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Re: Halo 3
Dear Mr. Gates:
As you know, the Federal Trade Commission has repeatedly found that games rated “Mature” by the video game industry-captured Entertainment Software Rating Board are routinely sold to kids under the age of 17 despite the age rating. The most recent failure rate of the ratings on “Mature” games, according to the FTC, is 42%. The entire rating system is a fraud, and “broken,” the latter description aptly provided by Senator Hillary Clinton.
As you also know, Lee Boyd Malvo trained on Microsoft’s Halo to further enable him to become the remarkably efficient “DC Beltway Sniper.” That was reported by NBC News at the time and was noted in Malvo’s criminal trial.
You appeared on CBS’ 60 Minutes II and rather revealing and usefully noted that “the cool thing about these games is that they transport you to a world you think is real.” Precisely. Capcom has recently disclosed to investors that your video game industry’s violent games, sold to children, pose a real hazard to the health of the industry. Right on.
The hyperviolent Microsoft Xbox 360 game Halo 3 is scheduled by your company for commercial release in September of this year. The Beta version that was released last week shows us all just how violent the game is and how inappropriate it is for play by anyone under 17, as the “Mature” rating it will surely receive indicates.
Here’s the deal, Mr. Gates: Either Microsoft undertakes dramatic, real steps, through its marketing, wholesale, and retail operations to assure that Halo 3 is not sold, via the Internet and in stores, directly to anyone under 17, or I shall proceed to make sure that Microsoft is held to that standard by appropriate legal means. I have done that before successfully as to Best Buy, and I shall do so again as to Microsoft and all retailers of Halo 3.
Regards, Jack Thompson
I guess Bill had a good laugh.
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uh he is more of that.....
he is the panye in the real world!
Wait.. I found a rather humorsou image of him why he hates video games...let me find it.''
nevermind, lost forver in 189 pages of spam on a other site...fileld wih grinpear and longcat.
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Aside from that...
No.
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Aside from that...
No.
Here the thing, Thompson is close to get his license to pratice law revoked in Florida for all his antics in court, yet he is still tries to fight a war against video games.
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Finally, my state does something right. Jack Thompson... what a joke. One of my favorite CAD comics:
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Quote for Truth.
*insert something witty here*
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Besides, there's bigger things afoot, like the governor of illinois who wasted over $1 million on legislating videogames with money from the state budget. That, to me, is more newsworthy than more of wacko-jacko's mudslinging.
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Shit, I guess I ain't moving there anytime soon...
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Shit, I guess I ain't moving there anytime soon...
Move ot Ireland old chap, I am planning to go there after College, get in touch with my irish heritage!
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Two words : Gun Control.
If they regulate videogames, they're gonna regulate guns, and those you say would take the moral high road here don't want that. I don't remember which conservative talk show host did it, but they literally made a comparison to video game regulations and gun control. It was on Kotaku awhile back.
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Hopefully the Bible Belt doesn't take up enough arms to actually be a threat to America.
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You gotta love how it's first all like "I play violent games and don't kill, so violent games are harmless" and then contains a direct threat. Way to make a point.
So moe for Makoto it's funny.
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seems interesting!
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Quote for Truth.
then why'd you make the damn topic
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IRELAND IS ONE HUNDRED PERCENT LEGAAALLLLLLLL! COME TO IRELAND AND OVERWHELMED BY MY...IRISHNESS!
That's the stereotypical Brit that says old chap. The stereotypical Irishman curses at you.
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How about making a case based on those ideas, pitting one of the PW characters against him?
Be they prosecutor or defense attorney (heck, you can change Jacko's role; I'd go for prosecutor for that guy), just be "fair" when you try to portray him...
C'mon, we can't make him a mindless monkey. Wright and the gang has to have some sort of competition. Anyone worse than Payne isn't worth mentioning.
That's my rule.
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