Are you kidding me ? It is absolutely a crutch . He needs a long beard and hair cause what the hell is he without it ? Just an ugly guy . People wouldn ' t refer to him as That guy with the beard that plays Tekken . It would be That ugly ass guy that plays Tekken . Aris NEEDS the beard . <| sep |> I do follow . Australia was a penal colony for a short time but it was never intended to just be a prison . Britain ' s plan from the outset was to use cheap labour to establish a new protectorate state on a giant ass continent . They also sent prisoners to the ' thirteen colonies ' of North America as cheap labour too , but America isn ' t considered ' prisoner ' anything . Still , you can ' t really talk about Australia in a modern sense as being ' prison island ' unless you also talk about America as being ' slaver country '. After all those 150 , 000 prisoners pale in comparison to the 12 , 000 , 000 slaves sent from Africa to the new world .