Thompson breaks his word on $10k bounty, says he was just kidding
A team of GTA modders called the Fighting Hellfish has created a San Andreas mod for the PC that Jack Thompson could have designed—that is, if he included himself as the vengeful father he proposed earlier, on a murderous rampage through the video-game industry. And there you have the story of JT and his Banman alter ego in Defamation of Character: A Jack Thompson Murder Simulator.
But that's not all: not only is he unsatisfied with the mod, he claims his earlier proposal was merely intended as satire, to "highlight the patent hypocrisy and recklessness exhibited by the video game industry's willingness to target cops, women, homosexuals, and other groups with some of their violent games." (So the $10K offer to charity was satire, too?)
He then proceeds to ridicule gamers and the "video game community" for their lack of insight into his keen wit. Wait a second here, hasn't Jack seen any of those open letters posted online for him on various game sites and blogs these days? If he won't address these arguments directly in an objective setting, then how can there be any chance of a real dialogue? (Maybe you don't have to answer that…)
[Thanks, Hellfish and Texas; also via Game Politics]
