Oh you've got to be kidding. They had the lockout chips on the NES to prevent *third party manufacturers* from producing games.
Nope. The lockout chip had a minor impact with forcing development companies to use Nintendo's fabrication plant at highway-robbery prices, but it was conceived with the idea that "pirate companies" (based in locations like Russia, Hong Kong, and Brazil or even showing up in places like Akihabara right in Japan) would be unable to copy the cartridges easily. Today, these same companies Nintendo was worried about can slap quite literally the whole NES/SNES library into a small memory card, jack it into one of a dozen NES/SNES-on-a-chip implementations inside a cheap knockoff playstation-ish controller with a battery bay and a set of RCA leadouts, and you get shit like this.
They stuck with the cartridge format on the N64 because, despite people's tolerance for awful load times on the PlayStation, the CD just was not ready for the kind of experience that Nintendo provides.
By which you mean what, precisely - games that have crappy polygon outputs with no textures? A dozen pokemon turdbombs?
They bled developers on the Gamecube because Microsoft and Sony waved wads of cash at dev studios to get themselves exclusives
BZZZZT! Try again. They bled developers on both the N64 and Gamecube because developers were tired of getting jerked around Nintendo, tired of Nintendo trying to charge them out the yin-yang for proprietary fabrication plant usage. Here's a hint: Final Fantasy VII went to the Playstation not because of the media, but because Squaresoft was fed up with Nintendo's wanting them to censor the fuck out of their games, and it's no coincidence that the only bones they've thrown Nintendo since have been the kiddyfied crap-tastic "Crystal Chronicles" series.
The bleeding continues on the Wii because of some inexplicable desire by the major studios to compete with each other at the ultra-high end HD segment in some sort of pissing war, rather than going with the platform with a 50% market share.
Nope. The bleeding continues on the Wii because it's a gimmicky console. They can make games for a pair of consoles that, collectively, carry higher penetration than the Wii does singularly. They can make games for a pair of consoles between which porting is actually rather simple these days. They cannot, *easily*, backport the same games to the Wii's "two gamecubes duct-taped together" architecture, and nobody really knows what to do with the Wii's motion controller, as evidenced by the fact that the various games with motion controls either do it (a) really badly or (b) attach a stupid fucking gimmick to it, like having you shake the controller instead of just hitting Button B in order to launch a special move.
Sure you could claim it has "50% market share." The problem there though is that it has the wrong kind of market share. Want to know the average number of games bought a year by a Wii owner? TWO. Average games bought by a 360 or PS3 owner? SIX. Most of the "market penetration" of the Wii is units bought by grandparents who just keep it around either to use Wii Fit or Wii Tennis, and that's all they play when their 6-year-old grandkids come over.
Hey speaking of which - tell your grandparents hello and give your grandma a big kiss on the cheek when you visit them to use their Wii, wouldja?
They're actually refusing to repair any console that had Bootmii or HBC installed on it now, period. Or anything else that they can claim was "unapproved." The official response is "too bad, go buy a new one in the store."
I'm surprised that there aren't hacks available yet that would take care of that issue.
There are, but if you use them, you're accused of being a pirate.
This is true even if you extract the WAD files from your own machine, delete them from that machine, and then reimport them to your new machine.
But at least Nintendo could have resolved this in a more user-friendly manner if they wanted to make it easy and still limit piracy.
And why would Big N resolve this in a user-friendly manner? They want the money of forcing people to re-purchase everything should a Wii die out of warranty. They hate their customers and have crazy-insane people who see "pirates" in every shadow designing their consoles - it's why they had insane licensing schemes as far back as the NES, why they stuck with cartridges on the N64 which turned that into a pretty-much-forgettable box, why they continued to burn developers with the Gamecube, and why the only developers developing for the Wii right now are pretty much Nintendo's in-house studios, Sega (and let's face it, they might as well just get bought out by Big N anyways now), and a bunch of shovelware guys making aerobics games and button mashing Mario Party ripoffs.
Islam is fundamentally evil, I'll freely say that. Doesn't make christianity any less deranged - and when the usual crackpots start blubbering "but but but but bible bible so there" in "defending" the 7th century death cult, it doesn't mean shit to me.
I consider nobody a "prophet." They're all either mentally disturbed, or on some form of chemical cocktail, or are the same sort of scam artists from which all religions come.
I am reminded of years of "Hallibushitlercheneyseigheil" and just laughing my ass off every time I hear the various "whoa this is unprecedented what people are saying about Obama" comments...
I am reminded of a quote, the source of which I cannot remember, which goes approximately thus: "A liberal is a person who publicly prides themselves on listening to all contrary points of view, but is quite astonished and outraged to discover that any actually exist."
Of course, given how often both sides are closed-minded, the source is probably a republican. So take it at your own risk.
I consider it a point of pride when I can make a +5 Insightful post that still gets at least 4-5 mods down of "troll" or "overrated." It means I correctly said something important and meaningful while pissing off both the right-wing crackpots and left-wing scumbags.
First of all, "built in AD 685"? No such claim can be made - even Muslim "scholars" argue over the building timeframe.
Second of all, "AD 685" is more than 50 years after Mohammed's (ptooie) death, and the Umayyid dynasty's construction of a Mosque and structures called "the farthest", in reference to an obscure koranic line that has no basis to refer to any physical location on earth... yeah. We're talking not about a "holy site of Islam" here, but the equivalent of those "Jesusland" theme parks that occasionally pop up in the southern US by nutbag christians.
I know its history, so I call it what it is: a joke. Any Muslim who goes there to "worship" is praying to the almighty coin, nothing more.
Did you see any pics of the guy? No? Sorry, but they were off by a decade and if you want to claim that the picture made it so he could be mistaken for something other than what he is, then the video is too grainy and distorted to be useful.
The point was, the description was off-base, and it was off-base on wishful thinking from certain media personalities and Obama administration officials who were hoping to tie the situation to "anti-Obama sentiment."
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job."... --Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Anyone else been noticing the difference between what comes out of Obama's mouth, and what his administration actually does? The term "distraction" isn't far off the mark.
Careful. You're liable to get modded down by someone.
While there's some truth to what Obama says about being having so much information that it becomes a distraction (similar comments have been made about disclosure overload: everyone writes incredibly long, boring, impossible-to-parse "terms of service", "EULA", and other bits attached to products...), the original article does have a point about most people's definition of an "unreliable source" being "a source I don't agree with."
Obama's political opponents flourish in certain media. So it's in his best interest (while being rather divorced from honesty and reality) for him to call them names and tar them as "unreliable." Likewise, the media sections that do love Obama - such as the alphabet-soup media - are more than happy to not cover certain stories. And this follows from all walks of life, just not Obama. For instance, let's take the Israeli/Palestinian bit.
Did you know that within a week of signing the Oslo Accords, Yassir Arafat was back on Palestinian radio, comparing the Oslo Agreement to the Truce of Medina (whereby Mohammed the "prophet" entered into a 10-year truce, then broke it two years later because he figured his army was now big enough to win), calling Oslo "the great deception"? No? Why not? Probably because the alphabet-soup media was, at the time, invested in Oslo.
Did you know that the Waqf, the Palestinian "authority" on the squatter's mosque at "Al Aqsa", have been deliberately excavating and destroying irreplaceable archaeological artifacts from beneath the site? And why not? Again, the story's been buried.
Take the recent terrorist attack at Times Square. At 5pm that day, I was listening to ABC News, when they announced the search was on for a "40 year old white male" at the urging of the Obama administration. Whoops! You can find plenty of coverage of media spokesboobs talking about how they "didn't want" it to be what it clearly is: another taliban-type attack.
Information can indeed be distraction, but just as important is realizing that bias expresses itself in many forms. You can tag certain things with certain words - I freely admit I consider the Waqf to be illegitimate, from studying the history of the squatter's mosque, but others can freely feel differently. You can write tilted stories that blatantly misuse or misrepresent statistics. You can write "statistics" that have almost no connection to reality, due to bad sampling or tilted questions, and then quote them in a seemingly "neutral" piece "covering" the survey results. Or you can just bury a story entirely. Anyone who trusts one side's media or the other, exclusively, is setting themselves up for trouble.
The problem is you're relying on the courts, which take YEARS to properly rule (and get through appeals) on a patent claim.
The secondary problem is that the BIG companies have found a way around the system with what they term "patent slamming"; they file everything they can send, no matter how stupid, 4-5 times apiece, knowing that the overwhelmed USPTO examiners are more likely to mistakenly approve the patents if they don't have the time to properly analyze them for non-obviousness and prior art.
For example, take Wizards of the Coast's patents concerning "trading card games." Nothing in their patent was non-obvious, and every game mechanic they pointed to is predated by a number of prior arts, up to and including the quintessential Hoyle's Rules of Games, first edition published in goddamn 1742. In a reasonable and non-overwhelmed USPTO, there's no way that patent could ever have passed, but not only did it pass, it gave WOTC a virtual monopoly in an area they had no business gaining one.
And getting back to the courts - remember, in order to sue, even if "loser pays", you have to have the money to front to your lawyers to see the lawsuit prevail. Which means you've got to have fucking deep pockets, to pay a lawyer for 4-5 years or more and process all the paperwork slamming and other shyster tactics that the big guys are going to throw at you.
I'd rather see companies completely blocked from patent slamming. Require the companies to be allowed only so many patents per year, make them pick the ones they REALLY want to protect, and that's that.
I personally think he should be forced to read this several times in a sitting.
And then yeah. He needs to be put out to pasture. And so do most of his patsies and corrupt hangers-on that make up the majority of Wikipedia's "administrator" clique while we're at it. Wikipedia has gotten to the point where so many article spaces are completely worthless because they're controlled not by sensible people wanting to write a real encyclopedia, but by organized game-players who rig the system.
Take the earliest of titles - Doom, Megaman series, etc. Gamers played, and played, and played, and played, even WITHOUT multiplayer.
Most of the Megaman titles can be finished in less than 2 hours if you know what you're doing - then gamers tried to speedrun them.
Look at games today; they try to artificially create "replay value." Replaying a Devil May Cry-type game 20 times, when it takes more than a couple hours to finish each time, is boring. And a lot of that is the fact that you're "unlocking" extra difficulty modes or characters, but the underlying gameplay is a lot more boring than it is satisfying.
Make a good, solid game that takes 4-5 hours to finish, but is FUN for all of those 4-5 hours, and people will play it for months at a time. Make a piece of crap like Celda: The Wind Breaker, complete with "100+ hours of gameplay" 80 of which are the gamer wandering the world scanning in vain on a pixel hunt in the "Hey Link, Go Get the 8 Meaningless Pieces Of Crap To Make The MacGuffin" quest, and watch gamers run screaming away back to something fun.
Sounds like what you have there are the makings of a religion!
You have to take it on faith that climate isn't chaotic. You have to take it on faith that known flawed statistical methods will somehow work correctly. You have to take it on faith that the sun is meaningless (and how you can do that is like believing in Joseph Smith and the Golden Tablet In A Hat...)
It'll go so well with the Ayatollah's thing for lipstick, pink underwear, Elton John music, and young boys....what, you didn't think the Catholics had a monopoly on guys like that in their higher religious authorities, did you?
Count up the number of bad lawsuits you've seen. Count up the number of times you've been in a jury selection pool, only some dickweed shyster had you removed with a peremptory challenge because you are "too smart" and they can't bamboozle you.
The day we first had jury selection consultants is the day the justice system DIED. It just doesn't know it yet.
Also, the slot restrictions were "canon" - they came out of the Solaris VII and Mechwarrior ("roleplaying game") sourcebooks, the same way that the weapon recharge times (otherwise you could fire a gauss rifle every round, period, same as a small laser) did. It was never intended for the tabletop game that a chassis would simply be "here's your tonnage, go nuts"; specific mechs were always supposed to have a flavor and that is important to the game.
Lawyers ARE the tyrants these days. We basically live in a lawyerocracy; look how many corrupt lawyers there are in congress, the white house, etc... it's gotten to the point where the few honest lawyers will actually tell you that NOBODY KNOWS how many possible federal crimes there are - you can't go two steps without theoretically breaking the law somehow.
The phrase "they're always guilty of something"? The lawyers made it so.
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Oh you've got to be kidding. They had the lockout chips on the NES to prevent *third party manufacturers* from producing games.
Nope. The lockout chip had a minor impact with forcing development companies to use Nintendo's fabrication plant at highway-robbery prices, but it was conceived with the idea that "pirate companies" (based in locations like Russia, Hong Kong, and Brazil or even showing up in places like Akihabara right in Japan) would be unable to copy the cartridges easily. Today, these same companies Nintendo was worried about can slap quite literally the whole NES/SNES library into a small memory card, jack it into one of a dozen NES/SNES-on-a-chip implementations inside a cheap knockoff playstation-ish controller with a battery bay and a set of RCA leadouts, and you get shit like this.
They stuck with the cartridge format on the N64 because, despite people's tolerance for awful load times on the PlayStation, the CD just was not ready for the kind of experience that Nintendo provides.
By which you mean what, precisely - games that have crappy polygon outputs with no textures? A dozen pokemon turdbombs?
They bled developers on the Gamecube because Microsoft and Sony waved wads of cash at dev studios to get themselves exclusives
BZZZZT! Try again. They bled developers on both the N64 and Gamecube because developers were tired of getting jerked around Nintendo, tired of Nintendo trying to charge them out the yin-yang for proprietary fabrication plant usage. Here's a hint: Final Fantasy VII went to the Playstation not because of the media, but because Squaresoft was fed up with Nintendo's wanting them to censor the fuck out of their games, and it's no coincidence that the only bones they've thrown Nintendo since have been the kiddyfied crap-tastic "Crystal Chronicles" series.
The bleeding continues on the Wii because of some inexplicable desire by the major studios to compete with each other at the ultra-high end HD segment in some sort of pissing war, rather than going with the platform with a 50% market share.
Nope. The bleeding continues on the Wii because it's a gimmicky console. They can make games for a pair of consoles that, collectively, carry higher penetration than the Wii does singularly. They can make games for a pair of consoles between which porting is actually rather simple these days. They cannot, *easily*, backport the same games to the Wii's "two gamecubes duct-taped together" architecture, and nobody really knows what to do with the Wii's motion controller, as evidenced by the fact that the various games with motion controls either do it (a) really badly or (b) attach a stupid fucking gimmick to it, like having you shake the controller instead of just hitting Button B in order to launch a special move.
Sure you could claim it has "50% market share." The problem there though is that it has the wrong kind of market share. Want to know the average number of games bought a year by a Wii owner? TWO. Average games bought by a 360 or PS3 owner? SIX. Most of the "market penetration" of the Wii is units bought by grandparents who just keep it around either to use Wii Fit or Wii Tennis, and that's all they play when their 6-year-old grandkids come over.
Hey speaking of which - tell your grandparents hello and give your grandma a big kiss on the cheek when you visit them to use their Wii, wouldja?
They're actually refusing to repair any console that had Bootmii or HBC installed on it now, period. Or anything else that they can claim was "unapproved." The official response is "too bad, go buy a new one in the store."
I'm surprised that there aren't hacks available yet that would take care of that issue.
There are, but if you use them, you're accused of being a pirate.
This is true even if you extract the WAD files from your own machine, delete them from that machine, and then reimport them to your new machine.
But at least Nintendo could have resolved this in a more user-friendly manner if they wanted to make it easy and still limit piracy.
And why would Big N resolve this in a user-friendly manner? They want the money of forcing people to re-purchase everything should a Wii die out of warranty. They hate their customers and have crazy-insane people who see "pirates" in every shadow designing their consoles - it's why they had insane licensing schemes as far back as the NES, why they stuck with cartridges on the N64 which turned that into a pretty-much-forgettable box, why they continued to burn developers with the Gamecube, and why the only developers developing for the Wii right now are pretty much Nintendo's in-house studios, Sega (and let's face it, they might as well just get bought out by Big N anyways now), and a bunch of shovelware guys making aerobics games and button mashing Mario Party ripoffs.
Big Media translated: "waaah we're too lazy to do our own work so we want the government to shut down Youtube."
Response of customers: "I've had it up to here with DRM, 'copy protection', and all the other anti-consumer shit. Big Media can go fuck themselves."
In addition: most of the stuff I've seen on Youtube should be covered under Fair Use, especially parodies. So double-fuck-you to the MafiAA.
Islam is fundamentally evil, I'll freely say that. Doesn't make christianity any less deranged - and when the usual crackpots start blubbering "but but but but bible bible so there" in "defending" the 7th century death cult, it doesn't mean shit to me.
I consider nobody a "prophet." They're all either mentally disturbed, or on some form of chemical cocktail, or are the same sort of scam artists from which all religions come.
I am reminded of years of "Hallibushitlercheneyseigheil" and just laughing my ass off every time I hear the various "whoa this is unprecedented what people are saying about Obama" comments...
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Too bad you opened your mouth.
Please get psychological help in seeing past the color of your own nose. Thanks.
I am reminded of a quote, the source of which I cannot remember, which goes approximately thus: "A liberal is a person who publicly prides themselves on listening to all contrary points of view, but is quite astonished and outraged to discover that any actually exist."
Of course, given how often both sides are closed-minded, the source is probably a republican. So take it at your own risk.
I consider it a point of pride when I can make a +5 Insightful post that still gets at least 4-5 mods down of "troll" or "overrated." It means I correctly said something important and meaningful while pissing off both the right-wing crackpots and left-wing scumbags.
Well let's see:
First of all, "built in AD 685"? No such claim can be made - even Muslim "scholars" argue over the building timeframe.
Second of all, "AD 685" is more than 50 years after Mohammed's (ptooie) death, and the Umayyid dynasty's construction of a Mosque and structures called "the farthest", in reference to an obscure koranic line that has no basis to refer to any physical location on earth... yeah. We're talking not about a "holy site of Islam" here, but the equivalent of those "Jesusland" theme parks that occasionally pop up in the southern US by nutbag christians.
I know its history, so I call it what it is: a joke. Any Muslim who goes there to "worship" is praying to the almighty coin, nothing more.
Then he should make a flowery commencement speech, not a campaign stump speech. Or do you disagree?
Did you see any pics of the guy? No? Sorry, but they were off by a decade and if you want to claim that the picture made it so he could be mistaken for something other than what he is, then the video is too grainy and distorted to be useful.
The point was, the description was off-base, and it was off-base on wishful thinking from certain media personalities and Obama administration officials who were hoping to tie the situation to "anti-Obama sentiment."
"Brown people"?
Your racism is showing...
"Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." ... --Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Anyone else been noticing the difference between what comes out of Obama's mouth, and what his administration actually does? The term "distraction" isn't far off the mark.
Careful. You're liable to get modded down by someone.
While there's some truth to what Obama says about being having so much information that it becomes a distraction (similar comments have been made about disclosure overload: everyone writes incredibly long, boring, impossible-to-parse "terms of service", "EULA", and other bits attached to products...), the original article does have a point about most people's definition of an "unreliable source" being "a source I don't agree with."
Obama's political opponents flourish in certain media. So it's in his best interest (while being rather divorced from honesty and reality) for him to call them names and tar them as "unreliable." Likewise, the media sections that do love Obama - such as the alphabet-soup media - are more than happy to not cover certain stories. And this follows from all walks of life, just not Obama. For instance, let's take the Israeli/Palestinian bit.
Did you know that within a week of signing the Oslo Accords, Yassir Arafat was back on Palestinian radio, comparing the Oslo Agreement to the Truce of Medina (whereby Mohammed the "prophet" entered into a 10-year truce, then broke it two years later because he figured his army was now big enough to win), calling Oslo "the great deception"? No? Why not? Probably because the alphabet-soup media was, at the time, invested in Oslo.
Did you know that the Waqf, the Palestinian "authority" on the squatter's mosque at "Al Aqsa", have been deliberately excavating and destroying irreplaceable archaeological artifacts from beneath the site? And why not? Again, the story's been buried.
Take the recent terrorist attack at Times Square. At 5pm that day, I was listening to ABC News, when they announced the search was on for a "40 year old white male" at the urging of the Obama administration. Whoops! You can find plenty of coverage of media spokesboobs talking about how they "didn't want" it to be what it clearly is: another taliban-type attack.
Information can indeed be distraction, but just as important is realizing that bias expresses itself in many forms. You can tag certain things with certain words - I freely admit I consider the Waqf to be illegitimate, from studying the history of the squatter's mosque, but others can freely feel differently. You can write tilted stories that blatantly misuse or misrepresent statistics. You can write "statistics" that have almost no connection to reality, due to bad sampling or tilted questions, and then quote them in a seemingly "neutral" piece "covering" the survey results. Or you can just bury a story entirely. Anyone who trusts one side's media or the other, exclusively, is setting themselves up for trouble.
The problem is you're relying on the courts, which take YEARS to properly rule (and get through appeals) on a patent claim.
The secondary problem is that the BIG companies have found a way around the system with what they term "patent slamming"; they file everything they can send, no matter how stupid, 4-5 times apiece, knowing that the overwhelmed USPTO examiners are more likely to mistakenly approve the patents if they don't have the time to properly analyze them for non-obviousness and prior art.
For example, take Wizards of the Coast's patents concerning "trading card games." Nothing in their patent was non-obvious, and every game mechanic they pointed to is predated by a number of prior arts, up to and including the quintessential Hoyle's Rules of Games, first edition published in goddamn 1742. In a reasonable and non-overwhelmed USPTO, there's no way that patent could ever have passed, but not only did it pass, it gave WOTC a virtual monopoly in an area they had no business gaining one.
And getting back to the courts - remember, in order to sue, even if "loser pays", you have to have the money to front to your lawyers to see the lawsuit prevail. Which means you've got to have fucking deep pockets, to pay a lawyer for 4-5 years or more and process all the paperwork slamming and other shyster tactics that the big guys are going to throw at you.
I'd rather see companies completely blocked from patent slamming. Require the companies to be allowed only so many patents per year, make them pick the ones they REALLY want to protect, and that's that.
A cursory search of the web shows Jimmy Wales/Wikipedia to be "unreliable". And that's a very nice way of putting it.
There, fixed that for ya...
I personally think he should be forced to read this several times in a sitting.
And then yeah. He needs to be put out to pasture. And so do most of his patsies and corrupt hangers-on that make up the majority of Wikipedia's "administrator" clique while we're at it. Wikipedia has gotten to the point where so many article spaces are completely worthless because they're controlled not by sensible people wanting to write a real encyclopedia, but by organized game-players who rig the system.
Not the case.
Take the earliest of titles - Doom, Megaman series, etc. Gamers played, and played, and played, and played, even WITHOUT multiplayer.
Most of the Megaman titles can be finished in less than 2 hours if you know what you're doing - then gamers tried to speedrun them.
Look at games today; they try to artificially create "replay value." Replaying a Devil May Cry-type game 20 times, when it takes more than a couple hours to finish each time, is boring. And a lot of that is the fact that you're "unlocking" extra difficulty modes or characters, but the underlying gameplay is a lot more boring than it is satisfying.
Make a good, solid game that takes 4-5 hours to finish, but is FUN for all of those 4-5 hours, and people will play it for months at a time. Make a piece of crap like Celda: The Wind Breaker, complete with "100+ hours of gameplay" 80 of which are the gamer wandering the world scanning in vain on a pixel hunt in the "Hey Link, Go Get the 8 Meaningless Pieces Of Crap To Make The MacGuffin" quest, and watch gamers run screaming away back to something fun.
Sounds like what you have there are the makings of a religion!
You have to take it on faith that climate isn't chaotic.
You have to take it on faith that known flawed statistical methods will somehow work correctly.
You have to take it on faith that the sun is meaningless (and how you can do that is like believing in Joseph Smith and the Golden Tablet In A Hat...)
And so on and so forth...
It'll go so well with the Ayatollah's thing for lipstick, pink underwear, Elton John music, and young boys. ...what, you didn't think the Catholics had a monopoly on guys like that in their higher religious authorities, did you?
By who now?
Count up the number of bad lawsuits you've seen. Count up the number of times you've been in a jury selection pool, only some dickweed shyster had you removed with a peremptory challenge because you are "too smart" and they can't bamboozle you.
The day we first had jury selection consultants is the day the justice system DIED. It just doesn't know it yet.
Also, the slot restrictions were "canon" - they came out of the Solaris VII and Mechwarrior ("roleplaying game") sourcebooks, the same way that the weapon recharge times (otherwise you could fire a gauss rifle every round, period, same as a small laser) did. It was never intended for the tabletop game that a chassis would simply be "here's your tonnage, go nuts"; specific mechs were always supposed to have a flavor and that is important to the game.
Lawyers ARE the tyrants these days. We basically live in a lawyerocracy; look how many corrupt lawyers there are in congress, the white house, etc... it's gotten to the point where the few honest lawyers will actually tell you that NOBODY KNOWS how many possible federal crimes there are - you can't go two steps without theoretically breaking the law somehow.
The phrase "they're always guilty of something"? The lawyers made it so.