This is just stupid, Jack is such a damn attention whore.

i don't know exactly what Thompson's goals are when he does the anti-games stuff...

senator yee maybe thinks that videogames are an important issue for parents who vote -so for him making some noise about the ESRB and stuff maybe helps his career, and put's his name is positive light for voters because it looks like he's doing something for familes or whatever...

maybe Thompson has something similar going on and wants to get his name associated with anti-games stuff.. maybe he hopes to be like the type of 'pundit' that would appear on news with Chris Matthews (more frequently) as a fake expert with a 'take' on videogames issues... maybe he wants to write a book or something like that

in order to accomplish these goals... he would want to generate some positive press about himself (probably trying to block Halo 3 instead of any other game is a publicity move)... if he wants to become like the "Dr. Phil" of videogames.

as far as i can tell, he doesn't get a lot of positive press... but he does get some negative press from the gaming community....

maybe something that Thompson would really like is an on-line feature or an NY-times op-ed that praises his efforts or at least mentions him favorably... as far as i can tell, nothing like that exists... so a parody photoshop contest probably hurts

it's noteworthy that when there's senator yee coverage, the reaction from gamers seems to more like "i disagree with that guy" or "he has it wrong" rather than....

"he sucks... what an @$$hole... he's doing WHAT?" -which is usually the Thompson reaction

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ps: my personal hope is that Thompson one day has some kind of about-face and decides to use his talents to be a 'champion' for freedom of expression in games or gamers-rights or something like that (not very likely).... but if he did something like this total reversal it might be a great way to turn his bad pr (or lack of good pr) situation around

How long do you think it will be till he tries to issue a 'cease and desist' on GP? Surely he's not that stupid...

Or is he?

Sometimes, I wonder if he was referring to himself when he said this in the "Gaming makes GPA lower" article:

"Video Gamer: What is a brain?"

Isn't obvious? He's hooked on trolling!

thompson enough is enough. this is getting to the point where i am almost becoming concerned about your mental state. you intentionally put yourself out in the spotlight, your going to get attention just like everyone else who does, like it or not, positive or negative. if you cant take it, then consider shutting the fuck up for once in your laughable life. you are eventually going to have to accept it and if you are incapable of doing so then you have serious self-esteem issues because the ability to accept criticism or knowing that *THE_WORLD_DOES_NOT_REVOLVE_AROUND_YOU* is a huge requirement for being able to correctly live and interact with other people.

It's funny Mr Thompson doesn't even have the gaul to file actual legal papers anymore, just threaten people. Now that's how professional people act.

Mr Thompson, I suggest you rent the movie "The People vs. Larry Flint" There is a potion of that movie that should explain how parodies and other harmless ridicule of media and public figures is allowed by law, because obviously this was not covered in your law classes.

I may not be Jewish, but the first things to come out of my mouth when I saw this?

"Oy vey"

Anyway, this is just silliness. No question. He should be actually RESEARCHING facts about violence in video games, instead of furiously masturbating every time a website mentions him on Google. Blech.

I think he hopes people will be so scared of being sued that they will just cave....

This makes me wonder if Jack wasn't some kind of former Viacom/20thCFOX/Disney/RIAA employee........

Heheh. I actually would like to see Jack sue 'the perpetrator' immediately for not ceasing and desisting, without actually, y'know, *filing* a Cease and Desist order.

Judge: "...Mr. Thompson, I'm afraid this court cannot accept your assertion that essentially saying 'Quit it!' has legal weight, as it were."

Jacko: "But it's *me* saying it, so it counts!"

Judge: "..."

Jack Thompson is a good example of an extremist.

he is no better than an Islamic suicide bomber.

Just going to get this in before Jack shows up. Jack, you are a public political figure. In the same general area as congressmen and senators, now I say in the same general area in the same way their is a dump somewhere in the general area of a city. Now these other political figures get lampooned in may different media forms and can not complain or sue with in reason. That extends down to you. Right now you are hoping to scare someone off by throwing around legal words, but it doesn't work on anyone who knows your antics.

This is all funny, but there are other fake law things that will never go through for you to do that are just funnier for us to watch. Bring a suit up against Nintendo that their Wii console is attempting to turn the youth of America into sex fiends because Wii sounds like it could be slang for penis. Well all get a good laugh and go home and you can get on the news some more. Either way everyone goes home happy.

Look at the bright side, maybe they can use this as another example of unprofessional/unreasonable behavior at his bar hearing. I mean let's face it. "You have one hour to cease and decist, isn't what I would call a whole lot but better then your average thug." That's one of the things I really can't stand about him. If it were just a matter of accepting the fact that he does not share my beliefs for his own reasons I could get past that, but he insists on bludgeoning his beliefs on anyone who will listen by wielding the court system as his own personal weapon. He is a bully. I hope he gets disbarred, and I hope he gets a minimum wage job at Best Buy to pay the bills. I'm a big fan of irony.

Thought about it a while - tempted to email Scott Johnson myself now. I'm curious if it ever even occurred to him to be civil. I'm curious to ask Scott, if he had approched him upfront, said "look, about this contest, I've got some serious problems with it. Would you please take it down?" Would he have agreed to take it down?

Actually, this is more akin to the JT of "old" who was threatening anyone who even mentioned his name.

Jack, did you know that your little ego-boosting schenanigans is MASTURBATION- in line with your very own definition? And you know what God does to people who masturbate...

Wow, Jack's REALLY reaching these days... what's the matter, Jack, can't even cowe a small-time webcomic artist anymore?

And the slide into obscurity continues...

What Jack Thompson doesn't understand is that his litigious nature has caused everyone not to care about his threats. He hands out so many threats, none of them come to pass, and he hasn't won a case in years, due to his "mistruths" that he uses in his battle. He is the worst kind of ambulance chaser, who should be more concerned with the tribalistic, hooligan violence exhibited in sports matches around the world (including the USA), than video game violence.

I guess Jack Thompson has never heard the story of the boy who cried wolf.

I masturbate to the fact that Fag Thompson visits this website.

@ Zerodash,
I see what you did there, and i like it.

@ Zerodash

Than I'm convinced that these Christians you speak of are self-loathers. For as my personal hero, George Carlin, once said:

"Only someone who hates himself would refer to the pleasures of masturbation as 'Self-abuse'."

And that's another lawsuit in which JT will fail..

@Uberb00brama

You have to be if your a Christian lawyer.

He's still stinging from that Penny Arcade incident when the Seattle FBI laughed their asses off at him.

"You want them charged for... donating money to charity?"

I saw "The Warriors" last night for the first time. Jack Thompson is the equivalent of (spoilers) Luther after Swan throws the knife into his wrist. He can dish it out, but hoo boy does he NOT react well when he has to take it.

Still waiting for JT to pop in and insult Dennis's Journalism. Apparently he's got something better to do today. Or he finally grew up. Probably the former. The latter would take a miracle from god.

Did you know that if you say Jack Thompson's name in the mirror 3 times, he comes out of it sues you?

@ Blackice

Don't forget the "impure thoughts"- you go to hell just for thinking!

silly, silly man with the biggest ego I've ever seen

"Man.. South Park has got to do one on Thompson… they just have to!"

Personally, I'd rather see him on an episode of "Penn & Teller: Bullshit!". Now that would be a good episode for P&T to do: the Video Game Controversy. And you know they could get Jack to appear. Sure, he'd get raked over the coals like never before in his life, but this guy cannot say no to the spotlight, so I'm positive he'd accept.

Jack: Jack Thompson, Miami attorney and video game violence expert.

Penn: (VO) And then there's THIS asshole!!!

Ooh, I want that! I'd tape it and watch it every single day!

I'm starting to think he doesn't actually search the Internet himself. There's just too much small stuff he finds. My money says he either pays someone to do it, or he has something automated set up. There's just too much digging otherwise.

-Mike Schwinger

*Points at the "tried to shutdown Penny Arcade because they sold 'I hate Jack Thompson' T shirts episode*

History, Joke Thompson. It prevents you from repeating mistakes.

Being the recipient of a similar threat by him, I chose to ignore it and called his bluff by replying, "Make my day, asshole." Needless to say I have not heard from him since. :)

We tend to hold lawyers to a certain degree of professionalism and JT has exhibited none of that, and it's one of the reasons why he ought to be disbarred. How he can act that way boggles my mind as well. There are probably other lawyers out there who are just as unprofessional (scary as the thought of that may be), but because he's been the most visible, his behavior is big black smear on the already tarnished reputation lawyers have. Plktrn's analogy to "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" BTW is a remarkably apt one.

@Artem & Spartan Michael

I'm suprised Trey Parker and Matt Stone haven't skewered Thompson yet after all this time, especially when you consider South Park was also in his crossharis some years back and usually Parker and Stone are pretty quick to make fun of anyone who criticizes or speaks ill of them. For that matter I'm also waiting for Seth Macfarlane to take a few potshots at him on Family Guy. Or for that matter Adam Sessler and Morgan Webb on Xplay (considering Adam's confrontation with him last year). I don't know why they haven't yet, but a possible reason why coud be because they feel he already does a good job of making fun of himself.

Isn't it a worldwide release?

Is this a great country or what? Hooah!

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

@BlackIce

"So.. how many people actually went to look at the Photoshop Competition?"

I did! I started saving all of the photoshops in a folder on my desktop. My favorites so far include a Super Mario Bros. screencap with Thompson's head photoshopped over Bowser's, and another of Resident Evil 4 where Jackie has joined the Los Ganados in attacking Leon.

Looks like ol' Joke Thompson isn't getting down in the dirt and posting with the likes of us scum today.

@Quad9damage

I personally think the GTA one is the best. I mean, we all know the old wanker's done that to someone..

@Blackice

They did this:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/10/14

And this:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/01/05

@ Meggie

Can't speak for everyone, but empty threats like "...or else" don't really establish credibility in my eyes.

this just in: Jack Thompson admits to being an elaborate hoax. Millions of gamers trolled "eye are el".

these days jacky is nothing more than a light wind storm

just wait a few minutes for the howling to stop lol

Jack Thompson is a punk.

Jack Thompson is a hypocrite.

Jack Thompson is a bully.

Wasn't he supposed to have Gamepolitics.com shut down and all of its posters sued? I remember him getting all pissed because he accidentally opted to get email updates whenever comments were added, and he went apeshit. Started demanding everyone provide their names & addresses.

This was when GP was on livejournal:
"You post anonymously at this site at your own great peril.
You've been warned. Now we're going to see how smart you really are. We know how dumb Dennis McCauley is. He put you in this bind when he went to LiveJournal. Really, really dumb. "

Wonder what happened with that? :)

Ha ha ha... This reminds me of the Mortal Kombat crap he pulled over the creat-a-fighter.

What a loser. At some point the "any press is good press" stuff loses its appeal.

Yeah.. Then they look at everything else he's ever said..

Wow no

"Again Dennis Mcaully gets it wrong again" comment from Jack, something IS wrong!

jack must be too busy dancing for the disbarment comittee to play with us lol

I've said it once, and I'll say it again:

You can't be in the public spot light and not expect someone (if not the majority/all) lampoon you, your believes, your ethics, or even those that know you.

didnt this same thing happen with a parody and Jack Thompson last week?

It seems someone doesn't have the testicular fortitude to post a response today. C'mon JT, be a MAN and join the conversation!

Zerodash - I'll bet he won't.

I'll bet his wife told him to stop, in order to stop piling up the evidence against his sanity. If true, we know who really has the balls in that relationship.

@Mnementh2230:

Jack? Sane? LMAO. Oh, he's sane cause his old college buddy the shrink said so, I forgot.

@ ApokalypseNow & tallimar

just be careful he doesn't try to sue for impersonation!

the thing that bothers me is that he puts himself in these situations, and then can accept the consequences that may or may not come with them. maybe that would be a bit more understandable for a teenager or something but a 50-something year old? come on. grow up thompson.

@ApokalypseNow

I'd do the same, but instead I'd take the picture and put in on my dart board. ;)

Jack, Jack, Jack. You're a sad little man. You can't stop this and you know it. If anything, this contest actually keeps people from forgetting that you exist. If anything, you should be thanking Scott Johnson for the additional attention being given to you, since you haven't been able to generate any for yourself lately.

lol doesnt thompson realize that he actually gets more negative attention when he pulls off stunts like this?

*from, not of...

I agree white-haired. I'm getting kind of tired of seeing Jack articles on here to be honest. I could understand it at first...Dennis was saying he "might" do something so he should cover it. Though now Jack has been out of anything close to a spotlight for awhile now...all these news articles about him are a joke. So I must ask why keep covering him? If I were to threaten microsoft with lawsuits would I be on here too?

At one point it was kinda of like the Jack articles were the "comic" section of this site, but now its just getting old. He has run his course and he has done nothing...All these recent stunts are are desperate attempts for attention and you are giving him just that.

Dennis still insists that Jack is relevant, I remember reading about why he still covers this stuff awhile back. To each is his own, and I respect that.

Personally, I'd say do a story on him if he actually followed through for once and got into court with someone related to the industry. This constant reporting of mundane items about Jack that has little real relevance to the industry is out of control in my opinion.

GP seems to give JT the most attention... correct me if I'm wrong, but what other sites are out there that publish Jack's nonsense every other day? Little to none?

I've been going here since the San Andreas HC fire broke out, and honestly, I'd rather have GP punch out the articles at a slower rate than having 2-3 irrelevant JT stories for every REAL article pertaining to the industry.

I love your work Dennis, you've done a wonderful job with GP, but I share the concern about the saturation of JT "non-news" that is ruining this site. I know I'm only one visitor, but if this gets much worse I'll probably stop coming over here, you might as well sell GP to Jack at that rate though since it's slowly been turning into "Jack Thompson's bulletin board also featuring other news".

But you know better than I do about running GP, so I could always be wrong as well.

Just thought I'd share that, you've always been fair to us and honest, so I thought it was my turn now to be honest for a moment, hopefully I was fair about it.

Well as the saying goes, Jack sells...or maybe that's sex, I can't remember. But anyway, I assume one of GP's reasons for covering a story like this is because even trivial Jack stories seem to generate more discussion then some of the more significant non-jack stories on here.

If you don't care about Jack's every trip to the ladies' room it's very easy to skip over any articles about him, and even if you do inadvertently end up glancing over one of the more irrelevant stories about him, it probably isn't going to be the least productive 60 seconds of your life.

Also if you do see JT as "gamer enemy #1" then the best thing to do is discredit him by drawing attention to boneheaded moves like this one. Spotlight or not he is not going away, so long as he can practice law he is going to keep filing lawsuits against games. That means like it or not, he is still relevant, closing our collective eyes and humming real loud isn't going make that go away.

And as one of the more prominent and outspoken proponents of anti-video game legislation, anything stupid that he does reflects badly on the movement as a whole.

If Jack gets disbarred, runs out of blood-related minors to run sting operations with, and can't manage to beat out a local soccer mom for a spot on an MSNBC panel, then I would start to be concerned if we continued to get weekly updates on his menstrual cycle. But for now I appreciate Dennis's continued coverage of him.

Jack Thompson will go against a one time photoshop contest, but he wont go against CAD which SELLS a 3 part animated episode series directly involving Jack Thompson (Named and Likeness) and he wont go against penny arcade which sells Anti-Jack Thompson T-shirts?

Can you spell hypocrite?

I just have to tackle these comments:

"Also if you do see JT as “gamer enemy #1? then the best thing to do is discredit him by drawing attention to boneheaded moves like this one. Spotlight or not he is not going away, so long as he can practice law he is going to keep filing lawsuits against games. That means like it or not, he is still relevant, closing our collective eyes and humming real loud isn’t going make that go away."

Thats the thing I haven't seen JT as "gamer enemy #1" for a long time now. Sure he tries, but it NEVER amounts to anything. When there was a possibility of his attempts actually doing something I could understand it. Heck even when it was first obvious he wasn't doing anything I could, because he could get a lucky turn around. Though now with his career in its current state I really don't see the reason Dennis has so many articles about him.

"And as one of the more prominent and outspoken proponents of anti-video game legislation, anything stupid that he does reflects badly on the movement as a whole. "

So because he is loud and I'm guessing sends Dennis 10 articles a day about his sad attempts we have it hear 1 a day? I mean thank god Dennis doesn't publish everything JT sends his way, but still...

I dunno it just appears to me like JT's time is over and done with(if he really ever had a time). If I were him I'd be worried about keeping my job not trying to get 10 silly articles out a day. Something about "Jack Thompson former lawyer who got disbarred because of his stupid and disrepectful stunts" doesn't have the same something...

I dunno I'm just getting tired of all the JT silliness. I'm sure he does something insane at least once a day...and while it was amusing for awhile now its just blah. I think I stopped caring back when he went at that fastfood joint saying it was in with the video game industry....

I just added "My Extra Life" to my bookmarks and will read every comic and send the author an email of support.

Thanks for the great website, Jack.

After-action report: Those who knew who Jack Thompson was got a big kick out of my mask. There was much cavorting-about with inarticulate screams decrying Halo 3 (and trying to blame R* for it), and many laughs followed. At about midnight, as the line moved forward, several gamers yelled out "I play violent video games! I could snap at any moment!" to further laughter.

I find it rather humorous that JT's primary value as a human being is as a laughing stock.

Did anyone get some GTAIV shirts at the Halo 3 launch last night? Some guy from RockStar was going around from launch site to site giving out GTAIV swag. I picked up an extra shirt, and am currently considering sending it to Miami's finest (it's hard to say that without laughing). Any suggestions on what else should be included (comedy-wise or for satirical purposes)?

@That_1_Guy
"…..He’s on trial or going to be on trial right?"

He's facing a possible disbarrment by the Florida BAR for misconduct.

"Well….why is he targeting a contest instead of building an actual case?"
Because JT's priorities are very out of whack, and he feels that video games are more important to go after, then dealing with his own case which could very well end his career as an attorney. I hope he is disbarred, I can't stand his arrogant smugness, makes me sick (and to know I live the same state as the man. Ugh.).

Lawd, it's so funny when old people don't realize how the world seems to work. Now, call me a bit naive, but wouldn't you think that if you act like a douchebag long enough, people are going to start to not like you?

HMM.