Crazy Guy Wrote:Amen, and Praise be to God Almighty, maker of Heaven, Earth, and yes, the maker even video games.

Quote:This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is, without a doubt, the single dumbest thing I have ever seen any lawyers do in my thirty years of practicing law

Quote:Dear Gamers and Gamer Publications on the Internet and Elsewhere:

Quote:I have been praying, literally, that Take-Two and its lawyers would do something so stupid, so arrogant, so dumb, even dumber than what they have to date done, that such a misstep would enable me to destroy Take-Two.

Quote:With the filing of this SLAPP lawsuit last week, my prayers are finally answered.

Quote:This lawsuit, filed in US District Court for the Southern District of Florida, is, without a doubt, the single dumbest thing I have ever seen any lawyers do in my thirty years of practicing law

Quote:-- while in continuous good standing to do so with The Florida Bar, I might add,

Quote:the shock radio and video game industry's efforts notwithstanding.

Quote:I encourage folks to read Psalm 35, a Psalm of David,

Quote:which is brilliant in its entirety (since God Himself wrote it),

Quote:7 For without cause have they hid for me their net in a pit,
which without cause they have digged for my soul.

8 Let destruction come upon him at unawares;
and let his net that he hath hid catch himself:
into that very destruction let him fall.

Quote:9 And my soul shall be joyful in the LORD:
it shall rejoice in his salvation.

Quote:The pit Take-Two has dug for itself will be patently clear next week when I strike back.

Quote:Oh, and by the way, the entire Take-Two management and board will be gone on March 23, so this pit-digging comes at a very bad time indeed.

Quote:Amen, and Praise be to God Almighty, maker of Heaven, Earth, and yes, the maker even video games.

Quote:-Jack Thompson

Quote:Oh, I'm sure he knows, he just doesn't care to admit it...

Quote:Dum dum DUMMMM!!! Well, you certainly have the upper-hand then, Jack! Surely your history of professional misconduct will be canceled out by this.

Quote:Turns out he's played Counter Strike. Woot... Though statistically speaking, is it really a surprise?

Quote:One such observation, posted on The Lede last night, compared a photo sent to NBC by Mr. Cho with a poster from a South Korean movie. While we were trying to identify what may have been the inspiration for a single image — of Mr. Cho wielding a hammer — one reader saw an “underlying message” that “Koreans make weird and violent movies which inspire other Koreans like Cho to fly off the handle.” (Other comments can be found below).

Of course, we don’t know yet if Mr. Cho ever saw the film “Oldboy,” and even if he did, the film “is not real,” as another reader points out. With Mr. Cho expressing so many other reasons for his shooting spree, it is hardly time to start blaming movies.

One thing is sure: it’s pretty easy to find other men with hammers, using a quick Google image search.

Quote:The inspiration for perhaps the most inexplicable image in the set that Cho Seung-Hui mailed to NBC news on Monday may be a movie from South Korea that won the Gran Prix prize at Cannes Film Festival in 2004.

The poses in the two images are similar, and the plot of the movie, “Oldboy,” seems dark enough to merit at least some further study. Following is The Times’s plot summary:

The film centers on a seemingly ordinary businessman, Dae-su (the terrific Choi Min-sik), who, after being mysteriously imprisoned, goes on an extensive, exhausting rampage, seeking answers and all manner of bloody revenge.

In a Times review, Manohla Dargis wrote that the film’s “body count and sadistic violence” mostly appealed to “cult-film aficionados for whom distinctions between high art and low are unknown, unrecognized and certainly unwelcome.”

A Virginia Tech professor, Paul Harrill, alerted us of the similarity between images in the hope that it would shed some light on what led Mr. Cho to kill 32 on Monday before turning the gun on himself.

A Black Falcon Wrote:In high school. There was no sign that he ever played games in college (none of his roommates mention it, etc), and he was a senior, so it seems he stopped some years back, most likely...

Quote:In the settlement, filed with Federal District Court Judge Cecilia Altonaga, Thompson has agreed that he:

1.) will not sue or threaten to sue to block sale or distribution of any game published by Take Two or its subsidiaries (i.e., Rockstar).

2.) will not communicate to Take Two or anyone doing business with T2 (like, say Wal-Mart) any accusation that the company committed any wrongdoing by selling its games. Thompson is not restricted from criticizing the content of T2 games, nor is he prevented from acting as counsel in lawsuits brought against Take Two by other parties

3.) will make any future contacts with T2 through its attorneys

For its part Take Two has agreed to dismiss the federal lawsuit and Thompson will drop his counterclaim. T2 has also agreed to drop the Bully contempt of court matter. There was to have been a hearing on the case tomorrow morning, and Thompson could potentially have been jailed if he were found to be in contempt by a Miami-Dade County judge.

Quote:You think a petty thing like facts will get in Jack Thompsons way?

Quote:seriously, why does all the common sense exist exclusively on messageboards?)

Quote:that the root of Cho's problems are psychological? You know, mental illness? I mean, whether he was influenced by some form of media or not, you have to be a fucking looney to wanna kill people. Anyone who can't distinguish between reality and fantasy has a few screws loose and they shouldn't be used as a case to ruin everyone else's fun and freedom. So you found some form of media that contains similarity to something that happened in real life--that alone doesn't make a case against the aforementioned media. If someone is inspired by the story of Cain and Abel to kill their brother, is the FCC going to try and ban the Bible? That'd be hilarious.

A Black Falcon Wrote:Well, that's not quite true. Depending on where you go, stupid stuff is at least as common as sensible stuff is. There just aren't enough people here for there to be as much of the stupid stuff... :) I don't know that I'd say that common sense is more common on messageboards than elsewhere. :)