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?
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!
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.
That’s taking it too far. To beat the bad guy with water we just need good guys with water.
Got a chuckle at this response, though…
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.
woke: doom inspires acts of violence
broke: call of duty inspires acts of violence
bespoke: among us inspires acts of violence
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.
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.
