Kotaku

dude...

Uh oh....this can't possibly be good for us.

Way to support the people you hate.

Is it just me or does it look like he's gained a little weight?

And JT sells 360's simply because people want a chance to kill him in a MP session

LOL!

Wooh. What new "study" is coming out?

That's either photoshopped or it's for some court case.....
Okay everybody, hit the anti-Jack Thompson bomb shelters.

that looks photoshopped. His head is just weird and makes me want to vomit what i just ate.

He kind of looks like Bruce Campbell's character in "Burn Notice".

Sorry but this is cool.

@kojirodensetsu:

When you are effectively barred from your profession in the state you reside you are likely to put a few on.

Nice to see he's still a sensational attention whore though. What kind of 5 year old sends their picture in begging for some attention?

This seems wrong.

Perhaps he's finally realized that games are designed to be fun.

Is this some sick joke?

Keep an eye on him.
He's probably gonna play for 5 minutes, then run out and shoot random people. I mean, since he believes so much in the world that he envisions, anyone who plays GTA will go homocidal.

I hope his 360 RRoDs - maybe he'll have a new campaign of moral outrage to keep himself busy with which actually benefits the gaming community.
Strange bedfellows indeed....

He looks high.

New study of 'how the ESRB is unable to successfully keep videogames out of the hands of children etc...'

Or how he's just turning-heel and finally opening his eyes to 'alternative media formats'.

Holding the game to his face, with a smirky look and a 5 o'clock shadow, I'd say the picture alone is irony at its finest.

As for his intentions on purchasing and playing the game, purely educational.

Jack knows what he needs to do now. Quit his job and mow down some hookers.

This man . . . is crazy. Is he buying the game to study it? Does he want to get a little inside knowledge about the content for his appearance on Fox News later this week - or next. Probably. Right now, he's just rubbing it in our faces. Of course, I'm already pointing out scenes to myself that will be mentioned by the mainstream press should they feel the need to demonize the fourth installment of GTA; I'm sure they will.

Uh... wow...
I still hold on to my fantasy that he secretly loves gta and enjoys playing it on these "studies"

I lol'd so damn loud the moment i saw the picture.

I love that everyone presumes to hate this guy yet he continues to be glorified by talking about him.

As long as we continue to stroke his 5 year old mindset of craving attention, he's not going anywhere.

That's not Jack! It's his evil (good) twin, Jake Thompson! Jake Thompson enjoys sparring with Chuck Norris, celebrating 420 on an hourly basis, and waking up at three in the afternoon to stumble into Taco Bell screaming about something called a "chapuca". All hail Jake!

Fella looks kinda haggard.

Don't touch it to your temple, that increases the potentcy of the evil 3-fold, so you can be affected until you're 67 years old!

Looks like SOMEBODY'S going to be killing prostitutes tonight!

You know what? Actually he bears some resemblence to Nico... little, but its there...

Maybe just that look of anger...

@andaman: I was wondering if this came from one of Jack's confirmed e-mail addresses, myself. It could be a really good look-a-like or Photoshop job.

for some reason i can just see him play and yell out "take that bitch!"

Haha, that's awesome. I love it.

Do I sense another photoshop contest?

Rockstar has been very careful with this game, I've been playing it most this day so I won't spoil it for anyone... but people who've been playing should see that this game has been going a bit out of its way to not promote a lot of vices... also, the way they've been handling the 'warm coffee' is quite hilarious.

Either way, the media frenzy is going to happen, but industry journalists should at least have some significant ammunition to respond with this time.

I think he's taunting us. Like a sort of, "Just you wait until I tear this game apart and shove it down the throats of the unexpecting non-gaming public."

He must be buying it for his son.
Thats just the kind of loving father he is.

He's like one of those republicans who decries homosexuality in public but secretly likes to mingle with men. I bet he spends a lot of time enjoying GTA.

I'm really impressed with GTA4, not just the game itself, but the way it presents itself.

I think that was part of the problem with past GTA games, they were a sensory overload of drugs, sex, violence, what have you. All of those things are of course still present in GTA4, but it's presented in a much more mature and believable way.

The world of GTA4 is more Scorcese than Tarantino.

...........I don't get it...........

Hahaha, I saw this on /v/ just this morning.

<3 Jack Thompson. He's a walking pile of "fuck you" and watching the screaming-teens react to him is hilarious.

@eggwhich: Surely he must ALSO be good friends with John Freeman.

OVER HERE.

A paradox. The universe is going to implode.

Waaait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Sorry, I needed a chance to clean out my ears. WHAT???? GTFO.

"i'm a "lawyer" and i just did a pound of blow. then i went to tommy bahama. i also bought this game to criticize it and yell really loud about it. pay attention to me. i am relevant!"

Hey, at least he's doing his research before he begins to make his outrageous claims.

I think the universe may have just imploded.

To me it looks like a man about 2 ft away from hitting rock bottom. ALready been barred from practicing in his own state basically.
Not too much longer before he is put in jail for trying to beat up a judge after showing up drunk in court.

Hahaha! I find Jack to be really funny. It looks like he has a good sense of humor.

NOW I can say that I've seen it all...

I mean DAAAAMN I didn't expect this in my lifetime.

I pray for his son.

That is all sorts of awesome. At least he has enough humor to poke fun at himself.

That's amazing. Jack Thompson buying a game he is supposed to hate. Amazing.

Well, in our defense, we can always bring this photo up, should we ever have to question this mans ability to practice law.

I'm so glad we have Jack Thompson. He's the greatest cartoony love-to-hate-him villian, and I think I really mean that.

I guess I'm the only one that would rather ignore the man than feed his insatiable need for attention?

i just found a new avatar

Jack, you fail.

Go give up on life - now!

@Everyoneshouldbekilled: That wasn't what I thought first when I saw the pictures, but yeah, he really does. The first thing I thought, however, was how much he looks like a pedophile trying to lure small children into his apartment with his video game bait of GTAIV.

That's some druggy guy from Florida.

I have a question...who took the photo?!?

Hey, be nice to him.

He, uh...jeez jack, let yourself go, didn't you?

My guess is hes trying to examine the game to then compare to violent murders.

Like "this guy ran over this guy clearly like in this game" or "this guy being of Eastern European descent went out on a murderous rampage, just like the character in this game"

Im betting hes brewing something up.

lol he even bought the special edition (look at the shinny IV and embossed font)

That picture seems unreal.

Lucky bastard. I'm still waiting for my copy!