Jack Thompson Vows to Stop Medal of Honor

[MurderousToaster]

I hope the Taliban use it as a training tool.

"Don't worry, you can take six gunshots to the stomach, hide behind a rock and then be fine. And, if you die, you can just respawn in a few seconds, so it's all cool."

 

[Ih8pkmn]

HOLD THE FUCKING PHONE.
Look at this part right here:

"With all respect for everything else on your plate, but as someone who has represented the surviving family members of such videogame-caused massacres,

OH. MY. GOD.

VIDEO GAMES DON'T CAUSE MASSACRES.VIDEO GAMES DIDN'T CAUSE COLUMBINE,OR VIRGINIA TECH, OR ANY OTHER MASSACRE, AND YOU ARE SHAMING THE MEMORIES OF THOSE KILLED BY CLAIMING THAT IT DID. GET THIS THROUGH YOUR HEAD, JACK THOMPSON. YOU ARE A DISGRACE TO THE STATES OF FLORIDA AND OHIO.

sorry, just had to get that off my chest, as a native Ohioan.

anyway.

a game gives you the option to play as the bad guy, in this case the Taliban.

Gov't: OMG BAN IT!!

Erm... why?

Playing as the bad guy in video game is not too uncommon nowadays. Left 4 Dead, Halo, and pretty much any team-based multiplayer game gives people the option to play as the bad guy.

I get that the Taliban is a controversial subject, but will playing as a member of the Taliban really make someone put down the controller, pick up an assault rifle, and blow the head off the guy that threatened to burn the Koran?

HELL NO.

One last thing: how did he pass the bar in the first place? Tell me that much and I will personally give you gold.

Besides, the more controversial it is, the more popular it is. Just look at GTA: SA.

 

[malestrithe]

In related news,
Grass is Green and Water is wet.

 

[LightOfDarkness]

THIS GUY AGAIN?

Seriously, when will he start listening to all the suggestions (read: hate emanating from every sane human being, plant, machine, animal and insect) and drink the increasingly large boot of STFU-AND-GTFO (the number one cure for insane assholes).

 

[LightOfDarkness]

One last thing: how did he pass the bar in the first place? Tell me that much and I will personally give you gold.

He passed it before video games existed?

 

[Contun]

....and Jack Thompson will fail to stop Medal of Honor.

When is he going to realize he's not going to win?

 

[ZaronX]

How is this idiot not dead yet? If nothing else, natural selection should've picked his sorry ass off by now.

 

[teh_spartan]

two words FUCK HIM!

and the ECA will never let him win

 

[ServebotFrank]

Uh oh someone let Jack out of the basement again. It's been some time Mr. Thompson, did you get my package?

 

[Chunga the Great]

Jack if you are reading this, try a new tactic, like maybe.......PLAY THE F*CKING GAME FIRST!! Hopefully he will realize that pressing X on a real gun wont do anything and that video games arent evil.

 

[Marv21]

Looks like the game will have free publicity thanks to our national hero Jack Thompson: Attorney at DERP!

 

[zombiestrangler]

How is it that this thread got this far?
We know, we got it,he's an asshole who doesn't like vidja games.
Can we stop giving him attention and move on to something else?
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[ecoho]

uhm just wana ask does he look like hes made of plastic to anyone else? who would beleave a guy who looks like a ken doll?

 

[Hookman]

Yes because the Taliban are that into videogames. I would ask Jackie-boy the same question I find myself asking again and again, has he actually played the fucking thing?!
I'm not gonna say anything else because Thompson just makes my blood boil.

 

[Dexiro]

Urgh i can't be bothered with this anymore. Fine, Space Invaders promotes alien attacks and the Hello Kitty games are turning people gay, why the fuck not.

 

[SteveeVader]

I think the taliban should come with this theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abGB8qmMpko&feature=related

i know I am a very very sick child but I realised hell the taliban are kind of like Team Rocket, they occasionally shake shit up but other than that they go into obscurity and come back again but in a different region.

 

[I_am_acting]

ugh, i thought we got rid of this idiot, why won't he stay gone?!

 

[TheScottishFella]

This is fucking pathetic.

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

This guy should have been silenced ages ago.

The whole "Taliban" controversy with Medal of Honor has me exhausted and wary of their motives. They had to know that when provincial-minded extremists heard anyone would have the ability to "play" as a Taliban fighter in a video game that it would hit the spotlight for attention. Any press is good press and controversy sells, so where could this leave the actual game?
Is this Taliban brouhaha a crutch for a poor/mediocre game?
Is it to garner more interest than Black Ops?
Is it actually an amazing game (or at least for what it is) but the controversy is taking all of the attention?
Or is it simply an honest game: It's based on a real war that was not fought against the "Middle-Eastern We Hate the Free World Brigade" but the Taliban?

In any event, why would the multiplayer portion suddenly feature the aforementioned MEWHFWB instead of a playable Taliban?
And assuming that the "Taliban" in the multiplayer are identical in every facet but appearance to the US troops, how exactly could they possibly convert people to their mindset or train people for the Taliban? That's downright asinine because if Medal of Honor was thought of as a training tool, then send copies to real-world enemies. If people like Jack Thompson were to actually play a video game, they would laugh as we do at the premise of real terrorists running straight into enemy fire trying to knife and quickscope...

 

[USSR]

We've created a monster..