The Never-Ending Story: Jack Thompson Weighs in on Mass Effect

The Mass Effect saga is never-ending, and it still has several conflicts yet to resolve. Today's a big celebration for me as well, given that I'm just now mentioning Jack Thompson for the first of what will surely be a thousand times on this blog, given its subject. In case you're not aware, Jack Thompson is a Florida attorney who's likely the biggest enemy of gaming ever, given his many (failed) lawsuits to supress gaming, particularly anything to do with Grand Theft Auto. He recently arose from his coffin to comment on Grand Theft Auto IV as its release date was finally announced, and today he took a surprising position on the Mass Effect controversy.

Through email correspondence with Brian Crecente at Kotaku, it has been revealed that Jack Thompson is sort of defending Mass Effect. The emails are really brief, as you can read from that link above, but Jack says that "The guy [Cooper Lawrence or the original conservative blogger guy?] who shot his mouth off about it had no idea what the Hell he was talking about." He then adds "This contrived controversy is absolutely ridiculous." This took the socks off of Brian Crecente and the rest of the gaming world, just the fact that Jack makes sense on this issue.

In much less surprising news, Hal Halpin of the ECA has sent a letter to FOX demanding that they recant on the many errors in their broadcast. Yup, he would do that, wouldn't he? Barely even news. Sorry to end things on that note.