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Don’t be upset if you didn’t get ALL of the references in this comic. There’s just some things that take too long to explain.

Atkinson is South Australia’s Attorney General and is best known for being a prudish block to progressive thought. His latest defence of boredom and monotony was to respond to GameSpot UK’s request for an interview with what basically amounts to a form letter.

Comments such as…

Some games, such as Grand Theft Auto IV, have been modified to meet Australian standards. The present system encourages game developers to consider what is appropriate for an MA15+ rating and adjust their product accordingly. Sometimes this modified version has become the internationally distributed version.

…make one seriously wonder if Atkinson, somewhere in that grey flannel mind of his, actually believes that he is saving the world from violent computer games.

I have three sons who regularly play computer games at home–the eldest is now 22. I see my children become physically and emotionally obsessed with games, and it is difficult to drag them away from the gaming console.

Mike! How can we take you seriously as a defender of the children when you can’t even raise your own properly? If your 22 year old son is becoming obsessed with computer games, it’s because you’ve failed to raise them with one iota of love for this world. You’re responsible for the law and order of an entire state and yet you fail to inspire even your own sons!

When I was studying Sociology, one of the things that stuck in my mind was the assertion that the only way to destroy a culture is stagnation. If you’ve been to Adeleide recently and more specifically the city, you will have seen the violent effects of city-wide boredom amongst youths. I have never once been threatened with physical violence by a stranger in the 20 years I’ve lived in Brisbane.

It took me 2 hours in Adelaide for my fiance and I to be chased by drunken idiots and nearly beaten.

Statistics which I will quote on a more politically focused website will show you that violent crime has dropped with the increase of violent computer games.

Mr Atkinson, idle hands do the devil’s work. You have wrought such an atmosphere.

P.S. If he does comment here, I bet he tries misdirection.

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