Read it, his "Modest video game proposal" is great.
hurrr
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Mooj said:
Or, you know, the game companies could take 15,000 bucks and donate to charity instead. Hell of a lot less expensive than making a game, and it'd make Thompson look like even more of a joke.
This would be the best thing to do.
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Anakha said this, then charged the door while shouting "CHONGO LONGO!":
Actually, i had an idea just to make the game in say javascript or flash, with really bad graphics, then burn it onto a CD, and sell it to someone. Then i would tell Jack Thompson about it, and make him make due on his promise.
That, or text based. 
Disclaimer: I'm just kidding, I love all living things.
The fastest draw in the Crest.
"The Internet is MY critical thinking course." -Maradon
"Gambling for the husband, an abortion for the wife and fireworks for the kids they chose to keep? Fuck you, Disneyland. The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is the happiest place on Earth." -JooJooFlop
Let you visit the company that produced the game, and kill everyone in it?
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Khyron had this to say about Optimus Prime:
Didn't postal 2 do this, anyways?Let you visit the company that produced the game, and kill everyone in it?
Yep.
It's not something people hear about.
I am sorry to say that I will have to reject your proposal for a video game. The story you suggested is far too implausable. True, we do make games involving aliens and wizards, but these are things that could possibly exist however unlikely. Every rational person on the planet, on the other hand, knows that violent media do not create violent people.
Now kindly fuck off.
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Anakha had this to say about Duck Tales:
where could i get a copy of Postal 2? I mean ive heard a lot about it, but no ever seems to sell it.
Nobody sells it because the game isn't worth buying.
For those who love to hate Jack Thompson, he posts regularly at Gamepolitics. (Which is a good site to read if you're interested in video games vs politics at all.) He comes off as a board troll of the worst kind. Quite frankly, the man must have some mental problems of his own considering the things he says.
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Anakha enlisted the help of an infinite number of monkeys to write:
where could i get a copy of Postal 2? I mean ive heard a lot about it, but no ever seems to sell it.
The game was more or less utter shit. I didn't pay a cent for it, and I still feel the developers owe me my money back.
"Don't want to sound like a fanboy, but I am with you. I'll buy it for sure, it's just a matter of for how long I will be playing it..."
- Silvast, Battle.net forums
you want to know the real villans.... listen to the beginning of fight club.....
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A new car built by my company leaves somewhere traveling at 60 miles per hour. The rear differential locks up.The car crashes and burns with everyone trapped inside. Now: do we initiate a recall?
Take the number of vehicles in the field, (A), and multiply it by the probable rate of failure, (B), then multiply the result by the average out-of-court settlement, (C).
A times B times C equals X...
If X is less than the cost of a recall, we don't do one.
This is closer to the truth than any of his rantings... you want to see evil companys? Game companys aren't it.. i've worked for them... spacficily, ASC Games... the guys who published the first "evil" grand theft auto. You know what, they were all good people who cared about others....
now take your normal "big buisness"... any of them. good people? no. would they intentionaly kill people for profit.....
It's not something people hear about.
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Mr. Gainsborough had this to say about (_|_):
VG CATS IS NOT FUNNY LOLLOLOLOLOLOLLLLZLOL
fuck sand
If so, do they also believe that Cindy "OMG, GWB caused Hurricane Katrina!!1!" Sheehan is a legitimate 'anti-war protestor'?
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I participated in a 48 Hours story a few years ago about Everquest, aka Evercrack. Ben Stein's son was addicted to the game, and Ben participated in the piece, on-camera. You gamers really wouldn't recognize an addiction if it bit you on your thumb glued to a controller. That's the point. It's the denial of the addict. See AA.Oh, and enjoy the below. Take-Two isn't:
http://www.businessweek.com/innovate/content/oct2005/id20051012_993597.htm
Jack Thompson, with loves and kisses for all the gamers I never knew and don't want to
edit: forgot a bracket Lechium fucked around with this message on 10-13-2005 at 08:52 AM.
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Check out the big brain on Gabe!
You may have seen JackÂ’s proposal mentioned on various news sites. HeÂ’s offering 10 grand to charity if a game developer makes a game based on his insane proposal.So I got his email address and I went ahead and sent Jack a note this morning:
10 grand is pretty weak man. Through our charity www.childsplaycharity.org gamers have given over half a million dollars in toys and cash to childrenÂ’s hospitals all over the country.
IÂ’ll let you know if he responds.
The fact is when we kick off ChildÂ’s Play 2005 on November 1st weÂ’ll be going global. WeÂ’ll be delivering videogames and toys to childrenÂ’s hospitals all over the world now. I donÂ’t think thereÂ’s any better response to JackÂ’s insane ramblings than that. Maybe Jack would like to donate his 10 grand to ChildÂ’s Play, that could buy a lot of Game Boys.
And less than an hour later...
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My email sig had my phone number in it. Jack actually just called and screamed at me for a couple minutes. He said if I email him again I will “regret it”. What a violent man.
Someone explain to me why Jack Thompson hasn't been arrested / committed / beaten to death with a sack full of Mortal Kombat cartridges? Mooj fucked around with this message on 10-13-2005 at 09:33 AM.
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diademing:
now take your normal "big buisness"... any of them. good people? no. would they intentionaly kill people for profit.....
LET'S DEMONIZE THE PRIVATE SECTOR SOME MORE HAR HAR
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Mooj had this to say about dark elf butts:
Someone explain to me why Jack Thompson hasn't been arrested / committed / beaten to death with a sack full of Mortal Kombat cartridges?
Because there is no justice in this world
Oh, and in response to "bullycide", Columbine, the most infamous of all school shootings, was not a result of bullying, per say. That incident happened because those 2 young men were shunned all through out highschool. Not bullied, shunned. They are even quoted as saying they did it "because no one cared about them". Anakha fucked around with this message on 10-13-2005 at 01:43 PM.
It's not something people hear about.
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diadem's fortune cookie read:
now take your normal "big buisness"... any of them. good people? no. would they intentionaly kill people for profit.....
Don't be a moron.
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And coming in at #1 is Sean with "Reply." I'm Casey Casem.
per se
"swearing"
Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. - John Kenneth Galbraith
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Nobody really understood why Mr. Parcelan wrote:
Don't be a moron.
get a job. hippy.
i phrased that wrong with the blanket statement... but for some of them, it does stand. profit over human life without a thought. diadem fucked around with this message on 10-13-2005 at 06:32 PM.
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diademing:
i phrased that wrong with the blanket statement... but for some of them, it does stand. profit over human life without a thought.
And your proof of this is a quote from a movie.
Not just that but a movie where deconstructionism is a central theme 
In the real world, though, oxygen doesn't get you high and wanton endangerment is illegal. Engaging in illegal activity is rather extremely dangerous to profit margins. Maradon! fucked around with this message on 10-13-2005 at 07:48 PM.
diadem fucked around with this message on 10-13-2005 at 07:49 PM.
There are industrys that generally don't care about human life. the game industry is not one of them.
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Bent over the coffee table, Maradon! squealed:
And your proof of this is a quote from a movie.Not just that but a movie where deconstructionism is a central theme
In the real world, though, oxygen doesn't get you high and wanton endangerment is illegal. Engaging in illegal activity is rather extremely dangerous to profit margins.
Well. . .cost/benefit has been shown to be a factor in car industry voluntary safety recalls. Heck, there's an ongoing example with Ford's refusal to recall and repair the "always hot" cruise control that has caused so many destroyed homes and fires, even though they've changed the design on new ones to conform to industry safety standards. And there's always the example of the famous GM (was it GM?) gas tanks outside the frame and causing fires during accidents. . . .
So while certainly not a safe blanket statement about big business in general, one can't dismiss it as silly, either.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
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x--diademO-('-'Q) :
There are industrys that generally don't care about human life. the game industry is not one of them.
It's not the job of industry to care about human life.
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Maradon! painfully thought these words up:
It's not the job of industry to care about human life.
diadem fucked around with this message on 10-13-2005 at 08:17 PM.
so then we agree that jack thompsons aggression towards the game industry could be better placed towards said industrys? (assuming, of course, his intention are what he claims they are)
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ACES! Another post by Maradon!:
It's not the job of industry to care about human life.
Wouldn't the value of human life be at the basis of pretty much every current moral philosophy, especially those that place immense value on the individual?
It's not something people hear about.
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Mod startled the peaceful upland Gorillas by blurting:
Wouldn't the value of human life be at the basis of pretty much every current moral philosophy, especially those that place immense value on the individual?
Unfortunately, libertarian (for lack of a better term) philosophy is centered around the self, and fuck the rest. So while it places immense value on individuality, it places little on humanity. Edit: it's social darwinism reborn, in essence. Bloodsage fucked around with this message on 10-13-2005 at 09:07 PM.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
