Attorney-General Michael Atkinson Retiring!

[Simalacrum]

Hurrrraaaaaaaaar! The gaming industry has fended off yet another enemy!

Though, that said... multi-billion dollar industry with millions of people employed in some form or manner, quickly becoming the biggest entertainment industry on the planet...

vs.

1 slightly elderly bloke with a bit of power.

...

We overestimate our enemies, don't we?

 

[Not G. Ivingname]

DING DONG THE WITCH IS DEAD! THE WICKED WITCH! THE WICKED OLD WITCH! DING DONG THE WICKED WITCH IS DEAD!

 

[BlumiereBleck]

aussie is free!!!

 

[rabidmidget]

hmm, so it seems that the concentrated hate of the entire internet can have an effect on the physical world after all

I wonder if we can recreate the head exploding scene from scanners with this power?

 

[fwelord]

From what I understand this guy is a dick; this is a good thing. So does that mean aussie wont have their videogames unviolented.

 

[DSEZ]

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE!!!!!!!!!!

OT:just made my day WOOOOHOOOO LETS GET THE JACK DANIELS AND PARTY!!!!

 

[Reep]

YES! OH GOD YES!

There is a God, and he is awesome.

This is how happy i am
http://codespeak.net/pypy/extradoc/talk/wroclaw2009/happy_snake.jpg

 

[OutcastBOS]

Sounds like good news for all the people from the land down under!
[small]Dusty:Who the fucks this Atkinson dude?
Smitty:he's the ***** who cut all the gore and shit from our game in Australia
Ox: that was him? I thought a fake copy was cloned and sent to Australia?
Jake: yeah Ox, they cloned a fake game just to ship to a forign nation
Ox: shut yer trap you ballad writin' jack-off! [/small]
calm down guys. Lets just hope another game Nazi doesn't come along to take his place.

 

[guess who]

Yahtzee, start preparing your party now

Or maybe they had it planed all along that everyone would grow to hate Atkinson so that Yahtzee could throw a huge party and the mana bar and they would split the profits.

 

[Tommy_Dizzle]

ooohhh happy day, happy daaaay, you washed my sadness away!

 

[Radelaide]

Bwuh?!?

EDIT: Thats pretty huge news. Congrats, my Aussie brethren. your ordeal is finally over

Not just yet. There are still AG's oppose an R18+ rating, just not as vocally. And he's not retiring until 2014. So, barring he doesn't have a heart attack or something else that makes him retire prematurely, we still don't have a snowflake's chance in hell of getting an R18+ rating for at least 4 years.

 

[MissGinaKid]

Brothers and Sisters. We may now rest. After many moons of harsh words. We have succeded!


Who's next? >

 

[therealsomeguy]

i do not have any words to express my happyness right now

 

[seule]

you guys don't even realise, this guy was trying to get laws enacted that would let the police arrest you simply for being around someone they didn't like. It's a far bigger event than even gamers realise.

Now to get rid for Stephen ****ing Conroy next.

 

[Azothei]

FINALLY!

Nationwide Aussie gamer party time!

 

[knight steel]

yes finally Australia is FREE ^_^.Now all we have to do is wait for 4 years T_T.

 

[Logic 0]

There is a god and he loves us very much.

 

[Baron Von Evil Satan]

Now who will Yahtzee blame for all of Australia's problems?

 

[Kollega]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/in-depth/attorney-general-michael-atkinson-to-quit-front-bench/story-fn2sdwup-1225843341005

He will retire to the back bench and serve his full term but will not recontest the seat of Croydon in 2014.

Atkinson, who was first elected to Parliament in 1989, made the shock announcement outside a Prospect church just after 10.45am today.

Mr Atkinson, 51, has been a lightning rod for most of the major problems to have hit Labor in the past two terms.

I'm just posting this quickly, but it seems like all the negative press on him has finally had an effect.

REALLY? REAAAALLLY?

[HEADING=1]YYEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAH![/HEADING]