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.
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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.
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
Assuming he actually did it
Anyone else remember bowling for Columbine?
No?
Alright.
“Well, then we are banning that horrendous game and breathing air too!”
I just noticed that he has a nose.
I played the game of Clue a couple of times. That too is a murder simulator and “how to cover your tracks” game.
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
I bet the CEO played Monopoly too. Ironic, isn’t it?
CEO probably cheated when he played Monopoly too.
Did you know every murderer has been human? Which is why people being afraid of aliens doesn’t make any sense. Aliens have never killed anyone, but humans have killed a lot of people.
From The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu:
Later, other Adventists based their hatred of the human race on other foundations, not limited to issues such as the environment or warfare. Some raised their hatred to very abstract, philosophical levels. Unlike how they would be imagined later, most of them were realists, and did not place too much hope in the alien civilization they served either. Their betrayal was based only on their despair and hatred of the human race. Mike Evans gave the Adventists their motto: We don’t know what extraterrestrial civilization is like, but we know humanity.
Aliens have never killed anyone
That’s what you think
That’s what they want you to think.
There are plenty of animals that have killed in cold blood. Some animals are evil assholes.
There was even a pig that got convicted in, like, 1700s France or something.
Also here if that goes down https://archive.fo/TBY3d
The article reads like regular internet bad behavior.
there is rarely a single story everyone is talking about and where it is impossible to hold anyone’s attention for more than a few minutes at a time…
Exactly what the press contributes to.
Goes on to suggest digging through old accounts, maybe finding the right person of interest, making stuff up based on what you find, then harassing people associated with the person.
But that’s ok, because it’s “journalism.”
So does AOC and Tim Walz.
I always wondered what’s the source of this GIF…
The Incredibles
The Incredibles. Pretty good Pixar movie
Lots of people played Among Us and haven’t killed a CEO.
Yet.
On the other hand, every person who has killed a United Healthcare CEO has played Among US, checkmate.
He also ate a kind bar moments before doing his work.
Kind bar, fuel for the revolution.
Kind bar, when you need to make a quick getaway.
Kind bar, leave a lasting impression.
Kinda sus…
Got a chuckle at this response, though…
Luigi is sus
luigi broke the coffeepot
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’m afraid if i find out he played stardew valley i’m gonna be ravenous for him
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.
