Jack Thompson, self-important,
"douchebag" lawyer
who's suing Sony, Take Two, Gamestop and Walmart for $300 million for selling games like GTA, sat down with CBS'
Gamespeak and let us have it. The guy is just another example of an emerging breed of human — self-important soap
boxers with half-thought-out ideas that are meant to make a quick buck, and get booked on Larry King. Are they breeding
these things now? There are definitely issues we need to work out as an industry. No question about it. But this guy
sinks the conversation and goes right for the sewer.
Here's a choice snippet:
Is gaming escapism?
"Yes, just as Ted Bundy escaped into pornography. It is not a release of aggression. It is training for
aggression."
The lawyer's comments may be laughable at first, but then the interview takes a chilling turn. His thinly veiled
fantasies of seeing a lot of gamers and game execs get slaughtered is in black and white, folks:
"You just watch. There is going to be a Columbine-times-10 incident, and everyone will finally get it. Either
that, or some video gamer is going to go Columbine at some video game exec's expense or at E3, and then the industry
will begin to realize that there is no place to hide, that it has trained a nation of Manchurian Children."
Which makes the end of the interview even more frightening.
"They are about to pay a wicked price, and I aim to make sure they pay it."
Sure, he's referring to the lawsuit. Right? We can only hope that's what he means. Hey, just in case, can
we make sure this guy is nowhere near LA during E3, please?
