Jack Thompson Claiming Games Industry in Collusion with DoD 289
mytrip brings us a Wired blog about Jack Thompson's recent press release, which claims an "unholy alliance" exists between the gaming industry and the U.S. Department of Defense. Game Politics also has a discussion of Thompson's main points. From Wired:
"Jim Blank, the head of the modeling and simulation division of the U.S. Joint Forces Command, says that commercial games don't meet the demand of the military, adding, 'first-person shooter games really don't apply in this environment.' Blank's point is that game-like simulations are a valuable tool for training soldiers in situations that would be too expensive to simulate in reality."
Of course it is. We got ninjas and pirates too... (Score:4, Funny)
And if you play really well, you get abducted... (Score:4, Funny)
See, the game is just a simulation of the real fight and the aliens need to find someone to save them. If you are the best, they come get you to go fight their war using the fabled "Death Blossom" maneuver.
(Not to be confused with the fabled "Turd Blossom" maneuver used many times over the last seven years by the Bush administration.)
Have a pretty white jacket, long arms. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:That's right Jack (Score:1, Funny)
Re:and? (Score:5, Funny)
Don't be alarmed, everyone. That's just the video games talking.
Re:That's right Jack (Score:2, Funny)
Re:and? (Score:1, Funny)
Of course, the irony is that if even 1% of gamers were as violent as he claims, one of them really would have shot him long ago.
Re:Not as good anymore (Score:2, Funny)
not geeks
Re:WTF? (Score:5, Funny)
Madness? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:and? (Score:5, Funny)
Why is this guy still allowed to tie up the media and court system? Why isn't he in jail or disbarred or institutionalized? He is the Jerry Falwell of videogames and at least Falwell finally had the decency to fucking die.
Jack's a bit slow (Score:4, Funny)
Re:and? (Score:5, Funny)
Stupidity?
Re:teaching kids to kill (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's the gamers! The gamers and the DOD! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's the gamers! The gamers and the DOD! (Score:3, Funny)
Though personally, I'd have thought it easier just to get some sort of big fucking gun than to get a fictitious character from a Roald Dahl children's story to do the dirty work..
Don't worry about the military and video games... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Mr. Thompson, should I interpret it in this way (Score:3, Funny)
We tried that. And they said "those liberals can't agree on anything."
Re:and? (Score:3, Funny)
The commandment does not say "Do not Murder Unless You Really Have To". It says: don't (Kill/Murder/Slay).
But fine... we're interpreting, at this point, as clear it would seem to be to me that you would not want to risk getting it wrong with God and instead you would assume when he says don't murder, you don't murder anyone, ever, being a non-believer I suppose my grounds for arguing it are not the same as others. Roll your dice, Judeo-christian believers.
Re:and? (Score:3, Funny)
Jack Thompson will never take this down alone. It's a shame Ronald Reagan is gone. There is nothing he couldn't do.