Jack Thompson's "Modest Video Game Proposal"

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-10-18 01:27am

who wrote the other "modest proposal" you know the one about eating babies?

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-10-18 01:31am

The Yosemite Bear wrote:who wrote the other "modest proposal" you know the one about eating babies?

Jonathan Swift.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-10-18 01:31am

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:
SirNitram wrote:Sign you might be too insane: NAMBLA flames you.
Wait, what does pederasty have to do with this?

Or was that just a Daily Show reference?

well for one he (jack) has said that computer games are more dangerous then child molesting priests and terrorists...

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-10-18 01:39am

Rogue 9 wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:When did Jack issue that statement about the $10k wager, and to whom?
Right there in the OP. It was an open challenge.

And yet he claims that Penny Arcade made it all up?

Gabe and Tycho should dare Jack to sue them for slander. Jack will either sputter and come that much closer to a glorious aneurism, or he'll actually go through with it, and be laughed out of court as PA simply shows the judge a copy of the news article.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-10-18 01:51am

wouldn't that be some comment about violence in Webcomics, as foamy thge squirrl, Flem, and others have already shown increadably insaikne or stupid people;s heads explode...

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-10-18 01:52am

That's what repeatedly slays me about Thompson: the fact that he keeps trying to just deny and pretend stuff doesn't exist or never happened, when the opposite is painfully obvious.

He seems to keep thinking that his opponents will just back down because he's so aggressive, when that's clearly no longer the case in this situation, when people start picking apart his logical and argumentative fallacies for public view.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-10-18 03:35am

Hotfoot wrote:Just when you thought it couldn't get any funnier...

Gabe wrote: From Jack

Mon, October 17 2005 - 4:39 PM
by: Gabe

I thought you might like to see the mail I got from Jack this afternoon:

This story is completely false and defamatory. Take it down or else.

And my reply to him:

****This is an automated response****

Thank you for contacting Penny Arcade. I’m sorry but I am simply not able to respond to all my fan mail. I want you to know that I’m glad you enjoy the comic strip and I appreciate you taking the time to mail me.

-Gabe out

*rolls on flour laughing*

Spyder · Post by **Spyder** » 2005-10-18 03:47am

wautd wrote:
*rolls on flour laughing*

*adds cocoa, suger, egg whites, a little butter, some vanilla, baking powder, bakes in oven for an hour*

Old Plympto · Post by **Old Plympto** » 2005-10-18 12:39pm

ApparentlyJack Thompson called (well, faxed actually) the cops in on Penny Arcade.

In a letter faxed to Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, Thompson says, in part, "A Seattle business by the name of Penny Arcade... employs certain personnel who have decided to commence and orchestrate criminal harassment of me by various means... This company has done this because I dared to go on CBS's 60 Minutes in March and again in July to explain a wrongful death lawsuit I have brought on behalf of two police officers and a police dispatcher in Fayette, Alabama, who were shot in the head and killed by Devin Moore who obsessively trained on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to kill them."

"As you may know, this incredibly violent Rockstar Games product is actually a 'cop-killing' murder simulator. There are a bunch of computer geeks out there who think that the video game industry has a constitutional right to paint a bullseye on your back and on your officers' backs... That is what this criminal harassment of me by Penny Arcade is all about. They're even selling an 'I Hate Jack Thompson' t-shirt, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. These idiots have been so careless as to post on their www.pennyarcade.com web site what they are doing regarding the harassment of me."

"I look forward to working with your fine Police Department to shut this little extortion factory down and/or arrest some of its employees."

He even got their URL wrong.

Hotfoot · Post by **Hotfoot** » 2005-10-18 12:45pm

What's that I hear? Is that the sound of Jack Thompson flushing himself down the drain?

Why yes, yes it is.

Poor pitiful pissant.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-10-18 01:23pm

You can see PA's reaction to the letter with the link below, as well as the above article in its original source and entirety at Game Politics:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/news.php?date=2005-10-18
http://www.gamepolitics.com/

brianeyci · Post by **brianeyci** » 2005-10-18 01:42pm

penny-arcade wrote:We've been sent worse by better.

I wonder how much worse it can get lol, but I guess a webcomic dealing with computer games must be the target of much vitrol from the mentally incompetent. It's sad, really, that there really are worse than him.

Brian

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2005-10-18 01:44pm

brianeyci wrote:
penny-arcade wrote:We've been sent worse by better.
I wonder how much worse it can get lol, but I guess a webcomic dealing with computer games must be the target of much vitrol from the mentally incompetent. It's sad, really, that there really are worse than him.

Brian

The worst had to actually be Hallmark about their Strawberry Shortcake comic.

The funniest bit, is I believed Hallmark actually had some major influx of hatemail afterwards.....amongst other things.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-10-18 01:55pm

It was American Greetings, actually.

The difference with that situation, of course, was that it was a serious notification of sound legal action: it wasn't just AG screeching or throwing their weight around; which PA took seriously and complied with AG's demands because they knew there wasn't a chance in Hell of them winning if the thing went to court.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2005-10-18 02:25pm

Spanky The Dolphin wrote:It was American Greetings, actually.

The difference with that situation, of course, was that it was a serious notification of sound legal action: it wasn't just AG screeching or throwing their weight around; which PA took seriously and complied with AG's demands because they knew there wasn't a chance in Hell of them winning if the thing went to court.

That's right, but it stands as they recieved worse from better.

Their standpoint was parody, but as is would've been far too costly. Though what happened as backlash was rather funny.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-10-18 02:51pm

That's one badass check.

Sephirius · Post by **Sephirius** » 2005-10-18 03:27pm

I thought you guys might find this funny.
Linka

I'm dying of laughter at the irony.

SylasGaunt · Post by **SylasGaunt** » 2005-10-18 04:07pm

This keeps up and John Edward's gonna lose his title.

SAMAS · Post by **SAMAS** » 2005-10-18 05:07pm

felineki wrote:
Uraniun235 wrote:Goddamn, this has gone beyond SUPER SLAM into some crazy image macro I need to dig up.
How 'bout this?

HadOWNEDken rolls off the tongue smoother.

Sephirius · Post by **Sephirius** » 2005-10-18 05:12pm

how about Jack ThompsOWNED

m.castaldo · Post by **m.castaldo** » 2005-10-18 05:45pm

Looks like Thompsons gonna be on CNN with Anderson Cooper tonight, 7 pm EST. Kinda sad how this little piss drizzle gets on national news for being such a jackass. Info at game politics[/url]

Qwerty 42 · Post by **Qwerty 42** » 2005-10-18 05:49pm

now where's that poster...... ah yes

Adrian Laguna · Post by **Adrian Laguna** » 2005-10-18 06:13pm

Now that is a fitting description of Jack Thompson. He gets owned left and right by gamers, regular people who play games every once in a while, and even those that one would expect to side with him. Yet he persists. I wish The Walrus would do a You are a Fucking Moron movie about him.

Rogue 9 · Post by **Rogue 9** » 2005-10-18 06:26pm

DPDarkPrimus wrote:That's one badass check.

What's the last word on the memo? I can't make it out.

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2005-10-18 06:42pm

Rogue 9 wrote:
DPDarkPrimus wrote:That's one badass check.
What's the last word on the memo? I can't make it out.

The memo is:

"For Jack Thompson because Jack Thompson won't"