The only games I see being "true simulators" are the Guitar Hero franchise and Rock Band, which teaches you to be a massive prima donna, pseudo-cool, douche bag.

5th, maybe 6th?

Doesn't Crack-a-Jack Thompson know the average age of gamers is like 26?

Destructoid is an "awesome at life" simulator, sadly no one has ever passed.

After playing Kororinpa I threw a kitten off a skyscraper.

Well that's what happens when you get old.
You talk a lot of nonsense.

Perfect, Jim. :)

"How did you all confirm that "Jack Thompson" is the real Jack Thompson?"

That's Niero's bag. He ran checks. He also joined on the same day he started sending tips to our tips line from a genuine email address, so it all checks out.

Also NO BLOOD FOR OIL JACK THOMPSON! HOO AAH!

^^

Wow, makes me glad I didn't call everyone fucking gullible cunt bags for believing its the real JT. Ha, kinda cool JT posted on Destructoid.

How can anyone call a man who has had his sanity called into question an expert on anything?

I mean really, at this point he's fallen to the lowest form of the internet. He's fucking trolling. Hell, his posts even read like youtube comments.

Oh, but we're all "e-tards" so I guess he wins. I See what you did there Jack. "E" totally sounds like "Re" AND YOU SWITCHED THEM. HILARIOUS.

Wait...wait...back up. Final Fantasy games don't give me the necessary tools to kill legions of people with Firaga? Then what the hell am I playing it for?

@Jim Sterling:

There will be a point though, that it will be possible to create a "murder simulator."

I doubt one will ever be mainstream or even published, but, as much as I hate to admit it, one will eventually be made.

It'll just have the same, underground, fucked up market share that snuff films, or the Faces of Death stuff have.

That is cool that Jack had the decency to read and post on the matters and to call us e-tards.

If they were truly killing simulators wouldn't the army be using them for training and such?

I'd love to comment on this, but I need to get back to my murder simulator, a.k.a. Sim City.

You are kidding right?? Jack Thompson uses the term e-tards?? How fucking lame is a lawyer who can't string an argument together without using internet-slang derogatory terms?? (not that I'm defending Jack Thompson's ability to be lame) I remain skeptical.

In short, if that is Jack Thompson, please make the world a better place, and take a large overdose of a tricyclic antidepressant of your choice (around 40x the recommended dosage should do it). Or go back to whatever it was you did before realising you could get on TV by lying to the general public about the content of videogames and the people who play them. Your choice.

Oh, and while I forgot what I was saying there for a second, everyone should buy my book. Its like real good and stuff.

I don't take someone who calls people e-tards seriously. Honestly, would a real lawyer say that, even online? Mr. Thompson you are more of a joke than a lawyer, and any news outlet that would rely on his "analysis" or "input" for any story is wasting air time on a rambling old man that does not have even a shred of integrity. Go back to pinball, Jack-o-lantern; then again, Pinball machines are just a big "killing people with large metal balls simulator," right? Get a 4x multi-ball for hitting the crotchety old "lawyer!"

"Oh jack, the internets has you're email adress. Man, you are fucked."

lol... internet gang rape, by chance? hahah. Pedos get it in prison, lawyers and assholes get it online :)

If Jack Thompson has to be in the public eye, do us all a favor and STAY on Fox News.

...Maybe he can write a blog with Yvonne K. Fulbright?

Can't wait for Jacks first Cblog...

If stupidity was a crime, Jack would be a lifer.

"It's very clear that the murders of youngsters excite him"

oh that's comedy gold and golden blogging integrity right there

Can we just treat Jack Thompson how he deserves to be treated? Instead of giving him more attention, let's start giving him less, I mean look how desperate he actually is. He took the time to register with this site and then make smart-ass remarks.
Even Fox thinks he's a joke, I repeat, even Fox thinks he's a joke. He's a very very small threat to the gaming world and soon to not be a threat at all.


And to Jack Thompson:

You're not going to stop us, just like the old people couldn't stop the metal, just like how the British couldn't stop America from becoming a great free nation. You've lost, go do something useful like working at Starbucks so you can make my coffee.

k. i'm a model citizen. i've never beean arrested, i haven't had any disiplinary problems in school in years (and when that was an issues it was simply my interrupting the teachers to inform them of factual inaccuracies), i've completed more than four hundred hours of community service in the past three years, i've been in one fist fight in my life and that was over politics, and i have oodles and oodles of friends both on and offline, and i'm an adamant pacifist. so, tell me jack thompson, if that is your real name, how have video games warped my mind? one of my favorite games is killer7, one that i know you railed against for some time and ultimately failed. by the end of it i was a very different person. but it had nothing to do with violence. it had everything to do with the power of the of the game itself as an artistic work. i had to take about four hours to reexamine the meaning of my life and who i was as a person. that is why i play games, they are powerful, but as a medium, not as "murder simulators". i emplore anyone who has any doubt about the power of games to sit down and PLAY THEM. mass effect, deus ex, killer7, shadow of the collossus, these and countless others are timeless works that deserve recognition. yes, they are quite violent, but i have always believed that artistry is about life, and life itself is terribly violent. the world is full of sexual content as well. we are all products of intercourse and more than 99.9% of us will engage in the act before we're dead and gone. societies that are most permissive in terms of media always seem to have the lowest rates of violent and sexual crimes. if we are ever to solve societies problems we must examine their source. their REAL source. poverty, lack of upward social mobility, lack of proper education, these are the core of social ills. not games. thompson, if you have really joined the fine website, grow up. srsly.

Jacko's quote reminds me of how out-of-touch Mitt Romney sounded when he said "We need to teach our children that before they have babies, they get married"

Epic battle is epic. I totally missed all of the drama yesterday. To say that Jack Thompson is a douche would be quite the understatement.