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Jack Thompson Claiming Games Industry in Collusion with DoD
mytrip brings us a Wired blog about Jack Thompson's recent press release, which claims an "unholy alliance" exists between the gaming industry and the U.S. Department of Defense. Game Politics also has a discussion of Thompson's main points. From Wired:
"Jim Blank, the head of the modeling and simulation division of the U.S. Joint Forces Command, says that commercial games don't meet the demand of the military, adding, 'first-person shooter games really don't apply in this environment.' Blank's point is that game-like simulations are a valuable tool for training soldiers in situations that would be too expensive to simulate in reality."
...and we're coming for you, Jack. We're all out to get YOU, Jack. Boo!
The DoD is just copying what the aliens already did. I heard that if you do really well in the alien video game, it sends a signal out and pretty soon a talking spaceship lands to take you away to fight evil aliens.
See, the game is just a simulation of the real fight and the aliens need to find someone to save them. If you are the best, they come get you to go fight their war using the fabled "Death Blossom" maneuver.
(Not to be confused with the fabled "Turd Blossom" maneuver used many times over the last seven years by the Bush administration.)
Hasn't he been disbarred yet? Seriously if it was you or I going on like this month after month we'd probably at least get a month commited for evaluation. He's got something wrong with him and instead of looking inward to see what it is he projects it outward and thinks everyone needs to be saved from the demons that plague him.
Shh.
if you keep talking like that you will be put in the cube
Whatever. Will someone just shoot this guy already?
Don't be alarmed, everyone. That's just the video games talking.
And the masses cried out, "09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0!"
It's the fluoride!
Passionately Indifferent
Of course, the irony is that if even 1% of gamers were as violent as he claims, one of them really would have shot him long ago.
well they want to recruit young guns and mindless zombies :P
not geeks
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"I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
This. Is. JACK THOMPSON!
By Thompson's logic, cars are training simulators for driving tanks and APVs and and RISK is a training simulator for conquering and destroying to build a fascist global empire.
Why is this guy still allowed to tie up the media and court system? Why isn't he in jail or disbarred or institutionalized? He is the Jerry Falwell of videogames and at least Falwell finally had the decency to fucking die.
It apparently took him years to realize that America's Army is out.
Stupidity?
If "disco" means "I learn" in Latin, does "discothèque" mean "I learn technology"?
Jack?
They're still running around trying to locate the BFG first?
Though personally, I'd have thought it easier just to get some sort of big fucking gun than to get a fictitious character from a Roald Dahl children's story to do the dirty work..
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No no no. See, when you really need to worry is when you find the military in collusion with shower curtain manufacturers. That never ends well (even if there is cake).
i guess its a lot easier to throw around a term like "neo-con" that dumbly lumps people into a group then to actually parse each individuals perspective in the group as to their beliefs.
We tried that. And they said "those liberals can't agree on anything."
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
Murder, Killing, Slaying... there isn't any real difference in any of those words in any case. Only whether the Murder, Killing, or Slaying of someone is justified or not. If you kill someone, it's murder. Maybe not legally, maybe you could call it justified in some cases, but we're not talking about a court of law, we're talking about a higher moral power here. Hell, courts of law weren't very lawful when this stuff was written in the first place. You don't take a lawyer to "heaven" with you to argue with St. Peter that stabbing someone was "killing", not "Murder". In fact, Merriam-Webster online defines Kill AND slay as synonyms of murder.
The commandment does not say "Do not Murder Unless You Really Have To". It says: don't (Kill/Murder/Slay).
But fine... we're interpreting, at this point, as clear it would seem to be to me that you would not want to risk getting it wrong with God and instead you would assume when he says don't murder, you don't murder anyone, ever, being a non-believer I suppose my grounds for arguing it are not the same as others. Roll your dice, Judeo-christian believers.
This conspiracy is much bigger than he knows. It's not just the DOD. The gaming industry is also in cahoots with The Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, The Order of the Illuminati, the Masons, The UN Security Council, Israeli intelligence, Vladimir Putin, The Fnords, Martians and organized crime. It's a monster like the Hydra!! OH NOES!
Jack Thompson will never take this down alone. It's a shame Ronald Reagan is gone. There is nothing he couldn't do.
How ya like dat?