116 points

In the game, called “Among Us,” some players are secretly assigned to be killers in space who perform other tasks while trying to avoid suspicion from other players.

Moar spin plz

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36 points

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4 points

VINNY DETECTED

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93 points

Source pleeeaase. This is gold and needs to be framed an hung on a wall.

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73 points

Found it, it’s NBC. But really google “luigi among us”: the news are seriously trying to drum up the DANGERS OF VIDEO GAME VIOLENCE again based on Luigi Mangione playing Among Us.

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31 points

Next up at 11 - are chess and Risk players secretly warmongers?

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7 points

Yes but it’s unrelated

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8 points

That’s because their Orange Messiah has promised to ban video games as part of Project 2025.

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5 points

Anyone thinking about engaging in direct action of any kind should consider embracing the absurdity. Imagine how stupid it would make the police look to beat up on a bunch of protestors wearing puffy amogus suits. It’s more than a joke, it’s historically been effective in opposing authoritarianism.

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2 points

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12 points

“Journalists” like this should be held responsible for the BS they spew. If there are no consequences they’ll just continue…

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They usually never lie. They frame things in incredibly misleading ways, leave out context, etc. but they technically just report facts. Its shitty, but from a legal standpoint there is no way to make this illegal without heavily restricting journalists ability to do anything.

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68 points

Does no one at NBC realise how bad this makes them look? I don’t even game and even I know what Among Us is and how desperate this piece comes across.

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57 points

God, imagine a world where Amung Us has even a slight chance of turning you into a class war assassin. Given how many people played that at it’s peak, we’d be seeing CEOs dropping like flies. There’d be a few dozen per day.

Why can’t video games actually radicalize the way Boomer media believes it does?

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11 points

The subtle messaging is too subtle

The game should add tasks where you have to make strategies to kill CEOs that another crewmate has to follow

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2 points

A lot of boomers support luigi.

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How SUSSY

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