Jack Thompson Responds to Take Two Suit

interactive_civilian writes "Jack Thompson has personally replied to ArsTechnica regarding their coverage of the lawsuit from TakeTwo. Really, it's best for Jack to speak for himself: 'I have been praying, literally, that Take-Two and its lawyers would do something so stupid, so arrogant, so dumb, even dumber than what they have to date done, that such a misstep would enable me to destroy Take-Two. With the filing of this SLAPP lawsuit last week, my prayers are finally answered. This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is, without a doubt, the single dumbest thing I have ever seen any lawyers do in my thirty years of practicing law--while in continuous good standing to do so with The Florida Bar, I might add, the shock radio and video game industry's efforts notwithstanding.'"

Comments

Re:Wow.. I mean... wow

[Rob T Firefly]

Well, if it is him, he sure is losing a lot of credibility.

He had credibility?

Don Quixote

[Vaibhav_Locke]

I me15ter on the ars discussion puts it best, so i quote his quote here:

In short, his wits being quite gone, he hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he fancied it was right and requisite, as well for the support of his own honour as for the service of his country, that he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice himself all that he had read of as being the usual practices of knights-errant; righting every kind of wrong, and exposing himself to peril and danger from which, in the issue, he was to reap eternal renown and fame. -Don Quixote

Re:Define Good Standing

[Chris Burke]

Yup - his antics are so ridiculous that they made him take a sanity test.

Yeah, and the psychiatric profession is still reeling from the blow to the credibility of their sanity test. They continue to look for the solution to what they call "The Thompson Erroneous Sane Diagnosis Anomaly" or just "The Thompson Anomaly".

Re:Is this a man or a foil?

[SomeoneGotMyNick]

Is Jack Thomson a real crazy person, or is he some cleverly created foil? He has a Wikipedia entry, so he must be real. Right.....????

Also, while I was on Wikipedia, I found out that Sinbad had died.

Re:Written by God?

[Vaibhav_Locke]

I omitted them

Re:Question

[Jherek Carnelian]

Does anybody know the term for a "pseudo-lawyer" that's comparable to "quack" being used to describe a fake doctor?

Politician

Re:WOW!

[MeanderingMind]

All I want to know is, how did Jesus manage to keep from releasing his spirit for 3 days without being in an instance? He couldn't have used a soulstone otherwise.

But then he did say, "Into your hands I commit my spirit", which would indicate he instantly released. If that's the case, I guess the corpse run was just a really long one. Having them move the body into a sealed tomb probably didn't help, although he might have been in range to rez outside.

I'm sorry God, don't smite me. I haven't hit level 60 yet!

Re:JT missed a quote in his letter

[MeanderingMind]

Great, now all those nifty graphics APIs are going to have to have methods for differentiating between renderings for Caesar and renderings for God. Thanks a bunch.