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
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
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
But first, the person banning water would become the ultimate serial killer.
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.
So does AOC and Tim Walz.
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.
He also worked on Civilization as an intern and had a Steam account
Obviously he loves old timey steam trains!
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.”
I played the game of Clue a couple of times. That too is a murder simulator and “how to cover your tracks” game.
Of course there’s only a small percent of Among Us players that will try to kill a CEO. Be grateful.
I just noticed that he has a nose.
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“Well, then we are banning that horrendous game and breathing air too!”
