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- BaxterK, on 10/10/2007, -2/+46Jack Thompson is a joke. I think at first people and pundits took him seriously, but it seems like he’s being abandoned by them. This seems like a man either looking for attention or a man trying to stem the leaks in the leaky dike known as his credibility.
- Daveydje, on 10/10/2007, -1/+39I do wonder what the hell happened to Jack in his life to make him so vitriolic in his dislike of video gaming... My guess would be he sucked at Counterstrike, and the position of "If i can't win, i'm going to stop everyone from playing!". *toys thrown firmly out of pram*
- burstaneurysm, on 10/10/2007, -2/+36Seriously, ***** that guy.
- wzeallor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+29Jack Thompson actually gave me a “cease and desist”.
September 21st, 2007 by Scott
Not any sort of official or legal one, mind you, but he did indeed send me the following this morning:
Subject: You have one hour to cease and desist
http://www.myextralife.com/?p=6464
Included in his email were his address, phone numbers, and other personal contact info that I will not be posting here. (It’s all junk that can be found online in various places anyway, but I won’t stoop to posting his personal contact stuff here.)
I completely assumed that this was one of you jokers trying to be funny and mess with me. I was sure of it. In my mind, I said, “Well, someone went online, searched some old Joystiq or Kotaku posts and found all that info, and tried to spoof me with it.” There was one little problem. Did a deep check on the email address, and traced it back to ISP, location, etc. The email header was not faked, the data is real, and this indeed came from his very one personal email address. I won’t tell you the address itself, but I will tell you that he has the single most ironic email address I think I have ever laid eyes on. Anyway…
When I was unsure of who it was, I replied with the following:
If you are the real Jack Thompson, then I should be getting a LEGAL cease and desist letter from you, not some anonymous comment in a blog post. So since I did not get that. And since I don’t think you are him at all, then the answer is no.
Nice try though…made me giggle.
Scott
To which he then replied:
Ok, your mistake. Laugh your ass off
With the missing punctuation and everything. At that point, keep in mind, I still figured this was a faker, a hypothesis reinforced by the last reply, given its Jr. High execution. That’s when I started to dig around for email confirmation, just to be sure.
Now that I know it’s him, I have had to make a decision: Since anyone with half a mind knows he has no legal basis to say anything to me about anything, especially something as dumb and satirical as a Photoshop Contest, it becomes more the matter of do I respond at all, say anything, do this post, etc. and give him the additional exposure he seems to crave among the gaming crowd, or do I NOT feed the ultimate internet troll and let is slide.
I decided to post something for a simple reason. Whenever things like this go down, I have a sincere need and desire to share it with the EL community. So that is just what I am doing here.
I have some questions: Why would a person sit in front of a computer and search Technorati or other engines all day to see if people are saying your name? Why would a person care about a photoshop contest to the degree that they make threats to meet that care? Why would a Florida bar certified lawyer even bother with our stupid little mom and pop shop here? Why would that self same lawyer tell me to “laugh my ass off”, or post a comment in a blog, or any of these things and still expect people to consider him a professional in field of law?
Do ALL lawyers do this sort of thing? Just strip away your problems with his stance and actions with the video game industry for a moment, and just for a minute, consider the kind of personality it takes to be driven to such ends as these. To post a cease and desist notice in blog comments? To email the cartoonist and do the same? To assume that I am no smarter than a under-developed brick with mild retardation? It, in all honesty, feels like a weird dream I am not allowed to understand.
So let’s just touch on the core issue here: I have run yet another Photoshop contest, as I am prone to do every few weeks, have chosen a topic to reflect some recent news dealing with Jack, you guys are working away on your entries….and through all this, somehow I have warranted the time and worry of Jack Thompson. It boggles. It really does. Just pray you never see Jack in political office, lest each and every political cartoonist be sued daily.
I could go on for pages about this, but I think this is just about all the exposure I want to give him and his twisted need for recognition. I just find the whole thing strange, surreal, funny, sad, enlightening, retarded, and lame all at the same time. There should be a word for this sort of thing, but I can think of none.
PS: You’d think he would have a harder time with me back in January. - TheTaoOfBill, on 10/10/2007, -3/+31Digg up if you don't like being told what to do
- wzeallor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+27Here's the contest with entries:
Ok folks. This is gonna be a fun one. Since Jack Thompson thinks he’s going to be featured as a boss in GTA4, it might be fun if you guys come up with a few ideas of where else Jack might show his ugly face. Here is your mission:
Instead of giving you an image to modify, your job is to photoshop up something having to do with Jack in other video game settings, old or new, does not matter. The only rule is that is has to feature Jack in the image, and have to do with video games of some kind. I am REALLY excited to see what you come up with.
Here are some base images of Jack to work from if you need a head start.
Top three winners get a 9×12 print of THIS delivered to your door. :)
Submit your entires to myextralife at gmail dot com, with the subject: contest (And yes, if you live outside the US, you can still win. )
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9994850@N06/140906600 ...
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/ramltfaw/Hi ...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v619/neroga/Gala ...
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1054/1410813346_0a0 ...
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v403/dinokind/?a ...
http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q41/Imsickoflos ...
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a249/ramltfaw/Hi ...
http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=gta3ui4.p ...
http://image.com.com/gamespot/images/2006/298/jack ...
http://ohshot.com/depot/2ec41d.gif
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9994850@N06/141413137 ...
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/8963/thompsonzo ...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/agcm/1415329819/
http://img220.imageshack.us/my.php?image=jackthomp ... - norbiu, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21Jack Thompson: Cease and desist, or else.
Scott Johnson: Or else what?
Jack Thompson: Or else I will be very very angry with you... and I will write you a letter, telling you how angry I am. - Alex2, on 10/10/2007, -0/+19It's just a C&D letter.
It's like the RIAA sending out mass emails saying 'quit copying our stuff!'.
Nothing really happens until you get sued. - Trocisp, on 10/10/2007, -2/+16Irony, anyone?
- iFungus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+14Because Jack Thompson needs to be treated with utmost respect for all he has done to save the moral decency of America.
Idiot. - TaranWalker, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12"Show me on the doll where Mario touched you!"
- da_bradler, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12It's funny that people are starting to stop being mad at him now that he has no credibility left, now he is just kinda thought of as that crazy old man who likes to write letters.
- sgoogle, on 10/10/2007, -3/+14Stop shouting and check Dug Mirror before you post a link to it.
YOU SUXXXXXXX - nihilite, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10I don't get it. So whenever we use the word "douchebag", do we need to clear it with his legal team?
- demodawid, on 10/10/2007, -6/+14He's probably just trying to save whatever little credibility he has... I pity this man, seriously.
- Moriya, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Has anyone read Thompson's letters, phone messages, etc? They are the most unprofessional, ridiculous things I've read. He sounds like a whiny 8 year old brat, not a lawyer - whoever gave this clown his JD is kicking themselves.
- Kericr, on 10/10/2007, -10/+18Please stop digging Jack Thompson stories everyone. PLEASE.
- mst3kcrow, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7"There was one little problem. Did a deep check on the email address, and traced it back to ISP, location, etc. The email header was not faked, the data is real, and this indeed came from his very one personal email address." --FTA
- evilevil, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q41/Imsickoflos ...
heh thought his number started with 666 there for a second!... - AndyVenus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7That's a great point, why the hell does he have such a huge vendetta against games? What made him honestly think games make people bad?
- norbiu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Scott Johnson is awesome! Next week's podcast should be fun.
Btw, Jack Thompson ... Go ***** yourself ! - 64bprophet, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Gosh... You know you've arrived as a gaming website when Jack threatens you. Wish I had a site that was getting threatened.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8LOL the guy is a fruitcake.
- TheTaoOfBill, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6Why? He's so entertaining!
- Chakat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Check out his bio. He's a fundamenalist demagogue, believing he's fighting to preserve the morality of the US. He's a lot like the taliban; people who take religion way too far and who deserve scorn and derision.
- flamov, on 10/10/2007, -4/+8The contest will probably make him look better at least. Maybe he should compete :D
ExtraLife ftw! : ) - gamerfreak1203, on 10/10/2007, -2/+6Fert
- zeno60, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Didn't this guy just get suspended from practicing law by the Florida Bar?
- Madhatter73, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3"A public figure is someone who has actively sought, in a given matter of public interest, to influence the resolution of the matter. In addition to the obvious public figures — a government employee, a senator, a presidential candidate — someone may be a limited-purpose public figure. A limited-purpose public figure is one who (a) voluntarily participates in a discussion about a public controversy, and (b) has access to the media to get his or her own view across."
Guess what Jackie boy... Your endless quest to spank the video game industry fits the textbook definition of a limited-purpose public figure. As such, any parody of you is protected by the first amendment.
Which, being a lawyer, you know of course.
Good job trying to scare people into submission Jack. You know if you take this thing to court, 1000 more sites just like it will pop up as soon as the judgment against you goes public. - Davinator, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4and it's down.
- Pixelante, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4TO: JACK THOMPSON
CEASE AND DESIST FROM PERFORMING ANY METABOLIC ACTIVITY IMMEDIATELY. - TacticalPenguin, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4No, then he would have more kids who would grow up to be just as bad
- remyz16, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3Dugg for being one of the posted contest submissions.
- MagicCake, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3The man IS childish. Everything he does is ridiculous and petty. In fact, that's how you can be sure it's him when you get some ***** letter that sounds like it was written by an angry 12 year old.
- luciferin, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3It's more hypocrisy and a failed attempt at irony.
- thejokell, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Coral Cache got it:
http://www.myextralife.com.nyud.net:8080/?p=6480 - voetsjoeba, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2and it's down.
- bigbird1040, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I'd listen to him if I were you, before he sicks courtroom bloodhound Jack McCoy on you.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_McCoy) - frazw, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2My guess would be that it gets him free publicity. Which brings him work.
- ukthom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1damnit..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorn ... - Squigy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1What a lame lawyer that one is.
- Squigy, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2I second that.
- StatiK69, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I don't usually give two craps about jack thompson, but makes me wanna fire up photoshop and put his face in the fat guy in mike tyson's punch out.
- sittered, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Dugg for use of "pram."
- Travelsonic, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1How can you tell? After all, Thompson is infamous for trolling on the internet like a little bitch.
- oxdeltaxo, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Well said, Bravo.
JT is under the impression he can tell anyone to do anything on the basis that he is a lawyer. - badjoke, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1He's pretty much going "I'm a law-person!" and throwing around words he thinks are scary.
- ukthom, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1wow...I had no idea who this doofus was.
Then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorn ... taught me everything I didn't know.
What a jerk! - Sixcolors, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Server destroyed! Next level!
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