Month: October 2005 (Page 2 of 3)

And these hornets know how to use the Internets. After Jack Thompson attempted to get Penny Arcade’s creators arrested by the Seattle Police Department (albeit, with a caveat):

Tycho and I remain free men. The fact is that Jack actually sent the fax to everyone but the intended recipient at the Seattle PD.

Still, the action was apparently enough to get the Penny Arcade fanbois motivated, and they apparently bombarded the Florida Bar Association with requests for the FBA to investigate the wingnut in question. Here is the Hornet’s Nest thread, discussing the complaints they’ve sent. Here’s one: Continue reading

You gotta hand it to Rockstar, they know how to create news.

I didn’t post the Penny Arcade shenanigans about Jack Thompson because, well, better heads had done so, and to be fair, I thought y’all might be getting sick of it. But understanding is critical, and so the summation is that Jack Thompson rescinded his offer to give money to charity if people made his crackpot vision of a game once, you know, people turned around and did so in 3 days time (Ol’ Grandma Hardcore was one of many who managed to cobble something together quickly). He claimed his offer was satire.

“I’m not interested and won’t be commenting on the mod. The satirical piece entitled ‘A Modest Video Game Proposal’ was intended to highlight the patent hypocrisy and recklessness exhibited by the video game industry’s willingness to target cops, women, homosexuals, and other groups with some of their violent games. To be fair, though, you can’t expect a bunch of gamers to understand the satire if they think that Jonathon Swift, the author of ‘A Modest Proposal,’ is the name of a new Nike running shoe…

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Game Politics is reporting that they got hold of an email from Dr. David Walsh of the National Institute on Media and the Family to Jack ‘Nutboy’ Thompson, where Walsh completely disavows all relationship with Thompson, just days after Jack Thompson’s announcement of a bounty of $10000 for someone to make an FPS that involves the gory deaths of key industry executives (as reported yesterday). A snippet: Continue reading