A Kinder, Saner Jack Thompson?

January 29th, 2008, 5:19am by Jeff

Jack Thompson isn’t exactly popular in the gaming community.  With his crazy, ridiculous rants about Bully’s non-existent “gay sex”, uninformed and callous blathering on how videogames caused the Virginia Tech shooting, and his baseless, frivolous lawsuits against anyone that may have criticized him, it’s really no mystery as to why he’s so reviled (and there’s really so much more than this too).  So it was a bit surprising to see that, rather than simply riding the idiotic and completely unresearched Mass Effect “sexbox” craze of the last few weeks, he actually defended the game, calling the controversy “contrived” (and we needn’t dwell on the irony here).

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Political WoW

July 24th, 2007, 10:23pm by Jeff

I’m not sure if it’s necessarily a good thing that a senator has enough time to have a level 70 WoW Character, but maybe if more of our own senators actually played some of these games they wouldn’t be so quick to demonize them.

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