January 24, 2006

Jack Thompson Responds to Gamer Death

Category: News — admin @ 12:29 pm

Here’s a followup on the gamer suicide story I posted a while ago. Apparently there’s an infamous character in the gaming community known as ‘Jack Thompson‘ (an anti-violence in video games vigilante lawyer): here’s what he had to say about the situation.

“Your “gamer friend” will find peace through the Lord, Jesus Christ, but sadly it’s too late for that.

There is a void in every heart. You can fill it up with the things of God, or the things not of God. This unfortunate soul chose to fill it up with combat games. The playing of these video games is masturbatory activity, meaning senseless self-stimulation. If you gamers could use a dictionary you would know that that term is not necessarily a sexual one.

The real tragedy here extends beyond the life and death of this one fellow. There are literally millions of young people and young adults whose despair is deepend by turning to the things of this world and then finding them meaningless.

All of you gamers need to put down the controllers and get a life. The utter inanity of the vast majority of postings here shows how vapid “gaming” really is.

You are one of the cheerleaders for this wasting of time and the wasting of lives. Do you feel any remorse for having contributed to this “culture of death?” Of course not. Hey, let’s all play MORE games, and ignore all the really productive things to do with our lives.

Let’s pretend to be shocked that a gamer might descend into deeper depression, as his gamer “buds,” knowing he was killing himself, couldn’t figure out how to call 911 themselves for him. That would have involved leaving their computers I guess.

Sad. Sad for all of you.”

Here is an article written by friends and peers of Mitchell at MetalGearSolid.org.

4 Comments »

  1. This guy is such a f**king dick. He has no idea what video games are and uses them as a scapegoat to make a name for himself. This fucker is gonna rot in hell, and hell will be him in an eternal LAN party ;~)

    Comment by Dr. D — January 24, 2006 @ 12:39 pm

  2. Jack Thompson is a fag.

    Comment by sem — January 24, 2006 @ 12:50 pm

  3. Holy shit, what a ****ing asshole

    Comment by Blarg — January 27, 2006 @ 6:43 pm

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