MasterSwordUltima
02-18-2007, 08:02 PM
http://www.shoutwire.com/comments/3915/Jack_Thompson_Offends_Everyone_Again
So I checked out Metalgearsolid.org today because I like to check out info about Metal Gear Online and grab some music here and there. So a little while ago, a member of their forum sadly commited suicide, and the press ripped this the hell apart, making up so much bullshit that never happened.
In the mess of things, Metalgearsolid.org has been closed down because of how the press changed the story. To top it all off, however, the [sorta] famous anti-gaming campaigner Jack Thompson has sent a letter to the owners of metalgearsolid.org. This may make you want to pick up a gun.
The letter reads:
"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."
I think its pathetic of how now he's gone down to the level of pure idiot, mocking a gamer's suicide and using that to fuel his trail.
So I checked out Metalgearsolid.org today because I like to check out info about Metal Gear Online and grab some music here and there. So a little while ago, a member of their forum sadly commited suicide, and the press ripped this the hell apart, making up so much bullshit that never happened.
In the mess of things, Metalgearsolid.org has been closed down because of how the press changed the story. To top it all off, however, the [sorta] famous anti-gaming campaigner Jack Thompson has sent a letter to the owners of metalgearsolid.org. This may make you want to pick up a gun.
The letter reads:
"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."
I think its pathetic of how now he's gone down to the level of pure idiot, mocking a gamer's suicide and using that to fuel his trail.