Canada's own female Jack Thompson

[CptStern]

yay! anti-gaming nutjobs are not exclusively american ...much to my embarrassment canada has our own little game-hater in Pia Shandel radio host personality and devourer of small children

here is an article talking about her radio program where she goes on and on as to why gaming is a waste of time

"Apparently, Pia was asking questions like “What do people get out of gaming?” and “What are they doing with their lives?” The caller Jesse got to hear was a mother who said her little boy plays video games, which she thought was a good thing. The child had ADHD (who doesn’t?), and she felt that gaming thought him how to focus, learn skills and hand-eye coordination.

The radio announcer then asked the classy question of whether or not the mom lets her son play “the violent games with huge breasted women and AK-47s.” The mother said she limits her son’s gaming to 30 minutes a day and that he has to earn the time by doing his homework. He’s also only allowed titles that are rated appropriately. Mom, nice pwnage!"


I'd really like to round up all the right wing knee-jerk "wont someone please think about the children!!!" reactionists and put them on an ice float ..with all the fire and brimstone these idiots eat for breakfact the ice float wouldnt make it out of the harbour

 

[Neutrino]

...where she goes on and on as to why gaming is a waste of time...

Well....ya, that's pretty much the point of gaming, heh.

 

[CptStern]

really? and all this time I thought I was training for the day I go on a murderous rampage


welcome back Neutrino

 

[dream431ca]

Yay for more closed minded freaks...yay for making games that kill the closed minded freaks.

 

[Beerdude26]

really? and all this time I thought I was training for the day I go on a murderous rampage

Oh, don't be silly. We just stand about to be flamed in real life.

 

[Neutrino]

really? and all this time I thought I was training for the day I go on a murderous rampage

Oh ya, that too of course.

welcome back Neutrino

Why thank you.

 

[OvA]

Seriously, video games rot your genitals

 

[CptStern]

Oh, don't be silly. We just stand about to be flamed in real life.

heh you're aiming too low, the goal is to be the flamer not the flamee ...I just said it's ok to be a flamer :O

Seriously, video games rot your genitals

been gaming for over 20 years, genitals still intact and in working order

 

[Sulkdodds]

That's what she said! Whoo!

Pia who? Stupid.

 

[ríomhaire]

Games are entertainment. They have the same function as novels and films. Except they can help develope hand-eye cowardination and reactions as well as the mind.

 

[Bait]

It's all true. I played Tetris as a child. I am now serving 240 years for 6 cases of murder, 4 arson charges, 8 statutory rape charges ( or at least the 8 they found...hehehe), regicide, genocide, and Megacide.

 

[Top Secret]

really? and all this time I thought I was training for the day I go on a murderous rampage

I'm afraid there just aren't any more realistic murder simulators like Doom Stern. =( I got bored after perfecting murder.

 

[Dr. Freeman]

as if one Jack Thompson wasn't enough :upstare:
/me sighs

 

[<RJMC>]

t the mom lets her son play “the violent games with huge breasted women and AK-47s.”

is that the new name of GTA?

"omfg my son if becoming a murderer cuz he plays the game of the big breasted womans and AK-47s!"
"holy big breasted womans jack thompson,the son of that woman is playing the game of the big breasted womans and ak.47s"

I think she find that bad in GTA cuz she hav litle breast

 

[Hectic Glenn]

I think she find that bad in GTA cuz she hav litle breast

Definately, i agree...




what?

 

[Icarusintel]

Hopefully this is all that is needed to finally convince the US gov't to nuke Canada

 

[Uriel]

Canucks amuse me.

 

[CptStern]

you dont amuse us :E

 

[Yuri]

Stern has some sort of bizarre obsession with Jackie and his minions. You've made like 10 threads on him in 2 weeks! Carazay!

Its not like they will do shit.

 

[CptStern]

Stern has some sort of bizarre obsession with Jackie and his minions. You've made like 10 threads on him in 2 weeks! Carazay!

Its not like they will do shit.

? they already have ..they managed to bring a gaming company in front of the US senate ..I think that's a pretty big step

thompson is just small fry, the real players are Leland Lee, Joseph liebermen and Hilary Clinton

 

[Cooper]

Leland Lee, Joseph liebermen and Hilary Clinton

Hey, I thought you said it was the right wing knee-jerkers! I don't feel special anymore. ;(

This is really no different then when someone claims Harry Potter is satanic and tries to ban it. I just slap my head in frustration everytime.

On a related note: I have a friend who used to claim Harry Potter was evil until this girl that he liked mentioned she reads it. Now all of a sudden its not a bad book anymore. Funny how that works.

 

[Yuri]

? they already have ..they managed to bring a gaming company in front of the US senate ..I think that's a pretty big step

thompson is just small fry, the real players are Leland Lee, Joseph liebermen and Hilary Clinton

Funny, I don't feel threatened.

 

[pvtbones]

hmm, can't say I ever heard of this Pia Shandel, thats probably because I don't listen to the radio (does anyone ever actually listen to radio hosts?)

has she ever done anything other than moan on her show?

 

[Flyingdebris]

have any of the people who go on and on about how evil games ever played a game?

 

[Uriel]

Just the same as movies or TV in my opinion. Theres more productive things out there, but it is entertainment.

 

[Steven]

female Jack Thompson

Little Jack Thompsons?

 

[CyberPitz]

I see what's happening here. Jack and Pia are going to mate to create the true Satan spawnlings..they are going to run around the world, conquring, until there is NOBODY LEFT TO FIGHT! TO ARMS MY BROTHERS. LET US SAVE THE WORLD FROM THIS FATE BEFORE IT BEGINS. VIVA LA REVOLUTION!

 

[Jintor]

I think that we shall create a gaming mecca, and call it...

 

[Sulkdodds]

uh...hl2.net?

 

[ríomhaire]

? they already have ..they managed to bring a gaming company in front of the US senate

For what?

 

[OCybrManO]

For what?

... cookies and milk, of course!

 

[OCybrManO]

 

[Beerdude26]

lol because it's true

 

[Jintor]

As above.

 

[Sulkdodds]

Haha. Seriously though, I really don't think Hack Thompson or this Pia woman will accomplish much. The amount of credibility Jacko's losing right now is ridiculous - I mean, Fredric Wertham at least maintained the appearance of professionalism.

I think that we shall create a gaming mecca, and call it...

I THINK WE SHOULD CALL IT YOUR GRAVE!

 

[CptStern]

For what?

stuff ..

 

[<RJMC>]

it should be "when we arrested him we saw a copy of the murder kid training simulation game of big breasthed womans and ak-47s called "grand theft auto" on a store in the same street,we are pretty sure the game is responsible"