
Reporter Bridget Carey covered the Bully trial for the
Miami Herald this week. In this morning's edition she writes about Judge Ronald Friedman's (left)decision not to block the game as a "public nuisance" as requested by controversial attorney Jack Thompson.
As reported by the Herald, Friedman's comments in open court include:
''There's a lot of violence. A whole lot. Less than we see on television every night. Does that mean I would want my children to view it? No. But does it rise to a point that its a nuisance? The answer is no from what I saw.''
The newspaper reports that Judge Friedman did not render a final ruling, but said he would consider the matter if Thompson wished to pursue it after the game is released on October 17th. Thompson, however, told the Herald he does not plan to exercise that option.
Thompson disputed Judge Friedman's comments that he watched Take-Two employees demonstrate the game for two hours in chambers on Thursday. Thompson said it was only an hour, and chastised the judge during Friday's hearing:
''You did not see the game. You don't even know what it was you saw.''
Thompson objected to Take-Two employees showing the game on the basis that they could have avoided the game's more violent content.
Comments
Then he could have another hot coffee scandal. Except this time it's in plain view, rather than being hidden.
There goes his field day
The odd thing is that it sounds like bats, slingshots, and fisticuffs were all shown to the judge. And what Thompson is harping on now is the slingshots and bats. So to claim that the walkthrough people TT sent were deceptive, while claiming that the worst content in the game matchs what was shown is counterproductive at best.
Buddy, a bunch of people (reviewers, magazines, etc.) have said that it gets about as violent as a baseball bat, and getting yelled at by a bunch of moronic teachers and students. Odds are, Take Two's got nothing to hide on this one.
‘’You did not see the game. You don’t even know what it was you saw.'’
Same can be said for you Jack.
Does anyone know what kind of recourse judges can take against shit-talking excuses for lawyers AFTER the business is done? For as dumb as I've heard it is to piss off a judge, JT certainly doesn't seem to be worried about it.
So i'm still gonna have to wait untill the 17th :(. However, this shows the judge at least thinks before making a statement, unlike our old freind Jack.
I know it wasn't what you wanted to see Jack. It should've had guns and stuff. After all You know more about the game than the devs right?
Is it just me, or are JT's criticisms of judges getting more and more childish? First they were "liberal", then "corrupt", then "incompetent", now they're blind and stupid?
Maybe it's just me, but I view that as raising the VG flag up next to the rest of the media/art flags. If so, that is one hell of an endorsement.
*sigh* I hate it when I'm right... ;)
While this is technically true, that would be a very stupid thing for the Take-Two employees to do. If they did, Take-Two would be in for a world of hurt for deceiving the judge almost immediately after the game's release.
"However, this shows the judge at least thinks before making a statement,"
Or at all. *rimshot*
And as I've wondered before, how is it that Jack still hasn't been disbarred from Florida's Bar?
Probably because it takes a lot to get actually disbarred. Like stuff that risks jail time, minimum, before they'll disbar someone. For lesser stuff, they'll likely go with lesser forms of census.
Less a lot of people and more just Jack.
Remember, this is the same guy who keeps asserting there's hidden code in GTA Vice City for a fully frontal nude version of the stripper scene that's been found.
Mind you, Vice City is a 4 year old game. If such code existed, it would be completely public knowledge by now. Not because anyone wants to help Jack, but because there are many gamers who are lonely perverts. (Of course, there are many people of any walk of life who are lonely perverts, so what can you do?)
I don't know about the rest of you, but I instantly read this comment as "I have no idea what this game is about, but I've spent months crying foul about this game without ever seeing it, and I've formed a horrifying imaginary vision of this game. When you all said that stuff about the game not being so violent, I came to the conclusion that you obviously have not played the game I imagined in my very head."
In other words, we're witnessing a schoolbook example of what happens when someone grabs a fantasy of theirs and is slowly waking up to the reality. "Denial is the most predictable of human responses..."
A hint for Jack: Sometimes it's very nice to consider the implications of the horrifying alternative that someone else might, as unlikely as it seems, be right.
Judge: this game is teh shit, but i don't want my kids playing it, other can tho, dat's cool
Jack: wtf are you talking about, look at it, its teh Suck, no one should play this
Judge: stfu jack, you didn't want to play it
Jack: wtf Judge, you didn't even see it
Judge: STFU you stoopid Newb, your fucking retarded, i was sitting right in front of you
Jack: I still don't want to see the game, i won't even talk about it when it comes out
Judge: then STFU newb
Take-Two: you got pwned newby
Jack: *Cries*
Thank you, thank you *bows*
Get fluffed, Jack.
~Az
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