[Karmillo]

Originally Posted by Lucien21

Seems someone has made Jacks game and fecking made it as a text adventure.

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=61319

That game was allot of fun

"TAKE PAULA EIBLE OUT! ....for dinner"

[squarejawhero]

Not a man of his word (taken from Old Grandma Hardcore site) -

--UPDATE-- JACK RESPONDS

I called the number provided on Stopkill this morning. Jack picked up quickly, said he was in another call and politely said he would call back the number on his Caller ID when he was finished.

And so he did.

We talked for about a half hour. There wasn't any screaming involved, and we both stayed fairly civil. Jack very much wanted to argue politics more than talk about his proposal. Some main points of the conversation: I stated I disagreed with Jack on a great many things, but that we could both benefit from this, for in his statement to Gamepolitics that claims the entirety of the proposal was satire on the likes of Swift, which would also mean that his offer of $10,000 to charity was also satire. If Jack would cough up the money, then at least he could save face. Also, our game has serious concequences for punching police officers and purhcasing guns for a murder. He changed the subject. He wondered what I meant when I said that I disagree with him on many things, and said it was because I don't actually know his positions, which he began to list.

I do know his positions, I did my research before we did this thing.

My disagreements with Jack were with Government regulation of video game sales, for starters. I don't believe the Government should get involved. He said they already do with alcohol and pornography, so they plausibly could. Alcohol, I said, shouldn't be sold to minors because it WILL cause harm. (Yes, I drink, I know the hypocrisy but I'm 22 and legal dammit!) Tobacco WILL cause harm. (Yes, I smoke Camel Turkish Royal, but I didn't start until college.) Pornography, like video games, I believe, is NOT harmful, and I think they should not have such regulation. He laughed at that one and called me a libertarian. Coming from Jack I have my doubts, but I took it as merely a classification rather than an insult.

Jack likes to use the phrase "you can't say with a straight face..." a LOT. I began to secretly make distorted, Kabuki theater expressions as I spoke to him, just to see if it were true.

We discussed other things about games, but here's the answer we've all been waiting for: "NO!"

Jack said we merely made a Flash game, not a First Person Shooter, and we are not "Moguls," we are not going to sell it in boxes at brick and mortar retail stores, and so we don't meet the criteria of his proposal (which, remember was a satire anyway, so I'm not sure why he's arguing semantics; ABOUT WHICH you will discover he was actually incorrect...) so you know what that means?

That means NO statement from Jack declaring the game made, and more importantly NO money for charity. As it turns out, we didn't read "I have a modest proposal for the video game industry. I'll write a check for $10,000 to the favorite charity of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc's chairman, Paul Eibeler - a man Bernard Goldberg ranks as #43 in his book 100 People Who Are Screwing Up America - if any video game company will create, manufacture, distribute, and sell a video game in 2006 like the following..." carefully enough for Jack's liking, so the starving children don't get their money.

See, we followed the criteria TO THE LETTER. This site will remain online well into 2006, so consider the game done. Several times. With different results.

Jack is not paying.

It might be because Paul Eibeler gives money to a charity Jack doesn't approve of, like the EVIL folks at the ACLU or some such thing. (Note: I like the ACLU, I'd be a member if I could pay the $35.00 a year.) Jack may be trying to expose Paul as a crazy man who gives crazy money to crazy shit in the final breaths of battle, but who knows, he wouldn't tell me. "Call Paul Eibeler and talk to him" he says.

Damn, this is a lot of phone tag for a mesely $10 grand donation.

I told him that in the meantime, he should play our game, I've got the URL for it right here all handy like...

He said he didn't have time.


In his final words to me, he said "Like you said, we disagree on a great many things."

[RLacey]

I find it amusing that he pushed the lack of being an FPS bit. I'd have pointed to the technicality that the game had to be developed in 2006, and thus any game developed at all before then was void.

[Lucien21]

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=61340

He now alleges to have called the police to shut down Penny Arcade due to harrassment.

This guy is either a complete idiot/barking mad/a publicity seeking twat (delete as appropriate)

[pleto4_ryan]

This guy is just a very "very" very unbalanced man with serious issues.
What we should do, is just let him be; he will kill himself eventually.

[Kolorabi]

Originally Posted by RLacey

I find it amusing that he pushed the lack of being an FPS bit.

Especially since the main object of his hate is a third person game...

Have you guys read the Wikipedia entry on him, btw? Gaming isn't his first victim, as it turns out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Th...%28attorney%29

In 1988 Thompson was the unsuccessful Republican challenger to Janet Reno for the Office of Dade County State Attorney. Following this, as the "Man in Miami" for NewsMax.com, he made a series of allegations [1] regarding Reno, met with incredulity in the press [2], claiming among other things that: she was a closet lesbian suffering from various mental disorders as side effects of Parkinson's medication, and that she was being blackmailed by the Mafia.
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Following the Flores case Thompson became prominently involved in First Amendment issues, particularly concerning the possible effects of sexually violent material. The Florida Supreme Court ordered that he undergo psychiatric testing during this campaign, which he successfully passed. He later quipped that this made him one of the few sane lawyers working in the state. The specific reasons that prompted the court to require Thompson to be tested, and on what grounds they compelled him, are unknown.
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Thompson led the campaign against the 1989 2 Live Crew album As Nasty As They Wanna Be. In the 1990 federal trial which ruled the album obscene, he submitted material as an amicus curiae. He would reprise this role as a third-party "expert" in various video games cases (see below). The court's decision led to the arrest of several members of the group and a record retailer, although the ruling was soon reversed.
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In 1992, Thompson represented Oliver North's Freedom Alliance at the annual Time Warner shareholders' meeting, regarding Ice T's song "Cop Killer". He put forward the argument that, should the song inflame listeners and lead to the killing of police officers, widows would be able to sue Time Warner over the content of the record. Time Warner subsequently dropped the performer.

As a result of Thompson's efforts against Ice T's song, he was named a "top ten" censor by the American Civil Liberties Union [40]. Thompson states on his website that he considers the ACLU's 'award' a badge of honor.
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An indecency complaint Thompson filed with the FCC regarding the contents of a 2003 edition of Howard Stern's radio show resulted in Clear Channel Communications being fined $496,000 in 2004. The network subsequently dropped Stern from 6 of their stations.

Disclaimer: I've no idea whether this stuff is true or not. It's on the Wikipedia, and I would assume that the serious Wikipedia-contributors keep articles like this under fairly close surveillance, but due to the nature of Wikipedia I can't guarantee anything.

Edit: Oops, seems like Takitsune beat me to it. Oh well, another useless post... at least I didn't link to an adults only site this time.

[bigjko]

This is awesome.

[SCRUGAtes13]

Originally Posted by bigjko

This is awesome.