Amen to that. I mean what a jackass. I think the industry police's itself pretty good considering the size of it. My wife is a manager of a Big name video store, and they wont rent to minors at all. You have to be 18 yrs old to have your own account. There will always be a story of a twelve year old buying the game. But over all I think people, parents, and gamers know what GTA is all about. No doubt my dumbass sister inlaw has bought the game for my 15 yr old nephew, but I'm not his parents. I have faith and trust in him that it's not going to send him out on a killing spree. (start with your parents please)
Jack Thompson Update.
Article | April 30, 2008 9:34 pm
With just about the entire world completely locked into Grand Theft Auto IV and its ridiculously deep setting of Liberty City, it seems that the enemy of all gamers, Jack Thompson, is at it again, and he's certainly been busy.
Thompson has led a charge in Miami to have just about all advertisements regarding GTA IV removed from the public transit authority in the Miami-Dade area. Chicago recently announced that they would also remove these advertisements from their buses as well.
However, the Florida-based lawyer has seemingly taken on a much larger opponent:
Everyone.
In a report that was released from ArsTechnica.com, Thompson claims that just about everyone is responsible for the mental anguish and years of abuse that this game will seemingly cause the world.
Indictments should be returned against Take Two corporately and its Chairman, Strauss Zelnick, along with other Take Two officers. Indictment should also be against Sony and Microsoft which are making this pornographic game available to minors, and openly so, on their PS3 and Xbox systems.
Further, indictments should be handed down against Wal-Mart, Best Buy, GameStop, and all other retailers distributing this game to minors at their retail stores, openly, to kids who are only seventeen.
Grand Theft Auto IV is the gravest assault upon children in this country since polio.
Now, that's just an excerpt from this report, but I simply have one question to pose him:
Really?
Let's think about this for a second. You want to bring up an indictment against not only the head of Take Two, but every retailer that carries the game? Does this mean you're going to take on the employees of these companies for simply selling these games? Honestly, I hope he does, because I work for one of these retailers, and he'll be happy to know that I refused to sell to a few kids because they weren't 17 years old.
That's right, ol' Jackie my boy. A retailer is actually following the rules.
It honestly makes you wonder if he actually thinks about what he says before he says it. Most everything he says, nowadays, is just sheer lunacy.
Apparently things aren't getting any better for Thompson as well. While the date for his Disbarment Trial decision was pushed back to the end of August, that is still certainly looming on the horizon. Let's face it: Gamers around the world will sing praises if he is disbarred and we never have to hear from him again.
Thompson has led a charge in Miami to have just about all advertisements regarding GTA IV removed from the public transit authority in the Miami-Dade area. Chicago recently announced that they would also remove these advertisements from their buses as well.
However, the Florida-based lawyer has seemingly taken on a much larger opponent:
Everyone.
In a report that was released from ArsTechnica.com, Thompson claims that just about everyone is responsible for the mental anguish and years of abuse that this game will seemingly cause the world.
Indictments should be returned against Take Two corporately and its Chairman, Strauss Zelnick, along with other Take Two officers. Indictment should also be against Sony and Microsoft which are making this pornographic game available to minors, and openly so, on their PS3 and Xbox systems.
Further, indictments should be handed down against Wal-Mart, Best Buy, GameStop, and all other retailers distributing this game to minors at their retail stores, openly, to kids who are only seventeen.
Grand Theft Auto IV is the gravest assault upon children in this country since polio.
Now, that's just an excerpt from this report, but I simply have one question to pose him:
Really?
Let's think about this for a second. You want to bring up an indictment against not only the head of Take Two, but every retailer that carries the game? Does this mean you're going to take on the employees of these companies for simply selling these games? Honestly, I hope he does, because I work for one of these retailers, and he'll be happy to know that I refused to sell to a few kids because they weren't 17 years old.
That's right, ol' Jackie my boy. A retailer is actually following the rules.
It honestly makes you wonder if he actually thinks about what he says before he says it. Most everything he says, nowadays, is just sheer lunacy.
Apparently things aren't getting any better for Thompson as well. While the date for his Disbarment Trial decision was pushed back to the end of August, that is still certainly looming on the horizon. Let's face it: Gamers around the world will sing praises if he is disbarred and we never have to hear from him again.
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