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With Grand Theft Auto 6 poised to take over the world, I reached out to Jack Thompson and it did not go well

4 days ago by inclementimmigrant to c/games

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GTA is mainstream now, but the fiery activist who raged against violent videogames in the early 2000s has not softened.
everett 68 points 4 days ago

Believe me, I clicked this link ready to laugh at a fresh Jack Thompson badtake, and... didn't get that at all from the article. In fact, what little Thompson did have to say to the journalist was, I don't know, pretty agreeable?

Thompson, who lives in Florida, is clearly unhappy with various GTA 6 promotional partnerships being enacted across the state. "If you don't understand that government promotion of commercial interests is fascism then we have very little to talk about," Thompson told me. "Ask the County Sheriff what she thinks about this unholy corporatist alliance."

I had in fact asked the sheriff, and the sheriff's department told me that it is not concerned by "promotional decisions [made] by private businesses or organizations." I relayed this to Thompson, who accused me of drinking the "fascist Kool-Aid," likened me to Joseph Goebbels, and told me to stop bothering him. He elaborated on that, very slightly, in a subsequent email: "The problem is your work proves you are not an honest journalist."

By the way, Thompson didn't say anything about videogame violence.

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hypnicjerk 26 points 4 days ago

actually based

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Katana314 6 points 4 days ago

Sounds like there's more I'd want to see clarified. What lead him to imply the state was directly working with an advertiser? If an ad was posted on the side of a building owned by a property company, then I'm not sure I see the government relation.

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everett 7 points 4 days ago

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ampersandrew -1 points 4 days ago

Governments hand out perks in the interest of tourism all the time. That hardly makes it fascist.

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inclementimmigrant 36 points 4 days ago

It's funny how after two decades I find myself thinking that both Jack Thompson and Rockstar leadership both contemptable for their views at the same time.

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_haha_oh_wow_ 33 points 4 days ago

Fuck both Jack Thompson and GTA6

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brave_lemmywinks 12 points 3 days ago

Now there's a name I haven't heard in 20 years. It all seems so minor and dumb now.

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missingno 10 points 4 days ago

Why would you do that? What did you think would happen?

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Kolanaki 8 points 4 days ago

Maybe see if the dude ever chilled the fuck out and murdered some prostitutes in GTA.

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one_old_coder 5 points 4 days ago

And I thought this guy died aeons ago...

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VerilyFemme 2 points 4 days ago

Is Lieberman still alive to get his take?

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PonyOfWar 1 point 4 days ago

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DigDoug -12 points 4 days ago

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Jiggle_Physics 24 points 4 days ago

Jack Thompson was filing superfluous lawsuits about video games causing violence for decades. They had to disbar him to stop him from ignoring orders to stop bringing up what were, essentially, the same lawsuits over, and over, who's evidence had failed in every conceivable manner.

Anita Sarkeesian criticized sexist, and racist, tropes in video games, and the pig culture inside the industry, via a middling feminist blog until conservative culture war chuds decided to make her their focus when she posted a kickstarter to help fund Feminist Frequency make a video documentary series on sexist tropes in video games.

These two things are not similar other than they leveled criticism at video games. While Jack took shit online for his bullshit, he in no way experienced the level of harassment, and out-right contempt, that was leveled at Anita.

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DigDoug 2 points 4 days ago

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Jiggle_Physics 3 points 4 days ago

Ok, I see what you are saying, however it just came off as a strange next step. To me, it registered as things in the same wheelhouse.

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