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| Acmlm's Board - I3 Archive - Officer's Club - We all hate this man, but I wonder why he must make us hate him... |
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Deleted User Banned                 Since: 05-08-06 Last post: None Last view: 6296 days |
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| Jack Thompson is a LAWYER who is OLD and supposedly WISE. WHY is he so mean to video game fans? Why must he absolutely hate people who are video game fanatics? He HAS to have a reason for outwardly using fears, hisses, and scowls to video game enthusiasts. I don't know what his reason is, and it's kinda depressing me.
I know. Sounds dumb, but help. If anyone found his reason, let me know. Or at least help me get over this dude.  |
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C:/xkas bio.asm Compiled ASM code        Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6295 days |
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most of people are scared from what they don't know wich really suck |
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Silvershield   580  Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 6308 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| I know it's been said a million times before, and I'm hardly an innovator for bringing it up again, but it is the parent who is responsible for the development of his child. A video game with certain content can certainly have an effect on the psyche of a youth, but any person of reasonable maturity and reasonable intelligence can lose nothing by enjoying electronic entertainment.
There is no relationship between a maladapted child and that child's enjoyment of video games, but there is definitely a correlation between that maladapted child and his parents' poor work at raising their offspring. The second should not be mistaken for the first. |
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Sin Dogan 860  Uoodo Original Blend Armored Trooper Votoms Canned Coffee! Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6300 days Last view: 6299 days |
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| Well Jack Thompson fails to see that it's not always one factor over another that increases one's tendency to become violent. Video games are hardly any more effective in that than one's life experiences, upbringing(as SS mentioned), environment, etc. But I do think kids should be more aware of real violence. It's far uglier than what we see in movies, games, etc. | |||
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Thexare Metal battleaxe Off to better places  Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6295 days |
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Originally posted by Shyguy He got beaten up in school by the nerds? A TV fell on his head as a young child? He mixed up the terms "fun" and "flagitious"? (word of the day - Characterized by extremely brutal or cruel crimes; vicious) He was attacked by a madman wielding an Xbox controller? All work and no play make Jack Thompson a crazy bastard? Every generation needs a scapegoat. People dislike change, so they demonize that which is new, that which is different. Worse yet, many seem to be quite xenophobic, which leads to them never understanding the very things they hate because they're too scared to try them for themselves and refuse to listen when anyone else tries to explain - something Jack's been quite guilty of in the past, from what I've read. |
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Skydude Armos Knight  Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6569 days Last view: 6569 days |
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Well, gee, I think it's rather obvious what happened to him:
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Hawksun Red Koopa  Since: 04-06-06 From: Canada Last post: 6516 days Last view: 6516 days |
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He probably got his body taken over by the soul of Fredric Wertham who decided from the afterlife to take a stab at modern fun things (in this case, video games) believing he could cause as much damage as he did while being alive.  |
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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We hate Jack Thompson because he's an idiot. 
No, seriously. Given some of his methods that he's used and claims he's made, I'm trying to figure out how he ever passed the BAR in the first place. His points are questionable at best and insane at worst. Maybe if we don't pay any attention to him, he'll go away. |
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emcee Red Super Koopa Since: 11-20-05 Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| To be fair, he's not against all video games, just violent ones. | |||
Vyper Kodondo Raging Venom  Since: 11-18-05 From: Final Fantasy Fire Last post: 6313 days Last view: 6313 days |
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| What he needs to be against is stupid fucking parents and not video game companies. They're just doing their jobs and trying to make a profit.
The parents obviously arn't. |
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| He's against violent games which is fine, but he needs stronger points to back up his theories. Threatening people who make fun of him also isn't a smart move.
If he wouldn't be so angry and bitter and actually present well-founded points in a rational matter, then maybe I could see him as an interesting figure in the argument on violent games. As it stands now, he's nucking futs. |
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C:/xkas bio.asm Compiled ASM code Since: 11-17-05 Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| aren't recent psychology discovery proved that violent game actually make people LESS violent? as opposed to what this moron and a lot of other people say? | |||
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Silvershield 580 Since: 11-19-05 From: Emerson, New Jersey Last post: 6308 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| The unfortunate part is, despite his questionable methods, his arguments have caught on, to some degree, in the mainstream. It reminds me of when D&D so certainly led to devil worship back in the 70s (or 60s? 80s? I dunno...). The details escape me, but some kid who played D&D murdered someone/committed suicide/did something really bad, and his mother went on a crusade against that game.
Just as role-playing games were just emerging and achieving public recognition, so are video games really reaching a new level and a new stage in modern times. Sure, there has been electronic entertainment for decades, but new technology allows for a degree of realism that's absolutely unseen before now. Give it a few years; as society at large becomes more accustomed to it, and as the older demographic becomes more familiar with it - because, of course, in a few years' time the "older demographic" will be a demographic that grew up playing these games, unlike that current segment of the population to whom video games are a foreign concept - the problem will be shifted to some new scapegoat. |
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Deleted User Banned Since: 05-08-06 Last post: None Last view: 6296 days |
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I read on the wikipedia that he hate all gamers. Which makes him hate me by default. I don't like it when random old men hate me. 
And he heartlessly said that someone who comitted suicide went straight to.... the other place. Are people like him allowed to be legal? (edited by Shyguy on 04-21-06 02:49 AM) |
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| Wikipedia's great but don't take it as fact with statements like that. I can't recall him ever saying he hated all gamers/games, or he'd be leading a crusade against Sonic.
Maybe "he hates all violent games" would be proper. Still doesn't serve as a good defense however. |
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| According to emails from the same email addresses, he generalizes gamers in general. It's proven. | |||
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Thexare Metal battleaxe Off to better places Since: 11-18-05 Last post: 6296 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| To be honest, Shyguy, I don't know why it bothers you so much.
When I see someone with such overwhelming ignorance, stupidity, and... lost my train of thought there, but when I see someone like Jack, I see something that both reminds me of why I dislike a lot of people and gives me quite a few laughs, too. I just focus on the laughs. Try that. |
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| ...On the flip side, I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people complaining to him/sending him hate mail are giving him a pretty bad impression of gamers on a whole. |
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Skydude Armos Knight Since: 02-18-06 From: Stanford, CA Last post: 6569 days Last view: 6569 days |
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| I think you make a good point there, Colin. Intelligent rebuttals to his points are one thing, gives a sort of moral high ground. But when people respond by making ad hominem attacks and sending really rude emails and the like, it does kind of suggest that gamers aren't the best of people. At the same time, it doesn't feel great to just sit there and take it, so to speak. | |||
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Cynthia Uh-huh. Since: 11-17-05 From: LaSalle, Quebec, Canada Last post: 6295 days Last view: 6295 days |
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| I think there's a lot of ways gamers can write him and say "you're an idiot/asshole/whatever" in a mature matter. If I wanted to, I could give him a piece of my mind that doesn't resort to insults or threats... but I'm sure others have already. Among the many death threats. |
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