trinityvixen | And an update:

For those of you not priveleged to know

xannoside, I'd like to revisit a topic of much discussion last week: Jack Thompson, the Miami lawyer who believes violent video games make violent kids. He offered, in a move that makes no sense, money for charity if someone made a violent video game where the point was to target the video game industry and the innocent minimum-wagers who work part time in Best Buy. Basically, he held charity money for ransom until someone made a violent video game removed of all context to live out his own aggressive fantasies about blowing up, murdering, and destroying anyone on the developmental or distribution-side of video games.

This man is so nuts, the National Institute on Media and the Family (aka: conservatives whinging about pop culture destroying their childrens' morals) asked him not to say he knew them any more. That's right, he's so crazy, he's not even allowed in the pool with the other deluded souls. Not to mention, at the bottom of that last article, there's his responses to their request he leave them the fuck alone. They're priceless. For a laugh, check out a comparable attack cartoon to show how looney this guy is.

If this guy doesn't already make you mad, check out the last bit on this story: someone actually did what he wanted, and Mr. Thompson cried 'satire!' and pretended that made it all okay. What about that money he was going to give to charity? Not a cent coming from his pockets lined with crooked money earned suing people to all blazes. But let's move away from that and celebrate this. The boys at Penny Arcade not only ponied up the money, even after being accosted by Jack Thompson, but they did it in his name.

That, my friends, is an example of the right way to go about making a change. I may never be a fan of Penny Arcade the strip, but I have mad respect for the boys behind it. Down, down-right, right-on, Tycho and Gabe!