Pictured among the self-styled "Guardians of Democracy" is the current President of The Florida Bar, Hank Coxe, who told Thompson and his lawyer, to their faces in a May 15, 2006, meeting in Tallahassee that Thompson "should be suspended from the practice of law for his vitriol." This may be the first time the head of a state bar has maintained that a lawyer should be suspended from the practice of law for an alleged attitudinal problem. Given The Bar's growing anti-Christian, anti-faith bias, Mr. Coxe undoubtedly would have found Jesus Christ's repeated upbraiding of the Pharisees to be unacceptably "vitriolic."
I wrote up a post agreeing with this legislation, but then I thought: how will this change anything? I'm 24 with facial hair and I've been carded on numerous occasions when purchasing a violent game. In my experience, the retailers are already doing their job - the problem is the lazy and irresponsible parents who can't be bothered to pay attention to what their children are playing (and don't say it can't be done, my parents did a pretty good job).
Maybe people like Jack Thomson are a necessary evil, because the sort of people who are easily convinced by all this "think of the children!" sensationalist journalism and talk show drama are probably the same ones buying Murder Simulator 4 just so little Johnny will stop throwing a tantrum in the middle of the mall. There may be no truth in the claims that violent games lead to real-world violence, but maybe that's what we need to tell people to get them to open their eyes and realize that maybe, just maybe, their 8-year-old shouldn't be playing a Mature rated game.
The invisibility effect would break whenever you performed certain actions, e.g. picking up an item. The important thing here is that it broke after the action completed, so you could cast invisibility, steal something, lose invisibility, and NPCs wouldn't react because you were invisible while the theft took place. My character had 0 stealth skill and yet I was able to clean out highly guarded vaults using this trick.
Also, it wasn't exactly a bug but you could layer clothing like crazy and enchant it all. I loaded so much health regen onto my wardrobe at one point that my vampire character could walk around in broad daylight and outheal the damage.
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1. A type of paper-thin tin plate.
2. Tinfoil used as a backing for mirrors.
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Somebody made that story into a short film: http://youtube.com/watch?v=gaFZTAOb7IE
I wrote up a post agreeing with this legislation, but then I thought: how will this change anything? I'm 24 with facial hair and I've been carded on numerous occasions when purchasing a violent game. In my experience, the retailers are already doing their job - the problem is the lazy and irresponsible parents who can't be bothered to pay attention to what their children are playing (and don't say it can't be done, my parents did a pretty good job). Maybe people like Jack Thomson are a necessary evil, because the sort of people who are easily convinced by all this "think of the children!" sensationalist journalism and talk show drama are probably the same ones buying Murder Simulator 4 just so little Johnny will stop throwing a tantrum in the middle of the mall. There may be no truth in the claims that violent games lead to real-world violence, but maybe that's what we need to tell people to get them to open their eyes and realize that maybe, just maybe, their 8-year-old shouldn't be playing a Mature rated game.
For even more fun, get Google to translate it:
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Did we find the secret message?
The invisibility effect would break whenever you performed certain actions, e.g. picking up an item. The important thing here is that it broke after the action completed, so you could cast invisibility, steal something, lose invisibility, and NPCs wouldn't react because you were invisible while the theft took place. My character had 0 stealth skill and yet I was able to clean out highly guarded vaults using this trick.
Also, it wasn't exactly a bug but you could layer clothing like crazy and enchant it all. I loaded so much health regen onto my wardrobe at one point that my vampire character could walk around in broad daylight and outheal the damage.