Gamers more dangerous than bikers?

[TarJak]

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/contributors/be-afraid-very-afraid-the-nerds-are-coming-20100225-p52p.html

[antikristuseke]

oh **** off.

This horse**** has been debunked so many times. Good thing the actual article doesnt agree with those nobheads in the ministry.

[TarJak]

It thought it would be good for a giggle nobheads or otherwise.:DL

[ReFaN]

It thought it would be good for a giggle nobheads or otherwise.:DL

brb going to crack some skulls,

MAGIC MISSILE!

[frau kaleun]

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[antikristuseke]

I put on my robe and wizard hat (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/bloodninja)

[frau kaleun]

I put on my robe and wizard hat (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/bloodninja)

:har:

[Molon Labe]

"Then you will learn to fear our awesome power."

WIN.

[Weiss Pinguin]

Not to dismiss Atkinson's perception of danger, but you can take such headlines with a grain of salt. Will someone now claim florists and ballet dancers are scarier than bikers? That Space Invaders are more dangerous than home invaders? That we need to immediately build some kind of Guantanamo Bay-style facility for gamers, where they are regularly waterboarded until they prefer playing with women than playing on the Wii?
^ Favorite paragraph.

[Dowly]

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Quick hijack to post more of that awesomeness. :har:
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[HunterICX]

I put on my robe and wizard hat (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/text/bloodninja)

:haha: LMFAO!

HunterICX

[Snow White Sorrow]

From article:

"Predator drones are being remotely piloted over Aghanistan and Pakistan from half a world away in America."

Spelling FAIL.

Military/technology knowledge FAIL.

Go play more games and get the above 2 right.

[NeonSamurai]

Hmm well I am a dangerous biker and a gamer, what does that make me? :woot:

[ETR3(SS)]

From article:

"Predator drones are being remotely piloted over Aghanistan and Pakistan from half a world away in America."

Spelling FAIL.

Military/technology knowledge FAIL.

Go play more games and get the above 2 right.It could be that I just woke up, but I don't get your point.:06:

[FIREWALL]

Just another politicion looking for headlines. :roll:

[Weiss Pinguin]

It could be that I just woke up, but I don't get your point.:06:
I think he's saying the drones can't be (or at least aren't) operated over distances that great.

[frau kaleun]

Just another politicion looking for headlines. :roll:

Maybe he should try declaring war on Switzerland (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=162482). All the cool kids are doing it. :O:

[FIREWALL]

Maybe he should try declaring war on Switzerland (http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/showthread.php?t=162482). All the cool kids are doing it. :O:


:haha:

[Wolfehunter]

Wow.. this guy is a wack job and he's in government.. oh man...:o

[darius359au]

Ratkinson is an F**king nut job - we've got a state election here in about 3 weeks and hopefully him and the rest of the scum that make up our state government get a swift kick in the A*se.
I'm hopeing when the opposition win and set up the inderpendant corruption commision they've promised,(theres been calls for years here for one , goverment say's we dont need one but we're the only state that does'nt have one:damn:),all the ar*sewipes in this government get jailed - with the stuff they've been pulling it's not suprising they dont want an anti corruption commission.
Sorry for the rant but these idiots in power here really push my buttons , good thing is , they cause the same reaction with a majority of voters here too:yep:

[frau kaleun]

Wow.. this guy is a wack job and he's in government.. oh man...:o

Sadly, those two things are not mutually exclusive. :O:

[krashkart]

He's right. One of these days there will a low-speed chase between the police and a VIIB on wheels. :rock:


*stalks off to boost a museum sub*

[Wolfehunter]

Sadly, those two things are not mutually exclusive. :O:
Its scary because there are more important issues like needed jobs etc... and these government officials concerns are about hardcore gamers... with gamers being the next 4 horsemen to end the world bathed in chaos and death... :nope:

Thankfully I don't have these kind of officials where I live yet.. I have to fight for bandwidth throttling and there forced monitoring on ISP and ISP clients...:stare:

[OneToughHerring]

Well I don't exactly agree with that guy but to recieve death threats would make me pretty angry too. Also, many of these WoW-types spend around 16 hours a day (!) playing their games, call me old fashioned but that is beginning to seem a bit excessive. Now a lot has been said by the game industry that games make kids smarter etc. but most games are also pretty inane so I'm kind of on the fence on this issue.

I'd like to see the heroin addict who spends 16 hours a day, seven days a week, 30 days a month, etc. shooting heroin. So not saying I'm anti-games, cause I play them myself, just that I can understand the opposing argument very well.

[Rilder]

Violent games don't make you kill people, Morons like this in government do.

[Castout]

Okay it seems that it's been suggested that gamers can't find or more accurately refuse romantic relationship with the opposite sex.

I say send the dejected women to my doorstep :hmmm:

If too many they may probably be required to take number, leave contact and full size photo and I'll get back to them later to conduct interview to find the politically correct girlfriend hahahaha


...I wish . . .

[Blacklight]

Okay it seems that it's been suggested that gamers can't find or more accurately refuse romantic relationship

Yeah. That's why I'm hapily married right now.

[frau kaleun]

The official gaming nerd response to Mr. Atkinson's statements has just been issued by their spokesman:

http://roflrazzi.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/celebrity-pictures-ronny-cox-argument-irrelevant.jpg

[NeonSamurai]

Well I don't exactly agree with that guy but to recieve death threats would make me pretty angry too. Also, many of these WoW-types spend around 16 hours a day (!) playing their games, call me old fashioned but that is beginning to seem a bit excessive.

Do anything publicly and you are sure to get threats regardless of what it is. Besides after that moronic statement, he deserves more then a few threats.

Most sources put the average at around 20 hours a week (~2.8 hours a day). Your suggesting many spend the entire day and most of the night playing wow leaving 8 hours for everything else. Now there are cases like that for sure, but then it crosses the line into addiction.

Heroin addicts spend every waking moment of their life in pursuit of getting high again. So if they are not high at the moment, then they are doing everything they can so they can get high again as soon as possible. It even infects their dreams and sleep patterns. You could say they are focused on it 24 hours a day.

[ReFaN]

Gamers dont kill people, i do.

[Sledgehammer427]

I would like to say that I am a gamer, I don't just play subsims, but I do venture to the other side of the gaming pond for some HALO or COD.

I would also like to point out that I have a girlfriend (:o) who actually likes the fact that I'm a gamer. i guess she thinks it's cute and cuddly in a way. ask her, not me. :dead:

[OneToughHerring]

Do anything publicly and you are sure to get threats regardless of what it is. Besides after that moronic statement, he deserves more then a few threats.

:doh:

Most sources put the average at around 20 hours a week (~2.8 hours a day). Your suggesting many spend the entire day and most of the night playing wow leaving 8 hours for everything else. Now there are cases like that for sure, but then it crosses the line into addiction.

Heroin addicts spend every waking moment of their life in pursuit of getting high again. So if they are not high at the moment, then they are doing everything they can so they can get high again as soon as possible. It even infects their dreams and sleep patterns. You could say they are focused on it 24 hours a day.The average is created from some pretty extreme cases. You bet many do spend the entire day and the night gaming. And the whole week and the whole month. There's millions of gamers around the world so even the extreme cases run in the tens, possibly even hundreds of thousands depending on the classification.

Gaming also affects the sleep etc. and can consume at least as much time as heroin depency. Whereas the druggie will be classed a druggie by the medical establishment and given some fancy treatment at some top-of-line facility (at least in Finland), the gamer will never be classed as needing any kind of help. After all, gaming is 'normal'.

[frau kaleun]

Whereas the druggie will be classed a druggie by the medical establishment and given some fancy treatment at some top-of-line facility (at least in Finland), the gamer will never be classed as needing any kind of help. After all, gaming is 'normal'.

That's why he needs to go out and start meeting girls, and sleeping with as many of them as possible with no regard for the damage it might do to his reputation, other relationships, or wallet.

Cuz they have clinics for that. :O:

[NeonSamurai]

:doh:

My point was comments like that are sure to bring a few threats. Just the nature of things.

The average is created from some pretty extreme cases. You bet many do spend the entire day and the night gaming. And the whole week and the whole month. There's millions of gamers around the world so even the extreme cases run in the tens, possibly even hundreds of thousands depending on the classification.Extreme cases are not very common, though the research into it is rather thin right now. The average though is the average of all cases, which would fall on a normal (bell) curve. The addicts would be on one end of the curve, and the ones who keep a subscription but almost never play at all would be on the other end. Most people would be around the 2.8-3 hours a day mark (which is still a lot) right smack in the middle of the curve. Extreme cases of over playing would account for probably less than 2% of the total population.

That isn't to say that it isn't a problem. WoW is without question designed to be very addictive so as to keep people playing and paying. They did it very well too, the game is visually and aurally appealing, its loaded with hooks to keep people playing (one more level, one more item, one more instance, and then I will stop for the night), and offers physiological rewards which can bring addiction about.

Gaming also affects the sleep etc. and can consume at least as much time as heroin depency. Whereas the druggie will be classed a druggie by the medical establishment and given some fancy treatment at some top-of-line facility (at least in Finland), the gamer will never be classed as needing any kind of help. After all, gaming is 'normal'.This is true, though it is changing in certain countries. A better comparison though would be gambling addiction rather then a chemical addiction (legal or not). Treatment isn't as available for non chemical addictions, as public perception is that such addictions are not as strong and easier to break. The thing though is that there is brain chemistry involved in this too, just that the chemicals are coming from the brain, not mimicing brain chemicals (such as heroin or nicotine). This can make addictions to gaming or gambling very powerful too.

The question with these sorts of addictions is time spent pursuing it. There is nothing wrong with playing games, alcohol, etc as long as it's done in moderation.

That's why he needs to go out and start meeting girls, and sleeping with as many of them as possible with no regard for the damage it might do to his reputation, other relationships, or wallet.

Cuz they have clinics for that. :O:

You forgot health and sanity :O:

[darius359au]

Just a little bit of information about the death threats that ratkinson is carrying on about - he's admitted that they happened over 12 Months ago! , and he's also admitted that there's no evidence that it was actually sent to him by "Gamers" , He supposedly gave the letter to the police but there was never any investigation - he's been caught before making up stuff to further his causes and there's nothing in this lot that indicates that theres anything different this time.
Just to give people an idea how much of an idiot this guy is and what he's prepared to do , A couple of months ago it was discovered that a bill that just got passed had an interesting little paragraph hidden away in a section that had nothing to do with it - this little paragraph would have made it illegal for South Australian to post any comments to any news stories or on forums about state elections without giving their real name and address - the purpose was supposedly to stop political parties from making up fake people to post false opinions etc - he even gave out the name of one guy ,saying he was a fake person created buy the liberal party to slander him ,claiming that he knew everyone in his electorate and this guy wasn't one of them - Turns out the guy is real , lives 200 metere's from ratkinsons electoral office in croyden and he's actually been into the offices to use the Justice of the peace service there!
Even his own sons are gamers and think he's an idiot.

[antikristuseke]

Hmm, i just had a thought, rare for me, granted. I am both a gamer and ex military, what kind of a danger bracket would politicians place me in?

Edit: Hell, i fit into the biker category aswell, am restoring a classic 1962 Izh Jupiter.