Jack Thompson: "I'm Surprised I Lasted That Long"

[King Toasty]

Ah, Jack Thompson. Where would we be without your brilliantly insane mind to jab at?

A better place, probably. But you're entertaining, nonetheless. Troll on, good buddy.

 

[Vash108]

I kinda miss him

 

[Thaius]

Seminary? Dang it, the last thing we need is someone like Thompson in a position like that. He claimed to be a Christian, but all he did was project extremist views in extremely non-Christian ways. Now he's in seminary? Cue predictable and ignorant Christian bashing...

 

[Dastardly]

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Keep going, Jack. Someday, you'll earn your chin.

 

[Pandaman1911]

Bah. I'm not going to say that I'll be happy when another human being dies, but when his black heart decides to stop working, I'll shed no tears...

 

[DevilWolf47]

I really have got to ask, how did this dipshit get barred in the first place? It almost knocks of a conspiracy where the person that gave him his career was a gamer and knew Thompson was a complete idiot who would irreparably damage if not flat out destroy the campaign against video games.
...probably someone who helped write Deus Ex...

 

[PrototypeC]

How exactly does this prove that he doesn't think that way anymore? He's allowed his opinion, but he's tried to make his opinions federal opinions.

I don't have opinions on the man, good or bad, but I don't buy that he's a more open-minded person now. He could be, but there's no proof of that. More to the point, why would it matter? Could this be the final chapter of The Escapist's coverage of Jack Thompson? Please?

 

[vxicepickxv]

I really have got to ask, how did this dipshit get barred in the first place? It almost knocks of a conspiracy where the person that gave him his career was a gamer and knew Thompson was a complete idiot who would irreparably damage if not flat out destroy the campaign against video games.
...probably someone who helped write Deus Ex...

That was so long ago. Getting accepted past the bar association test was a lot easier back then. Once you're accepted, it takes a lot of work to get disbarred. There are only two cases that I know of that were public enough for me to remember. The first one is obviously Jack Thompson. The second would be Mike Nifong. If you need a reference to that, think Duke lacrosse team.

I'm sure that most disbarring cases are not that public though.

 

[BabyRaptor]

Now he's found religion? Excuse me while I laugh so hard I'll need new pants.

 

[northeast rower]

I won't lie, I respect Thompson. He's smart, he's got convictions that he stands by, he's eloquent, he's occasionaly funny, and, most importantly, he's damn good at inciting the public. He's something of a Cicero for our modern age, just without a worthy Catiline.

 

[Magicman10893]

I am honestly surprised. When I first saw the quote, "I'm surprised I lasted that long," I assumed it was some crack at how video gamers are violent, social outcasts that would have used Grand Theft Auto to plan his assassination and the Sims 2 to plan the raping of his corpse.

 

[joebthegreat]

Oh god, all you need to do is mention someone on the "gamer hit list" (which I will be calling it from now on, to include Thompson, Atkinson, and Kotick) and you get this list of hateful insults. This is especially bad because he isn't doing ANYTHING here.

Come off it already. He was wrong, he had some bad ideas. That doesn't make him the devil, or even necessarily a bad person. That doesn't make him insane, or stupid. All it makes him is someone who disagrees with you. His argument was wrong, nothing happened. Stop acting so personally hurt.

Think about the way you treat your enemies the next time you end up having an unpopular opinion, or an opinion based on something you later find to be completely wrong. Or, you know, just live like plankton going wherever the current takes you.

For the record, I could care less about this guy, won't be reading the book, and I'm wearing a paintball mask right now.

 

[Nouw]

Yes Jack, it was God's will that saved you from the corruption of games and let you last that long.

 

[Shifty Tortoise]

"he is one of the sanest people I know"

That just makes it even worse...

 

[Varanfan9]

Well there goes gaming's first worthy foe. I guess this is a victory for us. Yay.

 

[ryo02]

"Sanest people I know" "too smart for his enemies"
I... Words, can't describe the idiocy.
I really have nothing more to say, I'm just flaberghasted at the sheer insanity on display here.

So he still hasn't figured out where to quit?

31 years ... not a whole lot of learning going on he's really slow

 

[Something Amyss]

For clarification, God does not frown on video games any more than movies or comics.

But anyways, if he's "too smart for his enemies", please explain the intense fail that was the Sims 2 "controversy". Or his being disbarred.

To be fair, if "smart" equaled "success," the video game industry itself would look radically different.

 

[Asuka Soryu]

I hate when idiots procclaim themselves as God's messenger, sent here by God himself to save the world. Soon to take on the acursed satanic games that control humanity... F!ing moron.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

"But I had a responsibility to try to be God's voice in the world."

Jack Thompson is also an Evangelical troll now?

MY GOD, HE'S EVOLVING TO THE NEXT STAGE OF BLOWHARD DOUCHEBAG.

tl;dr:

Yep. Still works!