Jack Thompson is a sick, sad man.

[JamesR]

Sent to a video game forum, www.metalgearsolid.org after a member their commited suicide:

"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."--Jack Thompson

I personally LOVE (and this is a consistent thing with him) that one cannot be Christian and play video games.

"Culture of Death?" You sound like Bush describing Saddam's policies in the '80's, not a guy describing entertainment--but hey, he played games so OBVIOUSLY that was a factor in his death, not that the poor kid probably had issues in his life that YOU Jack choose to ignore in favor of considering your stupid crusade against gaming.

[Jason R]

Video games like all things should be taken in moderation. Overindulge, ignore other, more important parts of your life... and it becomes escapism until you can't escape any more. It's like a drug.

Jack Thompson is one extreme, the guy who commited suicide is the other.

[jaespur21]

i love my xbox and my xbox live

[Lord Deimos]

Sounds like this guy hates the gamers more than the games.

[JamesR]

Originally Posted by Lord Deimos

Sounds like this guy hates the gamers more than the games.

Send him an e-mail asking to partake in an intelligent discussion. Tell him you are a gamer.

Its hilarious

Jason--Yeah, I agree. If you spend 20 hours a day on WoW, you have a problem. What pisses me off about Jack is that he still thinks that there is a direct correlation between the number of kids that play GTA, and the number of kids who commit violent crimes.