@Mister Gone

Good point. One I must make make use of if I am in that posistion. Which is not likely to happen.

Posting from home.

- Warren Lewis

@thefremen
LOL. I'm sure that helps.

I don't suppose anyone else was in attendance with a video camera?

Given past experences, he would have either ignored the questions (which he did) or he would have denied them. To me he is still trying to project a diffrent face to the mainstream public than the face he shows us. and doesn't want the mainstream public to see that face thereby either denying or ignoring comments or questions about it.

Are you still going to post the video? or have you posted it already? I'll check for it again in a bit but won't be able to hear it untill I get home. The computer hear does not have sound drivers :(

But otherwise don't worry about it. You live, learn and move on

Posting from school.

- Warren Lewis

Doesn't he have some lawsuits to attend to?

Oh, wait. The ego and publicity needs feeding.

CalU is my alma mater! I'm so glad this got posted. I'm going to have to see if I can't attend this.

I hope he looks bad after this debate. He is an idiot because he is helping Rockstar Games rather than hurting them. He makes people want to buy their games more. I hate his guts, but still he is a moron. I read in a history book one time that in the 1960's, reverands used to say that rock'n roll music was satanic and the more they said it, the more young people wanted it. I wasn't even thinking about getting Bully until I heard that he was trying to get it banned and, now that I have a PS2, I think I will in a few months.

He is only making people want Grand Theft Auto, Bully, The Warriors, and Manhunt more. He isn't helping anybody but Rockstar Games. I hate his guts still because he's an anti-game activist, but I think he is the best free advertising agency that Rockstar Games has. He makes himself look like and idiot and makes more people buy their products. It's ironic. He says, "I'm absolutely out to destroy Rockstar Games," and he's doing the exact opposite. Way to go, moron, you're either a great marketing executive, secretely working for Rockstar Games, or you're the DEE DEE DEE of the year.

@ Namrepus221

Posted mine too late. Google Video? cool. Will be interesting to see how this turns out.

Still posting from school.

- Warren Lewis

I figure I can get the video uploaded to Google Video (Youtube has that stupid 10 minute limit thing unless you pay) within 2 hours of arriving home.

Personally if I had the chance to go, I would boycott it. This is just funding Jack now that his career in law is coming to a self-induced end.

@NoFish

I'd give Jones the benefit of the doubt. Screw it, I'll give JT the benefit of the doubt also. Maybe pigs really will fly out of my...

This is very good news. I've been urging Jack (via these forums, which I'm sure he reads) to have a real debate with a gamer in order to intelligently express his points and show us that he really does have a case here.

Of course, whether or not this will happen depends on his maturity level in this debate. Hopefully this debate doesn't resemble his childish response to Dennis' questions last week.

@Grahamr

Debate has one crucial flaw that Mr. Thompson will surely take advantage of: There is no way to disprove a lying debater. Thompson will say that games have been proven tobe harmful to children, then will cite a clearly biased study, and unless Jones is familiar with the specific study cited he can do nothing but present his own evidence in contradiction, but there is no way to prove empirically which one of them is using the botched information.

And if that fails Thompson will simply provoke Jones into making an ass of himself, as he's shown to be quite good at that.

He's screwed......

Or, he's going to pull out of the debate at the last possible moment.

I just can't feasibly see him engaging in a debate. Will he try to make himself a martyr?

@ChrowX

And then to top it off: don't M/AO games make up the *minority* of all games being released? If the video game industry really has this so-call "corruption conspiracy" going on. Then why are M games the minority?

What I expect is a well balanced argument from jones, nad form THompson "I was part of pudacah, murder simulator, rockstar will be gone, i was on 60 minutes" and all the stuff he repeats over and over.

Well the debate went without incident....untill I spoke...

I asked why Jack called gamers worse than Nazi's, Skinheads, and others...why he said someone should go play a suicide simulator and get really good at it....

unfortunately... I attempted to interupt him several times, very unprofessionally....

After he changed the subject arround on me a few times I became disgusted and turned my back and gave him the finger....

I'm ashamed to call myself a gamer right now....I really am. That I attempted to confront him about how he treated individuals like gamers, and in the end became the confirming factor.

After the debate was over I did approach Mr. Thompson and offered my apologies for doing something like that the way I did.... Luckily he accepted them. unfortunately this will be written about in the newspaper and other news sources, will be on video on television here....

I'm really sorry guys.... I really am..... I've failed you all

In my quite subjective opinion, this is a debate between a man of reasoning and acceptance and a man of accusations and blind hate. The monk versus the crusader, if you will.

With this in mind, I would expect this to turn into a one-sided shouting match if it's not moderated. Sad, but I have yet to see Thompson react with courtesy to someone disagreeing with him and I don't expect Jones to be able to be the bigger bully when it gets ugly.

I can see what's going to happen. Jack's arguments will be calmly and intelligently discounted and shown to be wrong/baseless opinion, which will make him heated and frustrated and he will eventually resort to shouting over the other speaker.
You all saw what happened with the footage of him in court when the judge was giving him a dressing down. Instead of calmly waiting until the other person was finished speaking (which is an especially good idea if the person is a Judge), Thompson kept interrupting and trying to bully across his opinion, as he is so convinced he is right he will not even consider other points of view. The same thing with the G4 interview.

Hopefully there will be a mediator for this debate who is not affiliated with Mr. Thompson and will actually call him up if and when he does this and explain the rules to him: "You speak, the other guy listens, then it's his turn to speak and for you to listen."

I'm surprised Thompson agreed to this in the first place, considering previous debate challenges that he weaseled out of. That said, I hope this debate actually accomplishes something.

Yes and the definition of an adult video game is?

In Jack Thompson's mind anything violent and anything where there is women.

That can be applied to TV, movies, and the bible. So whats ur point?

hmm makes me wonder if Jack Thompson takes his child to the beach? or the the mall.

Mysticgamer

I wish Capcom would parody his ass. Not like he'd notice anyway.