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Thompson and 2K Come To Blows Over Manhunt 2
GamePolitics is serving up email transcripts that show increasing tension between Jack Thompson and 2K Games. The two parties have been acting at least vaguely civilly towards each other since an April settlement. A taunting, factually incorrect email from Jack to 2K (and other parties) has set things off again. 2K's response is to-the-point: "We demand that you cease making these false statements about our online sales practices. Your dissemination of knowingly false statements for the purpose of adversely affecting Take-Two's business is actionable and we reserve all of our rights under the settlement agreement and state and federal law. Not only are your statements clearly false, but they were made in an email publicly disseminated to both the FTC and the press. Please be assured that I am happy to answer any questions you have concerning our practices in a private communications. It is for this very reason that our settlement agreement designates a legal contact for you at Take Two."
I read the title and though Thompson had decided to go the Uwe Boll route and challenge his 2K critics to a boxing match. Watchout for 'is right, Rocky!
Demented But Determined.
screwball, nutjob, etc.
Will this lead to a legal smackdown of Jack? Hoisted on his own petard?
Tune in next week...
You take the role of a young gamer whose favorite franchise has been canceled due to the lawsuits. No longer having virtual violence to occupy your time with, you decide to hunt down all the people responsible for taking your game away. Thompson is featured by name. Let's see the shitfit he pitches at that.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
Crap, you can't post a headline like that! I read the article excitedly expecting Jack Thompson and someone at Take Two to have literally come to blows! I was popping the popcorn to munch on while watching the video of it on YouTube!
Hey Zonk, no offense, but uhh... slow news day? Did you just go to Jack Thompson's Fox News homepage and start copying and pasting?
/. and I think posting anything about them here adds about as much contribution as a blog titled "Microsoft is bad" would.
Thompson is the Anne Coulter of the gaming industry and Fox News is the Jerry Springer Show of news agencies. His opinions have about as much merit as Ted Stevens does on network neutrality.
The only people that listen to his tripe are probably not on
Ok, I swear I'm done with the analagies now... they're about as overplayed as Da- err... nevermind
But I can't help wondering if Jack is actually on some game studio's payroll. Surely he must realise that all his hot air and bullshit does very little except give the very games he rails against free puplicity while making himself look like a complete twat...
This is libel, I don't know anything about April's settlement (RTFA? Yeah, sure) but I smell a lawsuit lurking in Take-2's response.
I went to eat some animal crackers and the box said, "Do not eat if seal is broken." I opened the box and sure enough..
2K games is formerly Irrational Games, and recently released Bioshock.
Take Two is a separate entity.
"I am a kernel in the linux army"
This Friday just keeps getting better and better!
Jack Thompson is a media-whoring nut job who will stop at nothing to pander to to his... to his... well, whoever he panders to. The only surprising thing about this ordeal is that it hasn't reached critical mass already.
...I see it on a real news site, not the tabloid that is GamePolitics.
A better policy would just be to ignore the nutjob. Any time anyone says anything against him his name is back in the headlines, which is exactly what he doesn't deserve.
J.T. writes:
... firearm ... purchases" - because you CANNOT legally purchase firearms on-line!
Take-Two is welcome to use age verification software that is available for on-line alcohol, firearm and other purchases of adult material.
Not sure about the other two, but NOBODY can "buy a firearm on-line".
By law, and very heavily enforced throughout the industry, firearms must be physically transferred through Federal Firearms Licensees (FFL dealers), who require detailed forms be filled out and background checks run. While payment to original seller may occur on-line and arrangements for shipping occur, taking physical possession requires face-to-face meeting with a federally licensed dealer who will require federally recognized ID, run a NICS criminal background check (or confirm more detailed checks have occurred), and require legally binding statements of eligibility (a felony to lie on the so-called "yellow forms"). Shipping may only be to an FFL or current owner (not buyer).
No, Jack, there is no "age verification software that is available for
Can we get a "-1 Wrong" moderation option?
Nah... he's just doing the whole Max Clifford thing, basically. He's a shitstirrer, who profits from the storm that he whips up. Once the hassle surrounding the game manufacturer dies down, their sales will have gone up a bit, too. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Clifford for reference
http://xkcd.com/313/
She looked up at him, and asked, "And what of Jack Thompson?"
"He will continue to be my implacable enemy, lending his pen to every plot against me."
She started to reply, but caught herself as a sudden realization struck. "And how will you repay him for this service?" she asked.
He smiled. "With gold, and land, and boys. He is a simple man. All he desires are land, and gold, and boys."
With apologies to George R. R. Martin
.It may not be just, but it is fair, and that is more important.
Achilles....
From the Illiad...
READ A BOOK DAMNIT!
I love it when people think something is not biased just because they agree with the "stance" a website takes.
Just as delusional as the Thompson devotees.
That still doesn't count, as it's not what J.T. is alluding to.
The on-line firearm sales sites (gunbroker.com, gunsamerica.com, etc.) merely connect buyers with sellers, who still have to either (A) arrange for an intermediary FFL to handle the transfer, or (B) arrange a face-to-face meeting - neither of which counts as "buying firearms on-line" which typically conjures up images of "click on 'Mossberg 590 Master Key', quantity 1, click on 'cart', enter credit card number & address, have nifty new shotgun show up on doorstep several days later". Such sites are merely faster ways to find out who has what a buyer wants, followed by the standard in-person transaction.
To clarify: the private transaction you indicate still requires (legally) a face-to-face meeting, which provides ample opportunity to discern whether the purchaser is a prohibited minor.
In no way (short of outright illegal) can, to J.T.'s email, a legal minor buy a firearm on-line with mommy's credit card.
Can we get a "-1 Wrong" moderation option?
If two parties "come to blows," it means they actually laid hands on each other, got into an actual fistfight, etc. It does not mean "exchanged nasty letters" or "called each other bad names."
Thanks for getting my hopes up, only to shoot them down. Don't bother me again until someone really does get hit over this.
Voltaire
(*Uninstalls Bioshock DRM with tools like regdelnull, and NTFS-3g for the undeleteable files*)
;^)
I never thought I'd say this, but "Go get 'em Jack!" I hope they go up in a big mushroom cloud together.
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Toro
Thompson To Run For President
(Oh sure, it's Fred Thompson, but it's about as honest as the summary title.)
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Toro
It's a multi-billion dollar industry. You're fucking with their profits.
You're fucking with my hobby.
You need to be sued into the stone-age.
You tried to sue the Florida bar for taking away your license.
You have no honor, integrity or ethics.
You can hide behind your moral compass all you like.
It's leading you into the circus ring. Soon we can all laugh at the clown in the center ring.
They're using their grammar skills there.
Interesting. He misspelled 'because' as 'becasue '.