Atkinson: Gamers Are More Threatening Than Bikers

[megatron2.0]

is he implying that gamers are better than biker gangs?

 

[Strangerman518]

Wow. After reading this all I could think of was how Australia has their own Patrick Kennedy. For those of you who don't know who that is he is a state rep. from Rhode Island who has this uncanny ability to mix up his medication and say totally stupid shit.

 

[dalek sec]

Wow, Australian biker gangs must be pretty f'n weak that he considers them less of a threat than gamers.

He needs to get his ass over to the USA and hang around some of the biker gangs we have here, might change his perspective a little when some big, sweaty biker all hopped up on crank and mescaline starts trying to hump his wife and then cracking Atkinson's jaw if he tries to intervene.

Plus the guns, can't forget about the guns and pretty much every sharp and dangerous thing they can carry. As for me on the other hand I'm armed with frakking nerf guns, a wii zapper and some colorful words so yeah, I can totally see why he thinks I'm even more threatening than a methed up biker armed with a .45 or 9mm pistol.

 

[Do4600]

Atkinson you fool, it was just an ultimatum, they have you by the balls now! Imagine all the horrible things that could fit under your door at all hours of the night and recant your wicked ways before it's too late!

 

[Zannah]

First of, you guys (and Atkinson obviously) underestimate America - our gamers and geeks have guns too...

Besides, I wonder if Atkinson ever encountered a Life Action Role Player - guess not, because Australia would otherwise be in a state of war right now.

 

[blankedboy]

Someone needs to assassinate him.

I would honestly be pleased that this guy would die.

Yeesh, I'm cruel.

 

[kawaiiamethist]

Even if it was just a letter under the door, that's just not cool. We shouldn't degrade ourselves by stooping to his infantile level.

 

[JusticarPhaeton]

I don't know who sends me this filthy material, but I get my electoral office email spammed.

Hah, it seems Yahtzee's plan worked.

This is one of the problems. He blindly stereotypes us for spamming him with death threats and trash, we spam him with death threats and trash because... he's stereotyping us. I think it's really that he doesn't realise the internet community's bark is much louder than its bite. It's like, i don't know, if you plopped the Queen of England into an Xbox live match of Halo, resplendent with badmouthing douchebags.

 

[SilentVirus]

I think that, instead of Gamers doing the things they do to this man, Have a sit down and talk from their point of view and his. Maybe then we might actually get somewhere.

 

[The_Blue_Rider]

I'm proposing a serious measure but...

Would 4chan come in use here? We can use them for good!

With great power comes great responsibility, unfortunately 4chan has neither

 

[GideonB]

I'm proposing a serious measure but...

Would 4chan come in use here? We can use them for good!

With great power comes great responsibility, unfortunately 4chan has neither

Get him to take a picture of him killing a cat, then they have both. Also fucking hell Mikey, your really stupid aren't you? We're not bikers, we don't go into bars pissing about constantly, and you're a useless piece of shit. Stop trying to have a stupid view of gaming. There will be shit that pisses you off... well Get the fuck over it or Get out!

 

[SextusMaximus]

I'm proposing a serious measure but...

Would 4chan come in use here? We can use them for good!

With great power comes great responsibility, unfortunately 4chan has neither

As somebody else mentioned, they had already DDOSed a number of government websites and placed Pornographic pictures on the presidents website - however that was in relation to the proposed Internet Proxy for Australia.

 

[Christemo]

Jesus Christ, Akkinson, when are you ever going to Denmark so i can shove my desk lamp deep up your Aussie arse.

seriously, in Denmark we´re actually dealing with a gang war, and hes comparing us to them? how dark is this mans evil banhammer heart?

They have gangs in Denmark?

In all seriousness though, Akkinson is a facist. He wants to ban games because he understands nothing about them.

we have several gangs in denmark. Hell Angels Denmark, AK81, Banditos, Black Cobras along with a few trivial ones. since they are trying to get control of the drug market, there have been heavy conflicts between HA, AK81 (who are a HA support group) and the Cobras since 08.

wasnt as bad as in the 90´s tho. back then, some of the larger gangs had automatic weapons on the streets.

I wasn't trying to put down Denmark I just made a bad joke. The thing is, over here in the states, when we think of gangs we think of compton, not Denmark. I'm not saying at all that I do not believe you have a gang problem, simply that in America we don't know enough about the rest of the world to know that Denmark has a gang problem. Maybe we should call more often. We have been occupying so much of our time with Iraq that it's hurting our relationship with Denmark (I just made a bad metophor, sorry). And yes, gangs were alot bigger in the 90s here too. When I lived in Atlanta, a store across the street from my preschool was shot up by the Cripz. Now the latino gangs are the big and dangerous ones.

i know it was a joke, i was just trying to put down the facts about the Danish gang wars.

 

[Endocrom]

You know who else is hanging around your house at 2:AM? Racoons*

Racoons* should be banned!
(*=or whatever the Australian equivilant is)



Somebody send this man a season set of Gangland
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangland_(TV_series)

 

[noobyplasm]

Someone needs to assassinate him.

I would honestly be pleased that this guy would die.

Yeesh, I'm cruel.

Yea and turn him into some form of martyr? Nah I hope he dies a forgotten old fart.
Being this stupid should be a crime...

 

[dark-amon]

Hmm. he actually feel threatend by gamers. He must be the biggest wimp on the southern half of the globe. A gamer could easely sweep a letter under the door, but to consider people who exesice less than many old people as a threat is plain out ridicouls.

 

[thom_cat_]

"With interactive games, people are actually doing things," Atkinson said. "One can go to the cinema and see someone beheaded, and one sees it as a passive viewer.

While he is indeed a asshole, he does have a point there.

No. He doesn't.
A click is hardly an action.
He just said you make the choice to go to the cinema to see someone beheaded. Therefore you are actually doing things. And then banning the entire view of 18+ violent movies.

It's like saying lets ban driving more than 80km/h because you could be more inclined to speed if you were going at 100km/h +.

IS HE STUPID. Just say I play FEAR and I absolutely blend a human shouting to let him out. This is MA15+ therefor its a allowed. But if there was a scene in a movie that was 18+ where a man was raping a woman and the movie condoned it THIS IS FINE BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T CLICK THE BUTTON.
You only made the choice to go to the movies.

 

[Reep]

Hes comparing gamers to...bikers?

Thats a bit far off, compare a game deathmatch to a literal biker war and you will see how very real biker violence is compared to a note put under your bloody door.

 

[Soxafloppin]

Why do all politicians look the same?

OT: Im glad i dont live in Australia to be honest.

 

[wahi]

but ppl in australia can still get M games direct to drive or something... how does that figure into this guys plan of action. i mean you cant really ban anything not really, ppl can always get to whatever they want is what i have been observing for quite some time now.