Michael Atkinson Steps Down

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RicoADF

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The Rogue Wolf said:
A1 said:
I'm looking forward to hearing Yahtzee's take on this.
What, you can't hear the gleeful cackling from where you are?
So thats what the loud WOOHOO! was this morning :D (I'm in Sydney btw :p)

Scrumpmonkey said:
AU gamers (and many others the world over) have lost their boogyman. Perhaps now we might have to face the reality that one man is not responisble for terminally patranising attitudes to games. It's a good step (he was a pretty epic ****) but i doubt that AU gamers will be playing L4D with glorious splatter anytime soon.
Well..... some of us have friends in the states :)
 

SenseOfTumour

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Anyone get the feeling that now he's got more time to spend with his son, he'll find out that Johnno's mainly been playing imported Fallout 3, L4D2, and Madworld?
 

Tiny116

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Good news for the Aussies
And No more worrying that his ideas will spread overseas.
*Breaths again*
 

Wilbot666

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Awesome. I'm so happy I could take a crap and throw it like a monkey!

Actually realistically there's still unfortunately no guarantee as to us poor Aussies getting an R18 rating. A major impediment to that event has indeed been removed, but it's early days yet.
A few more weeks and the new guy will be installed, so we shall see in a month or two if this is indeed the joyous occasion that it seems to be.

On another note, I wonder how much of his stepping down had anything to do with the fact that he had experienced multiple death threats via mail, email etc. One report I read implied that some douchebags had even gone so far as to threaten his family. I don't care how stubborn and staunch a politician you are, that would probably rattle you and make you rethink things. Just saying...
I still think the dickhead gamers that actually sent the threats to him need to be castrated before they pollute the genepool any more. Every SINGLE ONE of the people who did this, thinking in their own ignorant fashion that they would help, is responsible for making an R18 rating less likely to happen by influencing public opinion against gamers. Good going idiots.

All said and done though, a new dawn breaks across Australian censorship....

(Now where can I buy a proper copy of Dark Sector with limb twitching goodness? xD)
 

Azmael Silverlance

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YYEEEEEEEEEEES YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
YES!
YEEEEEEEEE! WHOOOOOO
EPIC WIN!
lolz :D
Long line the young soccer players! There should be more sons like that to make their idiot dads step out of their shoes!
WOOOOOOHOOOOO :D
hm...hey what will aussie gamers brag about now o_O
 

splatterguy734

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VinnyKings said:
splatterguy734 said:
I detect the collective orgasm of aussie gamers.
AND I JIZZED IN MY PANTS!

But seriously this is awesome news. I was waiting for the day when this douche finally stepped down.
Hope you had a spare pair of pants handy.
 

splatterguy734

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Cxizent said:
splatterguy734 said:
I detect the collective orgasm of aussie gamers.
It would -NNNNNGH- seem you powers of -HHWHWWWWWAAAAANNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG- detection -AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA- serve you well. Whew.

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Was it good for you, too?
As a british gamer I cannot comprehend the joy of you aussie gamers though I did feel a feel a MASSIVE andrenaline rush now to celebrate heres a song he'd fucking hate (dont know how to embed).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSwKpbGZe5Y
 

Vrex360

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To indicate the level of joy and celebration in Australia right now may I direct you to this picture of celebration over Sydney Harbour bridge:



So yeah... Aussies like myself are pretty excited to say the least.
 

Quiet Stranger

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TheSeventhLoneWolf said:
Quiet Stranger said:
TheSeventhLoneWolf said:
revolverwolf said:
Am I the only person worried that this is the start of something awful?

What if the next guy is even worse?
Destroy one evil and something worse will take it's place. So I vote we put him into a vegitive state and freeze him.

Bah, joking. Who could be worse?

..Don't answer that.

I don't think that's necessarily true, no one replaced Hitler! Also for the topic this is great news for Australia
Not yet anyways

Ah. I kid, This is what you get for learning your philosophies from Jackie Chan adventures.
I miss that show, also what philosophie is that? Also if its the one you said before what episode was it
 

Th37thTrump3t

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Onyx Oblivion said:
And Jack Thompson will take his place!

Nah. Good news. AU games might not get shafted anymore.
That would be a nice little kick in the dick to all Aussies. Trade one adult game hating asshole for a worse one. At least it would get him out of America XD. Maybe we should deport him to Greece?
 

Sylocat

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TheSeventhLoneWolf

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Quiet Stranger said:
TheSeventhLoneWolf said:
Quiet Stranger said:
TheSeventhLoneWolf said:
revolverwolf said:
Am I the only person worried that this is the start of something awful?

What if the next guy is even worse?
Destroy one evil and something worse will take it's place. So I vote we put him into a vegitive state and freeze him.

Bah, joking. Who could be worse?

..Don't answer that.

I don't think that's necessarily true, no one replaced Hitler! Also for the topic this is great news for Australia
Not yet anyways

Ah. I kid, This is what you get for learning your philosophies from Jackie Chan adventures.
I miss that show, also what philosophie is that? Also if its the one you said before what episode was it
The one where jade destroys the evil dragon statue.