freedom" scarifies me. Also, your notion of people being drones just because they say something a politican might have said is also mega scarifing. Talk about limiting freedom. Gaze in thy mirror, sirrah, for you're going around labelling people things they are not. Let him who is without fault cast the first stone, if you acquire my drift.
 
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Ok, so you now you're telling me a famous lawyer and conservative christian has an account on Kotaku and makes regular comments on the articles? Kotaku is a major site for sure, but *come on*... :rolleyes:

So? Did you bother to read any of his posts? They're either letters from his own desk, that may or may not eventually surface in the news later, word for word. So yes, either that is actually him, or someone posting on his behalf.

He and Kotaku have quite the history if you've kept up with that at all in the past.

Oh, and :rolleyes::rolleyes: to this:
Shadrach said:
I wasn't trying to insult, it was more like suggesting that sites dedicated to 'violent' video games like CS or GTA might not be the most unbiased source when it comes to the doings of Jack Thompson. That is all.
If you're going to insult my site, at least make note that we haven't really been a dedicated CS site for months now, probably over a year actually. We've been covering Steam games and, more recently, all FPS games in general. I could run a site on dog breeding and still find this guy to be a complete and total moron. The only people who don't think that are the like minded (read: close minded) extreme Christian conservatives, and some people in the news media who lap up anything that's piddled on the floor in front of them for hours at a time, if for no other reason than to jump on a bandwagon to try and pick up an extra viewer or two.
 
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lol, you again. Basically you're saying "I'm not free, and I'm fine with that". You're a sock puppet of the government. No offense.:)
Yeah sure:rolleyes:
Because I don't see the evil government lurking around every corner like you do. Guys like you crack me up: Your so convinced that every single action taken by the government or some other institution is meant to limit your freedom or make your life worse in some other way. But in the end that is just want you want isn't it? You want to beleive that everything is a giant scheme but of course you are among the chosen elite that actually sees through it all while the others are, as you say, "sock puppets". All is vanity.

What it boils down to is you're just very afraid of being unimportant.
 
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Yeah sure:rolleyes:
Because I don't see the evil government lurking around every corner like you do. Guys like you crack me up: Your so convinced that every single action taken by the government or some other institution is meant to limit your freedom or make your life worse in some other way.

He didn't say anything like that... :confused:

And when it has become a society in which questioning ones own government is considered wrong, then we have not progressed as a civilized society.

Dissent is the foundation of all progress.
 
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