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  • Remember that anti-violent game lawyer crusader?

    Trying to be ironic, he proposes a violent video game.



    Jack Thompson will give $10,000 to charity if any videogame company makes and releases a game based on a scenario he created.
    Miami, Florida Attorney Jack Thompson, a long-time outspoken critic of violent and sexually explicit videogames, has done something totally unexpected. Thompson today actually proposed a violent videogame, and will pay $10,000 to the favorite charity of Paul Eibeler (the Chairman of Take-Two Interactive) if any videogame company will "create, manufacture, distribute, and sell a video game in 2006" based on a scenario he created.

    Thompson's proposal is titled A Modest Video Game Proposal and has been sent to members of the press and apparantly to Douglas Lowenstein, President of the ESA.

    Here's Thompson's proposal (italics are his, not ours):

    "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." The Golden Rule

    This writer has been saying for seven years that violent video games can be "murder simulators" that incite as well as train some obsessive teen players to be violent.

    I've been on 60 Minutes and in Reader's Digest this year explaining how an Alabama teen, with no criminal record, shot two policemen and a dispatcher in their heads and fled in a police car--a scenario he rehearsed for hundreds of hours on Take-Two/Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto video games.

    I have sat with boys in jail cells, their lives over because of murder convictions, after they, with no history of violence, have killed innocents while in a dreamlike state. Said one cop who investigated such a murder in Grand Rapids, Michigan: "The killing was like an extension of the game."

    The video game industry, through its lawyers, its spokesmen, and its head lobbyist, Doug Lowenstein, the president of the Entertainment Software Association, all say it is utter nonsense to suggest that what is dumped into a kid's head hour after hour, day after day, year after year, could possibly have behavioral consequences. Cigarette ads can persuade kids to smoke, but interactive simulators in which these same kids punch, hack, bludgeon, and maim affect not a wit their attitudes and behaviors, notwithstanding the findings of the American Psychological Association, published in August 2005.

    The video game industry says Sticks and stones can break my bones, but games can never hurt me. Fine. I have a modest proposal for the video game industry. I'll write a check for $10,000 to the favorite charity of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc's chairman, Paul Eibeler - a man Bernard Goldberg ranks as #43 in his book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America - if any video game company will create, manufacture, distribute, and sell a video game in 2006 like the following:

    Osaki Kim is the father of a high school boy beaten to death with a baseball bat by a 14-year-old gamer. The killer obsessively played a violent video game in which one of the favored ways of killing is with a bat. The opening scene, before the interactive game play begins, is the Los Angeles courtroom in which the killer is sentenced "only" to life in prison after the judge and the jury have heard experts explain the connection between the game and the murder.

    Osaki Kim (O.K.) exits the courtroom swearing revenge upon the video game industry whom he is convinced contributed to his son's murder. "Vengeance is mine, I will repay" he says. And boy, is O.K. not kidding.

    O.K. is provided in his virtual reality playpen a panoply of weapons: machetes, Uzis, revolvers, shotguns, sniper rifles, Molotov cocktails, you name it. Even baseball bats. Especially baseball bats.

    O.K. first hops a plane from LAX to New York to reach the Long Island home of the CEO of the company (Take This) that made the murder simulator on which his son's killer trained. O.K. gets "justice" by taking out this female CEO, whose name is Paula Eibel, along with her husband and kids. "An eye for an eye," says O.K., as he urinates onto the severed brain stems of the Eibel family victims, just as you do on the decapitated cops in the real video game Postal2.

    O.K. then works his way, methodically back to LA by car, but on his way makes a stop at the Philadelphia law firm of Blank, Stare and goes floor by floor to wipe out the lawyers who protect Take This in its wrongful death law suits. "So sue me" O.K. spits, with singer Jackson Brown's 1980's hit Lawyers in Love blaring.

    With the FBI now after him, O.K. keeps moving westward, shooting up high-tech video arcades called GameWerks. "Game over," O.K. laughs.

    Of course, O.K. makes the obligatory runs to virtual versions of brick and mortar retailers Best Buy, Circuit City, Target, and Wal-Mart to steal supplies and bludgeon store managers and cash register clerks. "You should have checked kids' IDs!"

    O.K. pushes on to Los Angeles. He must get there by May 10, 2006. That is the beginning of "E3" -- the Electronic Entertainment Expo -- the Super Bowl of the video game industry. O.K. must get to E3 to massacre all the video game industry execs with one final, monstrously delicious rampage.

    How about it, video game industry? I've got the check and you've got the tech. It's all a fantasy, right? No harm can come from such a game, right? Go ahead, video game moguls. Target yourselves as you target others. I dare you.

    Jack Thompson is a Miami lawyer who has for 18 years been involved in efforts to stop the marketing of adult entertainment to minors.

    It is unlikely that Thompson's proposal will actually be turned into a game, as most videogame companies do not simply accept proposals from individuals. We'll keep you updated, however, as it is very likely that there will be some sort of response to Thompson's proposal from members of the videogame industry.
    1. He's a douchebag, and this isn't as funny/ironic as he thinks it is.
    2. "Osaki Kim" is... irritating. The first name being Japanese, and the last name being Korean. Is he trying to make the statement we're all the same? Racist white pig****er.

    Discuss.
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  • #2
    Is he trying to make the statement we're all the same?


    you're not?
    urgh.NSFW

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    • #3
      Comments like that make me all that more likely to go on a violent game spree against you and Mr. Thompson.
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      • #4
        arrgh! Papercuts!
        urgh.NSFW

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        • #5
          Ive 'rehearsed' for hours shooting cops in the head and making my getaway
          Safer worlds through superior firepower

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          • #6
            figures... this guy is already proven to be a douche...

            and now he is proven to be a racist...

            JacKKK Thompson
            To us, it is the BEAST.

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            • #7
              In terms of the cause he's fighting for, I think this is a brilliant publicity move. A guy who's seriously pissed off about something, to the point of putting money on the line, is always a good story.

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              • #8
                Or, he could just be a media whore, which, given his previous behavior, seems to be more the case.
                Last edited by Q Classic; October 13, 2005, 16:15.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by Q Cubed
                  Or, he could just be a media whore, which, given his previous behavior, seems to be more the case.
                  yup
                  To us, it is the BEAST.

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                  • #10
                    I think somebody should make a MUD from this.
                    "In the beginning was the Word. Then came the ******* word processor." -Dan Simmons, Hyperion

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                    • #11
                      Wrong forum, he should go to Planet Half-Life he'd have a mod within the year.

                      lol "Osaki Kim"...I gues to 'Koreanize" it you could make him "Kim O(something..Ook?) Ki"?

                      Or to Japify it "Kimura Osaki"?
                      "Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
                      "...Mangy dog staggering about, looking vainly for a place to die."
                      "sauna stories? There are no 'sauna stories'.. I mean.. sauna is sauna. You do by the laws of sauna." -P.

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                      • #12
                        Insulting, isn't it? Mixing two culturally distinct East Asian peoples for no good reason at all in order to make some point about violence in video games?

                        Why couldn't Whitey McLawyer stick to a people he knew best, and made ti a James Doe instead? Is he saying Asians are more predisposed to flip out and totally kill ****?

                        Racist pig****er.
                        Last edited by Q Classic; October 13, 2005, 16:37.
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                        • #13
                          seriously, playing counterstrike today and all I could think about was just how lethal getting shot in the head would be dieing repeatedly in such a graphic manner completly put me off the idea of violence and its consequences

                          This guy needs to make a game where you die suddenly and uncontrolably unless you hide in a corner, thats probably got more idea of being published than his idea
                          Safer worlds through superior firepower

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                          • #14
                            C'mon...are you actually saying that all Asians aren't trained from boyhood by Remote Tibetan Llamas in the Touch of Death Technique??!!
                            "Wait a minute..this isn''t FAUX dive, it's just a DIVE!"
                            "...Mangy dog staggering about, looking vainly for a place to die."
                            "sauna stories? There are no 'sauna stories'.. I mean.. sauna is sauna. You do by the laws of sauna." -P.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Seeker
                              C'mon...are you actually saying that all Asians aren't trained from boyhood by Remote Tibetan Llamas in the Touch of Death Technique??!!
                              Just because I was, and still have that black belt in moo goo gai pan doesn't mean that my female cousin (a girl!) was. Thompson is a racist pig****er.
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