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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.'"
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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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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Unfortunately, quite a few people *do* take Thompson seriously -- he's still used regularly as a talking-head on news programs talking about video game violence (or at least was, before his recent crazy-turn; that my have been the nail in the coffin). He's dangerously effective at manipulating the media to listen to him, and I for one like to keep on top of what he's up to.
I read wikipedia for the articles.
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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'd be 50% satisfied if someone would toss JT into a Schrödinger box.
+0 Meh
I dunno, I don't think I could tell you whether I were satisfied or not until someone opened the box.
In honour of Jack Thompson, could we please name one of those new elementary particles "morons" ?
There, fixed that for ya.
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This was already decided by the Supreme Court:
Larry Flynt won an important Supreme Court decision on February 24, 1988,[6] after having been sued by Jerry Falwell in 1983 over an offensive ad parody in Hustler that featured Falwell. The ad suggested that Falwell's first sexual encounter was with his mother in an out-house. Falwell sued Flynt citing emotional distress caused by the ad but lost in court. The decision clarified that public figures cannot recover damages for "intentional infliction of emotional distress" based on parodies.
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Flynt
A parody is a parody....
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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.