Jack Thompson Weighs In On Hot CoffeeGate

Gamespot is reporting that Jack Thompson, the anti-gaming crusader, has weighed in on the Rockstar/ESRB situation. His message is, essentially, that the ESA is a criminal organization run by a thug. From the article: "Doug Lowenstein embarrasses each and every one of you when he holds forth about what the 'Founders' intended when they drafted the Bill of Rights [the first 10 amendments to the Constitution]. For Doug, the Founders are GTA's Tommy Vercetti and Carl Johnson. Doug never met a pixilated prostitute he didn't like, and I'm sure James Madison would be impressed."

Comments

Hot CoffeeGate???

[Cecil]

That is the worst bastardization of that suffix that I've ever seen. That is horrible. You should be ashamed of yourself for inventing that. Go sit in the corner RIGHT NOW. If any mass media sees that term and picks it up and runs with it, I expect you to commit ritual suicide.

It's supposedly in the PS2 version as well.

[goodenoughnickname]

This forum post is making the rounds today. It claims that by using Action Replay for the PS2, the hot coffee mini-game can be unlocked.

If that's true, then it looks like Rockstar is the one with their pants on fire. Also, it means I have to go get an Action Replay, because I play the game for blood and boobs, not because going around on a bike bunny hopping shit is super fun.

I just wanna know who to sue

[da_Den_man]

/sarcasm Because I OWN the HotCoffee label...../Sarcasm

Seriously, how is it that in an M rated game that contains Cursing (to an amazing level I will say), Gang shootouts, carjacking, pimping, etc,... that this little blurb that was OBVIOUSLY a hack can cause this much controversy? Have these people NO lives? Is no one dying of vegatative states this week?

I own the game. I own ALL the GTA games. They are and HAVE been rated for ADULTS.

Why do people with a voice in the media feel they need to regulate WHAT I as a PRIVATE citizen do in my own home? Why aren't we after the parents that are too busy smoking Meth (I live in the Great NW Meth capital of the world), or the idiots that are planting bombs.....oh...I know....cause that is a DAILY event these days. Nudity in an M rated GAME is NEW!!! UGH.

Jack Thompson is a waste of time

[Cornflake917]

This guy does not have a brain. He is personally attacking Doug Lowenstein, who:

A. Had no say in what got put in GTA:SA.
B. Did not know anything about Hot Coffee Mod when GTA:SA was released (as far as I know).
C. Recommended that the game was innappropriate for children under 17. Which is STILL an adequate recomendation.

Why he isn't attacking the retailers, Rockstar or the hackers, I have no idea. I'm glad Lowenstein didn't respond to Thompson's attacks. The guy is an idiot and only wants to take away people's rights.

ID: 10-T

[Safety Cap]

From the article...

Addressed to an assortment of developers and publishers ranging from Electronic Arts to id Software, the latter of which Thompson partly blames for the Columbine massacre, ~. [emphasis mine]

Okay, we're through--nothing more to see here. Thompson 'partly' blames id for Columbine. Jee-zus

Thompson is a friggin idiot and his opinions are worth as much as a pinch of owl-shite. id was not responsible for Columbine in any way: Eric Harris and Klebold Dylan's parents were responsible, if you consider that they were both minors (if you believe that they were adult 'enough', then they alone had the responsibility).

The fact that Thompson can't even get that right, leads little to his credibility on anything else.

This is why we're doomed.

[thomas.galvin]

[T]he Bill of Rights [the first 10 amendments to the Constitution].

This is why we're doomed. If the Bill of Rights needs a footnote, we're pretty much finished.