- cross-posted to:
- nottheonion@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- nottheonion@lemmy.world
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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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…
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
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
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
Or the French revolution, for that matter
Assuming he actually did it
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.
I played the game of Clue a couple of times. That too is a murder simulator and “how to cover your tracks” game.
“technology”
Why is he dressed so weirdly on the photo? That doesn’t look like a usual uniform…
If you’ve noticed, they’re doing everything they can to make him look less attractive. Shitty aspect ratios, bad white balance, editing the picture, terrible focal lengths…
They’re scared. It’s hilarious, because they’re so blatantly obviously scared.
It’s hilarious because they are so obviously scared but at the same time it’s terrifying because it will eventually work on most people.
Suicide watch uniform, I think. Have only seen it in one old photo so it might have just been that facility
Why does he need suicide watch uniform? Are they planning to Epstein him?
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woah woah woah…let’s not turn this murder into a martyr.
–what the aristocrats would likely think
Looked it up and indeed seems to be it.
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.”
I just noticed that he has a nose.
