Thompson strikes again
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http://gc.advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=5883
oh what a fun read. I always thought lawyers tend to be intelligent people or at least try to act like those.
I guess, bacause nobody wants to make that piece of crap of a "game idea" Thompson is going to think he is right.
Man this person is more worse like my mother who claims to be right all the time...
oh what a fun read. I always thought lawyers tend to be intelligent people or at least try to act like those.
I guess, bacause nobody wants to make that piece of crap of a "game idea" Thompson is going to think he is right.
Man this person is more worse like my mother who claims to be right all the time...
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However he's not actually paying any publisher or developer to actually fund the development of the project, $10,000 to a charity is a silly thing to offer, it gives no incentive for business. The entertainment industry is about making money. He'll probably end up using this to say "Ha! I told you no one would make such a sick depraved game, it's wrong!" - rather than "I didn't pay anyone to make my game"...
Jack Thompson is a Trial lawyer. That's how he makes his living. From everything I've been able to tell from what he says and does, he is of the sort that goes around looking for people to sue ... the kind that are behind skyrocketing medical and insurance costs. They used to call them "Ambulence Chasers." Now have TV ads to do the same thing.
Jack's attempts to make trouble for the game industry usually involve multi-million dollar lawsuits against the deepest pockets he can find on behalf of people he has conned into believing that someone other than the perpetrator is responsible for the crime. Of course, if any of those trial verdicts were to be awarded to the plaintiff (the people Jack has conned into being his clients), the Jack would get multiple millions of dollars too.
Jack also purports to be a Christian ... but a good Christian man would know his Bible and would have read the book of Genesis and know that God holds us responsible for our own actions. In Genesis, Eve attempted to shift the blame for disobeying God (eating the fruit of the Tree of Knowlege of Good and Evil) by claiming the Serpent (the Devil) made her do it. God was having none of that ... and thank God, neither have our American courts.
Man, that would be a fun game to make. That proposal leaves so much open, you can just turn it around whiel still meeting his requirements. The murderer kid, aside from playing games, also gets beat at home, at school, at work, at the market, at his daily brainwash by Scietologists, and such and such. OK (looks like Jack T and his real name is Tack Jhompson or whatever) is completely dillusional. It wasn't so much that his kid was killed, but he ate a bucket of chicken for dinner and was distraught, so he makes up his son. You'll see cutscenes where people would be testifying at the trail, but you would then see it through the eyes of OK, where everything is spun into being what he wants to hear (games trained the boy to kill, cases such as this are opportunities for public exposure to reach personal agendas, so and so). And then the bridges of the holes goes on and on. Hurray! Developed by Triage Games.
What a douche.
How about a game where evil lawyer Tom Jackson dies and goes to hell, where the devil is so impressed with his work that he sends Jackson back to earth to use his demonic lawyer powers to sue poor old grannies out of their life savings and things like that. It could play kind of like Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines.
Who wants to make a game? Torque engine is $100.
"Jack Thompson's Murder Simulator"
edit: Admit it, most of us would love to blow up EA execs. Just not in real life. As a bonus, throw in some RIAA and FOX execs and lawyers as well.
But will he be willing to cover our legal fes as well when we are sued for using real life characters without permission?
Thompson's screed doesn't even hold up as a design, it's just saying that those nasty immoral game devs wouldn't make a game that did something bad to "their own kind". Big deal. Let's be smart here, and read the fine print: he says he'll pay, if: "any video game company will create, manufacture, distribute, and sell a video game in 2006 like the following: ... " That means if the Postal3 guys made some alternate skins for the game coming out in '06, they'd probably qualify. That would be a game "like" Thompson's. Although he'll probably argue the meaning of the word "like"...
/jzero
Heh, would be funny to see the market swamped with Jack Thompson games in 2006...
who even still cares about this sad pathetic man... the more attention he gets the worse...
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well, we need to keep an eye on the dumbass, regardless, just to make sure he doesn't get any stupid laws passed with his connections in the govt... right, hillary?
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You may have seen Jacks proposal mentioned on various news sites. Hes offering 10 grand to charity if a game developer makes a game based on his insane proposal.
So I got his email address and I went ahead and sent Jack a note this morning:
10 grand is pretty weak man. Through our charity www.childsplaycharity.org gamers have given over half a million dollars in toys and cash to childrens hospitals all over the country.
Ill let you know if he responds.
The fact is when we kick off Childs Play 2005 on November 1st well be going global. Well be delivering videogames and toys to childrens hospitals all over the world now. I dont think theres any better response to Jacks insane ramblings than that. Maybe Jack would like to donate his 10 grand to Childs Play, that could buy a lot of Game Boys.
-Gabe out
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My email sig had my phone number in it. Jack actually just called and screamed at me for a couple minutes. He said if I email him again I will regret it. What a violent man.
-Gabe out
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wow, it's really funny from all the Jack Thompson anecdotes on the web, this guy really likes to freak out and scream at people.
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Imagine how he would react if someone actually took up his offer and held him to his word to donate 10k to charity; the guy would go on a fucking rampage.
Hey, maybe that's his plan: he'll go off and kill a bunch of people based on the game of his own design, and then claim that, "see, see, videogames really do make people violent." I wouldn't put it past this opportunistic shyster.
I think I'm going to email mr. Thompson asking if Evil Eye Interactive can develop his game independently since no publisher will touch it.
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STOP. If you haven't emailed him yet, DON'T DO IT. (I'll explain why after editing my post)
[edit] Okay, I had to amend all of this as an edit because I wanted to hopefully respond before you sent off the email. The reason I say you shouldn't email him and ask that question is because he will most likely say, "no, it must be developed and published by a major company like EA."
As it is now, his proposel doesn't stipulate whether or not the game must be developed/published by a major company, so don't offer him the chance to change that. If you really want to develope the game, keep it relatively hush-hush with no publicity. Once the game is finished (hopefully before the end of 2006, as that is the deadline he gives), send it to every damn videogame news site and magazine in existence (along with all of the major news networks), and I'd be willing to bet that most of them (at least the videogame-related ones) would be frothing at the mouth to post such a story. You would stir up some serious shit, and at that point it wouldn't matter if Jack Thompson intended to include independent developers in his proposal, because he would look like a real jackass if he didn't donate the money he promised because of a stupid technicallity like that.
Think about it: either way, you'll make him look like a jackass; that is, unless you have him officially state that "this offer doesn't include independent developers" right off that bat. So, don't bother asking him... force him into a corner later.
KeyserSoze, don't worry, you've changed my mind; besides, this has Running with Scissors written all over it, they could just take Postal 2 use all the existing models and apply Mr. Thompsons story to it.
Mr. Thompson later released a statement on the internet stating he is now planning to sue all game developers for inducing psychological damages. Thompson was later found dead in his shower due to complications with viagra."
I don't really care about Jack or his money, he's a total scumbag so he'll worm out of paying no matter who makes the game, but I think it would be fun to take a stand against him; do it on principle. I've been toying around with various ideas for a serious game project recently anyways, so I'm not really jumping in on a whim.
Might see a pimp from me with some character designs sometime
And hey, no matter what publicity it would give him it would give a lot more to me
"From the mind of Jack Thompson"
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I was thinking this exact same phrase when I was considering how I would write up the design doc for this game, but I had a few extra adjectives in there. Here's what I was thinking:
[fade in large, bold, white text on black background] "From the sick, twisted mind of Jack Thompson" [/fade out text]
[fade to opening scene]
Actually, now that I think of it, leaving out the adjectives "sick" and "twisted" would probably be more effective, because people would be able to draw their own conclusions.
[fade in text] "Born of the mind of Jack Thompson" [/fade out text]
[fade in text] "Brought to fruition by the nefarious video game industry" [/fade out text]
[fade in game title] "GAME OVER." [/fade to opening scene]
I also thought it would be funny if the player got all of his weapons from vending machines (with an American flag all over it). I think that would be an obvious message.
guess what:
SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:<jackpeace@comcast.net>: host gateway-r.comcast.net [216.148.227.126]: 551 not our customer
I'm guessing his mailbox is a melted pile of slag and they had to shut it down.
acc: go for it man, it's going to take a strong constitution to go through with it (killing children for bob's sake!) but the first person to answer his challenge will make the headlines!