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Bully 1 Discussion / Let me get this straight... *ENDING SPOILERS*

« on: November 05, 2006, 05:53:49 PM »

Gary vandalizes school property, nearly burns down the gym, lies to the headmaster, and turns the cliques against each other to get Jimmy expelled.


 He then incites a MASSIVE riot amongst the student body, leading to serious injuries throughout the place, ties up the freakin headmaster, expels several students for no good reason, sends more into therapy, and attempts to kill Jimmy.


 So what does Crabblesnitch do? He expels him. He just expels him! He should have called his parents, and turned him over to be arrested for life for pulling that kind of shit! So here I am thinking, he's just going to go to another school and try to take that over. I guess Gary wasn't kidding when he said that the headmaster still liked him after all that.

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Anti-Bully / Jack's getting jacked...

« on: October 23, 2006, 05:56:34 PM »

Looks like his little temper tantrum with the judge got him in some hot water.



 "Thompson to be accused of contempt?"

 Take-Two lawyers reportedly ask that the incendiary anti-game attorney be brought up on charges related to his outburst following a judge's ruling on Bully.


By Tor Thorsen, GameSpot
Posted Oct 23, 2006 1:08 pm PT


For years, Jack Thompson has been famous--and infamous--for his own personal brand of heated rhetoric. Often using biblical references and the odd bit of apocalyptic language, the Miami-eara Attorney has called for the banning of numerous games, including the Sims 2 and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

The latest title to earn Thompson's ire is Bully, Rockstar Games' critically acclaimed adventure game which follows a teenage trouble-maker through the travails of boarding school. Earlier this month, Thompson tried to have sales of the game, which has sparked controversy for its depictions of teenager-on-teenager violence and boy-on-boy heavy liplocks, halted on legal grounds.

As part of his efforts to halt sales of Bully, Thompson petitioned Miami Judge Ronald Friedman to view the game before it went on sale last week. However, when the judge approved the game for sale, Thompson became angry, accusing the judge of "smiling" as he approved the sale of a game which would inspire teenagers to commit acts of violence as extreme as murder.

Now, it appears Thompson's sharp words to Judge Friedman may land him in hot legal water. According to the blog GamePolitics.com, lawyers for Rockstar Games parent Take-Two Interactive are asking that Thompson be held in contempt of court for his comments to Judge Friedman.

Lawyers from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, law firm Blank Rome, which Thompson has publicly accused of organizing a conspiracy against him personally, have reportedly filed a "Petition for Order to Show Cause" against Thompson. If granted, the petition would compel Thompson to appear in Friedman's court to explained why he shouldn't be held in contempt of court--a charge that could carry a hefty fine and imprisonment of several months if Thompson were convicted.

While potentially serious, no contempt charges have yet been leveled at Thompson. However, that has not stopped the attorney from attacking Take-Two in a flurry of e-mails sent out to media outlets. "The motion to show cause filed by defendant Take-Two is a transparent, panicked attempt to cover up the misconduct, including the fraudulent misrepresentations to the public and to this Court, by its employees and its counsel, Blank Rome," Thompson said in an e-mail.

"If this court in any fashion proceeds toward issuing a show cause order, given its utter baselessness and the bad faith goo in which it slithers, then Thompson will add whatever judge should do so as a defendant in the aforementioned federal civil rights action," he said, referring to the case he brought to halt Bully's sale. (Emphasis in the original.) "Plaintiff has seen arbitrariness from judges before in his thirty years of practicing law, but nothing close to this. If the federal judiciary must restrain this Court and punish it, then so be it."



http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/action/bully/news.html?sid=6160347

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Introduce Yourself / Greetings, the Dragoon has arrived.

« on: September 19, 2006, 06:11:51 PM »

Salutations, fellow gaming enthusiasts. I hail from Gfaqs, and this site was brought to my attention by Lord-Z. To avoid boring you, there are only a couple of things you absolutely need to know about me;


 1: I love intellectual discussion.

 
 2: I am a Hinata Hyuuga fanboy.

 
 3: Nothing pisses me off more than ignorance.


 4: I am a Hinata fanboy.


 5:I dislike spelling and grammar errors.


 6: ME LIKEY HINATA!



 Hehe.

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Anti-Bully / As Socrates once said.........

« on: September 19, 2006, 06:03:58 PM »

"There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance."


If I could draw just one conclusion throughout the period of my lifetime, one truth, it is this idea put into the words of a great thinker. Socrates was part of a dying breed, the philosophers; men who weren't satisfied with existence, they wanted to know. They wanted to think for themselves, to ask questions, to cast doubt onto the society they lived in.


Since then, however, the philosophers have all but disappeared. Nobody wants to think for themselves anymore. They are willing to continue an existence without thought. Only a rare few actually question the media and the government.


Is that really what happened? Is there another side to the story?

When has anyone asked themselves that?


Whoever said that money was the root of all evil, he was dead wrong. It is not the root. It is a branch. Ignorance is the root, the seed.


It is the seed that bears the fruit of prejuduce and crime. Those who follow the path of evil are misguided by ignorance. The saddest thing, is that no one is safe from it. Ignorance is the cause of scapegoating. Throughout history, it has caused us to make horrible mistakes; and through even further ignorance, we are making even more mistakes.


In the end, Socrates' ideas have been forgotten. Ignorance still plagues us. Why hasn't education stopped it? Because nobody cares about learning anymore. People have become lazy. Much like the novel "1984", we have a higher power to think for us.


So, in an ironic twist, Jack Thompson has proven to be much more evil than any act in video games. He has displayed an amount of ignorance that is both unsettling and moronic. He makes no effort to learn anything, he does not wait for more info about Bully. He displays the true evil source which has plagued us for thousands of centuries. If this continues, it does not only mean the endangerment of games; it means the endangerment of the human race, and eventually, our extermination.


Rest in peace, Socrates. While hope seems bleak now, we must wait for a time where the people want to learn. We must wait for the next generation of modern philosophers.



 (I originally posted this on Gfaqs, and have posted it here at Lord-Z's request)