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Goalmaster3000 writes to tell us Joystiq.com is reporting that Jack Thompson has rescinded his offer of a $10,000 donation to charity if a video game were made to fit his model.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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i'm gay

[Anonymous Coward]

for your sexy ass. I want to shave your ass, then smoke the butt hair!

Debate insults indicate a loss.

[CyricZ]

Indeed, those who resort to insults during debates are most likely in the wrong. It's one of those things we see time and time again. One such example could very well be this instance of Jack Thompson debating a 14-year-old child. Another notable example is that of the KOffice developer who resorted to insulting a long time KDE and KOffice user during a discussion of the future of the KOffice project.

Worst Hyperlinking Ever

[BarryNorton]

How about a link to the actual original proposal?

(Yet again no standards of editing at Slashdot...)

Re: unwittingly sassed

[Anonymous Coward]

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MODERATOR WARNING: CYRIC = TROLL

[Anonymous Coward]

Cyric is a spamming troll (just look at his posting history and notice how many comments he posts), and he brings up this KOffice thing ALL THE TIME. He just can't leave it alone.

It pisses him off that the KOffice developer called him on his nonsensical crap. Now he posts about it in ALMOST EVERY FUCKING STORY ON SLASHDOT.

MODERATOR WARNING

[Anonymous Coward]

CyricZ is just a clueless troll who posts crap like this, completely void of any useful information, and usually misleading and basically karma whoring by trolling and fooling the moderators into thinking that he has anything useful to say.

Look at his posting history and notice how many comments he posts EVERY DAY.

Why did he even have to ask who Thompson is? HE COULD HAVE SEARCHED GOOGLE.

Re:Given the timing of the withdrawal...

[doubledoh]

I've never been a grammar nazi before, but your sig's poor punctuation and pronoun problems are really annoying me today.

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