People of Earth! I come bearing good news and great tidings! Jack Thompson got disbarred! Huzzah! Huzzah! Huzzah!
Okay, I'm pretty sure I just lost all of you. Jack Thompson (lovingly referred to as "Jacko" by gamers like myself) is a lawyer from Florida who has spent his entire legal career trying to destroy one thing: Video games. He has stated on multiple occasions his beliefs on video games. In short, he essentially thinks that they are the cause to most of America's social problems.
Seriously, this guy is a nutcase. After the Virgina Tech shootings, he sent a letter to Bill Gates, whose Xbox console had a game, Counter-Strike, that Jacko believed was the sole cause of the Virgina Tech shooting: "Mr. Gates, your company is potentially legally liable (for) the harm done at Virginia Tech. Your game, a killing simulator, according to the news that used to be in the Post, trained him [the shooter] to enjoy killing and how to kill." Um... Microsoft didn't even make the game, Jacko. And this is just a mild one compared to others he's cooked up (that I won't post due to content).
Don't get me wrong, excessively violent video games disgust me, and I agree that mature games should be kept away from kids. But this guy's nuts. Even the reason he got disbarred was "professional misconduct." That's news slang for "crazy." This guy has been the bane of gamers' existence for over a decade, and now he has to leave us alone. I wanna break out into a song of "let my people go."
I know this doesn't make the rest of you want to do a jig like I do, but I just posted it to make a point:
Mess with the 1337, get pwnd.
Sweet Victory!
Posted by
Mark Ferguson
Friday, September 26, 2008
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