Jack Thompson is a _____ (fill in the blank with any expletive you like). He has not real power but thinks he does. Pay no attention to him, he just needed some face time, he has been out the loop for a while.
I'm seriously starting to think this guy is on Rockstars payroll. Rockstar PR guy: Hey, we need some cheap publicity, go out and try to sue us again. Jack: Shut your filthy mouth or I'll sue you into the ground! Rockstar PR guy: That a boy, big guy. You go show those mean pixels who's boss.
Would be fun to see Ken Levine intellectually destroying the poor guy, but I'm gonna assume he'll just scoff and then ignore the pathetic, sensationalistic, rambling assclown.
I can sort of make the conceptual leap to how animated violence in a semi-realistic city space might, hypothetically, affect an impressionable mind, but BioShock is set in a decidedly un-realistic crumbling underwater utopia where the 'enemies' are not the emergency services and gangsters - they're malformed genetically altered freaks, for crying out loud. And those are the ones that look the most human.
It's probably those Little Sisters - perhaps kids, who by the way aren't supposed to playing BioShock, nor any Jack's other favourite whipping boys, will be subconsciously trained into having violent inclinations towards corpse-sucking small girls with glowing green eyes. Plus, its' not as though knocking them off in the game is without repercussions - no, no; mess with them and you'll learn the error of your ways via the medium of a lightning-fast behemoth in a diving suit with a drill for a hand. Tell me that's not a good reason to rationally question the morality of your in-game actions.article
I'm seriously starting to think this guy is on Rockstars payroll. Rockstar PR guy: Hey, we need some cheap publicity, go out and try to sue us again. Jack: Shut your filthy mouth or I'll sue you into the ground! Rockstar PR guy: That a boy, big guy. You go show those mean pixels who's boss.
[quote="article"]I can sort of make the conceptual leap to how animated violence in a semi-realistic city space might, hypothetically, affect an impressionable mind, but BioShock is set in a decidedly un-realistic crumbling underwater utopia where the 'enemies' are not the emergency services and gangsters - they're malformed genetically altered freaks, for crying out loud. And those are the ones that look the most human.
It's probably those Little Sisters - perhaps kids, who by the way aren't supposed to playing BioShock, nor any Jack's other favourite whipping boys, will be subconsciously trained into having violent inclinations towards corpse-sucking small girls with glowing green eyes. Plus, its' not as though knocking them off in the game is without repercussions - no, no; mess with them and you'll learn the error of your ways via the medium of a lightning-fast behemoth in a diving suit with a drill for a hand. Tell me that's not a good reason to rationally question the morality of your in-game actions.foxhound_fox
Said it better than I could have.
Haha that's the truth.
I wonder... maybe Jack Thompson was molested by a videogame as a child.....
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