Jack Thompson's Letter To Take-Two Exec's Mother 351
debatem1 writes "Apparently, anti-violent-video-games crusader Jack Thompson is at it again, this time writing a letter to the mother of Strauss Zelnick, Chairman of Take-Two, the company that produces the GTA series of video games. In it he compares Zelnick to a member of the Hitler Youth, advocates beating the young Zelnick, and contemplates the existence of a Ted Bundy merit badge for boy scouts."
Re:Jack's utter lack of a sense of irony (Score:1, Interesting)
What's more... (Score:3, Interesting)
Don't get me wrong - I regard Take Two as an excellent representation of Dante's Inferno, given the way they treated David Braben and others, and shock/gore games strike me as very childish, but amoral "moralists" (Mary Whitehouse was another) who use cultist techniques to "program" the more easily-swayed segments of the population to believe their propoganda are far far worse than those they seek to suppress. It seems to me that of the Four Horsemen of the Apocolypse, Famine has retired in favour of FUD. There really are some fates worse than death, and perverted mind-control games would be one of them.
Re:Glory Hole (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Whatever (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:I hope (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Jack's utter lack of a sense of irony (Score:1, Interesting)
I'm sure it depends where you're from but I never really felt like I was being heavily indoctrinated into a Christian ethic.
Re:Jack's utter lack of a sense of irony (Score:5, Interesting)
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The Pope can choose whether to save or planten booten to your arse
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Re:Silly troll (yup, IHBT... *sigh*) (Score:3, Interesting)
Jack Thompson should try out this new technique called "parenting" it's worth promoting!
Re:Stop submitting Jack Thompson stories. (Score:3, Interesting)
Do you really want someone intelligent taking over his spot? As it stands right now he will never get anything done, which is how I like it personally.
Re:Like herpes (Score:5, Interesting)
Just a thought.
That reminds me, didn't he have an agreement wherein they don't crush him like a bug for libel and he stops mentioning them and their games, at all, forever?
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Re:Jack's utter lack of a sense of irony (Score:3, Interesting)
I'm quite certain of it.
When Croatia proclaimed independence from Yugoslavia, many (if not all) of our new leaders were ex-members of the Communist Party. However, since communism became a snarl word much like in the USA some 50 years ago, they all started explaining how they had been defiant and subversive and always fought for a national state of Croats. Some even wrote books on the subject. Lengthy, boring ones.
I don't think I need to point out all the similarities.
Now, bullshitting is what politics seems to be all about, but I do have to marvel at the people who proclaim themselves traitors of the old system and then get the gullible masses to trust them with the new system.
Pure gold, that's what it is.
(Furthermore, this all meant that Croatian political rhetoric slid towards fascism and - would you look at that bugger - fervent catholicism. In these parts, the Catholic Church more or less openly sided with the pro-fascist forces back in the WW2, so the fascist-communist dichotomy pretty much overlapped with the Catholic-communist one.)
All in all, not only do I believe that this was invented as a PR move, but I consider it a bad one.
I would have thought that at least in Vatican someone would remember the repentant sinner, the lost sheep and the prodigal son.
That would have gotten my respect; this only earned them disdain.
Re:Jack's utter lack of a sense of irony (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Jack's utter lack of a sense of irony (Score:3, Interesting)
One member of Swedish Parliament even thought Hitler deserved the nobel peace price [nobelprize.org]! For some reason the same MP member withdrew his nomination sometime in 1939
Re:Stop submitting Jack Thompson stories. (Score:3, Interesting)
It's not a zero-sum game here -- if he's gone, there's no sign anyone else is going to take his place. It's not as if the moral crusaders of the world have been holding back and waiting for him to vacate the spot.