Call for all gamers to eat at Wendy's this week

Jack Thompson, douchebag extraordinaire, is targeting the Wendy's fast food chain for his anti gaming rhetoric. Shacknews has the letter to Wendy's authored by Jack Thompson , esq. Excerpts follow:

I should like to alert you to the inappropriateness of the above upcoming promotion at Wendy’s, in light of the below information.

On July 10, an extremely violent video game will be released for “play” on Nintendo’s kid-friendly Wii game platform. It is called Manhunt 2. It will feature, according to video game news sites, beheadings with hatchets, bludgeonings with baseball bats, the jamming of syringes into eyeballs, cutting opponents’ testicles off, and “environtmental [sic] kills” in which common objects in the field of vision, such as electrical cords to strangle victims. I attach news reports in these regards.

What makes this Nintendo Wii game all the more troubling is the nature of Wii platform itself. Instead of holding in one’s hand the typical game controller, the player holds motion capture devices, so that by moving one’s hands and limbs one is actually acting out with one’s own body the violent behavior. The American Psychological Association in August 2005 found a direct causal link between the play of violent video games and increased adolescent and teen aggression. One pro-video game industry site is referring to Manhunt 2 as a “true murder simulator” when played on Wii.

I don't see any Manhunt 2 testicle chopping toys in the promo picture do you?

Let Jack Thompson know his douchebaggery will not be tolerated in gaming circles. Get a JBC and a small fry, to go, for lunch today.