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Jack Thompson Decides He's In GTA IV
gzerphey writes "Outspoken anti-games lawyer Jack Thompson has decided that a representation of a 2nd amendment lawyer in GTA IV is a mocking version of him. He has declared that if the representation is not removed he will attempt to block the release of the game. Excerpt from GamePolitics: 'The showcasing play of the game to Game Informer revealed that the first killing mission of the hero of the game, Niko, is to kill a certain lawyer. When Niko comes into this lawyer's office, having used subterfuge to do so, Niko pulls a gun on the lawyer who says, that the firm supports the second amendment and that 'Guns don't kill people. Video games do.'"
Lots of games parody high profile people, with little repercussions.
But what if you parody someone who is already a parody of himself. The deepness is as unlimited as the psychosis.
The irony of this of course being that by making the claim, he just verified it....
Karma Whoring for Fun and Profit.
...The fact that the lawyer, killed on Niko's first mission, would bring up video games, makes it clearly a reference to me... And the fact that Niko is a regular guy just looking to make some money & very eager to kill a certain lawyer to start off his career makes it clearly a reference to me!Can I join you in this suit, Jack? Perhaps a class action lawsuit? I'll meet you in your office tomorrow at noon using methods of subterfuge
What was your address again? "The magical man, from Happy Land, who lives in a gumdrop house on Lolly Pop Lane?" It's so very hard to remember when you're all over the road.
P.S. I hope the president has gotten back to you about your appeal to him. Your entertainment is endless & I highly value it, it would be a shame to have men in clean white suits censoring your communications to the outside world. Truly, it would.
My work here is dung.
from the i-bet-i'm-in-there-toooo dept.
::grabs molatov cocktail::
I hope you are, Zonk.
But wouldn't Jack Thompson had to have played the game to know that the game has a parody of him? Is that hypocrite I smell?
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It is pointless articles like this that give that ridiculous man publicity (which he seems to thrive on). I don't want to read any more about it, stop posting on /. and he will be forgotten. Nobody is taking him seriously anyway (not anyone that counts at least - e.g. courts).
I must admit that the in game parody sound good though. But still, not newsworthy.
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I recall a funny statement about how GTA4 was going to be placed in an alternate universe NYC, to which some idiot congressman replied, "placing GTA in New York City is like placing Halo in Disneyland" (because New York is supposedly the safest big city). Well that got everyone thinking, "you know what? That would be the COOLEST BOARD EVER, to play in Disneyland". In a likewise fashion, I would like to make a mod for unreal tournament 3 (since they are much friendlier for user created mods than microsoft) where everybody is Jack Thompson. Who wouldn't want to have a death match of you versus 15 Jack Thompsons??
Hmmm... maybe if I could kill him in Disneyland, that would be even better!
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people still listen to what this guy has to say? simple solution: by his logic, surely real lawyers can sue for an injunction against jack thomspon ever speaking again since he is clearly a representation of them...
I'm sure there's more than one lawyer in Manhattan that likes the GTA series. If any of you read this, send Rockstar a letter inviting them to use your name and likeness in the game. You get to put screenshots for publicity while at the same time stick it to Thompson.
Imagine the interviews. Jack Thompson claims the lawyer is him, then the camera cuts to you: No, it's me. Look at this screenshot. Here's a signed affidavit saying it's me!
Pity I'm not a lawyer, I'd go for it.
I had no interest in "Bully". THe plot concept didnt apeal to me. The name was simple and basic.
Jack made me buy it.
Even if it is a bald-faced parody, sounds like a certain crazy lawyer needs to read up on Hustler Magazine v. Falwell.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell
And in other news, Carly Simon finally admits that Jack Thompson was the object of her scorn in her old hit song, "You're So Vain (You Probably Think This Song is About You)."
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I think it's pretty obvious that Thompson doesn't feel hindered by silly laws.
...that I'm not the lead designer on that game.
There would be a 10 minutes hidden scene where the Tom Jackson character is repeatedly raped by an enormous number of large farm animals.
The he'd be forced into oral copulation with filthy homeless guys who have genital sores as yet unidentified by science.
And it would just go downhill from there.
Finally, Dexter would show up and end Tom's pain.
Take Two makes a game where a New York lawyer who works for a firm that believes that "guns don't kill people, video games do" gets killed. Jack Thompson doesn't live in New York, doesn't work for a legal firm, and has never uttered that quote, and I'll bet the lawyer in the game doesn't even look like or sound like him.
Jack Thompson proposes a video game where a CEO of New York-based "Take This" called Paula Eibel gets murdered for creating violent videogames. Lawyers who work at "Blank Stare" are also massacred. Paul Eibel was the CEO of Take Two at the time, and their headquarters is in New York, as is Blank Rome, the legal firm that they employ.
Jack's stuff is parody (his claim), but GTAIV is a death threat?
Please.
Magic doesn't work in my presence. My power of disbelief is too strong.
I can't help but wonder, with all of the free publicity he has kindly given to GTA, if he isn't on Take Two's bank-roll. Seriously, this is great advertising. I'm sure they intentionally released this information about the game simply to get JT to put up a stink. What brilliance on their part!
Of course that compelled Wacky Jacky to send a fax to the local police department asking for assistance in halting the nefarious activities of the two web comics.
The whole story here
Because of Grand Theft Auto 4, a 3rd rate lawyer whines about a 2nd Amendment lawyer in a video game and tramples the 1st Amendment in order to earn zero respect.
Then we could be both satisfied and dissatisfied at the same time.
Which is good because we'd get the satisfaction that he's in the box, but we don't know that he's dead so we can still ridicule him for being a moron.