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Jack Thompson whines about possible GTAIV spoof photo

It seems that Jack Thompson, my favorite person in the whole wide world, is an avid Game Informer reader. After recently reading an article printed in the magazine, Thompson is worried that he's being parodied by Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto IV ... and he's not happy about it. Comfortable to sling childish insults at his opponents, Thompson just can't handle being on the other side of the mockery, which is ironic considering what a joke he is.

An early mission in GTAIV charges you with the task of tracking down and killing a lawyer who blames violence on videogames. Now, that could be anybody, surely ... snigger. Regardless, Mr. Dish It Out But Can't Take It has put quill to paper and dribbled out yet another one of his love letters to Take Two, which reads as follows:

I have this morning read with interest an article on page 80 and 81 of the September 2007 issue of Game Informer magazine which was generated when, according to its author, Rockstar Games “stopped by the Game Informer offices for an impromptu hour-long gameplay session with the Xbox 360 version of the game.”

The showcasing play of the game to Game Informer revealed that the first killing mission of the “hero” of the game, Niko, is to kill a certain lawyer. When Niko comes into this lawyer’s office, having used subterfuge to do so, Niko pulls a gun on the lawyer who says, “that the firm supports the second amendment and that ‘Guns don’t kill people. Video games do.’”

…The fact that the lawyer, killed on Niko’s first mission, would bring up video games, makes it clearly a reference to me… This is not the first time Rockstar Games and Take Two have targeted me in this fashion. Take Two references to me as a bisexual pedophile on its corporate website…

Wait ... you mean Jack Thompson isn't a bisexual pedophile? That's news to me. The fact that he's a whiny little crybaby, however, is not news. Still makes me laugh though. We're all going to think about you and laugh when we play Grand Theft Auto IV, Mr. Thompson, and there's nothing you can do about it.

[Danke to GoldenDonut and BS3 Owner]


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Neonie's Avatar
Neonie at 09/18/2007 11:33
Hey asked for it.
Putthebottledown's Avatar
Putthebottledown at 09/18/2007 11:34
Thats great.. I can't wait..
Cardoweth's Avatar
Cardoweth at 09/18/2007 11:35
Hehe broke this story on community blogs woot!
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CreamyGoodness7 at 09/18/2007 11:37
That mission is made of win.
brainderailment's Avatar
brainderailment at 09/18/2007 11:38
Every GTA game has had the disclaimer at the beginning that says: All persons and places are merely fictional and are not representative of anyone or any place.
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Snaileb at 09/18/2007 11:38
lol Nice way to put a spin on it at the end.

HAHA SUX2BU
Bans's Avatar
Bans at 09/18/2007 11:40
Unless the character is crying all the time it's not him..
brainderailment's Avatar
brainderailment at 09/18/2007 11:41
Jack Thompson, we need a link to that bisexual pedophile comment. And Jack, please don't link us to one of your pedophile gay ass pictures, it pisses me off when you do that.
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RICHARD BLOCKER at 09/18/2007 11:42
Lord Sterling,
You are having a hell of a morning. I want to see the resemblence in the game to that whore. Thats going to be the decider. Even If the nameplate on the desk is Tack Johnson, I don't think that the king of all idiots has a legal leg to stand on
taumpytears's Avatar
taumpytears at 09/18/2007 11:46
He must be maaaaad.
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AgentMOO at 09/18/2007 11:46
I was starting to get a little worried that GTA4 would be nothing but sandbox in Tightened Grafix™; that concern is nullified.
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smurfee mcgee at 09/18/2007 11:48
I'm gonna replay that mission over, and over, and over...
taumpytears's Avatar
taumpytears at 09/18/2007 11:50
I feel bad for Jack Thompson, we should bake him some cookies and say sorry. Then we could write him a poem about feeling.
Aerox's Avatar
Aerox at 09/18/2007 11:51
Haha, speaking of Thompson, I think this is my favorite quote thing I've gotten so far (apologies if this has been shared already).

Velt's Avatar
Velt at 09/18/2007 11:54
Mr. Sterling: You rock.
First you have the same surname as my girlfriend. Second you are english. You play videogames and you make a stand against morons.

But please, dont go and kill Jack Thompson, is more funny to have him alive and well... ok, maybe he is not "well" in the head, but who cares?
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BigPopaGamer at 09/18/2007 11:55
That's nice Aerox.
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JACK of No Trades at 09/18/2007 11:56
Damn! Will it ever end????
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B-Radicate at 09/18/2007 11:58
I hope you can replay missions you beat over again or else I will continually have to restart the game.

@bigpopagamer: Not as nice as your pic, but nice nonetheless.
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BahamutZero at 09/18/2007 12:04
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DGX Goggles at 09/18/2007 12:07
Never liked GTA, but I may buy this game just for that mission lol.
bruceleethree's Avatar
bruceleethree at 09/18/2007 12:11
Why are you giving Jack Thompson so much press on this site?

Every time he utters a sentence he gets on Destructoid.

Normally people don't care what mentally ill people say because it doesn't matter.
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vexed alex at 09/18/2007 12:11
Hahahahahahahahahhahahahahaha!

Awesome....You don't mess with Rockstar. They're Rockstars. They're like the punk rock of video games, Mr. T. Watch out or you'll get your ass kicked by dudes with spiked hair and tight pants.
AngelsDontBurn's Avatar
AngelsDontBurn at 09/18/2007 12:15
Amazing. Makes me want to play GTA IV now.
RskimB's Avatar
RskimB at 09/18/2007 12:16
screw jack's whiny ass
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Mr Kryptonite at 09/18/2007 12:17
Does the Lawyer look like him anyway? But still, props to Rockstar for doing their thing. Don't mess with these dudes at all. They will get you. Ingenious...
Jim Sterling's Avatar
Jim Sterling at 09/18/2007 12:17
bruceleethree: Because people like to read about him. Despite what many people claim, Jack Thompson coverage is followed by gamers. I'm not going to stop covering him when there is a demand for his coverage.

As I said before, I know damn well Thompson is using the gaming media for attention. But we're using him too. It's symbiosis. Besides which, the man is hilarious.
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Knives at 09/18/2007 12:25
Take Two references to me as a bisexual pedophile on its corporate website…

Really? Where?


Anyway, that mission looks hilarious.
RICHARD BLOCKER's Avatar
RICHARD BLOCKER at 09/18/2007 12:31
It's not like Sterling puts on a dickie and gets on TV every night to blather about Jackie. This is a gaming site. I personally enjoy reading about his constant fucktardedness.
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vandamguy at 09/18/2007 12:49
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Sharpless at 09/18/2007 13:14
You know, the sad thing is that he might be able to make a case for this. I'm not saying it's going to go in his favor, but he has a chance with this.

Anyway, the guy's a twat. I really wish he'd give it up. I don't wish death upon him, but I do wish him to be sucked up into a transdimensional portal and deposited in Dimension X for the rest of his days.
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Ogu at 09/18/2007 13:49
I hope you can assrape the lawyer after killing him. That would be awesome. He can't do anything, they don't mention his name at all, and any resemblance to someone real is mere coincidence.
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maxio098ui at 09/18/2007 13:51
thats like me saying "That guy killed a guy:O, that means they want me dead."
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 09/18/2007 14:42
I don't want Jack Thompson dead, he brings too many lulz!
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chado53 at 09/18/2007 14:51
wow..why does he get so much attention? how many anal whack job parents are just like him and they don't get the lame publicity this guy is getting. He brings up the most irrelevant points and yet we still read it and we all still laugh..oh well, at least there's a laugh.
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Im OK at 09/18/2007 15:02
Keep in mind that this is the guy who hit Midway with a cease-and-desist over some dude making a Jack Thompson Create-A-Kombatant character in Mortal Kombat Armageddon.

It would honestly have been more surprising if he didn't throw a pissy tantrum over TakeStar parodying his sorry ass in their game.

I don't see what Thompson's problem is, though, considering that he's almost as big of a self-parody as William Shatner is these days. The difference, of course, being that it's intentional in Shatner's case.
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Sifer2400 at 09/18/2007 15:18
"Wait ... you mean Jack Thompson isn't a bisexual pedophile? That's news to me. The fact that he's a whiny little crybaby, however, is not news. Still makes me laugh though. We're all going to think about you and laugh when we play Grand Theft Auto IV, Mr. Thompson, and there's nothing you can do about it." LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOo wat a sissy bitch take it like a bisexual would
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jerrt at 09/18/2007 15:20
well, i'm sure it would have gotten around to far fewer people if he hadn't said anything.

now i'm definetly going to have trouble not imagining him while playing tha mission. and that is his fault. not the developers.
JonDarkwood's Avatar
JonDarkwood at 09/18/2007 15:30
Jim, you just sold one more copy of GTAIV.
Jark212's Avatar
Jark212 at 09/18/2007 15:40
gonna-be-fun...
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automagV at 09/18/2007 15:52
I wonder if you can tea bag the dead lawyer, that would be pleasing.
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neveranything at 09/18/2007 15:53
Well, now we know which ambulance he'll be chasing

new desktop background FTW
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Promagnum at 09/18/2007 15:58
More fuel on the fire Jim, k thanks.
Reallynotnick's Avatar
Reallynotnick at 09/18/2007 16:21
If this game lets you kill Jack Thompson, then this is going to be even more so the best selling game ever.
Takeshi's Avatar
Takeshi at 09/18/2007 16:38
Oh Sweet now I must buy this game for just one kill... and then reset and do it over and over and over again. This is finally worth the money. Thanks Jim for sharing.
Cheers!
Lance Cardigan's Avatar
Lance Cardigan at 09/18/2007 16:45
brucelee3: keep your friends close, enemies closer.
jim sterling: stay the hell away from me.
jk jim. youre alright.
Grimspoon's Avatar
Grimspoon at 09/18/2007 17:04
For the record I'm a 6 year old male child and Jack Thompson has touched me in my no-no places. ALL OF THEM!!!

So I can say on good authority that yes, JT IS a bisexual pedo.

Also, JT coverage tickles my fancy and I'm keen on following it. Keep up the good work Master James Eruvius Delacroix Sterling.
BluFire's Avatar
BluFire at 09/18/2007 18:04
Take Two's corporate website's gonna get a lot of hits today.
dfielder's Avatar
dfielder at 09/18/2007 20:08
I love you Rockstar!
Eschatos's Avatar
Eschatos at 09/18/2007 20:12
Bonus points for whoever links to the page that calls Jacky a "bisexual pedophile"
Boolean's Avatar
Boolean at 09/18/2007 20:25
They should have gone the whole way and called the guy Jack Thompson and just say it was protected under Parody laws =p
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