Jack Thompson's New Target
 

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/22 ... 29609.html
[quote:708c0] How do you like your hot coffee? If you're Jack Thompson, you like it scalding game publisher's laps. The Miami attorney and antigaming activist has done his share to see that games don't fall into the wrong hands. And lately, those hands have belonged to almost everyone.

Thompson was among those who spearheaded the recent effort to slap an "Adults Only" rating on Rockstar Games' Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, and he's often been on the forefront of many other gaming issues, several of which have targeted the crime-spree-based GTA franchise. In the past, he's represented defendants who have been the victims of GTA-inspired crimes, including the triple homicide of three police officers by an 18-year-old boy in Alabama.

His beef with San Andreas? Unused code in the game that depicts sexual acts. These minigames can be unlocked by using game-cheat devices or patches available on the Internet.

Thompson is on a roll...and he's not done yet. His latest goat is a game that doesn't involve guns, carjacking, or prostitutes: He's going after Electronic Arts' The Sims 2.

In a manifesto sent today to press outlets, Thompson focuses on dismantling the Entertainment Software Ratings Board and exposing what he calls the industry's "latest dirty little secret." The secret's out now, and it involves nude sims.

In the statement, Thompson says, "Sims 2, the latest version of the Sims video game franchise ... contains, according to video game news sites, full frontal nudity, including nipples, penises, labia, and pubic hair."

The Sims 2 is a "life simulator." In the game, players steer their digital beings around their cyberlives. Actions include everything from the spectacular (getting married, having children, receiving promotions at work) to the mundane (cooking microwaved meals, going to the bathroom, mopping the floor). Such activities, as in real life, sometimes require nudity. EA circumvents inappropriateness by "blurring" out the nether regions, almost to a comical sense.

Knowing that the game is popular among all ages, EA has even taken steps to ensure that Sims fans aren't exposed to indecent depictions. In the recent expansion pack, The Sims 2 University, gamers can send their teenage sims off to college. However, instead of packing the expansion with "keggers" and "reefer," EA chose to use juice and bubble blowers.

Thompson doesn't seem to care. He cites a cheat code that can remove the blur that covers the nether regions. "The nudity placed there by the publisher/maker, Electronic Arts, is accessed by the use of a simple code that removes what is called 'the blur' which obscures the genital areas. In other words, the game was released to the public by the manufacturer knowing that the full frontal nudity was resident on the game and would be accessed by use of a simple code widely provided on the Internet."

It's not just the adults that are liberated from their wardrobes. Sims kids can also be nudified, "much to the delight, one can be sure, of pedophiles around the globe who can rehearse, in virtual reality, for their abuse."

Were this to be true, Thompson would have his smoking gun, and EA would be forced to recall all copies of The Sims 2. However, it's what's under the blur that Thompson's after. And what happens when the blur is lifted? A simple mannequin-esque smooth body, according to EA.

Jeff Brown, vice president of corporate communications at EA, in response to the accusations, told GameSpot, "This is nonsense. We've reviewed 100 percent of the content. There is no content inappropriate for a teen audience. Players never see a nude sim. If someone with an extreme amount of expertise and time were to remove the pixels, they would see that the sims have no genitals. They appear like Ken and Barbie."

Thompson doesn't buy it. "The sex and the nudity are in the game. That's the point. The blur is an admission that even the 'Ken and Barbie' features should not be displayed. The blur can be disarmed. This is no different than what is in San Andreas, although worse." [/quote:708c0]

Thompson s crazy anti game guy in the US for people that don't know.

What an ass. hake:

FFS im going to toys are us with a nude barbie and see if i get arrested.

But but..gi joe can be put beside her and stick his gun in some imaginary genetalia. ed:

He's going after online FPS games after this. His official website says these games are murder sumulators.

[quote:1379b]One current horrific example is a video game made available by Sony and Take-Two Interactive called Manhunt. This game allows you to train yourself to kill people by placing plastic bags over their heads while you watch them struggle while suffocating.[/quote:1379b]

[quote:1379b]You may be a parent whose child is addicted to video games. You may know someone harmed by someone addicted to violent entertainment who copycatted that violence. The victim, whoever it is, needs help. [/quote:1379b]

[quote:1379b]ANOTHER THOMPSON PREDICTION CAME TRUE: Dateline NBC reported Friday, December 13, 2002, that the Beltway Sniper, John Lee Malvo, was compelled by John Muhammad to train on the sniper video game, Halo, switched to sniper-mode or God-mode, to suppress his inhibition to kill.[/quote:1379b]

This guy has already admitted that he doesn't care what the gamers think, and doesn't care about their opinion on the issue. Better go ahead and buy as many online FPS games you can, they may not be around for much longer. oOo:

i read about this earlier... does he just make accusations like this with people following his orders? or do people actually defend the games, because it seems very easy to prove this guy wrong.

send him a message at [url:23086]http://www.stopkill.com[/url:23086], although he has a very smart-ass attitude towards anybody who e-mails him negatively, and it seems that he does pretty much respond to all e-mails. Send him goatse or something. rock:

[url:0561e]http://boards.gamefaqs.com/gfaqs/genmessage.php?board=914983&topic=22318541[/url:0561e]

A 14 year old 'pwned' Jack "Faggatron" Thompson.

rock:

man, thise whole thing is retarted. Its like saying if I buy a flight simulator im going to go fly a real life plane because of it. Im getting the feeling he is throwing around all this publicity to help the case of the kid who shot the three cops. I hope the kid goes away for a long time.

fuck this guy, and fuck what he stands for. I bet he gets off on writing twenty page reports and political essays on how the nudity is depicted in games.


closing statement: omg boobies on the internet

[quote:2d096]Jack Thompson wrote:

check into the nearest mental health facility[/quote:2d096]

I doubt a lawyer of his stature would demean a 14 year old by telling him to check in to the nearest mental hospital.

Sims kids can also be nudified, "much to the delight, one can be sure, of pedophiles around the globe who can rehearse, in virtual reality, for their abuse."

Oh god. I'd love to smack this fuck.

We need to all join pissforces and mix our different urines in a bucket, then drown this fakefagface in it.

LOL, sounds like a plan.

they'll never ban video games and this nutcase will never get a law made, so i'm not worried. happy: