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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] 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

[–] phoneymouse 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

[–] Lost_My_Mind 6 points 1 week ago

Obviously he loves old timey steam trains!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (3 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.

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

Aliens have never killed anyone

That's what you think

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

There are plenty of animals that have killed in cold blood. Some animals are evil assholes.

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

Anyone else remember bowling for Columbine?

No?

Alright.

[–] RememberTheApollo_ 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] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Of course there's only a small percent of Among Us players that will try to kill a CEO. Be grateful.

[–] Dagnet 5 points 1 week ago

"Well, then we are banning that horrendous game and breathing air too!"

[–] werefreeatlast 5 points 1 week ago

I just noticed that he has a nose.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Hmmm, can't tell if he was damn good as an imposter or bad as a crew.... Could be a "completely justified" revenge killing! If only he could have played spy on TF2.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

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