Excuse me while I dance a little jig. by Fremdfirma

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Excuse me while I dance a little jig.

POSTED BY: FREMDFIRMA
UPDATED: Wednesday, October 8, 2008 11:41
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 7:13 AM

In order to understand the context, first, you gotta realize that I come from a strong gamer family.

Hell, my paternal gramma, rest her soul, played video games right up to her dying day, and it was side by side with her that I cut my teeth on Coleco Telstar, Channel F, and her Sears & Roebuck Atari 2600 - and till the very end, she could STILL whip your ass at COMBAT.

All of us play, every single one - my sister is the undisputed champion at Megamania, and her children challenge each other in duels over household chores, something which I've turned to my advantage by virtue of superior skill more than once, heh heh.

Kinda takes the sting out of doing the dishes knowing that you allllmost got out of it and damn near got one over your legendary uncle at Need for Speed: Most Wanted.

And imma collector besides, owning just about every home console system worth the mention save for a PS3, cause they want too much for it.

Sooooooo... with that in context, word has reached me today....

That fucker Jack Thompson and his goddamn idiotic crusade has come to a crashing halt, as the Florida Bar Association has finally realized he's fucking crusader nutcase abusing the legal system for personal vendetta and cut him loose for good.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)

As of 09-25-08, he's got thirty days to more or less pack his shit and get gone from practicing law, and good fuckin riddance to him!

Just for you, Jack - can't say I'm sorry to see ya go!

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 7:21 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Oh, now that I think of it...

Obligatory Disclaimer: One of my guild buddies happens to be a level designer for Rockstar Games, who worked on San Andreas and GTA IV.
(Just think Monster Truck, heh)

He ain't none too fond of Thompson neither.

-F

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 7:24 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)

Quote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)

Page deleted. :(

This world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel.

Trolls Against McCain!

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 8:03 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

Hey i agree with ya Fred.

But GTA and their ilk, should NOT be given to kids...

Wtf ever happened to Super Mario Bros?

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 8:07 AM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.

Good on ya!

But I like Frogger best! Jack and Daxter (1st game) is my 2nd fave.

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Let's party like its 1929.

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 9:49 AM

WULFENSTAR

http://youtu.be/VUnGTXRxGHg

Ratchet and Clank for me.

Sorry, I just can't get into the GTA series. Or the Resident Evil stuff. I like my games to be fun....not socially skewing, morbidly fascinating, or raising my threshold of sex and violence.

But thats just me.

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 10:30 AM

WASHNWEAR

Quote:
Originally posted by Kwicko:
Quote:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)

Page deleted. :(

This world is a comedy for those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel.

For my part, I'm gonna stop misunderestimating the power of the "close" parentheses...

Were it not for his genderal handicap, I think this guy coulda wound up as McCain's running mate...

EDIT to add: Okay, don't know what's up with that final parentheses not turning yellow and joining in with the rest of the link, but without it you wind up in WikiLimbo...

EDIT to add: Situation-appropriate emoticon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)

It was like that when we got here!

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 10:58 AM

RUE

I have a vote and I'm not afraid to use it!

I'm going to see if this works ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)

Nope. Drat.
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Silence is consent.

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 11:16 AM

WASHNWEAR

Quote:
Originally posted by rue:
I'm going to see if this works ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Thompson_(attorney)

Nope. Drat.

I'm tellin' ya - copy the link, paste it into your browser-type-thang, and add the final parentheses...it'll change the way you feel about web-surfing!

Alternatively, you can go to Wiki and enter "Jack Thompson" in their search box...though surely that's cheating...

It was like I was the south-central distributor of Much Ado About Nothing when we got here!

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Wednesday, October 8, 2008 11:41 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Actually I wasn't all that impressed by the whole GTA series up till San Andreas - THAT impressed me, so sandbox it's almost a single player MMO, and the voice acting is so real, so believable, that it will just suck you in, GTA IV didn't meet the bar that SA raised though, you ask me.

Game designers as a whole are gettin lazy though, especially with EA crapping up the market by trying to buy out and ruin everything in sight.

Again, my sigline applies, crummy overpriced games did em hard in 1983, and that's gonna do em hard some more if they keep focusing on pretty graphics shoved by crummy code and depending on the user to buy enough hardware to force it to work.

Betrayal at Krondor and FF Tactics might not have earth shattering graphics, but if you bring enough GAME to the party, nobody cares...

Oh, and rubber-band AI sucks ass, pure laziness that, and unworthy of modern games.

-Frem

EDIT: Wulf - I'd say that's for parents to decide, as it is their responsibility, me and sis had this discussion over the nephews desire to get GTA:SA as a xmas present that year, and I was against it as not being age-appropriate, but she made the call...

Her being the one who gets to explain certain things when he tries to get the casino key and whatnot.. *eyeroll*

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