Yep. Jack Thompson does it again. He's a video game hater. This article:
calls him an "Anti-video game advocate," but truly, he's just a video game hater. There's nothing else to say about it. Apparently some folks over at the gaming blog Kotaku have said some nasty things about him that he found "threatening," so he decided to sue them. That's how things work these days, I guess. If you don't like what someone says about you, sue them.
Thompson's vendetta against video games has been fueled by the recent Virginia Tech incident, among other recent happenings. I think Thompson would probably use any act of violence as "evidence" that video games are bad. All violence these days is caused by video games, I guess.
The article in question (Kotaku) debunks Thompson's arguments that school shootings are caused by such video game playing. Thompson cites several "evidences" that video games were played by these shooters in preparation for their violent acts, which are all false. A favorite Thompson argument is that all of the shootings in the past decade have played violent video games before. This one is truly shocking... seeing as it is most likely that all of the students shot (though perhaps not the females) have also played violent video games before. In fact, if you take a poll of teenage boys in America, most of them have probably played a game before that is deemed by Thompson to be violent.
Secondly... I think it's pretty clear from everything that has been discovered about Cho Seung Hui that the kid was utterly out of his mind. He was mentally unstable. He was insane. I'm pretty sure video games can't do that to you. Thompson... you lose.
Posted by Shenlon at April 26, 2007 08:55 PM