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Jack Thompson goes after Halo 3 now photo

Well it doesn't take him long, does it? The Halo 3 beta was released only last week and that pathetic scavenger Jack Thompson has already leapt upon Microsoft, penis erect with rage, in an attempt to try and take the spotlight away from games and place it firmly back upon himself -- because watching this disturbed old jester masturbate for our viewing pleasure is clearly the most important thing in the world.

Jack Thompson, the middle-aged man who thinks about children playing in their bedrooms, has issued one of his insane, dribbling demands to Bill Gates himself. That's right, the twatspanner is threatening Bill Gates with legal action.  

It's the usual deal: Thompson once again seems to believe that it's up to the games industry to make sure that the retail industry do their jobs by not selling games to minors, and issues yet another ill thought out, preposterous legal threat. But ... this is Bill Gates. This could be hilarious. For more, and for the words of Jack Creepy McCreepy Thompson himself, hit the jump.

[Via GameAlmighty

"Here’s the deal, Mr. Gates: Either Microsoft undertakes dramatic, real steps, through its marketing, wholesale, and retail operations to assure that Halo 3 is not sold, via the Internet and in stores, directly to anyone under 17, or I shall proceed to make sure that Microsoft is held to that standard by appropriate legal means. I have done that before successfully as to Best Buy, and I shall do so again as to Microsoft and all retailers of Halo 3."

The usual garbage, right? Yes it's annoying to read, and infuriating on many levels that this ignorant, possibly psychotic individual is shooting his mouth off in yet another desperate ploy for TV time, but this is something I've been waiting for. This is the day that Jack Thompson tries to threaten Microsoft. With any luck, they are going to slaughter him for this. 

Now, I'm no fortune teller, but if I may, I'd like to try and predict Microsoft's unofficial response to Jack's little letter:

"HAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

AHA!

AHA!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"

That is all. 

 


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ironic_name's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 17:07
ironic_name
That's it. I'm a straight man with a fiancé, but I will volunteer to give this man the blow job he needs. For the greater good, I sacrifice myself to the diddlin' gods.
ttaylor's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 17:10
ttaylor
What a fucking dipshit. This guy needs to go away.
lowercaseluke's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 17:11
lowercaseluke
Is this ALL he does? Is his ACTUAL JOB just going around spouting fatuous points?
Roryzilla's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 17:13
Roryzilla
Bill Gates' response:

Bill is seen wearing a long trench coat, and he puts out a cigarette and turns his head to Jack Thompson and says:
I'm the wrong guy to fuck with. Bam, energy sword through crotch.
Oni's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 17:16
Oni
What does he honestly hope to accomplish here? This is like taking on City Hall 'cause they wanna tear your apartment complex down, but there's no happy ending after 1.5 hours of life-lessons.

Does he not comprehend how large Microsoft is? This is a corporation that not even the United States Government could successfully break down. If the US Government can't do it, what makes Jack think he can?

All The Bill has to do is turn his lawyers on him. Everything Jack has ever done in the history of forever would be on display to discredit him in the courtroom. Every girl he's ever made it to 3rd base with, the dog he grabbed by the hind legs and pushed around like a wheelbarrow, everything. He's not taking on some two-bit wifebeater here, he's taking on one of the largest -and richest- corporate entities in the entire world.

I'd wish him good luck, but I'd rather see him a disheveled husk of a former lawyer. I don't wish him dead, I just want him to have to take a nice big bite of humble pie.
atheistium's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 17:40
atheistium
"HAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

AHA!

AHA!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
Whitt's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 17:44
Whitt
Microsoft needs to get their marketing team on this. I can see little stickers going on Vista boxes: 'Buy this now and Jack Thompson sleeps with the fishes.'
TheTaj's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 17:48
TheTaj
This is just... hilarious. Jack Thompson is going to get shot one day and nobody will care.
Zaron's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 18:12
Zaron
Oh my god... this is beautiful.
ohgr89's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 18:30
ohgr89
Bill. Please. Fight for the cause. Buy this guy's home. Buy all his assets. Hire a man to fuck his wife and a team to remove emotional ties from his children. Separate all that is near to him. And then banish him to some 3rd world country. So he can see real issues.
Black Mage Slim's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 18:30
Black Mage Slim
I would go to jail for life just to have the satisfaction of killing Jack Thompson. Although... if I were to I would have to use a Katana and Nodachi to slowly kill him. Cut off parts of his body until he screams for death. Then you know, put it on youtube.
Black Mage Slim's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 18:31
Black Mage Slim
BTW, I learned about Swords and how to kill someone with them from Ninja movies. NOT video games.
Spitfire747's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 18:51
Spitfire747
Ambulance-Y, actually, the whole suing mcdonals for making you fat would make far more sense than suing MS for selling a game. I mean, is this guy insane or what? "I'm sueing Wendy's for no apparent reason just because I'm an attention whore!"
Pangloss's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 19:38
Pangloss
I think Jack knows he's almost done. Suing Microsoft seems to me like the legal equivalent of suicide by cop.
SuperDave's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 19:39
SuperDave
Well he just screwed up. Bill Gates is totally not letting him into the beta now...
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 19:52
Sharpless
Could we please curb the lighthearted pedophilia accusations? The guy's a douche, but he doesn't really deserve something that low. Let's have an ounce of decency... just an ounce, though.

Good grief. I can't believe he finally went after Halo, the most family-friendly of the M-rated FPSs. Oh well. Good luck with that. Actually, if he wins and it results in fewer retarded five-year-olds on XBL, then I might have to support him on this one.
TheTaj's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 20:00
TheTaj
Sharpless, he's made very false accusatations on gaming and gamers alike. Falsely accusing him of things is only giving him a taste of his own medicine.
908peruvian's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 20:12
908peruvian
I WONDER WHAT HE WOULD SAY ABOUT

RAMBO 4 !!!

http://www.moviesonline.ca/movienews_12045.html
Jim Sterling's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 20:19
Jim Sterling
The_taj with the right answer. Thompson has no class, he shouldn't be treated with any. Besides which, I did not accuse him of pedophilia. I said he thinks about young boys in their bedrooms, which he does. Some people may interpret Thompson's obsession as pedophilia, but that's up to the individual. I would never dream of calling the man a pedophile, I'm just reporting the facts. The facts being he thinks about kids an awful lot.
BahamutZero's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 20:20
BahamutZero
JACK THOMPSON RAPES DEAD CHILDREN
Amp's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 20:40
Amp
@Twesterm:

Thanks for the material, now I have something to make a thread on /v/ with.

http://zip.4chan.org/v/res/3608559.html
pandlcg's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 21:57
pandlcg
Why is no one else reporting this? Usually gamepolitics.com or kotaku would be all over this type of story.
Joe Burling's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 22:16
Joe Burling
also, Jack Thompsons
SuperDave's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 23:06
SuperDave
@ Canadian Geese

Subtle, yet brilliant.
ZeeJayTL's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 23:42
ZeeJayTL
Dear Bill Gates,

I will buy a Zune if you buy disappear Jack Thompson.

Love
The JayTL
monosylabik's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/22/2007 23:54
monosylabik
@JayTL

i will buy one as well. and in front of mr gates we will trade our alloted 3 songs in the month of purchase. and take advantage of the nifty features that come with it...like napster!

=)
ExpertPenguin's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/23/2007 01:20
ExpertPenguin
Made of win and lol.
Danger Shark's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/23/2007 07:29
Danger Shark
Teehee
Tempus's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/23/2007 07:53
Tempus
@ pandlcg
Why is no one else reporting this? -

Maaaaaaaaaybe, just maybe, other sites have stopped giving him coverage as any site that publishes his antics, is giving him free publicity. He is now a household name with gamers, the less we know of him sitting in a corner asking for a waaaaahmbulance, the better I say.
RICHARD BLOCKER's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/23/2007 09:26
RICHARD BLOCKER
You know how it always turnes out. The people who vehamently criticize something are the hipocritical pieces of shit that do it (and take it to the extreme.) like congressmen on the child protection commitee going home and putting on their gimp suit. I think JT is going to be caught one day in Tailand doing some fucked up "hostel" shit.
TheStripe's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/23/2007 10:45
TheStripe
"Hire a man to fuck his wife"

Brilliant. I've got $10 on that. (Probably gonna take a lot more. I have to wonder what kind of sorry slag would attach themselves to a staff polisher like JT.
towelXcore's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/23/2007 11:51
towelXcore
i would like to know why he isn't after huge heffner to make sure that his playboys aren't getting into the hands of the under aged
ZeeJayTL's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/23/2007 12:43
ZeeJayTL
Towel: Thats next on his agenda. First he'll sue playboy. He'll then realize kids still get porn.. He'll then sue the internets
Sharpless's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/23/2007 13:10
Sharpless
Well, fuck me. Bahamut_Zero wins.

I just don't think we should sink to his level. I mean, he thinks we're immature little baby-kickers? Well, let's show him who's really an immature ass, here. Acting immature won't win us many arguments, that's all I'm saying. And I think we better start winning more arguments, before things start getting worse for us (legally speaking) in America.
DCIII's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/23/2007 13:24
DCIII
Hey Jim! You should be fired just for writing this sentence...

"The Halo 3 beta was released only last week and that pathetic scavenger Jack Thompson has already leapt upon Microsoft, penis erect with rage, in an attempt to try and take the spotlight away from games and place it firmly back upon himself -- because watching this disturbed old jester masturbate for our viewing pleasure is clearly the most important thing in the world."
savagesaladin's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/23/2007 22:53
savagesaladin
Twatspanner?
savagesaladin's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/23/2007 22:55
savagesaladin
OK, I looked up "twatspanner" on Google, and it seems that you're the only one in the UNIVERSE to ever use it in the history of the UNIVERSE. And I'm the second.
ekoala2002's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/24/2007 12:00
ekoala2002
I am tired of him...he needs to go away...
KATANA_FINGERS's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/24/2007 14:06
KATANA_FINGERS
This one is for all of us jack thompson haters! Courtesy of KATANA FINGERS (me)
Namelessted's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/24/2007 16:26
Namelessted
Who the fuck is Jim Sterling?
sammy0_0's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/24/2007 18:20
sammy0_0
He needs to find a deep dark hole and do everyone a favor and die NO ONE LIKES YOU
TheStripe's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/24/2007 18:47
TheStripe
@Baha - What? I'm confused. Rape? Dead? I don't think that will fly. Consent is implied when you're dead, I think. I mean, you're dead, what do you care?

Seriously, though, sexual violence against minors, imagined or otherwise is wrong.


I'm looking at you, Jack.
michiyoyoshiku's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/25/2007 12:05
michiyoyoshiku
People the fucked with microsoft have dropped off the face of the Earth

Nobody that was in that movie Anti Trust ever did anything again...........

Jackie poo is fucked
DOLEMITE187's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/25/2007 14:04
DOLEMITE187
there right about Jack being insane. check this out!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kLkNNDfFMzo
Katana's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/26/2007 17:54
Katana
So many mac people would convert back if Gates actually DID reply that way.
ridley80's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/28/2007 03:29
ridley80
This is like messing with David Stern. There's just some people you don't fuck with. Although I wish Bill Gates were more supervillain, with a lair and bed bombs ala "Munich".
CrackerlySeagull's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/28/2007 17:26
CrackerlySeagull
We should all chip in and pay for him to be in the Far Cry movie.
Reeper's Avatar - Comment posted on 05/29/2007 22:44
Reeper
all i can think of is death from family guy, laughing.

lois = jack thompson

death = microsoft.
Alias 111's Avatar - Comment posted on 06/25/2007 06:28
Alias 111
If I got a chance to kill Jack Thompson I wouldnt use wimpy swords. Oohhhh no. I'd smear his balls with honey and stake him out naked over an anthill. Noone fucks with Halo 3. Not on my watch.
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