Atkinson: Gamers Are More Threatening Than Bikers
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Hehe, ninja'd [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/7.175434-Australian-Games-Industry-Pitches-R18-Rating?page=2#4979279]!
I don't like Atkinson. I hate him and I want that put on record. But this is too far. Regardless of his crime, he doesn't deserve to feel endangered inside his own home, and especially not for his family as well, who have nothing to do with this. Whoever is doing this, please recognise that trash talk on the internet is simply that, trash talk on the internet. We (at least, anybody who would be declared legally sane whilst not in control of a keyboard and a broadband connection) do NOT condone threats on somebody's life, even if only as a joke. It is, more often than not, considered to be a serious threat by the recipient, and it most certainly is NOT helping our current position as gamers.
I doubt anybody here on the Escapist is one of these people, seeing as we are all cordial, level-headed civilians (glares accusingly at fellow posters, daring them to disagree), but I just want my position to be known.
I don't like Atkinson. I hate him and I want that put on record. But this is too far. Regardless of his crime, he doesn't deserve to feel endangered inside his own home, and especially not for his family as well, who have nothing to do with this. Whoever is doing this, please recognise that trash talk on the internet is simply that, trash talk on the internet. We (at least, anybody who would be declared legally sane whilst not in control of a keyboard and a broadband connection) do NOT condone threats on somebody's life, even if only as a joke. It is, more often than not, considered to be a serious threat by the recipient, and it most certainly is NOT helping our current position as gamers.
I doubt anybody here on the Escapist is one of these people, seeing as we are all cordial, level-headed civilians (glares accusingly at fellow posters, daring them to disagree), but I just want my position to be known.
That's insulting to gamers AND bikers. A gang of bikers should break his kneecaps in to prove that they're way tougher than us.
Yes, I'm sure people who play video games for fun are more dangerous than large, muscled men on bikes who's idea of fun is punching each other and that's their "soft play".
Atkinson, you bloody twit.
Atkinson, you bloody twit.
So... gangs of bickers, people who make a living off of selling drugs, extorcion, and bar fights (That last one isent how they make a living, i just couldent think of a 3rd thing) are not as bad as we gamers, most of who dont fight, and just let whatever happens slide off of owr sholders, and where the bad guys? thats not stupid, thats idiotic.
and ill agree with Mr.Funk on this one, people taht slide notes under doors and threaten the mans life are not making us look good.
(God save me, i am so gald i dont live there, no offence.)
and ill agree with Mr.Funk on this one, people taht slide notes under doors and threaten the mans life are not making us look good.
(God save me, i am so gald i dont live there, no offence.)
please stop him before he gets to powerfull! if this guy gets what he wants Zero Punctuation will stop!
I'm sorry but the title of this thread has conjured the greatest mental images in my brain ... I know this is probably way off topic and I am sure to incur mod-wrath but if anybody here is good with flash animation I would love to see a cartoon about a rumble between Gamers and Bikers. Hells Angels vs. The Exploding Die [or some other, better gaming-based gang name]
And I mean all types of gamers: I wanna see people being choked with wired mice as other bikers are being pelted with steel and bone 20-Ds. Sure, the Bikers have actual guns but the Gamers will have Gun Swords, Keyblades and, Lancers. The more obese gamers will have cow-catchers and spiked spokes on their wheelchairs. Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh players will wield blade-edged playing cards. It'll be anarchy; carnage incarnate. The east-coast gamers who aren't busy consoling their virtual wives will be piloting scale models of in-game mechs as other gamers photograph the action.
Better idea for the gamer's gang name! The Lan Party!! It sounds more like a political group than the A.L.F. which automatically gives a +2 to our gang's notoriety ^^
Let's go pwn those Hell's Angel N00bs!
And I mean all types of gamers: I wanna see people being choked with wired mice as other bikers are being pelted with steel and bone 20-Ds. Sure, the Bikers have actual guns but the Gamers will have Gun Swords, Keyblades and, Lancers. The more obese gamers will have cow-catchers and spiked spokes on their wheelchairs. Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh players will wield blade-edged playing cards. It'll be anarchy; carnage incarnate. The east-coast gamers who aren't busy consoling their virtual wives will be piloting scale models of in-game mechs as other gamers photograph the action.
Better idea for the gamer's gang name! The Lan Party!! It sounds more like a political group than the A.L.F. which automatically gives a +2 to our gang's notoriety ^^
Let's go pwn those Hell's Angel N00bs!
Ummm, what heart?Christemo said:
Or are you referring to that shrivelled little black thing that keeps his inhuman soul alive?
I will 'take care of him'.
Seriously, I will, I'm Italian.
Gamers are still up at 2 am...we're used to it. Hell, it's 2 am where I am NOW. Bikers are probably in bars at that hour.
Dumb bastard Atkinson. Good to know that politicians are dumb and irrational conservative pricks everywhere, and not just the US.
Dumb bastard Atkinson. Good to know that politicians are dumb and irrational conservative pricks everywhere, and not just the US.
No no, he's got a point! I mean, just think of all the chaos that could be done by a group of gamers armed with Wii remotes! Oh my God, I can see it now! No one is safe, especially your television set! RUN! RUN FOR YOUR WORTHLESS LIVES!!ma55ter_fett said:
Seriously though, I thought this had gone away when Jack Thompson got disbarred. *sigh* I guess there'll always be that one guy.
I am starting to consider moving to another country after I finish University. His outright refusal of an R rating is beyond illogical and add in the mandatory internet filter that is coming it makes me wonder exactly what the government thinks of the average person.
Wow...
Aussie bikers are pretty scary. I must be really intimidating! I mean I never knew that a 14 year-old High School Gamer like me was more threatening than a guy with a moterbike, large beard, cocaine factory in his shed, and, enough guns to start world war three, must of missed the memo.
Whats even sadder is that I live in the same state as him. Yay for South Australia!
Seriously a five year-old has more brains than him. He should have never missed kindergarten.
And how come I have to miss out on all the good releases because some-one has a hard-on for being a whiny dip-shit who thinks that if a care bear was found at the scene of a murder that they should only be appropriate outside of Australia?
Aussie bikers are pretty scary. I must be really intimidating! I mean I never knew that a 14 year-old High School Gamer like me was more threatening than a guy with a moterbike, large beard, cocaine factory in his shed, and, enough guns to start world war three, must of missed the memo.
Whats even sadder is that I live in the same state as him. Yay for South Australia!
Seriously a five year-old has more brains than him. He should have never missed kindergarten.
And how come I have to miss out on all the good releases because some-one has a hard-on for being a whiny dip-shit who thinks that if a care bear was found at the scene of a murder that they should only be appropriate outside of Australia?
Just a minute, there, Mr Tito. Once again I can see you taking a hardly diplomatic approach to reporting.
Please, I ask that you not call Atkinson a tyrant. He might disagree with us, and he might be more in favour of government control than we are, but that does not make him a tyrant. That's a very extreme thing to say. You will only polarise his attitude further with such a full-on approach, making things worse for us gamers in Australia.
At the end of the day, if he's being threatened he can no longer justly pretend that his views are objective on the matter of R18+ gaming. This is the reason why he should be campaigned against in a civil, legal manner. If you want to win a game of intellectual politics, you keep the personal insults away, and stick to the facts.
I do hope that whoever threatens him in whatever delusional attempt at making political change they have in mind, realises that this will not make change any more likely. It will only lead to a wider brush being used to tar the more mature gamers with his generalisations about the entire gaming community.
Whoever is also in Australia, I suggest that you focus on letters to the editor in mainsteam publications and to the Government, as well as engaging in political campaigning for anti-censorship groups, like the Australian Greens. Such campaigning can successfully reach a wider audience, too - I've been published in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper recently regarding the issue myself. So do your best!
Please, I ask that you not call Atkinson a tyrant. He might disagree with us, and he might be more in favour of government control than we are, but that does not make him a tyrant. That's a very extreme thing to say. You will only polarise his attitude further with such a full-on approach, making things worse for us gamers in Australia.
At the end of the day, if he's being threatened he can no longer justly pretend that his views are objective on the matter of R18+ gaming. This is the reason why he should be campaigned against in a civil, legal manner. If you want to win a game of intellectual politics, you keep the personal insults away, and stick to the facts.
I do hope that whoever threatens him in whatever delusional attempt at making political change they have in mind, realises that this will not make change any more likely. It will only lead to a wider brush being used to tar the more mature gamers with his generalisations about the entire gaming community.
Whoever is also in Australia, I suggest that you focus on letters to the editor in mainsteam publications and to the Government, as well as engaging in political campaigning for anti-censorship groups, like the Australian Greens. Such campaigning can successfully reach a wider audience, too - I've been published in the Sydney Morning Herald newspaper recently regarding the issue myself. So do your best!