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Jack Thompson Defends Mass Effect

Believe it or not Jack Thompson and I email sorta regularly. Granted he usually emails me bizarre, over-the-top press releases (which I often don't post) and I respond with disjointed quotes from movies, which I hope will one day remove that last wobbly hinge of his. (No luck yet).

Last week Jack emailed me a press release entitled "Grand Theft Auto IV to Be Released April 29; Culture War Begins Now" and after my typical poking, I got on to the topic of the Mass Effect controversy and was shocked, literally out of my socks, to find him defending the game... sort of. Apparently, even anti-gaming crusader Jack Thompson found self-help author Cooper Lawrence (who he refers to as a man), uninformed and the entire controversy contrived. Hellooooo kettle.

To: Brian
From: Jack
Immediate News Release - January 24, 2008
Grand Theft Auto IV to Be Released April 29; Culture War Begins Now

To: Jack
From: Brian
I like your new glasses.

To: Brian
From: Jack
Wow, as usual you're grasping the real news here.

To: Jack
From: Brian
I'm surprised you haven't been looking into Mass Effect.
http://kotaku.com/348692/ea-fighting-mad-about-fox-news-but-still-no-correction?cpage=2#viewcomments

To: Brian
From: Jack
Why would you be surprised. I don't see any problem with it. The guy who shot his mouth off about it had no idea what the Hell he was talking about.

To: Jack
From: Brian
You mean you're OK with mass effect?

To: Brian
From: Jack
Of course. This contrived controversy is absolutely ridiculous. Report that, why don't you?

Consider it reported. Now where did my socks go?

o.O wow this is amazing and shocking. lol

wow. Now all we need is Jesus to return.

Not even John Lucas saw this one coming. o_O

     

Staged!! i'm calling it now, thompson staged this to lull people into a false sense of credibility.

wow.... That is just weird....

To: Jack
From: Brian
I like your new glasses.

ROFFLE!

Jack probably only "defended" Mass Effect because he knew Cooper Lawrence was already on her way to a trainwreck and he didn't want to buy a ticket.

Would have been better if he said she got pwned ...search your feelings ..you know it to be true.

 Jack Thompson has been in so many train wrecks that no driver should ever let him on board, one more wouldn't hurt.

Maybe he is just anti-violence not anti-sex? 

Rath sums it up. Video game sex isn't his specialty, video game violence is what he goes after, so he's got his own car to wreck without trying to hijack someone else's.