(stupid smileis...)
The problem with school shottings and bullies is the "system" ignores kid and teen social issues and lets them develop to a unhealthy stage,I myself suffered from bulling and took things internal instead of lashing out...I still cant stand people much 0_o,

heres a 50 year old collage bully case,the shotter is now a collage prof
http://www.gamepoliticsforums.com/showthread.php?t=887

has the system for adults or kids evolved any since then...

He has a pool and a nice house. That bumps him up to a three out of 1000 on the coolness scale.

I thought it was a fair piece. Thompson didn't go unchallenged on many points, and I really don't think we should expect him to get grilled as much as we would prefer on national television. I would have liked them to mention the donation to charity that he claimed was satire and didn't pay, but that they even mentioned the incident at all impressed me.

*we really need an edit button here, so sorry for the double post*

another thing that kinda suprised me was they mentioned JT's Mortal Kombat, despite what happened with that, he almost seemed to smile at it a little (not much)

"poor me, I'm just a poor Jesus fan in the heart of Satan-ville. oh, those horrible horrible companies, mentally masturbating into the hearts of our sweet and innocent children. I'll keep fighting the good fight, no matter how many times they try to put me away for being so Christian... they eat puppies too you know"

/barf

@Jabrwock

Of course, silly! You just need to modify the process so that you're sucking on the head wound! With the heart being manually pumped the slug will just pop right out!

I'm glad JT got grilled on TV. I'm glad that reporters and the mainstream media are starting to pay attention to his lies.

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He just mis quoted Churchill, now I am mad.

I hate how he paints himself as a Christian Crusader. He isn't, his utter lack of empathy for people has proven that to me. He made fun of someone who killed himself. He mocked the mans friends.

Very unbiased. I was honestly surprised when the reporter brought up all the flaws in JT's thinking. Huzzah to Nightline for showing some spine. 'Course, JT will prolly sue them soon for slander as they didn't put him in the best light possible.

Crap, mislinked it.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance.htm

I smiled and even came a little close to laughing when watching this. That reporter seemed to put JT on the spot on a lot of points.

The only thing I didn't like was how much it seemed to be free publicity for him. Case in point, when they started talking about the character in MKA modeled after him, he started smiling and chuckling a little bit, contradictory to his actions towards Midway Entertainment in the whole ordeal.

What I'm saying is that JT follows the same route Eminem and numerous gangsta rappers have taken. The whole mentality of knowing that they have a bad rep that they can use to garner attention and potentially money. JT realizes that the fact that people hate him can garner him attention as more people get curious as to who he is and why gamers hate him so much. Basically we are giving Jack exactly what he wants. Like I have said time and time again, don't give him the satisfaction of feeding his cause by constantly paying attention to the things he does. He's like a spoiled child that acts out specifically to get attention from the people who feed him.

Anyways, I think the reporter should have grilled him more. Namely his mocking of the gamer suicide, giving out rude emails and letters to gamers and industry officials telling them to go smoke pot or for us computer nerds to get out from behind our computers or whatever else he dreams up. One exchange he had told a guy to f*** off twice. I forgot where I found that though.

Instead of the righteous firebrand who crusades against the corruption of the children that this man purports himself to be, this article seems to portray him as a silly, unfortunate and harmless figure.

The interviewer has fun with him about the Janet Reno incident, about violence in the Bible, and regarding the reduction in teen violence and in each case it's like he stumbles to come up with an answer that doesn't make him seem as ridiculous as he is.

Even at the end when the news anchor refers to him as the "Virtue Vigilante", it's like tailing off at the end of any feel-good, unimportant news story that's used for filler on a slow news day. You can imagine her saying in the same tone of voice "So that kitten will "paws" before climbing a tree that high again!".

From his press releases clamouring to inform everyone about this appearance, you would think they were going to praise him from the heavens. This seems to be nothing more than a novelty "Look what this crazy guy is up to!" piece. Next week it'll be the guy with the biggest rubber band collection in the world, after that, the oldest athlete in the world, etc. He's the latest in a line of "curious characters" highlight by news networks when they are clutching at straws for stories.

@Shoehorn O'Plenty: Now that's what I was thinking. Thank you!

@nightwng2000
While that's true, I hardly think that this is a new thing, which is the lynchpin in JT's argument. It seems these numbers would be hard to get, but I think it would be interesting to see how much unreported school violence has gone up or down in the past 10 years.

Wait, who was that correspondent who was interviewing JT? I would love to know. He asked tough questions.

It would have been cool if they mentioned his feud with Penny Arcade over his game suggestion.

"In some cases, those lines turned to violent mobs, providing one man in Florida yet another sign that American culture is going straight to hell.

"The violence, and the mayhem that we saw in those lines, I think, is somewhat indicative of the mentality," Jack Thompson said. "

.... Tickle me Elmo?

""The murder rate is down because now the emergency response of emergency medical teams is so rapid that people aren't dying like they used to.""

Oh, so THAT'S why so many attempted murders are so far up. *cough*

That was much better then I thought it would be.

Though they left out certain aspects about his Modest propesal, they were quite fair overall, which for those who know me, is high praise.

Still, Is it just me, or does the jack thompson on tv seem highly different from the one we used to deal with.

ITS A CONSPRICY! THE SCHOOLS ARE IN LINE WITH THE NHK (NIHON HIKKIMORI KOUKAI) AND ROCKSTAR IN A PLAN TO MAKE CHILDREN INTO VIOLENT SHUTINS! OH NOES!

CAPSLOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOL!

Two things:

"The pioneers take all the arrows..." Jack's way past the pioneer stage. He's been at it for years and if anything he's less successful than ever. I like how he never gave a real answer as to why he can't win.

Which family was the correspondent talking about that disassociated itself from him?

All in all, I was pleasantly surprised how it all turned out. It wasn't the asskissing session I feared it might be.

He thinks it was reasonable to hand Janet Reno a question about her sexuality? That's mature.

I just...don't get why this man still has a career.

I found it very funny when he started talking about the brain scans. He makes it sound as if video games are the only things that can stimulate this activity in the primitive/animal part of the brain.

I wonder what the results would be if a similar sample of teens were scanned after taking part in competitive sports. I would like for these researchers to repeat the experiment, but instead substitute a half hour spent playing basketball or football against each other, in place of the video games.

I imagine it's the drive to succeed and overcome a challenge that stimulates this brain activity, and the same results would be seen whether you've been trying to get headshots in Counter-Strike, or trying to weave past the opposition players in a game of football.

Sports seem to increase aggression a lot more than video games in my opinion. I've seen an huge amounts of clips of fights starting during games of soccer, GAA sports, basketball, etc. As someone who has played video games for most of my adult life, including as part of my job, the most violent behaviour I have ever witnessed is a punch on the arm delivered to someone who wouldn't stop being a cheesy player in Soul Calibur.

I think it is extremely amusing to see how somebody that is SO against violence and agression, openly states that one of his biggest "examples" is a wartime leader :-) ( The quote he uses even comes from during the War, i mean, come on, that's just ridiculous...

“[My] most favorite story in the Bible is David and Goliath,” Thompson said.

This story involves David using a single stone in a sling to hit Goliath in a weak point in the armor. (The rational was faith in God managed to guide the stone, although immense skill and accurracy can have the same result.)

The message of the story somehow fell on deaf ears. In this case, it looks like attempts to inaccurratly throw rubber balls in a general direction of a target, with the hopes that it would actually inflict damage (which it won't.)

Really, I thought it would’ve been that little story in the Bible about a guy called Jesus,

Depends on the Bible. There's two testaments involved - the Old Testament and the New Testament. Judaism places its focus on the Old Testament (specifically the first five books), while Christianity focuses on the New Testament (specifically the four books of the apostles.) Not that it matters, since there's ~6 billion religions on the planet.

YouTube'd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM7cwLTSnkQ

"[My] most favorite story in the Bible is David and Goliath," Thompson said.

Really, I thought it would've been that little story in the Bible about a guy called Jesus, but hey, I'm a gamer, so maybe my priorities aren't straight.

I think the tide is beginning to turn in our favour... over the last month or so, the negative press about the game industry seems to be waning. In its place, senators, other public figures (even the NIMF), etc seem to be somewhat positive or at the very least fair about games... Anyone else notice that? Anyone wonder why?