Jack Thompson Vows to Stop Medal of Honor
- Thread starter Andy Chalk
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It's like he is saying, "Cars are dangerous because some of the people who drive them cause accidents and can kill other people with them. Therefore, we should stop selling cars to everyone!"
What about the Americans who play this game and decide to become soldiers? How about the fact that pointing and shooting a videogame gun is nothing like pointing and shooting an actual REAL gun? Does that ever cross this man's nanobrain? Any Taliban sympathizer who uses this game to train themselves will be cut down like toilet paper if he or she tries to fire a real gun. I can name several reasons why: recoil, which the game controller does not simulate. No auto-aiming with a real gun. Guns are heavier in real life than a controller. Firing game guns makes you as much of a marksman as Mike Tyson's boxing game makes you an actual boxer.
Oh yeah, and then there are all those other things that games don't generally simulate that can throw off one's aim: air currents (for things like sniper rifles), blowback and recoil, taking off the safety on a gun and the even simpler one- handling a controller is nothing like holding an actual gun. Is he claiming that America should ban all gun games because it teaches people how to handle guns? Like Duck Hunt? That's as "realistic" to shooting an actual gun as "Modern Warfare" is. Only the graphics are better.
What about the Americans who play this game and decide to become soldiers? How about the fact that pointing and shooting a videogame gun is nothing like pointing and shooting an actual REAL gun? Does that ever cross this man's nanobrain? Any Taliban sympathizer who uses this game to train themselves will be cut down like toilet paper if he or she tries to fire a real gun. I can name several reasons why: recoil, which the game controller does not simulate. No auto-aiming with a real gun. Guns are heavier in real life than a controller. Firing game guns makes you as much of a marksman as Mike Tyson's boxing game makes you an actual boxer.
Oh yeah, and then there are all those other things that games don't generally simulate that can throw off one's aim: air currents (for things like sniper rifles), blowback and recoil, taking off the safety on a gun and the even simpler one- handling a controller is nothing like holding an actual gun. Is he claiming that America should ban all gun games because it teaches people how to handle guns? Like Duck Hunt? That's as "realistic" to shooting an actual gun as "Modern Warfare" is. Only the graphics are better.
This is hilarious! This is just as good training for enemy troops as Modern Warfare 2 or any other similar shooter out there. Doesn't mean that they will use time and money to train with computer games when they have the real thing. Someone should piggyback this guy back to the looneybin!
Imagine if terrorists actually did use wargames sa combat training.
Something tells me we'd have the situation under much firmer control.
Something tells me we'd have the situation under much firmer control.
uhh...Yet again, he's ignoring actual FACTS when he goes on his tirades. Yes, anyone can preorder a copy of M rated games, BUT they still need a PARENT to pick it up! Games likes this being in the hands of those under 17 is not EA's fault or responsibility, but rather the fault of a bad generation of hypocritical parents who get offended when someone in a mall swears around their kid yet buys them games like this!
Sorry for the rant, but this is a personal peeve of mine. I work in retail, and see hypocritical parenting every fucking day.
And Jack Thompson's knack for ignoring actual fact pisses me off too. games don't cause murderous rampages!
Sorry for the rant, but this is a personal peeve of mine. I work in retail, and see hypocritical parenting every fucking day.
And Jack Thompson's knack for ignoring actual fact pisses me off too. games don't cause murderous rampages!
"the high level of realism makes it an effective training tool for the Taliban and other forces currently engaged with the U.S. military."
Forget the Taliban, how does he think the US Military gets recruits anymore? This & movies like The Expendables.
Forget the Taliban, how does he think the US Military gets recruits anymore? This & movies like The Expendables.