Jack Thompson seems to be getting more and annoying. Apparently he offered to do a interview for Gametwat after hearing they were being butchered online about a previous article. Maybe he thought he could make a friend? Unfortunately he does nothing more than spit out line after line of immature bullshit, using any excuse to insult practically everyone, including the very interviewers themselves!
P.S. read the comments at the bottom of the source, as they point out a lot of stuff you don't notice.
Can you sum up nice and succinctly what your problem with Video Games has been over the years?
Surely, and glad you asked, because most folks state what my position is and harpoon me for their fictions. I only oppose the sale of mature and adult games to kids at ages below the game rating. That’s it.
In this country, Grand Theft Auto games have been sold to kids as young as ten. My son, who did a sting with me, proved it, as has the US Federal Trade Commission over and over and over again. The problem with this is that the age rating is clearly an admission by the industry that an adult game is potentially harmful to, let’s say, a 12-year-old. And indeed they are, as the American Psychological Association has found that hyper-violent, “Mature-rated” games played by teen boys, young teens, leads to increased aggression. Brain scan studies at Harvard literally prove, visually, why this is true. The games are processed in a different part of the brain in kids, and it is the part that leads to copycatting. Take a look at the following Allstate Insurance ad recently run in major American newspapers. It gets at the same thing.
Game brain processing in teens does not connect to the frontal lobes. It’s a bit complicated, but every parent knows that kids copycat what they see and practice.
What of the accusation that the American Psychological Association actually doesn’t say that whatsoever, that you’re simply twisting their words? That what the APA actually says is that there’s no causal link between games and violence?
That’s absolutely false. Go read the report. It doesn’t say there is a correlation. It says there is causation. One of the psychologists on the APA panel who issued that report is one of our experts in the Alabama case. He confirms that the APA found causation.
The head of the panel, interviewed even by the head e-tard at GP, confirmed its causation, not mere correlation that they found between increased aggression and gameplay. I have no earthly idea where you got the notion that the APA said otherwise. Please read the report rather than what gamers say the report says. Here is what it says, at http://www.apa.org/releases/violentvideoC05.html
What are your thoughts of the people who comment on GamePolitics?
They’re people who have no idea what is really going on in the world. They care almost nothing about anything other than themselves and their petty concerns. They do not put the good of others ahead of their own narrow interests, because they are all about what they want to do, not what should be done for others.
GP really ought to stand for Godless Pissants.
Regardless about what has come out about Cho after the fact, you were on TV telling people it was ‘games what done it’ before his name was known, weren’t you? How can you justify those actions? That you were, essentially, guessing.
You know, you have a bad habit, which I am going to educate you out of, in assuming that what you have read I have said is really what I have said.
I said, on the Fox News Channel, that many of the prior school shootings were linked to games, like the worst one prior to V-Tech, in Erfurt, Germany, by a Counter-Strike nut. That is what I said. I also said that we don’t know who the shooter is and what he was into. Now, check the freaking tape...
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edit. Awesome the word Twat isn't censored.
"Thanks bro that's a good word. TWAT!" -Dane Cook
Regardless, Thompson's still a twat.
...WHILE saying that the shooting was linked to video games. GG Jack.
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Look at how bad his teeth are. :X
Anyways, can't he just leave us alone? I'd slap him in the face if I could!
This is guy is pretty sick, relating the V-Tech incident to Counter Strike.
E for Everyone: obviously, anyone can play it, let alone purchase it.
E+10 for ages 10 and up: for everyone above the age of ten. Also simple.
T for Teen: anybody who is 13 years old or higher should be able to purchase it without parental supervision.
M for Mature: should always be purchased with parental supervision unless you are above the age of 17; your parents should determine if you are mature enough to handle playing this sort of game.
A for Adult: anyone below the age of 18 is restricted completely from buying this game. Any sensible parent would not give their child this game.