flowersforjack: Wrapup and sendoff

flowersforjack (

flowersforjack) wrote,
@ 2006-03-24 19:46:00

Wrapup and sendoff
While it's good to see this was successful and I had a blast working on it, it's also good to finally be able to move on ;)

Personally, I'm pushing forward with PixelanteNation, and we now have Tom Buscaglia's support in legitimizing it into a functional, non-profit lobbyist organization. Look for EGCA, electronic gaming consumer's alliance, to show up formally in coming weeks.

In the meantime, the PixelanteNation fundraising store is proud to offer a one-of-a-kind parting item; the I Sent Jack Thompson Pretty, Pretty Flowers T-shirt. All proceeds go to EGCA hosting and projects.

Stay tuned for the upcoming "Flowers For Jack World Tour 2006" t-shirt ;)

-AR

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Jack Thompson Is Wrong - Gaming SAVED my life
(Anonymous)
2006-09-03 03:08 am UTC (link)

I am posting this message around the world in the hope that Jack might somehow open his ears and actually hear what i have to say.

About 3 years ago I was admitted to a Psychiatric Hospital as quite simply I believed that my life wasn't worth living and a doctor who met me for only 3 hours thought it was. What followed was perhaps the worst 4 months of my entire life. Forced to take tablets that tasted foul and made me ill, given food that was re-heated the night before, followed constantly by nurses as I wasn't allowed out of sight for fear of me killing myself. I was effectively a prisoner and yet my only crime was disagreeing to whether i should live or not.

It truly was hell, once the police were called because a patient friend of mine was cutting herself and wouldn't give the Nursing staff her knife, another time I vomited 11 times in one day after I went on hunger strike and refused my medicine. There really was nothing to get out of bed for. Nothing to Live for.

After 2 overdoses and an bringing a train to a halt after waiting on the railway tracks i really was on the edge of loosing it completely.

However it was during those months I discovered Gaming. I remember spending long hours peering over screen shots and reading about the future of games. A future that made me want to stay alive that little bit longer. I spent many a night playing Tony Hawks Pro Skater 4 and Timesplitters 2 being taught the ins and out of each map by my fellow patients and spending hours trying to nab the high score. It took my mind of my otherwise painful existence. It was my escapism - escapism that Jack Thompson believes is turning gamers into killers. I even remember specifically once putting of a suicide attempt because a fellow patient unexpectedly challenged me to a game of Burnout 2, if I hadn't been a gamer I may well have died that night.

You see computer gaming not only kept me sane during the dark days of my existence it might even have contributed to why I'm still alive.

You see, I do KNOW what its like to want to kill yourself, and i can tell you everything become frivolous, pointless even. You just loose hope and reason to your own existence. Jack Thompson's allegations Bryce Kilduff, an 11-year old boy who committed suicide by hanging himself did so because “he thought it would be cool to act like Kenny from South Park”, or that Mitchel S committed suicide because he played Metal Gear Solid, is not only retarded but offensive to all the pain and suffering me and these two unfortunate souls went through. Things such as South Park are meaningless when your suicidal. You just have one aim, to escape from the misery your feeling.

I have no evidence for all this but neither has Jack. All I can say is that I HAVE tried to commit suicide while he HASNT, and if he had then he wouldn't even contemplate alleging such a link. If I had died I would be offended if my legacy was tainted by an obnoxious lawyer trying to gain publicity by blaming the hobby I'm passionate about.
Perhaps Jack should contemplate the feelings of the dead before he speaks.

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2007-04-19 02:29 am UTC (link)

Even after fighting gang wars in San Andreas, fighting off the PAC invasion at Camp Gibraltar, or just plain ol fighting the console wars, everyone can agree on at least one thing, everyone hates Jack Thompson, because no matter what you do or say, no matter what you prove, he will always be here to entertain us with his lawyer antics, even if you give him a beautiful, huge set of flowers, he will reply with his usual harassment threat.Jack Thompson has brought the gaming community together, and for that i thank him. some day i wish to get one of those threats, so i can print it, and frame it, to show anyone who visits my desk, how insane this little man is.
Jack Thompson, what would we ever do without you?

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