Penn and Teller to debunk game myths

Jack Thompson is an idiot. Pensonally, seeing him bad mouthing video games makes me want to club him with my 360, my Xbox and my Wii (What a waste, though) then crush him with copies of GTA IV. (oh, the hilarious irony)

I find a connection between violence and video games. I want to bash Jack Thompson's head in with every game system ever created. How the hell did someone so opinionated and narrow-minded become a lawyer?

i just watched this episode and i have to say, that if you've been following this crap about the link between violence in games and shooting massacres, then you already know that the entire argument is, in fact, bullsh**....if your a fan of the show, penn and teller do a great job of making jack thompson look like a douche (which he is) which is priceless to watch. all in all, they honestly and earnestly prove that games do not cause violent behavior. thank you penn and teller; your bullsh** smells great

Twenty years ago people were saying the same thing about cartoons. I got a feeling all these anti-violent media people just had crappy childhoods.

Guys...go to the Bull**** homepage and watch the preview. http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/home.do Class!!! I can't wait for the full ep.

@Shinkada Sorry dude, clicked thumbs down. Meant thumbs up!!!

Raykuza Posted Jun 24, 2009 2:16 pm PT I did not know CBS owned GameSpot.... So this is a plug. _________ It's called full disclosure. Every news outlet worth its salt does it when referring to a story involving their parent company. This is not a plug or a paid advert, just letting our readers know about a show which might be of interest.

Why in the hell is GameSpot using TinyURLs?

Jack,.... the Jokes on you!

Thompson never was and never will be a threat to anything other than his own reputation. Laughter, not hostility, take me over every time he opens his mouth. Thank you, Jack.

there's a lotta things that can influence kids out there, are we going to try to regulate their exposure to all of them? good luck! i think a better approach would to try to be a little more honest w/kids (and adults) about how things work in life. If you can't differentiate between media and reality, yes, you need some help. This extends to kids and adults. Offer to educate yourself and others w/facts before you offer to regulate everyone w/your opinion.

Jack Thompson was in gta4, the guy you kill in the office

Hey Jack look at this! Guy says he drew inspiration from the book Frankenstein for killing a mother in front of her two kids! Why don't you go torment the book industry for awhile! http://news.aol.com/article/alleged-shooter-inspired-by-frankenstein/542585

I did not know CBS owned GameSpot.... So this is a plug.

my imaginations worse than what any video game could do anyway its bout time jack thompson gets on the receiving end

Well well, it seems Jack got disbarred. Serves him right for being a paroniod jerk.

theres only so much a parent can do.

I am a parent and have always refuesed to concern myself with the ranting of fools and people who have no idea what parenting is about...My children has and still play games of all type and are normal to the extend, they have not killed any person, both were taught to respect firearms at an young which carried on to adulthood. The problem is not parenting, it is others trying to tell us we should and should not be doing with our children. Teach your children for the beginning right and wrong and for them to think for themselves and you wil not have any problem with them.

I've been playing violent games and watching violent films since I was a child and I'm pretty sure I havent killed many people in the real world. but I have lost track of what's real and what's not recently. coming to think of it that creature I killed the other day was asking me for spare change. but it could all be in my head. I'm not sure?

Because we all know parents should be watching their teenage kids 24/7, right? Seriously, if you smother your kids with over-intense supervision, they might crack and kill people anyway. The human race is pretty ****ed up in that way.

GTA is already rated "M". If irresponsible parents are letting their kids play it or stupid kids are playing it anyway, it's their own fault.

I can already hear Penn's deliciously self-righteous rant about parental responsibility to conclude the episode.

Comic books used to come under fire like this.

hahahh. even though penn is just as much an establishment whore as Katie Couric...

Man, I love Penn & Teller.... the first thing I ever saw them do was swing Teller around some progressively more intimidating bear and animal traps holding a sandwich ingredient.... so he's swinging around and whipping his hand in and out of the traps to pick up the sandwich filling, the trap goes off and he's got the prize in his hand, and more importantly, still his hand(!) and on he goes, until he's got a whole sandwich and he eats it. Whilst still swinging around, upside down. I was sold forever after that...... ha ha

Jack Thompson trolls all you fanboys and you don't even know it. This guy's hilarious.

Thompson is like a really bad videogame boss you keep defeating but he just keeps crawling back for more.

The mental hospital is up the street Penn and Teller! They just can´t see the lies that they´re saying... :s

J Thompson needs to be eradicated from public memory. Let us start forgetting him.

good one

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"Hahaha, Penn & Teller are so gonna rip Thompson apart." Yeah, rather easily. What's next on the list? The Flat Earth Society? Now, if they get into all those studies about games making kids more "violent" - that would get interesting!

Penn and Teller are freakin hysterical!

Your totally wrong to put Jack Thompson in kids games like Sonic or GTA :;), only the darker depths of somewhere like 'Doom' or a Strog reprocessing plant or Prey something. Actually putting him on Bull***t might come close.

If people are taking these games seriously, it isn't the games but their minds that are wrong. I have been playing GTA since the PlayStaion days, and I haven't gone on a killing spree. Jack Thompson is a complete half-wit. He will never make an effect on the games industry as everyone knows how much of a dick he is.

If you folks have netflix and have never seen Penn & Teller:Bullsh*t. Season 4&5 is available for instant-q so you know that those two rip into any subject they get into regardless if you agree or disagree with them. A bit of warning this isn't show for the kids, then again every show on Showtime isn't for kids.

Hahaha, Penn & Teller are so gonna rip Thompson apart.

jack thompson should be proud to star in mortal kombat

That just ain't right.

You gotta be a complete @$$ to compare something so aweful with something so awesome. Maybe he said that in "satire" too.

Ive been playing the so called "bad" games since I was a kind. (of course back then the worst you could find was Total Recall for NES) My first favorite movie was Bram Stokers Dracula, I've always listened to Metal, and I never flipped out and killed people, and I do still have the use of my legs, so I don't see what the issue is. Games, movies and music are entertainment and nothing more.

Even though Thompson had already been humiliated about his insane claims, at least Penn & Teller will allow non gamers to laugh with us as we all laugh at JT.

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I've played M rated games since I was 5, it's just a game, anyone who thinks differently and thinks that games are reality and it's fine to copy those actions into the real world deserve to be locked up in an insane asylum. Stop blaming video games, for god sakes take a look AT DISNEY they're sending bad messages to kids, brainwashing them into becoming addicted to their shows and buying their products, and THAT'S JUST 1 EXAMPLE, video games are not the problem, the PROBLEM IS BAD PARENTS AND MONEY HUNGRY CORPORATIONS!!! A childs parents are the ones who are supposed to be teaching them the difference between right and wrong, they aren't just supposed to let TV and video games raise them.

You cant blame the game. Thats why theres a rating. Especially when parents blame the game when they should be blaming themselves for not realizing what they just bought.

oohh wow. they really think that games is the problem? i am pretty sure if you go on your kids computer you would find things worse than games.

This is great, I hope it receives a lot of attention.

You never hear stories of how a child saw Fast and Furious and decided to steal his neighbors car and speed down the road in it, now do you? People blame Video Games because they don't accept them as something everyone does. Everyone watches T.V. and movies (well at least all who can afford it), and yet no controversy about them(At least not as much as games).

Wow you guys play video games you guys think video games and now your excited about a teleavison show describing video games? I think outside has changed since you got out of your house you know now theres something called a sun. And I think game re-tailer need to be more strict on those games I mean Halos fine but selling GTAIV to minors, that's the reason we have so many load-mounth annoying as hell 8- year olds in our community.

I played M rated games when I was a kid. My mom bought me Mortal Kombat when it came out. I was like 8 or 9 years old and I turned out just fine. Speaking as a parent, other parents need to take responsibility for their own bad parenting and stop blaming video games.