Jack Thompson goes after Halo 3.

[PK8]

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Well it doesn't take him long, does it? The Halo 3 beta was released only last week and that pathetic scavenger Jack Thompson has already leapt upon Microsoft, penis erect with rage, in an attempt to try and take the spotlight away from games and place it firmly back upon himself -- because watching this disturbed old jester masturbate for our viewing pleasure is clearly the most important thing in the world.
Jack Thompson, the middle-aged man who thinks about children playing in their bedrooms, has issued one of his insane, dribbling demands to Bill Gates himself. That's right, the twatspanner is threatening Bill Gates with legal action.
It's the usual deal: Thompson once again seems to believe that it's up to the games industry to make sure that the retail industry do their jobs by not selling games to minors, and issues yet another ill thought out, preposterous legal threat. But ... this is Bill Gates. This could be hilarious. For more, and for the words of Jack Creepy McCreepy Thompson himself, hit the jump.
[Via GameAlmighty]

"Here?s the deal, Mr. Gates: Either Microsoft undertakes dramatic, real steps, through its marketing, wholesale, and retail operations to assure that Halo 3 is not sold, via the Internet and in stores, directly to anyone under 17, or I shall proceed to make sure that Microsoft is held to that standard by appropriate legal means. I have done that before successfully as to Best Buy, and I shall do so again as to Microsoft and all retailers of Halo 3."​

The usual garbage, right? Yes it's annoying to read, and infuriating on many levels that this ignorant, possibly psychotic individual is shooting his mouth off in yet another desperate ploy for TV time, but this is something I've been waiting for. This is the day that Jack Thompson tries to threaten Microsoft. With any luck, they are going to slaughter him for this.
Now, I'm no fortune teller, but if I may, I'd like to try and predict Microsoft's unofficial response to Jack's little letter:

"HAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
AHA!
AHA!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
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That is all.
Source: http://www.destructoid.com/jack-thompson-goes-after-halo-3-now-31683.phtml

 

[madmax_vii]

*sigh* when will thompson ever learn to shut the fuck up? I swear one of these days thompson will probably get shot by some angry gamer or something (I hope...)......

 

[Tim.]

Oh gimme a fucking break, Halo? There are a lot of more violent games out there, hell, you can barely notice the blood in Halo. Hopefully some day ol' Jack will realize that vidoegames don't make us violent, he makes us violent.

But, yes, Microsoft will probably slaughter him. Can't spell slaughter without laughter.

 

[Lockheart]

Anyone ever wonder if the whole reason Jack Thompson does this is to increase sales for the games? Think about it, a lot of people go by the way of "I'm not supposed to do this so I'm going to do it anyways" way of thinking, and if the government(or whatever he's with) says you shouldn't play it or children shouldn't play it then everyone will want to know why and therefore buy it.

Just my two cents.

 

[Rain]

Jack Thompson is getting very desperate.

You could kind of understand his twisted little logic when he was after GTA (although not agree with it in the slightest) but Halo? I'm sure that's a murder simulator as well? "Gee, I think I will murder everyone with a plasma grenade!!"..... idiot.

 

[Draken]

I bet hes gonna use Halo 3 as another excuse for a school massacre. It's fucking sad, really.

 

[Zankoku no Yami]

I can imagine the news report now... just because, something as rediculous as this is worthy of the news!

"Bill Gates uses money planned for toilet paper this weekend to win suit against Jack Thompson. Then counter sues for loss of toilet paper. Back to you Margo!"

Heh, heh... what an idiot... Bill Gates is the king of attempting monopoly. This is like childs play! I wanna see the guy slaughtered and sued, if not simply for being an idiot or wasting our time!

 

[Anonymous]

I bet hes gonna use Halo 3 as another excuse for a school massacre. It's fucking sad, really.

marathon did columbine.

this is getting pretty ridiculous. i mean i wholly agree with and think steps should be taken to prevent minors from buying M-rated videogames (when i got carded in best buy for trying to buy the first Oblivion expansion i was fucking ecstatic), but SUING THE GAME MAKER is not the way to do this. especially not microsoft.

 

[Fafnir]

*sigh* when will thompson ever learn to shut the fuck up? I swear one of these days thompson will probably get shot by some angry gamer or something (I hope...)......

I truely hope not. Because if that happens, then he basicly becomes a martyr. And that's not good, because people LOVE martyrs. And then take into account the parents who perfer to have the TV raise their kids getting all pissey cause they can't take 2 seconds to check a stupid letter, and you've got a big fiasco.

Anyway, I really hope that we can get vids or transcripts or something of whatever goes on, this is going to be PURE COMEDY GOLD.

 

[EmuMaster2002]

Someone ought to draft him, y'know? Let him die in Iraq.

Hell, let the enemy do some good for once.

 

[Kemuri]

He's after Halo cause it's the most popular M-rated game on the planet, and he's also desperate for a new whipping boy since he can't sue Take-Two/Rockstar anymore.

 

[Untra]

http://www.2kgames.com/bioshock/enter.html

When this game gets released in august, expect to see jackass thompson ready to pounce.

I do subscribe EGM, and in the july 07 edition, they had a letter in their mailbag that simply made thompsons case look like crap. Read it below:

Spoiler

Jackassery

Staying true to form, immediately following the Virginia Tech shootings, dim-witted, hard-line gamephobe [attorney] Jack Thompson asserted that videogames in general, and Counter-Strike in particular, were the impetus behind Seung-Hui Cho's merciless attacks (a speculation that was soon proven dubious by testimony from Cho's former roommate).

Knee-jerk ideologues of all stripes swarm around tragedies like this one because it allows them to warp the event to further their agenda: The antigun lobby blames guns, gun nuts blame the victim's lack of guns, [antigay Kansas minister] Fred Phelps blames homosexuality and Jack Thompson blames Bill Gates.

What many of these simplistic, hair-trigger reactionaries forget is an ancient trueism of the sciences: Correlation does not imply causation. Even if Cho played videogames constantly - Violent ones, at that - to my knowledge, there is no hard evidence that doing so could or would stimulate him into acting out in the real world that he'd expierenced virtually. (I wonder - if Cooking Mama becomes very popular, will kids start whipping up souffles and paella?)

Millions of people play videogames, yet the extreme majority never come close to behaving violently. That seems evidence enough to let videogames off the hook.

-Timothy R. Graham

 

[Ratty524]

I've already heard of this.

Man, when will Jackass Thompson ever quit? He has failed in SO many occasions.