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 played the game of Clue a couple of times. That too is a murder simulator and “how to cover your tracks” game.
“technology”
luigi likes to drink soda.
luigi’s car… is red.
green*
ugh yes sorry it’s been 20 years since i’ve seen it :(
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?
Someone else said they do it to punish you because it makes you miserable.
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.
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)
Lots of people played Among Us and haven’t killed a CEO.
Yet.
Kinda sus…
On the other hand, every person who has killed a United Healthcare CEO has played Among US, checkmate.
Anyone else remember bowling for Columbine?
No?
Alright.
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
Got a chuckle at this response, though…
Luigi is sus
luigi broke the coffeepot
I just noticed that he has a nose.
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.”
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’m afraid if i find out he played stardew valley i’m gonna be ravenous for him
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.
Of course there’s only a small percent of Among Us players that will try to kill a CEO. Be grateful.
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.
