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Aussie Attorney General Says Gamers Are Scarier Than Biker Gangs
Sasayaki writes "South Australian Attorney-General Michael Atkinson claims, in an interview with Good Game, that gamers were more of a threat to his family than biker gangs. This is the man who has been the biggest opponent to Australia receiving an R18+ rating for video games and who has the power to veto any such law introducing it."
if you are a bag of Doritos.
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I hear a challenge Hells Angels/Mongols/Pagans/Insert your club here. This guy just called you all a bunch of pussies!
Biker gangs playing video games while driving - that's double scary.
But what about Biker gangs playing video games about biker games playing video games while driving, while driving???
Or what about ERR_STACK_OVERFLOW
Knowledge is how to play a game, intelligence is how to win, wisdom is knowing what game to play.
I can't count the amount of times I've felt threatened on the highways here as a beat up, patchy painted Honda Civic pulls up with a triforce or horde sticker in one of the windows. If it's one car, you can usually outrun it as they're not really going to be paying attention, usually debating the merits of pixel shading with others in the car at this point. However, if it's more than one car, you can bet they have you in their sights. Especially after playing that brutal and vicious car game I saw in the arcades once.. Spy Hunter I think it was?
Or if I actually make it to a gas station and am fueling up, one of em might come over, push his glasses up or adjust the tape holding them together, asking what if I'm gonna reserve the new StarCraft! The horror!
I always feel much safer knowing that the guy next to me on that bike on the highway has a full body tattoo and a mustache, and so does his girlfriend on the bitch seat! I mean, at least they're not gamers, right?
* PS - This is intended as a lame attempt at humor, don't hurt me, I play games too! >.>
"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted." -Groucho Marx
He's a politician. What do you expect - he's probably both?
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Of course they are scarier - they get multiple lives!
As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a reference to Godwin's Law approaches 1
"He was later forced to apologise. The animal was not a cat, the incident happened at another location and bikies weren't involved."
This bloke is a dill mates.
This guy is going to piss himself if he meets a gamer that's in a biker gang.
If you ever wiped a raid in World of Warcraft, you'll believe this guy, those guys can get really scary, specially when they found out you did it on purpose just to see what the "fear button" did :P
Believe me there is nothing more scary than 24 angry players with huge repair bills, and no epic loot.....
Our plans have been discovered early! Now our time has come! Gamers everywhere, flock to your mopeds and your scooters, or borrow a ride from your mother. We shall gather and overthrow the authority known as government. Our battle cry shall be fearsome, as we scream “Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A”! And as our numbers fall, we shall terrify the enemy, for our army will rise again, as we know the cheat code for infinite lives! Gather your arms, your light guns and joysticks. We shall prevail!
I might be a little bit late... My guy is almost to level 30 and I can't find a save point anywhere...
I remember when me and my clan defeated the Hells Angels. They didnt even know how to plant the bomb properly. LOL NOOBS. One of them was using an aimbot and still lost! After going 30-4 (they got lucky a couple of times) we kicked them out. They packed up their alienware laptops and rode into the sunset broken and defeated.
Kangaroo Jack Thompson.
English is not this
Which is why we need another new law covering this....
FWIW, the bikers did indeed barbecue and eat a cat.
Which is in direct contradiction with the article that says:
He was later forced to apologise. The animal was not a cat, the incident happened at another location and bikies weren't involved.
So...what am I supposed to make of this?
It was not a cat, it was a pig. Those weren't bikers, they were Hawaiians. It wasn't a biker gang rally, it was actually a Luau. He wasn't even in Australia at the time, he was on vacation in Hawaii. OK, it all makes sense now.
That a bunch of gamers got together and raised 1.7M dollars for charity...
By smuggling drugs or weapons?
You don't wanna mess with the Yu-Gi-Oh! Card-Gaming Gang.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
If gamers are worse than bikers, who are the the 1%ers of the gamers?
It's not a generalization. He said "I feel that my family and I are more at risk from gamers than we are from the outlaw motorcycle gangs who also hate me and are running a candidate against me".
Of course, this "note" could easily be bogus, like the cat incident. Perhaps it will turn out that the note wasn't slipped under his door, it was placed on his refrigerator. It wasn't written by a gamer, it was by his daughter. And it wasn't a death threat, but a grocery list.
Me and some gamer mates are going to beat up the Amsterdam chapter of the Hell's Angels. I mean, we are thougher then them right? What could possibly go wrong? They are wusses and I will make sure to tell them loudly and clearly, what are they going to do? None of them has scored as many kills in Counterstrike as I have.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
Yeah, it's always good to have a few fat slobs to cover your escape while you run out the back door.
Say "Was that a Pulp Fiction reference?" again! Say "Was that a Pulp Fiction reference?" again! I dare you! I double-dare you, motherfucker! Say "Was that a Pulp Fiction reference?" one more goddamn time!