Jack Thompson, Lawyer and Hypocrite

Kudos to Tycho and Gabe over at Penny Arcade for extreme acts of generosity.

So the story goes basically like this: Jack Thompson, everyone's favorite Anti-Videogame lawyer, said in an open letter that he would pay $10,000 to a charity of Paul Eibeler's choice (Eibeler is the CEO of Take Two Interactive), if someone "created, manufactured, distributed, and sold" a video game based on his designs.

His designs (detailed here at the Advanced Media Network website) were that of the "Ultra Violent" video games he actively campaigns against, with the difference being that the targets in his video game was that you killed game company CEO's, employees of the game industry, store clerks at Best Buy and Target (for not checking kid's IDs), and finally gamers and programmers at E3.

Can you say Hypocrite? I knew you could!

Okay, yes this aimless post has a point. People, of course, called Jack's bluff and created his game. Nothing fancy, but it fit the definition.

Jack backpedaled. Hard. He claimed his entire "Modest Proposal" was satire, and the offer of the money was never real. (Asshat.)

So, Tycho and Gabe donated the ten grand to charity in his stead. Even donated it in his name. Nice, eh? (Post is here at Penny-arcade.com, third post down).

So, to recap:
Tycho and Gabe are awesome.
Jack Thompson sucks.

(Gabe also made a good point... If someone made Jack's game, would he then have to sue himself? Something to think about...)

Rock on!