Every society has to have one thing to unite against to give a sense of strength. We gamers develop our strength from infamous gaming bogeyman Jack Thompson.
This week it seems someone pitied him and gave him a job. While he can no longer appear in court or send letters to developers’ mothers telling them their sons are naughty boys, he will still be around to make snide comments about games on his new post at magazine Human Events.
Most gracefully exploiting the concept of truth, it seems in his bio on the site he is a great man responsible for ‘persuading TW to pull rapper Ice-T’s ‘Cop Killer’ from store shelves worldwide’, then apparently he disappeared until resurfacing in 2008.
Don’t worry though, Jack, we’ll fill in your crowning achievements. Here’s a few things you missed.
Remember when you stormed out of court saying the judge “doesn’t have the authority to sit there”?
How about the time you harassed a client who was suing you for defamation in an attempt to get the case withdrawn? Don’t forget all those times you filed cases against Rockstar citing the Grand Theft Auto series as responsible for any murder only for them to be dismissed.
Why did you forget to mention the 27 misconduct charges you were found guilty of? Like submitting pornographic material to court or the $43,675 fine along with being disbarred for life?
Thing is, Jack, if we’re sad for playing games and simulating murders, at least we’ve not ‘pretended’ to be a mediocre lawyer for the last 30 years.