Slashdot Mirror
Jack Thompson's Letter To Take-Two Exec's Mother
debatem1 writes "Apparently, anti-violent-video-games crusader Jack Thompson is at it again, this time writing a letter to the mother of Strauss Zelnick, Chairman of Take-Two, the company that produces the GTA series of video games. In it he compares Zelnick to a member of the Hitler Youth, advocates beating the young Zelnick, and contemplates the existence of a Ted Bundy merit badge for boy scouts."
He's like herpes. The symptoms go away, but it really never goes away.
That which does not kill me only postpones the inevitable.
Strauss Zelnick presses charges against Jack Thompson, claiming this was a threat. Mostly because it would entertain me.
Behave yourself or I'll tell your mom on you!
If you had the power to go back in time and beat Strauss Zelnick in front of his mother, would you?
I think for Bully 2 they need to have a hot coffee mode where a young Zelnick beats up on a young JT. That would be sweet justice.
I am becoming gerund, destroyer of verbs.
In GTA, you have free will. You can stay at home, go to work, maybe as a taxi driver?, drive to church on sundays, and never hurt anyone. That Jack Thompson becomes a criminal thug with disregard for the law and life, shows more about him than the game.
don't cut it off www.mgmbill.org
I find him useful.
Jack personifies the sort of person who objects to video games in the way that Fred Phelps personifies hardcore Christianity.
We need people like them to remind us of what people who want to micromanage our personal behaviors are really like.
"This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
Dear Mrs. Bush:
Your son, as you may know (or maybe you don't know), is the President of the United States, whose most popular foreign policy adventures are killing hundreds of thousand of people. Though they are a different color, I do believe they are still people.
Your son last week was reported to have said the following about Iran: "A nuclear Iran must not be allowed."
Taking your son's thought, I would encourage you either to join the Marines, or encourage all of your grand-children to join up, especially Jenna and little Barbara.
What you will see in the next war, if this iteration of war is anything like its predecessors, is incredible interactive violence aimed at everyone (whom you can shoot in the head and see the blood spray), innocent bystanders (whom you can run over with your Humvee or tank just for the heck of it), and of course the plentiful indigenous female prostitutes you can have sex with and then filet with a knife or stomp with your feet in order to get your money back. Experts note that the recent plethora of killings is caused in whole by your darling son's Administration and philosophical flunkies. There are four thousand dead soldiers in Iraq, and perhaps almost a million dead civilians. No, really - it was on 60 Minutes. I hope Bush has provided you with a flat screen TV to see the grief of the bereaved families that fills the screen. I mean, if reporters were allowed to say such things.
The violence that your son trafficks in is the kind of stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into the hands of other mothers' children, but, hey, your son Bush has recently assured the world that he is "a Boy Scout, everybody knows that." I'd love to see the merit badges that Scout Troop handed out. Is there a Colonialism merit badge? If so, your loving son deserves one now.
There's hundreds of thousands of mothers you would do well to talk to. They have a grief they carry every day that only a mother can know. There are other such mothers in the heartland of Iran whose inhabitants your son simply sees as commercial targets.
Your son, this very moment, is doing everything he possibly can to sell the new Iran war, to "defend" a country in which your son claims you raised him to be "a Boy Scout." More like the Hitler Youth, I would say.
Happy Mother's day, Mrs. Bush, which this year is May 11, and who knows how soon until your son or his predecessor unleash actual death and violence upon other mothers' boys. I'm sure you're very proud.
... including, apparently, the Pope.
Go figure.
Ignore this signature. By order.
He sent a letter to the mother telling her that her son's game got perfect reviews. I stopped reading the article after that but I can only assume the remainder of the letter were Thompson's heartfelt congratulations and good wishes.
Sheesh, can't Jack Thompson do nice things every once in a while?
Why? It's fun documenting the downfall of a deranged sociopath!
"The fight for freedom has only just begun." - Geert Wilders
Yup -- isn't it great?
I really don't see what your point is. We know this is true, and we still have plenty of fun doing it.
My lord! Are you saying that Jack Thompson has had sex? With a woman? And has reproduced?
Gah, I don't believe it.
Me either. Jack Thompson grew from spores, and so would any of his offspring.
HI, MY NAME IS ISAAC.
Why? Imagine the guy dies and we won't know when to start playing "Ding Dong the witch is dead".
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
...first blowjob at a [boy]scout camp. Wait a minute, there's something wrong with this story; slashdotters don't have sex!If you build it, nerds will come. Soylentnews.org
In light of the dangers you identify, thank goodness there's a straight-talking maverick like John McCain around. He's the only thing standing between us and a thuggish, militant Democratic youth movement replacing America's culture with its own authoritarian vision.
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
Jack should learn alternative ways to work out his agressive impulses without hurting others. Perhaps video games could help? There's nothing like a violent video game to get that sort of thing out of your system.
Yeah, but his offspring isn't fertile.
Similar to the upcoming US election results