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For being a "member of the Bar (aka lawyer)" he seems to be rather childish, uneducated in a number of different areas, and as Scott Ramsoomair stated, "isn't right in the head".
Given the content of the reponses, by which were so threatening that they would make a hardened marine cry, I think the counter-responses were completely warranted and that Scott Ramsoomair should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law [/sarcasm].
I found his "various claims regarding God mode and the zoom function of Halo's sniper rifle and pistol" trying to link them to various school shootings, to quite funny; mainly because those claims are so outrageous. No wait, I take that back. I think I'M gonna go on a murderous rampage because I play FPS, I have access to some automatic rifles with "the zoom function", and I can activate "God mode" with my m1nd h4x [/sarcasm]. In all seriousness, the shooters involved in the school shootings may have not thought their actions all the way through and of the consequences in a rational manor, but I'm quite sure that wasn't their reasoning behind these horrific events. To make such a accusations would only: prove how little they understand about gamers in general, how very desperate they are for a scapegoat to shift the blame and insult gamers by labeling them as unstable psychopaths. But I digress.
In this interview with Jack Thompson, about video game violence, it would seem as though he answered the questions in the moment without to much though. Answering things like this tend to bring out people's truest form. In this case I don't think it was exactly helpful for him. Seemed very platform-ish and political. Take one of the questions for example, "Does age or sex play a factor in violent, aggressive behavior?" Mind you that the exact line of questions were asked to actual gamers, specifically Tim Buckley of Ctrl+Alt+Del and Scott Ramsoomair of VG Cats. While the gamers seemed to actually understand the question and answer it within it's context, Thompson seems to just have seen "sex" and "violent" used in the same sentence and then goes off on some tangent answer that didn't have a whole lot to do with the original question. As I said, political.
But this shall to come to pass. As Buckly stated in one of his rants, video games is just the flavor of the week in the department of parental scapegoats, which is shared with rock'n'roll and comic books. In amidst of all this controversy I think I remember the mention of parental licenses a number of times, which probably wouldn't be such a bad idea. At the very least required classes on parenting, which I know exist.
Given the content of the reponses, by which were so threatening that they would make a hardened marine cry, I think the counter-responses were completely warranted and that Scott Ramsoomair should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law [/sarcasm].
I found his "various claims regarding God mode and the zoom function of Halo's sniper rifle and pistol" trying to link them to various school shootings, to quite funny; mainly because those claims are so outrageous. No wait, I take that back. I think I'M gonna go on a murderous rampage because I play FPS, I have access to some automatic rifles with "the zoom function", and I can activate "God mode" with my m1nd h4x [/sarcasm]. In all seriousness, the shooters involved in the school shootings may have not thought their actions all the way through and of the consequences in a rational manor, but I'm quite sure that wasn't their reasoning behind these horrific events. To make such a accusations would only: prove how little they understand about gamers in general, how very desperate they are for a scapegoat to shift the blame and insult gamers by labeling them as unstable psychopaths. But I digress.
In this interview with Jack Thompson, about video game violence, it would seem as though he answered the questions in the moment without to much though. Answering things like this tend to bring out people's truest form. In this case I don't think it was exactly helpful for him. Seemed very platform-ish and political. Take one of the questions for example, "Does age or sex play a factor in violent, aggressive behavior?" Mind you that the exact line of questions were asked to actual gamers, specifically Tim Buckley of Ctrl+Alt+Del and Scott Ramsoomair of VG Cats. While the gamers seemed to actually understand the question and answer it within it's context, Thompson seems to just have seen "sex" and "violent" used in the same sentence and then goes off on some tangent answer that didn't have a whole lot to do with the original question. As I said, political.
But this shall to come to pass. As Buckly stated in one of his rants, video games is just the flavor of the week in the department of parental scapegoats, which is shared with rock'n'roll and comic books. In amidst of all this controversy I think I remember the mention of parental licenses a number of times, which probably wouldn't be such a bad idea. At the very least required classes on parenting, which I know exist.