Atkinson: Gamers Are More Threatening Than Bikers

[Halceon]

I'm calling it: we'll see a surge of outlaw gamer biker gangs.

 

[benbenthegamerman]

Gamers are more threatening than biker gangs?

*slowly tilts head* Really?

right, remember back in the 90's where there was that gamer drug war in quebec? at least 1,000 innocent bystanders were killed?

No?

Oh, silly me, that was the Hell's Angels drug war. Yeah, i get gamers and biker gangs confused all the time.

/end massive sarcasm

My goodness, this man is loony. Thats really all i can say. He has overreacted in a way that if it were said in america by a politician of his caliber, he would get massive disapproval ratings or even impeachment.

 

[qbanknight]

you're a fucking idiot atkinson, you're also an opponent to the basic human right to free speech you ignorant old fart

 

[geldonyetich]

That's awesome, I'm going to start wearing scabies-ridden leather chaps wherever I go. If I meet any real butch bikers I'd be like, "Oh, so you shived a guy in prison? Feh - panzy ass. I'm a gamer, I started gaming when Pacman was in diapers, I made Donkey Kong my *****. Where you going? Yeah, that's what I thought."

 

[benbenthegamerman]

so.......wait, wait wait wait...........


are you suggesting.........Gamers on steroids?

now I have seen everything..............


okay, lets see who is more dangerous:


a gamer:

a Biker:

does..............does this guy even think, let alone listen, to himself at ALL?

i dont know... i think feeling morally threatened from reading nintendo power is quite common.

 

[Giantcain]

"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.

Actually not particularly. Because you are a passive viewer, and you are relaxed while watching it, it has a much higher chance of getting into your subconscious, which has a lot more impact on your choices made in a stressful situation or when you're angry or excited. Videogames go into the conscious part of your brain, and decision making and judgement is put into effect before the memory is stored.
Not only that, but pushing on a joystick and pressing a button does not, in any way, give you any training or practice into decapitating anyone, or any of the other violent things done in games. I would honestly have to say that Duck Hunt is more dangerous than a lot of games nowadays because of the simulation gun used for it and the fact that your shooting ducks means that the risk is low.

yay for beating him at his own arguments

 

[Sephiwind]

I wonder if biker gangs will take that as a challenge and start harassing him more. It would certainly take the heat off of gamers in Australia for a little bit.

Knowing Atkinson even if that were to happen he would figure out some crazy way to blame gamers for it happening, like gamers paid biker gangs to start harassing him or some stupid bull shit.

 

[_Cake_]

*Clicking together bottles on her fingers* Michael Atkinsonnnnnn Come Out To Playyyyyy

 

[JaredXE]

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.

 

[SnootyEnglishman]

So he people who actually shoot real guns and commit actual violence is less threatening than us who send evil messages showing our hatred and dislike for him? What is his brain broken

 

[Hawgh]

Well, it's nice that Mr. Atkinson continues the trend of videogame critics to degrade their statements into the completely insane on their own.

Has the guy never been to an even remotely shady bar?

It really shouldn't be so difficult to evaluate the respective threat levels of the pasty indoorsy people with make-believe weapons, and the heavily muscled, drugdealing, gangwar-fighting. extortion-committing criminals with actual weapons.

 

[Jared]

Yes...because we can really injure people whilst playing games...he is a class A moron

 

[Giantcain]

I'm proposing a serious measure but...

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

well, not 4chan directly, but anon has operation freeweb going right now to bring awareness to how stupid the internet filter is.

but face it, gamers are the basic prey for any green anon, what makes you think they would help out such an easy target?

i know people who troll and have no souls or morals is that a good substitute for 4chan

 

[Iampringles]

Oh, really?

Well, what about about a Gaming Biker Gang?

They'd charge menacingly towards you, with their matted beards and their burly arms holding their wireless controllers and portable consoles...

 

[RatRace123]

Is somebody going to shut this guy up already? Seriously, if he weren't in a position of power everyone would just see him for the batshit insane guy he is. But since he has political importance, all his crazy statements have credibility?

 

[eels05]

So a gang of leather clad faggots that'll sell drugs to your kids without batting an eyelid aren't as bad as video gamers.

Micheal your such an arse-hat.

 

[Sixties Spidey]

Prepare to shit yourself, Atkinson. Your worst nightmare.

 

[dex-dex]

but what if there was a biker who loves gaming?

that is sooo lethal in his eyes.

and he is some piece of work!