Thompson breaks his word on $10k bounty, says he was just kidding!

[Zim Hosein]

A team of GTA modders called the Fighting Hellfish has created a San Andreas mod for the PC that Jack Thompson could have designed?that is, if he included himself as the vengeful father he proposed earlier, on a murderous rampage through the video-game industry. And there you have the story of JT and his Banman alter ego in Defamation of Character: A Jack Thompson Murder Simulator.

But that?s not all: not only is he unsatisfied with the mod, he claims his earlier proposal was merely intended as satire, to ?highlight the patent hypocrisy and recklessness exhibited by the video game industry?s willingness to target cops, women, homosexuals, and other groups with some of their violent games.? (So the $10K offer to charity was satire, too?)

Thompson breaks his word on $10k bounty, says he was just kidding :|

 

[illusion88]

Obvious.
Penny-arcade has some good stuff on him too.

 

[T3C]

Bastage

 

[NFS4]

Why am I not surprised?

 

[Udel]

Penny Arcade guys rock. :thumbsup: :beer:

 

[40Hands]

The Penny Arcade guys donated 10k to ESA in Jack's name.

Owned.

 

[jtusa]

Originally posted by: BroeBo
The Penny Arcade guys donated 10k to ESA in Jack's name.

Owned.

That's some of the worst ownage ever. I already loved Penny Arcade, but their stock just multiplied by 1000 in my book.

Edit: If you want to know more details on the Penny Arcade stuff with Jack Thompson, look through their last few weeks of posts.

 

[Kaervak]

Part 2 of the story:
http://www.livejournal.com/users/gamepolitics/110152.html

What a douchebag.

 

[Queasy]

Link - Jack Thompson just confirmed beyond all doubt that he is an ass. He is trying to sick the Seattle police on Penny Arcade. (edit - heh, looks like Kaervak beat me by seconds)

The simmering controversy over anti-game crusader Jack Thompson's controverisal $10,000 donation offer took an ugly turn this morning. The Miami attorney has tried to enlist the efforts of the Seattle Police Department in a dust-up with gamer website Penny Arcade.

In a letter faxed to Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske (left), Thompson says, in part, "A Seattle business by the name of Penny Arcade... employs certain personnel who have decided to commence and orchestrate criminal harassment of me by various means... This company has done this because I dared to go on CBS's 60 Minutes in March and again in July to explain a wrongful death lawsuit I have brought on behalf of two police officers and a police dispatcher in Fayette, Alabama, who were shot in the head and killed by Devin Moore who obsessively trained on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City to kill them."

"As you may know, this incredibly violent Rockstar Games product is actually a 'cop-killing' murder simulator. There are a bunch of computer geeks out there who think that the video game industry has a constitutional right to paint a bullseye on your back and on your officers' backs... That is what this criminal harassment of me by Penny Arcade is all about. They're even selling an 'I Hate Jack Thompson' t-shirt, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. These idiots have been so careless as to post on their www.pennyarcade.com web site what they are doing regarding the harassment of me."

"I look forward to working with your fine Police Department to shut this little extortion factory down and/or arrest some of its employees."

This latest controversy is part and parcel to a complicated dispute over Thompson's bizarre offer to donate $10K to charity provided that a developer create and distribute a violent game of Thompson's specification in which the victims were industry executives and their families.

GP is seeking comment from the folks at Penny Arcade, but given the East Coast-West Coast time differential, it's likely they haven't even rolled into Starbucks yet. We'll add anything we hear from them. We'll also add any comment we are able to get from SPD, although Thompson's complaint wouldn't seem likely to be high on their priority list. And anyway, their investigation will likely be hindered by the fact that Thompson's letter provides the wrong URL for Penny Arcade.

By the way, the Penny Arcade case is not the first time the volatile attorney has tried to sic the gendarmes on a game site.

Can you say "chilling effect?"

 

[nakedfrog]

Man, just when you don't think he could be any bigger of a tool, he goes and does something like this...