When Seung Hui Cho went on his murderous killing spree at Virginia Tech, one man got giddy with perverse, possibly erotic, excitement. It's because this latest insanity meant that he could be on television again. That man, of course, was Jack Thompson, who instantly decided to implicate violent videogames as a contributing factor to Seung Hui Chode's psychotic actions. Well, unless
Sonic The Hedgehog is suddenly a game about being an emo Korean with too many guns and not enough girlfriends, I think it's safe to rule out what we all ruled out about three seconds after Hui 'society rapes my heart, I'mma listen to Linkin Park now' Cho fired his first bullet.
Yes, a report has today come out to slam a final nail into the coffin of that little attempt to demonize games and further one's own personal agenda on the cold backs of dead students, as it was revealed that the most violent game Seung ever played was Sonic and there's no reason, valid or otherwise, to implicate videogames at all in his rampage. Of course, even if he did play violent games, we'd all know that still proved nothing, but the fact that no war games, crime games or any truly violent titles were found in his possession is a nice little slap in the face to the reactionaries who were ready to pin the blame on something other than the man holding the gun.
Must try harder, Jacky boy. Now we see what happens when we presume, don't we? Bloody pillock.
[Tippage from TheGoldenDonut, written by a limey in America]
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7:06 PM on 08.30.2007
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just because youre mad doesent mean you have to ruin it for everyone!
me as a prime example. i am a 16 year old...teen? lol.
i have played violent videogames since ive been 4. look at me now. 3.5 grade point average student with lots of friends that play games too. ex football player too. does that make me a psychotic killing machine? no.
MGS FTW! xD
world war two only exists because we need ideas for video games, i mean look at the similarities, world war two happened in 1939-45 most world war two games are set in that time. they used guns in world war two, those guns exist in video games. Clearly world war two was the video games fault, not simply because an insane over thinking political genius took over the country.
I love how he looked really nervous at the start of the interview and tried to hide it.
I love how he looked really nervous at the start of the interview and tried to hide it.
The Washington Post made a single comment in an online article about high school classmates saying he played Counter-Strike. It was redacted from later editions when they realized that a) High school was at least 4 years ago for him and b) the fact that he was friggin crazy was more likely the cause of the VTech tragedy than a video game. Thompson has apparently seen the redaction as evidence bolstering an assumption he made before we had any idea who the shooter even was.
i quote "Not all smokers get cancer"... not all fucking gamers kill people you jack ass.
@mastershansc: I so agree with you.
There always is a one or two word reason to why anyone does anything with him. He just says whatever he wants no matter how unpopular it is. He focuses on 2 or 3 games and blames them for corrupting todays youth to do bad things. They get "trained" on a keyboard and mouse to fire a several pound gun with recoil and kill many people with it. So let me get this straight......If I play Counter-strike and I do.....that trains me to kill? That's like playing Phoenix Wright and becoming a great lawyer. Or playing Tony Hawk and getting good at skateboarding.
Here's the rundownh tompson. I'm tired of this bullshit you feed people about breeding criminals that massacre with games. The army uses games to get reaction time up. If they want to fire an M-16 better, they go to the range and interact WITH A REAL GUN! Gamers who keyboard or controller can't get skill with a gun just by watching one fire. The Glock 18(featured in Counter-Strike Source as the T starting pistol) weighs 21.87 oz. A keyboard weighs 1KG Link to a website
Now go play some brain age and comment on this when you can put up a valid argument.
I'm sure that this guy gets the massive airtime because, behind the scenes, Oprah, Dr. Phil, and the Religious Right are probably paying the networks in stolen nazi gold to air Ol Man Jack.
Never should've been on the stations in the first place. Sensationalist shits.
PWNAGE!
Or, the kid was just a fucking loon.
I bet Jack Thompson plays Prison Tycoon with his kids.
I am training myself to absorb Atom from little girls. Wrench to the forehead you say?
On another note, I'm actually thinking of writing a book about the subject because I am so fed up of the lack of any rational debate on the issue. It's an idea I've been brewing for a while and I believe it could be valuable or at least interesting to people. Perhaps I could get an interview with Jack Thompson. Hehehe!
AHJAHAHHAHA
And seriously, people wonder WHY the press covers him? He uses us for attention, we use him for entertainment. I, for one, enjoy the symbiotic relationship we have.
Good old crazy Jack Thompson...