The Jack Thompson-bashing Thread
Feel free to vent about this sad stupid waste of a man, or get some intelligent conversation on the state of games and their profile in the mass media and the general public.
personally I think this guy need to get a life. It seems painfully obvious that he's just trying to stay in the news, except he thinks he's smart enough to do it without a publicist unlike 95% of Hollywood celebs nowadays. I've read up on this guy and found out a bunch of things. First off he ran against THE Janet Reno for a DA position in Florida (i think) and at a debate he actually walked up to her and handed her a chit that read as follows:
I, Janet Reno, am a:
[ ] Homosexual
[ ] Bisexual
[ ] Heterosexual
Please check the most appropriate response, if you do not check any of the boxes it will be assumed that you checked one of the first two.
Recently he was at the center of the San Andreas/Hot Coffee thing, more recently he has blasted The Warriors and Bully, which are both from T2/Rockstar, and also Killer7 3 MONTHS AFTER ITS RELEASE. Douchebag
He even tried to get the FBI to shut down Penny Arcade for extortion and harassment when all the guys did was donate 10,000 smackeroos to charity on his behalf (because he wouldn't honor a statement that he had made) and made a couple of comics and some remarks ridiculing him. here is the cheque they wrote:
anyways, what follows is a comic from Ctrl+Alt+Del that surmises what may have caused this man to raise such a ruckus:
And from the guys at PA:
