Jack Thompson Rescinds Offer

Goalmaster3000 writes to tell us Joystiq.com is reporting that Jack Thompson has rescinded his offer of a $10,000 donation to charity if a video game were made to fit his model. Recently a group of GTA modders cooked up a scenario to fit the bill but apparently Thompson is claiming that his piece 'A Modest Video Game Proposal' was intended as satire that the video game community was not bright enough to grasp. Perhaps Thompson was just afraid he was going to have to sue himself? Update: 10/17 20:02 GMT by SM: It appears that the Penny Arcade crew has taken the next step by donating the promised $10,000... in Jack Thompson's name.

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Wait wait wait

[ifwm]

A lawyer lied, and people are surprised?

Negation of a negative

[matr0x_x]

So a satirical response to a satirical comment gives us what...

Ah, the irony!

Idiot

[BartulaPrime]

So, he thinks we weren't bright enough to realize his "satire"? Well, at least we're bright enough to know the difference between video game violence and real-life violence. Otherwise, we'd be bunny-hopping our BMX bikes over his front yard fence and blowing him away with my machine gun.

Ah yes.

[Anonymous Coward]

Jack Thompson, increasingly, resembles nothing more so than one of the least competent of slashdot's trolls.

MAN 1: I am going to kill you and rape your family!
MAN 2: ...
MAN 1: What, don't you know satire when you hear it? You have no sense of humor at all. Idiot.

Typo

[RancidMilk]

"Jack Thompson Rescinds Offer" Should be: "Jack Thompson steals $10k from Charity"

Re:I can believe it.

[Ykant]

The problem is that he isn't Swift...

Curiously, this sentence is just as accurate with improper punctuation...