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Ziggy Rants 4: Whew. This is a big one.
17 years ago
General
Emos passed. I had to clean it out to make way for the burning rage. So what has me pissed off today?
Any gamer knows about Jack Thompson, the raging douchebag who has the balls to continually bother the gaming community. Actually, it’s not so much bothering as it is flat out insult and harassment. Ever since the days of Grand Theft Auto 3, he’s been a tumor on gamers everywhere. For a while, he kind of faded out. Indeed, the last I really heard of him, he got the boot out of court, because there’s something about a fifty year old cock in a suit that offends people.
That certainly wouldn’t last. So what’s he up to now?
Grand Theft Auto 4 is so close to release, you can almost taste the bullets and the unwashed hooker funk. Obviously, Jackie-boy would protest against such horrid displays of artistic freedom, so he was quick to act.
How, you ask? Lawsuits? No. Protest? No. Suicide bombing? As amusing as it would be knowing that JT or some of his followers would gladly spread themselves around a city block to hypocritically prove a point, no.
Jack sent a letter to the Take 2 Executive Chairmans mother.
http://gamerush.zoomshare.com/files.....rman_s_mom.htm
I’m not kidding.
Dear Mrs. Zelnick:
Your son, as you may know (or maybe you don’t know), is Chairman of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., whose most popular video games are the Grand Theft Auto murder simulator games banned in some countries but sold to children here.
Your son last week was reported to have said the following about Grand Theft Auto IV, due to be released Tuesday, April 29: “We’ve already received numerous [GTA IV] reviews, and to a one, they are perfect scores. My mom couldn’t write better reviews…” Taking your son’s thought, I would encourage you either to play this game or have an adroit video gamer play it for you. Some of the latter gamers are on death row, so try to find one out in the civilian population who hasn’t killed someone yet.
What you will see in your son’s game, if this iteration of GTA is anything like its predecessors, is incredible interactive violence aimed at police officers (whom you can shoot in the head and see the blood spray), innocent bystanders (whom you can run over with your car just for the heck of it), and of course the plentiful female prostitutes you can have sex with and then filet with a knife or stomp with your feet in order to get your money back. Experts note that the recent plethora of cop killings is caused in part by your darling son’s entrepreneurial energy. There are three policemen dead in Alabama because of Grand Theft Auto. I was on 60 Minutes about it. I hope Strauss has provided you with a flat screen tv to see the grief of the bereaved families that fills the screen.
The pornography and violence that your son trafficks in is the kind of stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into the hands of other mothers’ children, but, hey, your son Strauss has recently assured the world that he is “a Boy Scout, everybody knows that.” I’d love to see the merit badges that Scout Troop handed out. Is there a Ted Bundy merit badge? If so, your loving son deserves one now. It should be red and green, for obvious reasons.
With Passover having just come and gone, it is appropriate to note the following from the Old Testament, Proverbs 22:6:
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Mrs. Zelnick, did you train up your son, Strauss, to make millions of dollars by pushing Mature-rated video games to children? Any kid can go right to little Strauss’ corporate web site and buy GTA IV with no age verification. Strauss is even marketing the new Grand Theft Auto IV on World Wrestling Entertainment tv shows seen by millions of kids. If you trained up Strauss to do this, then shame on you.
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.”
Maybe you, Mrs. Zelnick, were so taken by your handsome son that you spared the rod and spoiled the child. That would explain why he has brought you, by the way he presently acts, “to shame.”
There’s another mother you would do well to talk to. Mrs. Crump in Alabama had a son who was a police officer. He’s now dead because a teenaged boy unwittingly trained himself to kill him on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. She has a grief she carries every day that only a mother can know.There are other such mothers in the heartland of America whose inhabitants your son simply sees as commercial targets.
Your son, this very moment, is doing everything he possibly can to sell as many copies of GTA IV to teen boys in the United States, a country in which your son claims you raised him to be “a Boy Scout.” More like the Hitler Youth, I would say. Happy Mother’s day, Mrs. Zelnick, which this year is May 11, two weeks after your son unleashes porn and violence upon other mothers’ boys. I’m sure you’re very proud.
Sincerely, Jack Thompson
Words cannot express my rage right now.
Wait. Yeah they can.
For those of you who tl;dr’d this, fear not. For your reading pleasure, I shall now go into this letter and give it the sound thrashing it deserves point by point. Line by line.
Your son, as you may know (or maybe you don’t know), is Chairman of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., whose most popular video games are the Grand Theft Auto murder simulator games…
Murder simulator, eh? Let me show you something.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped.....a_U22_Neos.JPG
This is a Beretta U22 Neos, a semi automatic pistol. Stainless Steel. I have never used a live gun in my life, save for BBs, paintballs, and one instance of shooting a coffee can with a shotgun, so correct me if I’m wrong here. If I remember right, the process to use one of these is to load the clip into the bottom. Point the gun in the direction of the item you would like to put a hole into, both hands preferably being held onto the single handle of the gun for better satiability, and pull the trigger. By doing so, a chunk of metal is propelled out the barrel at a high speed. Keep this process in mind, now.
http://www.thegamesnews.com/wp-cont.....Controller.jpg
This is a playstation controller. Plastic. Wires. Chips. If you wished to use one of these to murder an in-game avatar, the process is much different. Using your left thumb, you must ease the joystick so that the target on the screen moves over to whatever you feel is better off dead (or, in some games, there is an auto-aiming system in which you can hold a button down and the game will do this process for you). This being done, you must push a button. By doing so, the character in front of you will take damage.
Now then. Here’s my point. Go to a firing range* Believe it or not, I would never advocate you attempt this to another man or woman. Now. Using a playstation controller, I want you attempt the process of the preparation and firing of a Baretta U22 Neos and see what happens. If my theory is correct, no bullets will be fired, the controller will likely go to pieces, and you will look like an even bigger twat.
Where’s this simulation thing coming in, again?
…banned in some countries but sold to children here.
Ooooh! So THAT’S why there Take 2 van outside the elementary school.
Let me direct you attention to this. This is a box for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. What I’d like you to see is down in the bottom right hand corner. I highlighted it for you.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/.....14983_back.jpg
This, Mr. Thompson, is the games ESRB Content Rating. This is how you tell what games are suitable for children or not. It’s no secret that GTA has a lot of unpleasant material. However, they are aware of the fact that children should not be witnessing these sorts of things. Thus, they helpfully suggest that no one under 17 years old should be playing this game. Indeed, all games must go through this. This is so that people can see if games have content that is unsuitable for children. The fact that this label is here clearly shows that Take 2 isn’t calling kids over to personally ensure their corruption.
In fact, once the game hits the shelves, they have no more responsibility over who gets this game. This task now falls onto the shoulder of the parent. See, parents have a bit of power over children, as they decide what games they play. If the parents are willing to show some balls to the children, they can prevent said children from getting a video game that has unpleasant material. This system is further assisted by the fact that game stores are supposed to be required to have people show IDs before they can purchase M rated games to show they are of the correct age.
But OMFG! Parents are easily breaking to the whims of their loinspawn, and game stores aren’t requiring IDs! Fair enough. Thing is, why the hell is this the problem of the game developers!? What the fuck more do you want? Does Rockstar have to deploy big burly guards to ensure no one who seem irresponsible enough can buy their game? Fuck you.
Taking your son’s thought, I would encourage you either to play this game or have an adroit video gamer play it for you. Some of the latter gamers are on death row, so try to find one out in the civilian population who hasn’t killed someone yet.
Hi. I’m a twenty year old gamer who has played everything from Mario to GTA. In fact, right now I’m living with four other people in similar shoes as I. In fact, I have friends who do the same. In fact, my friends have friends who do the same. You wanna know what we all have in common? Do ya?
None of us have a criminal record with any accusations of murder.
Surprised? You shouldn’t be. We’re actually a quite common folk. You just haven’t noticed us yet because your head is so far up your ass that you can taste your own hair. In fact, I can safely say that a notably large number of us have no record of violent crimes, shootings, stabbings, shankings, rape, flogging, or even a slight bit of genocide. It’s good to meet you, Mr. Thompson. Now please go away. You make me want to puke.
Experts…
AKA those people who get paid more each time they make someone shit themselves in fear.
Experts note that the recent plethora of cop killings is caused in part by your darling son’s entrepreneurial energy. There are three policemen dead in Alabama because of Grand Theft Auto. I was on 60 Minutes about it. I hope Strauss has provided you with a flat screen tv to see the grief of the bereaved families that fills the screen.
Holy shit! Someone managed to murder someone with a disk? Three people, at that? That’s hardcore!
The pornography and violence that your son trafficks[sic]…
You know, that puts me in the mood for some nice dirty porn. Let’s see. Gotta fire up this game… Gotta download this patch to unearth some random piece of programming that shouldn’t have been unlocked anyway… We’re gonna need another patch so we can take all those boring clothes away…
Oh yeah. This is some real steamy porn now.
…in is the kind of stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into the hands of other mothers’ children,
I dunno. My mom has always encouraged me to express myself in whatever ways make me happy. Well, so long as it didn’t harm anyone. From what I can see, Mr. Zelnick isn’t walking around and blasting peoples kneecaps off so he’s not hurting anyone. In fact, the only people who have been hurt so far were only done so due to a lack of responsibility of other people.
but, hey, your son Strauss has recently assured the world that he is “a Boy Scout, everybody knows that.” I’d love to see the merit badges that Scout Troop handed out. Is there a Ted Bundy merit badge? If so, your loving son deserves one now. It should be red and green, for obvious reasons.
YAY! CHRISTMAS!
With Passover having just come and gone, it is appropriate to note the following from the Old Testament, Proverbs 22:6:
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Good job, Jackie boy. Thanks for taking a book made to show the world how to live peacefully and use it as a weapon to insult a mans mother.
Mrs. Zelnick, did you train up your son, Strauss, to make millions of dollars by pushing Mature-rated video games to children?
Ah. Get to your enemies by saying their mothers did a poor job raising you. Good idea.
Any kid can go right to little Strauss’ corporate web site
and buy GTA IV with no age verification.
Lex Luthor called. He wanted me to tell you “WRONG!”
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/.....rification.png
Strauss is even marketing the new Grand Theft Auto IV on World Wrestling Entertainment tv shows seen by millions of kids.
How dare he!? I want my future children to grow up in a world where they can watch large muscular men in spandex underwear hit each other in the face with chairs without this kind of filth clogging it up!
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.”
Maybe you, Mrs. Zelnick, were so taken by your handsome son that you spared the rod and spoiled the child. That would explain why he has brought you, by the way he presently acts, “to shame.”
Let’s tell your parents about this letter and see if they can sit through it without feeling ashamed.
There’s another mother you would do well to talk to. Mrs. Crump in Alabama had a son who was a police officer. He’s now dead because a teenaged boy unwittingly trained himself to kill him on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
I mean, damn. If he hadn’t played that game, he would never have learned how to fire a gun. A real shame.
She has a grief she carries every day that only a mother can know.There[sic] are other such mothers in the heartland of America whose inhabitants your son simply sees as commercial targets.
I saw a bit of a typo in that. Here. Let me fix that for you.
“There are other such mothers in the heartland of America
whose inhabitants I simply see as tools to further my own career as a fear mongering douche.”
Don’t you dare look down your nose at a man you claim to be using others as commercial targets. You’re doing the same, and worse.
Your son, this very moment, is doing everything he possibly can to sell as many copies of GTA IV to teen boys in the United States
Well, I guess 17+ technically is a teenager. At any rate, why is that his fault? If you want to complain about these games being sold to teenagers, talk to the ESRB. They’re the ones who put that rating there.
“a country in which your son claims you raised him to be “a Boy Scout.” More like the Hitler Youth, I would say.”
Congrats, Jack. You’ve learned how to insult others in the same way most 14 year olds on the internet can. And I’ve been calling you an idiot this whole time.
Happy Mother’s day, Mrs. Zelnick, which this year is May 11, two weeks after your son unleashes porn and violence upon other mothers’ boys. I’m sure you’re very proud.
You know, it takes a small man to say something like that to a (presumably) loving mother through a media that keeps you out of sack-kicking distance. I bet if you were face to face with Mrs. Zelnick, you wouldn’t have the guts to say half of what you’re saying here.
What little tolerance I had for that man is gone now. He can insult gamers all he wants, calling us criminals, murderers, even Nazis. We can ignore that, because we know it isn’t true. That wasn’t good enough though, was it? Harassing a woman because her son does something he doesn’t agree with. That’s just low. More so, that’s very unbecoming behavior for a man in a supposedly high position such as himself. I have never seen someone in politics willing to get so personal over something so trivial.
Jack Thompson has lost. He’s become that little annoying kid on the playground squealing “No YOU’RE stupid!” to everyone. Indeed, all he’s accomplishing with these acts is that GTA 4 will get the press coverage it got with every other installment. Sale will skyrocket, and Jack will continue to scream and bitch, only getting superficial changes done. Every cloud does have a silver lining.
This is Ziggy, your favorite inflatable cabbit, saying “OMFG! We must stop Pac Man before he corrupts out nations youth!”
Any gamer knows about Jack Thompson, the raging douchebag who has the balls to continually bother the gaming community. Actually, it’s not so much bothering as it is flat out insult and harassment. Ever since the days of Grand Theft Auto 3, he’s been a tumor on gamers everywhere. For a while, he kind of faded out. Indeed, the last I really heard of him, he got the boot out of court, because there’s something about a fifty year old cock in a suit that offends people.
That certainly wouldn’t last. So what’s he up to now?
Grand Theft Auto 4 is so close to release, you can almost taste the bullets and the unwashed hooker funk. Obviously, Jackie-boy would protest against such horrid displays of artistic freedom, so he was quick to act.
How, you ask? Lawsuits? No. Protest? No. Suicide bombing? As amusing as it would be knowing that JT or some of his followers would gladly spread themselves around a city block to hypocritically prove a point, no.
Jack sent a letter to the Take 2 Executive Chairmans mother.
http://gamerush.zoomshare.com/files.....rman_s_mom.htm
I’m not kidding.
Dear Mrs. Zelnick:
Your son, as you may know (or maybe you don’t know), is Chairman of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., whose most popular video games are the Grand Theft Auto murder simulator games banned in some countries but sold to children here.
Your son last week was reported to have said the following about Grand Theft Auto IV, due to be released Tuesday, April 29: “We’ve already received numerous [GTA IV] reviews, and to a one, they are perfect scores. My mom couldn’t write better reviews…” Taking your son’s thought, I would encourage you either to play this game or have an adroit video gamer play it for you. Some of the latter gamers are on death row, so try to find one out in the civilian population who hasn’t killed someone yet.
What you will see in your son’s game, if this iteration of GTA is anything like its predecessors, is incredible interactive violence aimed at police officers (whom you can shoot in the head and see the blood spray), innocent bystanders (whom you can run over with your car just for the heck of it), and of course the plentiful female prostitutes you can have sex with and then filet with a knife or stomp with your feet in order to get your money back. Experts note that the recent plethora of cop killings is caused in part by your darling son’s entrepreneurial energy. There are three policemen dead in Alabama because of Grand Theft Auto. I was on 60 Minutes about it. I hope Strauss has provided you with a flat screen tv to see the grief of the bereaved families that fills the screen.
The pornography and violence that your son trafficks in is the kind of stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into the hands of other mothers’ children, but, hey, your son Strauss has recently assured the world that he is “a Boy Scout, everybody knows that.” I’d love to see the merit badges that Scout Troop handed out. Is there a Ted Bundy merit badge? If so, your loving son deserves one now. It should be red and green, for obvious reasons.
With Passover having just come and gone, it is appropriate to note the following from the Old Testament, Proverbs 22:6:
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Mrs. Zelnick, did you train up your son, Strauss, to make millions of dollars by pushing Mature-rated video games to children? Any kid can go right to little Strauss’ corporate web site and buy GTA IV with no age verification. Strauss is even marketing the new Grand Theft Auto IV on World Wrestling Entertainment tv shows seen by millions of kids. If you trained up Strauss to do this, then shame on you.
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.”
Maybe you, Mrs. Zelnick, were so taken by your handsome son that you spared the rod and spoiled the child. That would explain why he has brought you, by the way he presently acts, “to shame.”
There’s another mother you would do well to talk to. Mrs. Crump in Alabama had a son who was a police officer. He’s now dead because a teenaged boy unwittingly trained himself to kill him on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. She has a grief she carries every day that only a mother can know.There are other such mothers in the heartland of America whose inhabitants your son simply sees as commercial targets.
Your son, this very moment, is doing everything he possibly can to sell as many copies of GTA IV to teen boys in the United States, a country in which your son claims you raised him to be “a Boy Scout.” More like the Hitler Youth, I would say. Happy Mother’s day, Mrs. Zelnick, which this year is May 11, two weeks after your son unleashes porn and violence upon other mothers’ boys. I’m sure you’re very proud.
Sincerely, Jack Thompson
Words cannot express my rage right now.
Wait. Yeah they can.
For those of you who tl;dr’d this, fear not. For your reading pleasure, I shall now go into this letter and give it the sound thrashing it deserves point by point. Line by line.
Your son, as you may know (or maybe you don’t know), is Chairman of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., whose most popular video games are the Grand Theft Auto murder simulator games…
Murder simulator, eh? Let me show you something.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped.....a_U22_Neos.JPG
This is a Beretta U22 Neos, a semi automatic pistol. Stainless Steel. I have never used a live gun in my life, save for BBs, paintballs, and one instance of shooting a coffee can with a shotgun, so correct me if I’m wrong here. If I remember right, the process to use one of these is to load the clip into the bottom. Point the gun in the direction of the item you would like to put a hole into, both hands preferably being held onto the single handle of the gun for better satiability, and pull the trigger. By doing so, a chunk of metal is propelled out the barrel at a high speed. Keep this process in mind, now.
http://www.thegamesnews.com/wp-cont.....Controller.jpg
This is a playstation controller. Plastic. Wires. Chips. If you wished to use one of these to murder an in-game avatar, the process is much different. Using your left thumb, you must ease the joystick so that the target on the screen moves over to whatever you feel is better off dead (or, in some games, there is an auto-aiming system in which you can hold a button down and the game will do this process for you). This being done, you must push a button. By doing so, the character in front of you will take damage.
Now then. Here’s my point. Go to a firing range* Believe it or not, I would never advocate you attempt this to another man or woman. Now. Using a playstation controller, I want you attempt the process of the preparation and firing of a Baretta U22 Neos and see what happens. If my theory is correct, no bullets will be fired, the controller will likely go to pieces, and you will look like an even bigger twat.
Where’s this simulation thing coming in, again?
…banned in some countries but sold to children here.
Ooooh! So THAT’S why there Take 2 van outside the elementary school.
Let me direct you attention to this. This is a box for Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. What I’d like you to see is down in the bottom right hand corner. I highlighted it for you.
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/.....14983_back.jpg
This, Mr. Thompson, is the games ESRB Content Rating. This is how you tell what games are suitable for children or not. It’s no secret that GTA has a lot of unpleasant material. However, they are aware of the fact that children should not be witnessing these sorts of things. Thus, they helpfully suggest that no one under 17 years old should be playing this game. Indeed, all games must go through this. This is so that people can see if games have content that is unsuitable for children. The fact that this label is here clearly shows that Take 2 isn’t calling kids over to personally ensure their corruption.
In fact, once the game hits the shelves, they have no more responsibility over who gets this game. This task now falls onto the shoulder of the parent. See, parents have a bit of power over children, as they decide what games they play. If the parents are willing to show some balls to the children, they can prevent said children from getting a video game that has unpleasant material. This system is further assisted by the fact that game stores are supposed to be required to have people show IDs before they can purchase M rated games to show they are of the correct age.
But OMFG! Parents are easily breaking to the whims of their loinspawn, and game stores aren’t requiring IDs! Fair enough. Thing is, why the hell is this the problem of the game developers!? What the fuck more do you want? Does Rockstar have to deploy big burly guards to ensure no one who seem irresponsible enough can buy their game? Fuck you.
Taking your son’s thought, I would encourage you either to play this game or have an adroit video gamer play it for you. Some of the latter gamers are on death row, so try to find one out in the civilian population who hasn’t killed someone yet.
Hi. I’m a twenty year old gamer who has played everything from Mario to GTA. In fact, right now I’m living with four other people in similar shoes as I. In fact, I have friends who do the same. In fact, my friends have friends who do the same. You wanna know what we all have in common? Do ya?
None of us have a criminal record with any accusations of murder.
Surprised? You shouldn’t be. We’re actually a quite common folk. You just haven’t noticed us yet because your head is so far up your ass that you can taste your own hair. In fact, I can safely say that a notably large number of us have no record of violent crimes, shootings, stabbings, shankings, rape, flogging, or even a slight bit of genocide. It’s good to meet you, Mr. Thompson. Now please go away. You make me want to puke.
Experts…
AKA those people who get paid more each time they make someone shit themselves in fear.
Experts note that the recent plethora of cop killings is caused in part by your darling son’s entrepreneurial energy. There are three policemen dead in Alabama because of Grand Theft Auto. I was on 60 Minutes about it. I hope Strauss has provided you with a flat screen tv to see the grief of the bereaved families that fills the screen.
Holy shit! Someone managed to murder someone with a disk? Three people, at that? That’s hardcore!
The pornography and violence that your son trafficks[sic]…
You know, that puts me in the mood for some nice dirty porn. Let’s see. Gotta fire up this game… Gotta download this patch to unearth some random piece of programming that shouldn’t have been unlocked anyway… We’re gonna need another patch so we can take all those boring clothes away…
Oh yeah. This is some real steamy porn now.
…in is the kind of stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into the hands of other mothers’ children,
I dunno. My mom has always encouraged me to express myself in whatever ways make me happy. Well, so long as it didn’t harm anyone. From what I can see, Mr. Zelnick isn’t walking around and blasting peoples kneecaps off so he’s not hurting anyone. In fact, the only people who have been hurt so far were only done so due to a lack of responsibility of other people.
but, hey, your son Strauss has recently assured the world that he is “a Boy Scout, everybody knows that.” I’d love to see the merit badges that Scout Troop handed out. Is there a Ted Bundy merit badge? If so, your loving son deserves one now. It should be red and green, for obvious reasons.
YAY! CHRISTMAS!
With Passover having just come and gone, it is appropriate to note the following from the Old Testament, Proverbs 22:6:
“Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.”
Good job, Jackie boy. Thanks for taking a book made to show the world how to live peacefully and use it as a weapon to insult a mans mother.
Mrs. Zelnick, did you train up your son, Strauss, to make millions of dollars by pushing Mature-rated video games to children?
Ah. Get to your enemies by saying their mothers did a poor job raising you. Good idea.
Any kid can go right to little Strauss’ corporate web site
and buy GTA IV with no age verification.
Lex Luthor called. He wanted me to tell you “WRONG!”
http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/.....rification.png
Strauss is even marketing the new Grand Theft Auto IV on World Wrestling Entertainment tv shows seen by millions of kids.
How dare he!? I want my future children to grow up in a world where they can watch large muscular men in spandex underwear hit each other in the face with chairs without this kind of filth clogging it up!
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.”
Maybe you, Mrs. Zelnick, were so taken by your handsome son that you spared the rod and spoiled the child. That would explain why he has brought you, by the way he presently acts, “to shame.”
Let’s tell your parents about this letter and see if they can sit through it without feeling ashamed.
There’s another mother you would do well to talk to. Mrs. Crump in Alabama had a son who was a police officer. He’s now dead because a teenaged boy unwittingly trained himself to kill him on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
I mean, damn. If he hadn’t played that game, he would never have learned how to fire a gun. A real shame.
She has a grief she carries every day that only a mother can know.There[sic] are other such mothers in the heartland of America whose inhabitants your son simply sees as commercial targets.
I saw a bit of a typo in that. Here. Let me fix that for you.
“There are other such mothers in the heartland of America
whose inhabitants I simply see as tools to further my own career as a fear mongering douche.”
Don’t you dare look down your nose at a man you claim to be using others as commercial targets. You’re doing the same, and worse.
Your son, this very moment, is doing everything he possibly can to sell as many copies of GTA IV to teen boys in the United States
Well, I guess 17+ technically is a teenager. At any rate, why is that his fault? If you want to complain about these games being sold to teenagers, talk to the ESRB. They’re the ones who put that rating there.
“a country in which your son claims you raised him to be “a Boy Scout.” More like the Hitler Youth, I would say.”
Congrats, Jack. You’ve learned how to insult others in the same way most 14 year olds on the internet can. And I’ve been calling you an idiot this whole time.
Happy Mother’s day, Mrs. Zelnick, which this year is May 11, two weeks after your son unleashes porn and violence upon other mothers’ boys. I’m sure you’re very proud.
You know, it takes a small man to say something like that to a (presumably) loving mother through a media that keeps you out of sack-kicking distance. I bet if you were face to face with Mrs. Zelnick, you wouldn’t have the guts to say half of what you’re saying here.
What little tolerance I had for that man is gone now. He can insult gamers all he wants, calling us criminals, murderers, even Nazis. We can ignore that, because we know it isn’t true. That wasn’t good enough though, was it? Harassing a woman because her son does something he doesn’t agree with. That’s just low. More so, that’s very unbecoming behavior for a man in a supposedly high position such as himself. I have never seen someone in politics willing to get so personal over something so trivial.
Jack Thompson has lost. He’s become that little annoying kid on the playground squealing “No YOU’RE stupid!” to everyone. Indeed, all he’s accomplishing with these acts is that GTA 4 will get the press coverage it got with every other installment. Sale will skyrocket, and Jack will continue to scream and bitch, only getting superficial changes done. Every cloud does have a silver lining.
This is Ziggy, your favorite inflatable cabbit, saying “OMFG! We must stop Pac Man before he corrupts out nations youth!”
(Also, I forgot the name of Godwins Law)
Plus, I don't think people would take a politician seriously if they started picking on a lawyer game from Japan. Ratings just aren't high enough when you're not causing the biggest social panic possible.
There, the Jew in me is done. Now back to wishing Thompson was shanktified, and that's quite an achievement from someone who doesn't play games.
I mean seriously everyone considers him a joke at this point.
i learned various ways of fighting from playing video games
like how i can use a lantern to throw fire
or how stomping on the heads of turtles and walking mushrooms will yield precious money
and we mustn't forget that your enemy's will violently shift colors when you hit their glowing weak points (true story! ill tell you later)
One - I know, Jack's an asshole. Pretty much everyone knows that... He's pulled a lot of stunts like this before, and I hate to say it, but things like this have pretty much always been on his level.
Two- I'm not worried about the future for Jack. His disbarment trial is pretty much wrapped up... the only thing stopping him from being tossed out on his ass by the Bar is because Jack sent so much crap to the judge that she has to take time out to file every little annoying thing into the report.
Yes, she's probably going to show every little hate-letter and such that Jack sent to the public. I think there were at least 50 or so? ... Not that getting disbarred will stop Jack from spewing his crap anyway. But all this stuff in the report will probably discredit him to everyone who he's still been able to cling to credit with. So yeah.