We Are a Criminal Element of the Game Industry!
Posted by Dan on October 21, 2008Jack Thompson really doesn’t like us now. Not as much as he hates GamePolitics, or the ECA, or even Kotaku (Hi Crecente!) but still, we’re not on his christmas list.
As evidence of this, Thompson has recently filed a motion in his lawsuit against the Florida Bar referring to this website, GamesLaw.net, as a “video game enem[y]” doing “criminal activities”. But get this, it’s a motion to….stay the Jack Thompson Disbarment Countdown Clock that a user at the ECA forums created. Yep. Clearly, this is a proper use of the court’s valuable time.
Anyway, Thompson rants predictably in his motion, accusing Kotaku Managing Editor Brian Crecente and Gawker Media founder Nick Denton of being gay, and wanting a homosexual tryst with Thompson; Strauss Zelnick of Take-Two interactive of essentially supporting murder art; and other less interesting rants against the ESA, the ECA, Doug Lowenstein, etc. His legal support for his motion is a quote from Jesus, followed up by accusing his detractors of being worse facist kooks than Justice Douglas’ “goose-stepping brigades.” Oh, and we’re a commerce-driven lynch mob. Right.
Mr. Thompson, we’re honored that you would think of us as your enemy, but we’re rather offended that you mentioned us in a motion rife with typos, and only give us a one sentence paragraph (with poor text justification at that). Seriously, would it hurt to run a spell checker?
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Jack Thompson spelled everything properly and used proper grammar. The villainous game industry went in and changed the pdf filing after it was at the courthouse.
Maybe it’s hard to run the spell-check and gnaw your own feet at the same time?
Pfffffffff…..
Well, I guess we should feel flattered that he thinks we’re behind his disbarment. But unfortunately he doesn’t think we’re as good-looking (or “comely” as he puts it) as Strauss Zelnick.
Wikipedia, eh? Good legal research skills, Former Attorney Thompson. And now, back to my plot to get you disbarred and corrupt the world’s children….Sue me
Strauss IS good looking though; he’s on this issue’s cover of Men’s Fitness. Uh-oh, Jack probably thinks I’m gay now.
Well in all fairness some of those people in that motion are pretty hard to compete with in my eyes. >_>
Wait, Dan, you’re not gay?
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