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The bastard. http://blog.wired.com/games/2008/04/jack-thompson-p.html
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Mrs. Zelnick
Strauss Zelnick, Take-Two Chairman’s Mother
New York, New York Via e-mails to intermediaries
Re: Your Son, Strauss Zelnick
Dear Mrs. Zelnick:
Your son, as you may know (or maybe you don’t know), is Chairman of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc., whose most popular video games are the Grand Theft Auto murder simulator games banned in some countries but sold to children here.
Your son last week was reported to have said the following about Grand Theft Auto IV, due to be released Tuesday, April 29:
"We’ve already received numerous [GTA IV] reviews, and to a one, they are perfect scores. My mom couldn’t write better reviews…"
Taking your son’s thought, I would encourage you either to play this game or have an adroit video gamer play it for you. Some of the latter gamers are on death row, so try to find one out in the civilian population who hasn’t killed someone yet.
What you will see in your son’s game, if this iteration of GTA is anything like its predecessors, is incredible interactive violence aimed at police officers (whom you can shoot in the head and see the blood spray), innocent bystanders (whom you can run over with your car just for the heck of it), and of course the plentiful female prostitutes you can have sex with and then filet with a knife or stomp with your feet in order to get your money back. Experts note that the recent plethora of cop killings is caused in part by your darling son’s entrepreneurial energy. There are three policemen dead in Alabama because of Grand Theft Auto. I was on 60 Minutes about it. I hope Strauss has provided you with a flat screen tv to see the grief of the bereaved families that fills the screen.
The pornography and violence that your son trafficks in is the kind of stuff that most mothers would be ashamed to see their son putting into the hands of other mothers’ children, but, hey, your son Strauss has recently assured the world that he is "a Boy Scout, everybody knows that." I’d love to see the merit badges that Scout Troop handed out. Is there a Ted Bundy merit badge? If so, your loving son deserves one now. It should be red and green, for obvious reasons.
With Passover having just come and gone, it is appropriate to note the following from the Old Testament, Proverbs 22:6:
"Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it."
Mrs. Zelnick, did you train up your son, Strauss, to make millions of dollars by pushing Mature-rated video games to children? Any kid can go right to little Strauss’ corporate web site and buy GTA IV with no age verification. Strauss is even marketing the new Grand Theft Auto IV on World Wrestling Entertainment tv shows seen by millions of kids. If you trained up Strauss to do this, then shame on you.
But maybe the explanation for your son’s corporate sociopathy is to be found in Old Testament Proverb 29:15:
"The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame."
Maybe you, Mrs. Zelnick, were so taken by your handsome son that you spared the rod and spoiled the child. That would explain why he has brought you, by the way he presently acts, "to shame."
There’s another mother you would do well to talk to. Mrs. Crump in Alabama had a son who was a police officer. He’s now dead because a teenaged boy unwittingly trained himself to kill him on Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. She has a grief she carries every day that only a mother can know.There are other such mothers in the heartland of America whose inhabitants your son simply sees as commercial targets.
Your son, this very moment, is doing everything he possibly can to sell as many copies of GTA IV to teen boys in the United States, a country in which your son claims you raised him to be "a Boy Scout." More like the Hitler Youth, I would say.
Happy Mother’s day, Mrs. Zelnick, which this year is May 11, two weeks after your son unleashes pr0n and violence upon other mothers’ boys. I’m sure you’re very proud.
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Sun May 04, 2008 6:57 pm
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| thats honestly actually really damn hilarious |
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Joined: 25 Dec 2004
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Sun May 04, 2008 8:10 pm
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Forum H4xor
Joined: 06 Jan 2005
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| i hope his mom is like 'stop wasting my time, i'm trying to beat GT IV.' |
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Sun May 04, 2008 9:54 pm
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I would be so proud to be that mans mom.
"Whats your son do?"
"Oh, you know, he's chairman of one of the hottest video game developers in the country, thats all." |
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Sun May 04, 2008 11:26 pm
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omg
in Germany many games are censored or forbidden...
(like Half Life 2: in America for 16-year-old teenager... in Germany censored and just for adults -.-)
that is way i play the english TFC... (in the german version everybody is a robot and there are no blood effects -.-)
i though in America no one is interest in virtual violence...
so i think many people in Germany have to buy GTA4 illegal 
well, Austria is next to Germany xD |
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| I had to look him up to find out who Jack Thompson is, and realized that when reading about him on the internet, its like free web advertising for GTA. For example, his wiki article has direct links to the new GTA game and the series wiki articles. sweet. |
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Sat May 17, 2008 1:05 am
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| Doesn't really matter. He was sanctioned by Florida's Supreme Court, so he can no longer take game companies to court himself, he's gotta hire another lawyer to do so; and based on his reputation i'm sure no other lawyer wants to deal with him. |
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Sat May 17, 2008 3:33 pm
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Teh Fuzzy Cuteness
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| Experts note that the recent plethora of cop killings is caused in part by your darling son’s entrepreneurial energy. There are three policemen dead in Alabama because of Grand Theft Auto. |
Obviosly this guy didnt attend Harvard...
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9942041-7.html
Havent looked into geting the book yet, but I think I'm going to now that I have a Barnes & Noble giftcard sitting in my wallet.
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| That book sounds really interesting. |
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it sounds like: every computer game is bad!
the most violence should be in teletubbies... never more...  |
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