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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:

'Extremely ironic': Suspect in UnitedHealthcare CEO slaying played video game killer, friend recalls (NBCNews)

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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[–] [email protected] 199 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I bet the CEO played Monopoly too. Ironic, isn't it?

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 week ago

CEO probably cheated when he played Monopoly too.

[–] [email protected] 144 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Fact: %100 of serial killers have drank water.

If we ban water for everyone, we can stop serial killers for once and all.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago (8 children)

What about just banning dihydrogen monoxide? That stuff kills 100% of those who consume it and is, like, everywhere!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's used in everything from pesticides to baby formula... when are people going to wake up to the dangers it poses?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I've heard that almost all meth addicts have tried sugar first

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That's taking it too far. To beat the bad guy with water we just need good guys with water.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Hydrohomies activate!

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Got a chuckle at this response, though....

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Lots of people played Among Us and haven't killed a CEO.

Yet.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

On the other hand, every person who has killed a United Healthcare CEO has played Among US, checkmate.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

Kinda sus...

[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago (1 children)

woke: doom inspires acts of violence

broke: call of duty inspires acts of violence

bespoke: among us inspires acts of violence

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago

Speak for yourself.

WAKA-WAKA-WAKA-WAKA

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

I saw that same T-Shirt at the mall in 2001.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

BITCH I’M EATING A GHOST RIGHT NOW

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[–] [email protected] 84 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Lol, the rich were hoping to find gruesome shooters like COD or PUBG.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Assuming he actually did it

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I played with coworkers during COVID because we needed something to keep us sane.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

He also worked on Civilization as an intern and had a Steam account

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Obviously he loves old timey steam trains!

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 week ago

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That means that anyone who played Among Us is capable of killing a CEO.

Just saying...

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Its-Funny-Cuz-U-Is-Stupid-1392177548

(BTW, they're blocking images with his name in it. what's up with that)

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Anyone else remember bowling for Columbine?

No?

Alright.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

luigi likes to drink soda.

luigi's car... is red.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

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.”

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

"technology"

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I played the game of Clue a couple of times. That too is a murder simulator and "how to cover your tracks" game.

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