Jack Thompson Blames Bill Gates for VT Shooting

[Andy1369]

Jack Thompson can just suck my ######. What a fawkin' jack@ss.

[Scirwode]

OK... :blink: . Bill Gates, the richest man in the world, one who donates almost half of his personal fortune for good causes, accused by a person who strongly believes that violent games cause violent behaviour even though countless research has been made otherwise that provide that it is untrue.

You know where my vote is for.

Scirwode

[Kravex]

Ohhhh, Mario made me eat mushrooms, I feel ill.. :x as I have no mind of my own.

The whole world should sue Jack Thompson for liable for suggesting that we're all stupid!

[tomwarren Veteran]

I hope Bill Gates sues his arse off. What a ###### jockey.

[Japlabot]

I CAN'T WAIT for Microsoft's statement! It' going to be gold!!

[TurboTuna]

I'm glad this guy isn't in England.

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

As has been said before: Violent games pretty much only affect people with mental disorders anyhow. And they are having an affect on Jack Thompson...

[chrismaddern]

I tried to not read this thread; I've seen it every time I've been on neowin for the past day or so, but I finally yeilded. And now... I know why I didn't; I am actually angry.

a. Ridiculously over-zealous christians tend to bug me a little anyway.

b. What the heck does he have to do with anything here?

c. HE IS WRONG!

How is it that the biggest idiots tend to receive the most media attention!?

Chris

[Pierce28]

Alright guys, I need you all to log onto my CS Server named "School Killing Simulation". Alright, you go over by the water fountain, you go over by the desk, you pretend to be the teacher. Alright... just stand there... good good....

How the hell can you even train to do that? Anyone who has fired a real gun knows that it is pretty much nothing like it is in the video games, ESPECIALLY Counter-Strike and Halo. This guy is a douche, and gives Christians all over the world a bad name. He needs to get his facts straight before thinking that he is a crusader, or hopefully he'll get his own "crusader" in a prison shower.

[clx]

Every single pc hardware, software manufacturer and game dev's/producer/publisher, along with console makers, designers, producers, game dev's/producer/publisher should all go to court to BAN Jack Thompson from interacting, viewing, or commenting upon ANY of their products, plans, or intellectual property. On the grounds that he makes irrational assumptions based on ill-founded logic that could potentially harm the companies reputation and future earnings

[NightmarE D]

Bill Gates really should sue him. He's got all kinds of evidence on him for liable.

A nobody that pretty much threatened to sue the richest guy in the world and is blaming him for the VT incident when he has nothing at all to do with the game that this guy is trying to blame it on :laugh: and he did it all over the media where's it was all recorded and even had the nerve to send him a letter.

Smart move Jack Thompson (Y)

clx has a good idea. All gaming/PC/hardware companies should group together and bring a lawsuit on him. He'd shut up then I'd bet.

If the court case between him and Take 2 was still going on I bet he wouldn't have done this. There was a chance he was going to jail and they dropped that. Now he's found some new targets: Bill Gates, Counter Strike and Valve could also get into it since it's their game he's blaming. He was close to going to jail over GTA so he picks a new game.

I really hope someone starts to sue him soon.

He's no man of God. He's nothing but an attention ###### making all the money he can off peoples deaths. No respect at all towards any of them.

[Nick Sheldon]

heh!

I'd love to know Jack Thompson's past with the digital age.

You telling me he has NEVER played a videogame?

I'd love to see what is/has been on his hard-drive.

What consoles he has/used to have.

Does he have any kids? Does he know what they do on videogames around their mates' houses?

I bet he would turn out to be one REAL hypocrit.

He's probably just angry because everytime he goes onto a CS server he gets called n00b, and then he blames everyone for hacking...lol

[DJD]

I don't know if his parents are still a live, but if they do.

they should be sued for producing such an moron.

[.Markus]

:o and maybe the terrorists behind 9/11 trained on flight simulator!

Well actually, the hijackers with the task of piloting the airplanes didn't only go for flying lessons down in Florida but also trained flight route and approach on Flight Simulator... That's hardly Microsoft's fault however, as I'm sure they would have carried on with their plans anyways.

Jack Thompson only comes up with this rubbish in order for him to become famous and earn more $$$.

Really quite sickening!

[neufuse Veteran]

in other news... Jack Thompson blames pac man on shooting because he ate wacky fruit and thought he was being chased by ghosts while following a breadcrum trail... while shooting anyone in the way of him..

[vincent]

in other news... Jack Thompson blames pac man on shooting because he ate wacky fruit and thought he was being chased by ghosts while following a breadcrum trail... while shooting anyone in the way of him..

:rofl:

[b0m8er]

OMFG! lol! what an ass!

[WelshBluebird]

Jack thompson, you are an idiot.

I think what's worse though, is that he was on TV the day of the shooting. He doesn't even give people time before he tries to shove his propaganda down people's mouths. Thats just wrong to me. Using something like this to force your ideas onto people. Especially when their as wrong as JT's ideas.

[spacer]

Every single pc hardware, software manufacturer and game dev's/producer/publisher, along with console makers, designers, producers, game dev's/producer/publisher should all go to court to BAN Jack Thompson from interacting, viewing, or commenting upon ANY of their products, plans, or intellectual property. On the grounds that he makes irrational assumptions based on ill-founded logic that could potentially harm the companies reputation and future earnings

No no no. Here's what they should do. Lock Jack Thompson in a windowless room that has nothing in it but a TV, a gun, and one bullet. Have the TV continously show compiled footage from every shooter and FPS ever made and things will take care of themselves.

I also think Jack Thompson singled out CS only because after being AWPed so many times he went crazy.

[neufuse Veteran]

No no no. Here's what they should do. Lock Jack Thompson in a windowless room that has nothing in it but a TV, a gun, and one bullet. Have the TV continously show compiled footage from every shooter and FPS ever made and things will take care of themselves.

I also think Jack Thompson singled out CS only because after being AWPed so many times he went crazy.

hehe.. I'd shoot the tv to make it stop *L*

[Guest craft660]

No no no. Here's what they should do. Lock Jack Thompson in a windowless room that has nothing in it but a TV, a gun, and one bullet. Have the TV continously show compiled footage from every shooter and FPS ever made and things will take care of themselves.

guess you didn't think of the fact that he can just shoot the tv so it goes black :p

[spacer]

hehe.. I'd shoot the tv to make it stop *L*

guess you didn't think of the fact that he can just shoot the tv so it goes black :p

Well obviously the TV would be behind bulletproof glass. Come on now people. :p

[redfish]

The thing is many people who are eager to criticize Jack Thompson for capitalizing on the tragedy, are likely to have either called for increased gun control or less gun control. Jack Thompson just thinks he's right, it doesn't mean he's capitalizing on it more than anyone else. If the killer did play these video games thats something to mention. It wouldn't be surprising if he were attracted to them, given his interest in violent movies and watching wrestling.

I don't agree that violent games or entertainment should be banned. I think its reasonable though that there are restrictions on how they're marketed, whether ratings or what else. The thing is when you say there should be restrictions on how they're marketed, people go apeshit as if you're saying you want to ban them.

Edited April 20, 2007 by brianshapiro

[Sheppard]

The thing is many people who are eager to criticize Jack Thompson for capitalizing on the tragedy, are likely to have either called for increased gun control or less gun control. Jack Thompson just thinks he's right, it doesn't mean he's capitalizing on it more than anyone else.

Then you dont know much about Jack Thompson, any time a teenager commits murder he is all over it like flies around s**t instantly blaming video games, he has a personal vendetta against Take Two and vowed to take them down. The guy is an attention ###### pure and simple.

If the killer did play these video games thats something to mention. It wouldn't be surprising if he were attracted to them, given his interest in violent movies and watching wrestling.

Its already been prooved he wasnt into games, the search warrant issued found NO TRACE of any video games, consoles, or relevant software, he had a computer and he regularly wrote plays on Microsoft Word. Can you "train" to kill people using Word?

I don't agree that violent games or entertainment should be banned. I think its reasonable though that there are restrictions on how they're marketed, whether ratings or what else. The thing is when you say there should be restrictions on how they're marketed, people go apeshit as if you're saying you want to ban them.

This has nothing to do with minors playing games, its the psychopaths and the Mentally Unstable people that not only use games, but movies and tv shows. How would you regulate this?

[redfish]

This has nothing to do with minors playing games, its the psychopaths and the Mentally Unstable people that not only use games, but movies and tv shows. How would you regulate this?

Oh sure it does, for instance, if you erode a parents ability to know what their child is exposed to you make it harder for them to parent, and if its harder to parent, then kids who are either unstable or have emotional issues will either not get help or will latch on to outlets that will feed their emotional problems. --- and then, this is not just an issue with parents and kids, but teachers and kids and psychologists and kids. and then its not even about kids, but with how the culture provides outlets for adults, even to the point that it becomes so easy to make a market around stupid clones of shooter games, because FPSs are like the porn of video games.

So anyway, I don't want any bans. I just think there are some common sense measures that consumers want. For instance, consumers want ratings for instance and they want the ratings to be done correctly, so there's correct advertising, for whatever reasons. I think stores that market to certain audiences should also be understood to only carry certain ratings. But if you even mention that opinion on a video game forum, they'll treat you as a villain, with an almost paranoid hysteria. Calm down, your games aren't going to be taken away.