Increasingly deranged South Australian Attorney General Michael Atkinson has been at it again, declaring that gamers are worse than gangs in an interview with “Good Games” on the Australian ABC TV network.
The increasingly belligerent anti-gamer, who apparently feels it is his moral duty to protect those simple Australian folk by refusing to allow the creation of an “R” rating for video games in the country (regardless of how the rest of the world behaves in the 21st century), who has been increasingly voicing aggressive criticisms of the gaming community (some are actually running against him particularly, something he apparently feels is unacceptable). “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,” he opined, much to the disbelief of pretty much everyone. “The outlaw motorcycle gangs haven’t been hanging around my doorstep at 2 am. A gamer has,” he whined. Apparently the terrifying gamer – wait for it – wrote him a note (the horror!). The increasingly embattled Attorney General, only recently forced into an embarrassing public back-flip after a failed attempt to effectively curtail freedom of speech on the internet in South Australia over the upcoming State Election, is unlikely to have won any more supporters with such absurd hyperbole, however.
Never mind the comments on computerandvideogames.com (“sounds like the guy needs some sort of therapy”, wrote one poster) but even comments on the news.com.au site indicated the scorn with which Atkinson is more and more generally regarded with. “Atkinson is a joke” wrote Pete of Ranniston, neatly summing up the attitudes of gamers everywhere toward this increasingly ludicrous political dinosaur.
