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’ve heard that almost all meth addicts have tried sugar first
I heard that it is in all things we drink! Beer, juice, milk, and even water!
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.
Got a chuckle at this response, though…
Luigi is sus
luigi broke the coffeepot
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.
Speak for yourself.
WAKA-WAKA-WAKA-WAKA
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
Damn, you butchered that joke.
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
Lol, the rich were hoping to find gruesome shooters like COD or PUBG.
I’m sure they found 3 copies of the sims next to his manifesto
On a phone?
CODM and PUBGM do exist
I have only played on PC. Had no idea they had a mobile game.
That would almost make me believe that they caused violence. Can’t imagine playing on a phone would be anything but frustrating.
Imagine you find out he is the top 10 rated COD mobile players. Everyone would immediately know he was a complete psycopath.
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
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.
i’m afraid if i find out he played stardew valley i’m gonna be ravenous for him
He also worked on Civilization as an intern and had a Steam account
Obviously he loves old timey steam trains!
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
That means that anyone who played Among Us is capable of killing a CEO.
Just saying…
(BTW, they’re blocking images with his name in it. what’s up with that)
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.
Anyone else remember bowling for Columbine?
No?
Alright.
luigi likes to drink soda.
luigi’s car… is red.
green*
ugh yes sorry it’s been 20 years since i’ve seen it :(
I don’t even know if we’re talking about the same thing so don’t feel bad
