Half-Life with real guns? Awesome! Lack of awareness of irony? Even awesomer!

Via Peter Suderman, I saw this awesome video where a bunch of science/gaming geeks got together and rigged up a system where they could play Half-Life with a real gun. Check out the video here:

Even better than the video, however, is the response it prompted from Jack Thompson, the self-appointed defender of our nation’s children against the pernicious nature of, um, fake violence. The headline for the Gizmondo post is “Half-Life played with real guns is Jack Thompson’s wet dream.” Mr. Thompson missed the irony, replying

John, you’re terribly confused. Something that further glamorizes killing humans in virtual reality would not be my wet dream. That would be Strauss Zelnick’s wet dream.

I’m the guy who opposes this stuff, who has lobbied against it for ten years, and who has been doing everything I can to stop massacres, not foster them.

So just how would what I oppose give me a wet dream? And why would you use such a gross image?

That literally made my entire day. And it’s only 9 in the morning! It’s all downhill from here…