Jack Thompson Responds to Take Two Suit

interactive_civilian writes "Jack Thompson has personally replied to ArsTechnica regarding their coverage of the lawsuit from TakeTwo. Really, it's best for Jack to speak for himself: 'I have been praying, literally, that Take-Two and its lawyers would do something so stupid, so arrogant, so dumb, even dumber than what they have to date done, that such a misstep would enable me to destroy Take-Two. With the filing of this SLAPP lawsuit last week, my prayers are finally answered. This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is, without a doubt, the single dumbest thing I have ever seen any lawyers do in my thirty years of practicing law--while in continuous good standing to do so with The Florida Bar, I might add, the shock radio and video game industry's efforts notwithstanding.'"

No truth to rumors

[Walt Dismal]

There is NO truth to the rumors that Jack will star in Saw IV.

Re:Is this a man or a foil?

[HTH NE1]

Vell, Jack Thompson's just this guy, you know?

God's Legal Team

[CompMD]

If only Jack would join forces with Fred Phelps, we'd have the ultimate legal team for all that is moral and right in this world.

In all seriousness, I think Jack should move to Topeka with Fred. With the two of them together, I think we can justify the use of nuclear weapons on American citizens. Just two of them. It would so be worth it.

Re:Hoax?

[brunascle]

The language doesn't feel right for a lawyer

i agree. as i read it, in my head i'm replying "so's your face"

Re:Wow.. I mean... wow

[Rob T Firefly]

Well, if it is him, he sure is losing a lot of credibility.

He had credibility?

WOW!

[sanjacguy]

Jack Thompson's letter closes with

Amen, and Praise be to God Almighty, maker of Heaven, Earth, and yes, the maker even video games. Jack Thompson

OMG, I'm like the most religious person ever with my raiding guild! Quick! To Blackwing Lair! For Justice! For Freedom! For Jesus!

Man, I couldn't even TYPE that with a straight face!

Don Quixote

[Vaibhav_Locke]

I me15ter on the ars discussion puts it best, so i quote his quote here:

In short, his wits being quite gone, he hit upon the strangest notion that ever madman in this world hit upon, and that was that he fancied it was right and requisite, as well for the support of his own honour as for the service of his country, that he should make a knight-errant of himself, roaming the world over in full armour and on horseback in quest of adventures, and putting in practice himself all that he had read of as being the usual practices of knights-errant; righting every kind of wrong, and exposing himself to peril and danger from which, in the issue, he was to reap eternal renown and fame. -Don Quixote

Re:Define Good Standing

[Chris Burke]

Yup - his antics are so ridiculous that they made him take a sanity test.

Yeah, and the psychiatric profession is still reeling from the blow to the credibility of their sanity test. They continue to look for the solution to what they call "The Thompson Erroneous Sane Diagnosis Anomaly" or just "The Thompson Anomaly".

Re:Written by God?

[Vaibhav_Locke]

Please, ever word in the Bible is the unfiltered word of God himself, clearly untouched by over two thousand years of interpretation, translation and additions

Re:WTF?

[GiovanniZero]

We can't allow that to happen, not because Take Two needs to stay the way it is but because Jack Thompson will never shut up.

Won't someone think of the children!?

Re:Lawyers praying?

[kalirion]

The fact that Jack isn't in jail yet is a testament to his 1337 pr4y3r $k!112. Of course just who he's praying to is a matter of some debate...

Re:Is this a man or a foil?

[SomeoneGotMyNick]

Is Jack Thomson a real crazy person, or is he some cleverly created foil?

He has a Wikipedia [wikipedia.org] entry, so he must be real. Right.....????

Also, while I was on Wikipedia, I found out that Sinbad had died.

Re:Written by God?

[Vaibhav_Locke]

I omitted them

Re:Question

[NeilTheStupidHead]

Does anybody know the term for a "pseudo-lawyer" that's comparable to "quack" being used to describe a fake doctor?

"A Thompson" - It's an eponym.

Re:Question

[Jherek Carnelian]

Does anybody know the term for a "pseudo-lawyer" that's comparable to "quack" being used to describe a fake doctor?

Politician

Re:WOW!

[MeanderingMind]

All I want to know is, how did Jesus manage to keep from releasing his spirit for 3 days without being in an instance? He couldn't have used a soulstone otherwise.

But then he did say, "Into your hands I commit my spirit", which would indicate he instantly released. If that's the case, I guess the corpse run was just a really long one. Having them move the body into a sealed tomb probably didn't help, although he might have been in range to rez outside.

I'm sorry God, don't smite me. I haven't hit level 60 yet!

Re:JT missed a quote in his letter

[MeanderingMind]

Great, now all those nifty graphics APIs are going to have to have methods for differentiating between renderings for Caesar and renderings for God. Thanks a bunch.

Jack Thompson knows dumb

[sdhankin]

"This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is, without a doubt, the single dumbest thing I have ever seen any lawyers do in my thirty years of practicing law..."

Listen to the man - if anyone knows stupid moves, it's Jack.

Re:March 23, 2007

[Anonymous Coward]

That's right, on March 23, the entire Take Two management and board will be gone....TAKEN BY THE RAPTURE!

Jack sure will be surprised when his prediction comes true, and he's stuck here with all us other sinners to suffer the torment of the Tribulation. How ironic.

Re:No truth to rumors

[Lord Kano]

I can hear it now...

• "Hello Jack. I want to play a game. For more than a decade you've seen yourself as a moral crusader. You've attempted to dictate to others what music they should listen to and what video games they should play because of your own sense of ethics. Today is different. You are now chained to a chair with one pound of dynamite placed directly beneath your scrotum. This dynamite will explode in ten minutes. In front of you is a PC with the game Grand Theft Auto:San Andreas with the Hot Coffee mod. If you can guide CJ to all 50 oysters, and have sexually satisfy two of his girlfriends, your restraints will open. Can you put aside your closed-minded prejudice long enough to save yourself? The game has begun."

LK

Re:Question

[Anonymous Coward]

Does anybody know the term for a "pseudo-lawyer" that's comparable to "quack" being used to describe a fake doctor?

My dad, who is a lawyer, calls them "paralegals"