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
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I bet the CEO played Monopoly too. Ironic, isn’t it?
CEO probably cheated when he played Monopoly too.
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 heard that it is in all things we drink! Beer, juice, milk, and even water!
I’ve heard that almost all meth addicts have tried sugar first
It doesnt kill 100% of people who consume it, 100% of people who consume it die
Learn the difference for future reference
It still kills more than 320,000 people every year, and that’s just from ingesting it.
What were you hoping to achieve? 320,000 is not 8,200,000,000 which would be 100%
320000 is 0.0039024390243902% of 8200000000.
Drowning. Over 300 thousand people drown every year according to my 20 seconds of research. Those are killed by DHMO directly.
What are you trying to achieve. What is your goal here. What is it you are attempting to accomplish?
I literally did the math for you. Three hundred twenty thousand people is less than zero point zero zero four percent of eight billion two hundred million people also known as one hundred percent of people who drank dihydrogen monoxide
I never claimed water cant kill people, i pointed out a flawed claim and then gave the correct information they should have used
That’s taking it too far. To beat the bad guy with water we just need good guys with water.
Hydrohomies activate!
But first, the person banning water would become the ultimate serial killer.
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…
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.
I saw that same T-Shirt at the mall in 2001.
When I was a kid, I played Civ 3… so I guess, according to cable news, I’d be seen as a genocidal maniac on par with Hitler.
Funny you should mention that, the UHC killer killed 300 bugs in civ iv during his internship with the dev according to his resume.
Expect a knock on your door from the FBI tonight
BITCH I’M EATING A GHOST RIGHT NOW
I’ve played Postal 2 extensively when I was 8y old and I only piss in peoples mouth at work. I don’t even remember when it was the last time I went shopping and burned some alive with a gasoline.
So does AOC and Tim Walz.
I always wondered what’s the source of this GIF…
The Incredibles
The Incredibles. Pretty good Pixar movie
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!
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
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
Assuming he actually did it
He also worked on Civilization as an intern and had a Steam account
Obviously he loves old timey steam trains!
Anyone else remember bowling for Columbine?
No?
Alright.
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.”
Of course there’s only a small percent of Among Us players that will try to kill a CEO. Be grateful.
“technology”
I played the game of Clue a couple of times. That too is a murder simulator and “how to cover your tracks” game.
Also here if that goes down https://archive.fo/TBY3d
