Crazy lawyer bent on destruction
 

Jack Thompson, a Florida attourney, is bent on destroying Rockstar for the teenager that went on a rampage under the influence of Manhunt.

Read this interview with him.

And he goes on to declare that Doug Lowenstein, president of the Entertainment Software Association:

Wow. Is this guy joking, or is he mad?!

Unfortunately I'm afraid it's the latter.

Good grief, this is like suing MC Donald for making people fat...
I guess he just wants attention, or maybe it's "in" to sue Rockstar... :rolleyes:

OH GOD. Human stupidity

THE HORROR THE HORROR :crazy:

Oh no, not Jack Thompson again........ :frusty:

I saw a BBC documentary a while ago about Vice City. It featured some crazy American lowyer claiming he was on a mission from god to get Vice City banned. He even sang a song about it. May well have been the same guy.

And I am on a mission from God to call Jack Thompson and people like him morons.

We need to start an online petition to have him brutally murdered.

And then blame it on a video game? Wouldn't that be predictably redundant? :D

Jake: "I blasted the motherfooker away with my shotgun. The Longest Journey made me do it."

He should kill 'em and claim that Manhunt made him do it. :D

If it weren't for the Max Payne series (can't wait for #3), I wouldn't care if Rockstar stepped into non-existance.

GTA is a good game though.... funny in a very cynical way, and slightly annoying in that it's well nigh impossible to not run people over with your car, but it's a good game.

Rockstar don't even make it.. Remedy do

Yeah, but Rockstar own Take Two who publish Max Payne 2, if I remember correctly.

A quick search on the net throws up this website: www.stopkill.com
whose purpose "is to give you the means to contact Miami attorney Jack Thompson if you know of someone harmed as a result of violent entertainment, including violent video games." but I don't know if he would listen to reason!

I for one have played GTA 3 + Vice City, mown down countless pedestrians, sat on rooftops sniping at innocent passers-by and killed many virtual cops, but for some strange reason I've never had the craving to go out and do it for real - perhaps because I can separate reality from virtual reality.

I personally think his time would be better spent attacking the NRA and shops/websites that sell to underage buyers rather than taking away most people's freedom to play these types of games.

Remedy=developer
3D Realms=producer
Rockstar/Take2=publisher

And most likely Remedy won't do Max 3

And Rockstar/Take2 owns the rights for the franchise, because Remedy sold the rights.

I DO believe violent videogames can make people kill. I want to kill Jack Thompso and people like him.