It’s a weird headline, but the discussion is around how journalists and the public look through internet history in cases like this. Some of it is helpful, some of it is not.
In particular, it’s a response to this article:
The game in this case being AmongUs…
Monday night, NBC News published an article with the headline “’Extremely Ironic’: Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO Slaying Played Video Game Killer, Friend Recalls.” This article is currently all over every single one of my social media feeds, because it is emblematic of the type of research I described above. It is a very bad article whose main reason for existing is the fact that it contains a morsel of “new” “information,” except the “information” in this case is that Luigi Mangione played the video game Among Us at some point in college.
cross-posted from: https://rss.ponder.cat/post/72744
Did prosecutors seriously talk about among us like it is this game that only psychos play? The game is fun! In fact I think I am gonna play it tonight!
I played with coworkers during COVID because we needed something to keep us sane.
I don’t play the game very often, but it is a fun game. Even more fun when I am the imposter! Normally I get assigned the boring task as being a regular deck hand.
Ah yes, the continued trend of the media in the US to shit on gaming as the ills of society’s problems, because someone up the chain is scared it makes more than Hollywood slop
Anyone else remember bowling for Columbine?
No?
Alright.
Fact: %100 of serial killers have drank water.
If we ban water for everyone, we can stop serial killers for once and all.
What about just banning dihydrogen monoxide? That stuff kills 100% of those who consume it and is, like, everywhere!
It’s used in everything from pesticides to baby formula… when are people going to wake up to the dangers it poses?
Seriously, do you have any idea how bad it would be for the economy if we did that? You guys wants us becoming as poor as europeans?? Look you have to let the free market decide which chemicals do and don’t go into your body. If I were a grandmother I would gladly drown in dihydrogen monoxide just so my children could work more hours in the excel factory. It’s what Adam Smith would have wanted!
I bet the CEO played Monopoly too. Ironic, isn’t it?
CEO probably cheated when he played Monopoly too.
Funny, how much hand wringing is going on in the sweaty mainstream media about a guy who merely put down a vicious oligarchy-loving killer. You’d get the impression that media moguls are worried that they’re next.
Assuming he actually did it
Funny, how much hand wringing is going on in the sweaty mainstream media about a guy who merely put down a vicious oligarchy-loving killer. You’d get the impression that media moguls are worried that they’re next.
It’s a sign of the time that we’re living in. When people find joy in the death of others in a society, the quality of living is exceptionally bad. It’s reminiscent of Rome too where the last years of their society were filled with chaos
Or the French revolution, for that matter
So does AOC and Tim Walz.
I always wondered what’s the source of this GIF…
The Incredibles
woke: doom inspires acts of violence
broke: call of duty inspires acts of violence
bespoke: among us inspires acts of violence
When I was a kid, we played pacman. A literal puck who eats pixels and takes turns chasing ghosts. We turned out fine.
It’s not like that’s what caused us to go to rave parties, listen to beepy music and pop ecstacy pills.
BITCH I’M EATING A GHOST RIGHT NOW
Lol, the rich were hoping to find gruesome shooters like COD or PUBG.
On a phone?
CODM and PUBGM do exist
I have only played on PC. Had no idea they had a mobile game.
