Fantasy vs. Reality Check

Jack Thompson is a conservative, Christian, Republican Florida attorney who has made it his life's goal to ban outright violent video games. In a strange sidenote, he went to school at Denison, in my old hometown of Granville, Ohio. Thompson has faced disbarment in the past over his legal practices, and seems more interested in the celebrity he's garnering that actual logical dialogue over the root cause of violence in our society. In other words, like so many conservatives, rather than take responsibility, he'd rather shift the blame to someone else.

Last fall, he offered a $10,000 bounty to the charity of a developer's choice if that developer would make a game depicting the player killing real-word game executives and E3 attendees, including one scene in which the main character "urinates onto the severed brain stems of the Eibel (sic) [CEO of Take Two Interactive, publishers of the Grand Theft Auto series] family victims." When developers jumped on it, Thompson, in true conservative fashion, ducked responsibility, explaining it was "satire." The local boys from Penny Arcade, in true liberal fashion, ponied up the money for the thing from which the conservative ducked responsibility, causing Thompson (again passing the conservative club entrance exam) to try to force both the Seattle PD and the FBI to arrest the two willing to pay for the mistakes of a conservative.

So why this tirade? Old Jack Thompson is at it again. While he's offered no reward, he posted on industry blog Joystiq yesterday, challenging Joystiq to make a game depicting the killing of Joystiq staff.

So what do you do when a paragon of conservative responsibility issues such a challenge?

Why, turn it into a contest.

It'll be very interesting to see how the conservative Christian Republican dodges responsibility this time. I wonder which liberals will be there to clean up the mess. Probably the same ones who will be paying for Bush's $9 trillion deficit - and they we'll get to be called "tax and spend liberals" by the same conservatives (is it fair to just call them "spend and spend conservatives?") we bailed out again.

Welcome to reality.

Edit: Download the game resulting from conservative Republican Thompson's original failure to take responsibility.