Jack Thompson says apparently Microsoft is at fault for VT because they made CounterStrike...?

[wetcat007]

EDIT:
Direct link to full story:
http://www.gamealmighty.com/story-indiv...n_Targets_Microsoft_in_Latest_Crusade/

Link
http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/04/jack_thompson_b.html

" ?Several Korean youths who knew Cho Seung Hui from his high school days said he was a fan of violent video games, particularly Counterstrike, a hugely popular online game published by Microsoft, in which players join terrorism or counterterrorism groups and try to shoot each other using all types of guns.?

Mr. Gates, your company is potentially legally liable the [sic] harm done at Virginia Tech. Your game, a killing simulator, according to the news that used to be in the Post, trained him to enjoy killing and how to kill."

 

[tfinch2]

Can someone remove this guy's ability to speak and write?

 

[KillerAngel]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Can someone remove this guy's ability to speak and write?

Someone already took his ability to think.

 

[neutralizer]

Jack Thompson is an idiot. Shows how much research he did before he sent off that letter.

 

[mugs]

Hopefully MS sues him. 🙂

Edit: I guess he has an "out" since MS apparently published (not developed) the Xbox version of Counterstrike.

 

[Beev]

Originally posted by: tfinch2
Can someone remove this guy's ability to speak and write?

Lethal injection?

 

[Cabages]

Teh winnydows errors drove him to it!

Does this guy even know WTF he is talking about half the time? And does anyone actually listen anymore?

 

[compuwiz1]

Jack Thompson can f@ck off.

 

[Queasy]

I hereby declare that, from now on, all toilets in the land will be called Jack Thompsons.

 

[tasmanian]

Wouldnt Americas Army be worse because its meant to simulate really killing people so you join the army?

 

[everman]

Originally posted by: Queasy
I hereby declare that, from now on, all toilets in the land will be called Jack Thompsons.

You must have some terrible vendetta against toilets to do such a terrible thing to them. 🙁

 

[ungsunghero]

Originally posted by: everman

Originally posted by: Queasy
I hereby declare that, from now on, all toilets in the land will be called Jack Thompsons.

You must have some terrible vendetta against toilets to do such a terrible thing to them. 🙁

You owe me a new keyboard 😛

 

[fierydemise]

Wow when I thought he couldn't get any crazier, Microsoft=Counterstrike. Huh?

 

[Kaervak]

Originally posted by: Cabages
Does this guy even know WTF he is talking about half the time? And does anyone actually listen anymore?

1) Not at all. 2) Sadly, yes.

Jack Thompson is like the Rush Limbaughs and Michael Moores of the world. Just another blowhard talking out his ass.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: Kaervak

Originally posted by: Cabages
Does this guy even know WTF he is talking about half the time? And does anyone actually listen anymore?

1) Not at all. 2) Sadly, yes.

Jack Thompson is like the Rush Limbaughs and Michael Moores of the world. Just another blowhard talking out his ass.

FYI - Limbaugh convincingly nixed the video game blame game angle of the VT shooting.

Haven't heard anything from Moore about this.

 

[Balt]

I wish someone would sue his dumb ass for libel/slander and shut him up.

 

[andylawcc]

now the world has another idiot after Joe Crawford....

 

[Raduque]

Amazing, Jack Thompson just went from a retarded gasbag to an absolute raving fvckng lunatic.

Somebody needs to commit this douche bag.

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: andylawcc
now the world has another idiot after Joe Crawford....

Thompson is light-years ahead of Crawaford in the idiot department.

 

[compuwiz1]

I can't believe how popular this douche is around here. 😉

 

[FleshLight]

At least he didn't blame nintendo for making CS

 

[IEC]

I prefer my violence to be fictional.

 

[EGGO]

Right, because that's what makes people want to kill real people.

 

[flashbacck]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: Kaervak

Originally posted by: Cabages
Does this guy even know WTF he is talking about half the time? And does anyone actually listen anymore?

1) Not at all. 2) Sadly, yes.

Jack Thompson is like the Rush Limbaughs and Michael Moores of the world. Just another blowhard talking out his ass.

FYI - Limbaugh convincingly nixed the video game blame game angle of the VT shooting.

Haven't heard anything from Moore about this.

? I think he just means that Limbaugh and Moore are hardliners that spout ideology relentlessly. And Thompson is in the same vein. He's not referring to anything those two have said about the shooting.