09.28.07
Jack Justifies Our Existence
Once in a while, I feel like maybe being so blunt about the name of this blog isn’t helpful. After all, starting off with calling someone a fucking douchebag right in the title of it doesn’t exactly qualify as an olive branch. But then a day like today comes along and I stop feeling bad about it and wonder whether there are more colorful adjectives I could come up with.
New and strangely-titled game blog GameTwat has an exclusive interview with Old Man Jack up on their site today. It’s positively rife with so many examples of behavior that makes him truly despicable.
Name-calling (on GamePolitics): “GP really ought to stand for Godless Pissants”
Hypocrisy (on GP readers): “They care almost nothing about anything other than themselves and their petty concerns.”
General douchebaggery: “Welcome to A Clockwork Orange world, thanks to Sony, Nintendo, and the anti-Christ, Bill Gates”
Legal threats: “GamePolitics will be in court by then, so I shan’t bother them with the news”
For your convenience, I have extracted the various names that he calls people in the interview:
e-tard
lemming-like gamer robots
an industry lapdog
a tool of the industry
sycophantic readers
total moron
right at the amoeba brain level of intelligence
industry tools
twit
Godless Pissants
GamePolitics moron
anti-Christ
And now one last one: fucking douchebag. That one’s from me to you, Jack. I don’t feel bad about it anymore. Check out the full interview at GameTwat.
GameTwat: Exclusive: GameTwat Interviews Jack Thompson
GP’s response