Red_91 Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Well I found this over at gta4.net and found it quite funny. Heres the article Jack Thompson has come to the *cough* crazy conclusion that Tom "Guns don't kill people, videogames do" Goldberg, is somehow based on him. And he's now threatening to block GTA IV's release unless the references are removed.Goldberg is a shady lawyer who features in one of the two missions previewed by gaming magazines in July. The mission demands that Niko kills the lawyer, and Thompson believes this reference is "threatening his physical safety:" I have this morning read with interest an article on page 80 and 81 of the September 2007 issue of Game Informer magazine which was generated when, according to its author, Rockstar Games “stopped by the Game Informer offices for an impromptu hour-long gameplay session with the Xbox 360 version of the game." The showcasing play of the game to Game Informer revealed that the first killing mission of the "hero" of the game, Niko, is to kill a certain lawyer. When Niko comes into this lawyer’s office, having used subterfuge to do so, Niko pulls a gun on the lawyer who says, "that the firm supports the second amendment and that 'Guns don’t kill people. Video games do.'" …The fact that the lawyer, killed on Niko’s first mission, would bring up video games, makes it clearly a reference to me… This is not the first time Rockstar Games and Take Two have targeted me in this fashion. Take Two references to me as a bisexual pedophile on its corporate website… You have until five o’clock P.M. this Friday… to inform me that you are going to delete the above references and any other references that could reasonably be construed to be references to me in Grand Theft Auto IV and any other video games that are pending release… Now you have descended this low - using one of your games to threaten my physical safety… Failure to comply with the deadline… will result in my having to take necessary and proper means to stop release of the game which targets me personally… given the copycatting of violent games… Oh dear. I find it quite funny to be honest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Basically admiting that he's a jerk I lol'd. I actually hope he will take those 'necesarry' precautions. Just to see how it will turn out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas. Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 (edited) lol. How Jerky can people get. I loled @ Jace >> (Necessary Precautions). Yeah lets see how it will turn out. Edited September 30, 2007 by .:TFY:. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Woops. Edited that out. I really had no idea how to spell that.. But yeah, should have made the link with caution.. Wasn't he forbidden to do anything like that anymore? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Gorilla Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 I thought Jack Thompson was gone from our lives, well I was wrong. If Goldberg is based on him, he deserves it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TM™ Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 This is quiet old, but yeah, I hate Jack Thompson, he deserves to die. But I don't see the point of removing Goldberg, it's not like JT's going to get in affect with the game. I don't know what will happen to R* if they don't take these precautions. I hate threats like these sometimes, It ruins the storyline and the Characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angry Gorilla Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Probably nothing will happen to R*. Jack will lose as always, I hope. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDoubleU Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 surely he just gets the message and gives up tryin hasnt the guy got ne hobbies??? (apart from attemptin to sue rockstar?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gycu Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Jack Thompson proved me once again he is a moron ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDoubleU Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 amen to that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TG187 Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Ah, this was very funny. This proves how jerky he can be, as Jace said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
surrealistic ArtSweet Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 (edited) good God dudes, this guy still stand for his own beliefs, even though he knows the next one is going to make him broke, i think he'll gone mad after this one when will JT learn??? Edited September 30, 2007 by ArtSweet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TG187 Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Yes, thats the good question: When JT will understand he can't stop GTA games? Today, Tomorrow, or never? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LDoubleU Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 it will inevitably be the later! hes a fukin moron who will never let it go! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_91 Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 This news isn't that old TM released on 19th September, wasn't going to post this topic but I decided to post it anyway, I think that this will end in another sue from JT but will get nowhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas. Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Yeah at Red Devil. It should be a good storyline shoving it in JTs face with a mission in game with a gun. The mission and character what is based on him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeAtH Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Who the heck cares about his physical safety? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrLlamaLlama Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 I'm pretty sure he does. And I'm pretty sure the police do, and I'm pretty sure the government do, and I'm pretty sure the hospital staff who would have to accommodate for him do... Need i go on?No need to wish death on the guy, maybe extreme pain, but not death.But yeah, he can't touch GTAIV for shit, no matter how hard he tries. It's obvious R* are taking the piss, but there's no evidence there.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitsune Inferno Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Hmm, maybe Jack Thompson is a bisexual pedophile... Anyway, there are plenty of idiots who think video games start violence, so Jack Thompson can't totally claim Goldberg is based on him. Just the same, JT can't touch Take Two, Rockstar, and GTA 4. So his stupid ass lost before this even began. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red_91 Posted September 30, 2007 Author Share Posted September 30, 2007 I don't understand as well why people blame games becasue of violence, do we ever see people blaming the movies or music becasue of violence? They both promote it. Anyway on topic I thought JT and TT agreed that they couldn't sue each other and there was an agreement or something like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitsune Inferno Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 I don't understand as well why people blame games becasue of violence, do we ever see people blaming the movies or music becasue of violence? They both promote it. They did. They stopped once they got a new scapegoat: Video games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pandora Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 @TG: I mean, this Goldberg is suppossed to be some moron. And he's saying that this Goldberg is clearly based on him. That's why it's so funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kitsune Inferno Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 JT just ought to stick a pogo stick up his ass and bounce, because nobody gives two shits about what he has to say anymore. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gycu Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 Who the heck cares about his physical safety? That's right no one cares I lol'd at that quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbanoutlaw Posted September 30, 2007 Share Posted September 30, 2007 (edited) Jack(ass) Thompson will accomplish one thing, drawing interest in GTA4 from people who might not have payed attention to it otherwise. J(A)T is a crackpot who just wants fame & fortune & thinks he'll get it attacking a video game. I remember when Jerry Falwell & "Moral Majority" started his crusade against Larry Flynt (publisher of Hustler magazine). Flint ran some parody adds poking fun at Falwell in Hustler & Falwell circulated copies of the add in a MM newsletter trying to rally support in his fight w/ Flynt. Eventually this landed in the US Supreme Court & Falwell lost. Ironically, Flynt counter sued for copyright infringement (the MM newsletter) & won. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Flynt If you didn't read the entire "Legal Battles" section, the Supreme Court decided public figures couldn't recover damages from a "parody" J(A)T is SOL (s*** outta luck). DP - Nice. Start an internet petition that he has to do that in front of his local courthouse, I'll sign it. Edited September 30, 2007 by Urbanoutlaw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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