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[u/dacoolestguy]

[u/lynx2718]

It's nice how the headline calls it "CEO slaying", like he took down an evil dragon.

[u/dacoolestguy → u/lynx2718]

CEO VANQUISHED (in Dark Souls text)

[u/Cookieopressor → u/dacoolestguy]

You're welcome

EDIT: for anyone who wants to make their own

[u/theshade540 → u/Cookieopressor]

hope you dont mind if I just

EDIT:original post got taken down

[u/Cookieopressor → u/theshade540]

Hah, nice one.

Added a link to the website used for the dark souls text to my other comment if you need it in the future

[u/theshade540 → u/Cookieopressor]

Hell yeah man

[u/Upbeat-Armadillo1756 → u/dacoolestguy]

They don’t call them bosses for nothing

[u/thisaintmyusername12 → u/lynx2718]

You're on a path in the woods. And at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a CEO. You're here to slay him. If you don't, it will be the end of the world.

[u/lynx2718 → u/thisaintmyusername12]

"I always wanted to kill a monarch! Viva la revolution!"

[u/thisaintmyusername12 → u/lynx2718]

That's the spirit!

[u/dirtielaundry → u/thisaintmyusername12]

Just sent this to my partner who's having a long shitty at work. He lol'd.

[u/schlucks → u/lynx2718]

"As a knight, the king said, "it is your duty to kill dragons."

"Very well, my liege,' the knight said. "Um. May I ask why?"

"Because they hoard wealth without sharing, and people live in fear of their capricious moods."

"Very well, my liege," the knight said and drew his sword.

[u/Nameless_Scarf → u/lynx2718]

Those are different things. Dragons are mythical creatures that breath out fire. They often are shown to amass a lot of riches, which they do nothing with, and cause a lot of death.

The healthcare CEO ummm.... has a family that loves him.

[u/FkinShtManEySuck → u/Nameless_Scarf]

Conclusion: Donald Trump is not a healthcare CEO.

[u/Thromnomnomok → u/FkinShtManEySuck]

Holds up Warren Buffett Behold, a healthcare CEO!

[u/DevianMality → u/Nameless_Scarf]

Also dragons are cool and interesting.

[u/runetrantor → u/Nameless_Scarf]

Hey, dragons have ingrained compulsions to hoard, they have just cause, and some get their gold from tribute and such.

Saying they all cause death is a gross generalization. #NotAllDragons.

[u/PhantasosX → u/Nameless_Scarf]

I mean , one of the most famous dragons that hoarded wealth was Fafnir , and he was a dwarf with family until he had his Ring of Nibelung and Rhiegold.

[u/helgaofthenorth → u/lynx2718]

Headline language gets so silly bc they gotta keep it short but sometimes that requires Vocabulary Words

[u/thatHecklerOverThere → u/lynx2718]

I mean, he kinda did. these guys know what I'm talking about).

[u/blueeyesredlipstick]

Well this explains why the UHC CEO’s body was found cut in half with one big bone sticking out of the middle.

[u/dacoolestguy → u/blueeyesredlipstick]

Coverage denied due to pre-existing boneitis

[u/gooch_norris_ → u/dacoolestguy]

My one regret

[u/Wartortling → u/gooch_norris_]

is that I have

[u/cuteintern → u/Wartortling]

... Boneitis!

[u/torrinage → u/cuteintern]

I remember the 80s!

[u/vernontwinkie → u/torrinage]

Awesome! Awesome to the max!

[u/stevencastle → u/[deleted]]

You're a shark.

[u/ninjay816 → u/cuteintern]

r/unexpectedfuturama

[u/Silent_And_Swift → u/dacoolestguy]

He was so busy being an 80’s guy he forgot to cure it

[u/Bootslol → u/dacoolestguy]

Oof ouch owy my bones.

[u/qzwqz → u/dacoolestguy]

Currently picturing him doing safety dance

[u/stevencastle → u/qzwqz]

You know that dance isn't as safe as they say it was.

[u/ExtinctFauna → u/blueeyesredlipstick]

The shooter vented!

[u/Soloact_ → u/blueeyesredlipstick]

Luigi took 'split the difference' a bit too literally.

[u/You_Are_Annoying124 → u/blueeyesredlipstick]

Can't have been Luigi though, I personally saw him doing Med Scan!

[u/Bustedbootstraps → u/blueeyesredlipstick]

He was standing too close to the vents, rookie mistake

[u/ForHelp_PressAltF4 → u/blueeyesredlipstick]

EMERGENCY MEETING

[u/N0S0UP_4U → u/blueeyesredlipstick]

And why I saw Green jump in the vent

[u/dacoolestguy]

The Article????

[u/theLanguageSprite → u/dacoolestguy]

Thank you for posting the actual article because there is no other way I would have believed it was real

[u/big_guyforyou → u/theLanguageSprite]

i thought nbc news had higher standards than this

[u/LaboratoryManiac → u/big_guyforyou]

Doesn't matter the source - mainstream media has been trying to pin violence on video games for as long as I can remember.

[u/dougfordvslaptop → u/LaboratoryManiac]

MARILYN MANSON AND GTA CAUSED COLUMBINE

[u/Feature_Minimum → u/dougfordvslaptop]

JD SALINGER IS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DEATH OF JOHN LENNON! (Which is a good thing since THE BEATLES CAUSED MANSON MURDERS!)

[u/dougfordvslaptop → u/Feature_Minimum]

YOU KNOW WHAT, MAYBE MARILYN MANSON WOULDN'T HAVE NAMED HIMSELF MARILYN MANSON AND BECOME THE DEVIL'S PREACHER IF JD SALINGER DIDN'T EXIST.

MAYBE JD SALINGER CAUSED COLUMBINE??????

[u/Feature_Minimum → u/dougfordvslaptop]

JD SALINGER PROBABLY LISTENED TO JAZZ MUSIC AT SOME POINT!! JAZZ MUSIC CAUSED COLUMBINE!!!!

[u/AdA4b5gof4st3r → u/Feature_Minimum]

shit like this is why i’m still on Reddit despite the clear and measurable detriment to my mental health

[u/Incidion → u/LaboratoryManiac]

Bro clearly did not live through the 80s and 90s satanic panic and school shooting rise.

They were trying to pin violence on games when gaming was 8 pixels that vaguely resembled a human, to say nothing of the backlash D&D and the like got. There were entire movies made about how D&D was a pipeline straight to devil worship it was such a commonly believed myth.

This wasn't small outlets either, stuff like that was what turned me off of most news outlets in the first place. The second you know a bit about any subject news reports on, you start seeing very quickly how little journalistic integrity there is.

[u/Zepangolynn → u/Incidion]

There was a paper I thought I could trust until I was interviewed as a teen and not only was the only quote used not something I even said, but every piece of information about me that wasn't my name was wrong.

[u/ReferenceUnusual8717 → u/Incidion]

I mean, innocent people went jail over this bullshit. Some of them for a long ass time. All because of some self appointed "Experts" with zero actual expertise (You can't have expertise in something that isn't happening)

[u/bingius_ → u/LaboratoryManiac]

Yeah there was one news post involving Luigi showing his steam game hours lmfao and his most egregious of 400 hours in pubg looks fucking normal for most 26 year olds, if the news saw my wow hours they’d say I have a problem

[u/wyomingTFknott → u/bingius_]

400 hours in pubg

Based.

[u/Dramatic-Classroom14 → u/bingius_]

Me with 2000 hours in ArmA 3 as a sniper.

I fucking love doing 4 minutes of math problems to land a kill shot, but at the same time, people acting like video games with guns is a direct pipeline to violence or even my mom who called me earlier today to talk about chat ai and how it causes suicide and is evil, it’s all just bullshit fear mongering of trying to blame problems on new stuff you don’t understand.

[u/theLanguageSprite → u/big_guyforyou]

news organizations have standards? I thought that was just a thing that Aaron Sorkin made up to sell television shows

[u/big_guyforyou → u/theLanguageSprite]

well it's not like they just make shit up. new york times isn't like "today, the 33rd of fleptember, the emperor of kerflofflestan, pomodoro III, announced that his space agency will be sending a wooden ship to uranus"

[u/runetrantor → u/big_guyforyou]

Bro, why are you spoiling us about tomorrow's news! D:

"announced that his space agency will be sending a wooden ship to uranus"

A very original way to say he is going to fuck you with a wooden dildo, tbf.

[u/Khaldara → u/big_guyforyou]

They’re really desperate to get a partisan angle on it despite the fact fucking everyone who has ever interacted with it despises the for profit healthcare industry. You can smell the stupid desperation behind the parent media organizations applying spin on so many of these stories lately.

[u/HugeObligation8338 → u/big_guyforyou]

I think I saw that on Fox News or MSNBC last Wednesday 

[u/Kriegian → u/HugeObligation8338]

Nah you must be thinking of the Tucker Carlson Show.

[u/eboov → u/big_guyforyou]

yeah Jesus Christ what a completely abysmal yet laughable piece of journalism

[u/TeardropsFromHell → u/big_guyforyou]

The news, all of it, is not designed to inform you. It is designed to construct a narrative that helps those in power stay in power.

[u/PetalumaPegleg → u/big_guyforyou]

Lol why?

[u/54B3R_ → u/theLanguageSprite]

But at the same time I can't believe it's real because it's such a nothing article. It's literally talking about how someone played Among Us with Luigi and Luigi was assigned to be the killer in Among Us. That is such a nothing story. The fact that someone is calling this a news article and getting paid for it is wild to me as well though

[u/Ok_Painter_7413 → u/54B3R_]

"Young adult played video game that was immensely popular a short while ago - at least once" just wouldn't get the same amount of clicks.

[u/Punkandescent → u/54B3R_]

The thing is, I’m pretty sure the kind of folks on this subreddit aren’t the target audience. To us, sure, this is a nothing article. For the pearl-clutchers at which it’s aimed, this stokes hysteria over the classic “videogames make you violent” talking point.

[u/fatoodles → u/Punkandescent]

But it was literally the most viral game of 2020

Next article will say he waited till dark and played a game where he farmed tarantulas on an island (absolutely coldblooded).

Like what are we doing? What is the point?

[u/scrivensB → u/Punkandescent]

It’s 100% aimed at social media algorithms. Which will get it in front of the right audience. Shit like this will blast its way across Facebook and X feeds of those pearl clutchers.

This is the world we’ve built, even actual news gathering and reporting outlets have to play the game to get views digitally.

[u/obamasrightteste → u/theLanguageSprite]

Saw this earlier and immediately googled because I thought it was for sure an edited joke. Nope. Insane.

[u/MedalsNScars → u/obamasrightteste]

I heard he played cops and robbers as a kid and he was the robber!!!

[u/obamasrightteste → u/MedalsNScars]

Oh FUCK

[u/generally-unskilled → u/theLanguageSprite]

"I just found it extremely ironic that, you know, we were in this game and there could actually be a true killer among us," he said

NBC is sus

[u/Direct-Squash-1243 → u/theLanguageSprite]

Read a news article about the subject you know most about and think about how inaccurate it is.

But somehow when we read the next article we assume its right.

Gell-Mann amnesia is what Crichton called it.

[u/LakersAreForever → u/theLanguageSprite]

Psyop

[u/GenericTrashyBitch → u/dacoolestguy]

“CEO slaying” is a wild and way more badass title than they probably intended it to be

[u/Andalite-Nothlit → u/GenericTrashyBitch]

Yeah, cause it’s reminiscent of dragon slaying. And in a way aren’t CEOs dragons, hoarders of wealth?

[u/runetrantor → u/Andalite-Nothlit]

Dont insult dragons like that, they have more morals than a ceo.

[u/complete_your_task → u/runetrantor]

Ya, most dragons only kill people who bother them. CEOs are much more indiscrimate.

[u/owls_unite → u/runetrantor]

Plus I think someone proved that Smaug would only be the 15th wealthiest American.

[u/runetrantor → u/owls_unite]

Bro needs to learn to invest and make his gold generate more gold. /s

[u/CatnipCatmint → u/runetrantor]

They're also infinitely more fuckable

[u/peepopowitz67 → u/Andalite-Nothlit]

My favorite part about Shadowrun, is that CEOs are literal dragons. It just works so fantastically well.

[u/Taraxian → u/GenericTrashyBitch]

Buffy theme intensifies

[u/DazedAndTrippy → u/Taraxian]

Bros definitely some kind of demon, surprised he didn't turn into ashes when the bullet hit

[u/NeonNKnightrider → u/GenericTrashyBitch]

I would wear the title of CEO Slayer with pride for my life. Like an MMO title above your name tag

[u/deepsleeep → u/dacoolestguy]

"I just found it extremely ironic that, you know, we were in this game and there could actually be a true killer among us," he said.

No fuckin way he did that

[u/PinaBanana → u/deepsleeep]

That's probably the funniest thing I've read this week, good god

[u/Pitiful_Drop2470 → u/deepsleeep]

They're all trolling. It feels like there is a lot more to this story.

[u/ResidentOfValinor → u/deepsleeep]

Absolute cinema

[u/Moonpaw → u/dacoolestguy]

It has to be a troll though, right? The “member of the group” that claims to have been assassins is just screwing with some idiot news rep who didn’t bother looking up the game in question. Right?

[u/novangla → u/Moonpaw]

No, they “played assassins”. It was literally just an Among Us discord group of college buddies during the pandemic lockdown. Like 90% of the nation’s youth played assassins lolol

[u/TTTrisss → u/novangla]

You don't "Play Assassins" in Among Us, though. That's the point they're making.

[u/CouchHam → u/dacoolestguy]

That discord server must be losing their minds

[u/classyhornythrowaway → u/dacoolestguy]

Article written by 𝓗𝓸𝓶𝓸 𝓢𝓪𝓹𝓲𝓮𝓷𝓼 𝓑𝓸𝓸𝓶𝓮𝓻𝓾𝓼

[u/UnclePuma → u/classyhornythrowaway]

I can't believe I share 98% of my genetic makeup with that ape!

[u/classyhornythrowaway → u/UnclePuma]

We're all just apes who evolved shitposting abilities

[u/somedumb-gay → u/dacoolestguy]

So.. what I'm getting from this is that a young guy and his friends played a game that was extremely popular with young people and their friends? What's the news here

[u/Ouaouaron → u/somedumb-gay]

The point is to get clicks, and anything about Luigi Mangione gets clicked on right now. Even this is more relevant than the "Luigi Mangione's Spotify account has a playlist of Carly Rae Jepsen's entire discography" article from yesterday.

[u/TTTrisss → u/somedumb-gay]

It's a video game about killing! Video games cause violence + character assassination of the suspect.

[u/Angie_bun → u/dacoolestguy]

No way 🤣🤣🤣

[u/rabiithous3]

it’s so funny because the article is such a nothingburger too

[u/Efficient_Comfort_38 → u/rabiithous3]

Real, they did t even really need to talk about Among Us

[u/Cumdump90001 → u/Efficient_Comfort_38]

Yet they fucking explained the entire concept of the game I am CACKLING

[u/9cmAAA → u/Cumdump90001]

Now that you mentioned it, I cackled at remembering how much time I wasted reading how among us is played 😂

[u/BalefulOfMonkeys → u/rabiithous3]

“UHC shooting suspect played Among Us” is an article that could have been published before we even found Luigi

[u/neko_mancy → u/BalefulOfMonkeys]

He also breathed air and, allegedly, drank water

[u/ccyosafbridge → u/rabiithous3]

Breaking news; Benoit Blanc plays Among Us. Finds it tedious.

[u/dinosanddais1 → u/rabiithous3]

No like the only point they made was his friend being like "wow there was a killer among us like in the game!"

[u/charlottebythedoor → u/dinosanddais1]

I can only assume that friend was trolling whoever interviewed him.

[u/dinosanddais1 → u/charlottebythedoor]

I will accept that theory

[u/Dry_Try_8365 → u/rabiithous3]

It sort of feels like they’re trying to get some sort of scapegoat out of this.

[u/OldBayOnEverything → u/Dry_Try_8365]

They've been working overtime trying to smear him and lionize Thompson and the healthcare system since it happened. This is just a continuation of decades of concerted effort to give more power and money to corporations and convice people to go against their own interests.

[u/kaiserkaarts → u/OldBayOnEverything]

I think America is accepting the idea of violence to solve problems.

The "right" way hasn't been working for decades.

[u/puppyzzzz]

he vented your honor

[u/Altslial → u/puppyzzzz]

your honor, league of legends

[u/Boosterboo59 → u/Altslial]

Death.

[u/Feature_Minimum → u/Altslial]

The jury finds the defendant "worth" on all counts.

[u/Thromnomnomok → u/Altslial]

Witnesses over heard the shooter saying to the collapsed body of the CEO, "gg no re noob"

[u/poompt → u/puppyzzzz]

I saw green doing tasks

[u/Thicc-Anxiety]

"Video games cause violence, not the lack of reliable healthcare"

[u/runetrantor → u/Thicc-Anxiety]

It is well known that video games were specially popular during the French Revolution. /s

[u/TheDreamingDragon1 → u/runetrantor]

Parmi Nous was outlawed not long after the Revolution in an attempt to keep it from happening again

[u/nonbinaryopossum → u/TheDreamingDragon1]

my french is rusty let me google something real quick

edit: ok yeah this is funny

[u/DrMobius0 → u/Thicc-Anxiety]

Good old escape goats.

[u/54B3R_ → u/Thicc-Anxiety]

Oh shit I think that is the insinuation the author is trying to make. It's such a nothing article until you frame it in that way.

[u/inkyrail]

Are you fucking serious?

[u/Gnatlet2point0 → u/inkyrail]

Anyone else remember the image where Harry Potter asks Lupin "Are you fucking serious?" And he answers yes, then realizes Harry didn't say "fucking Sirius"...

[u/astrologicaldreams → u/Gnatlet2point0]

"are you fucking serious?"

"how'd you know?"

[u/cookiequeen324 → u/Gnatlet2point0]

i need this right now

[u/Gnatlet2point0 → u/cookiequeen324]

https://imgur.com/a/aCRHGPG

Best one I could find

[u/RobinTheTactician0 → u/Gnatlet2point0]

lupin the third?

[u/TimeStorm113]

Ah, good we circled back to "killer games are the cause of violence"

[u/patronum213 → u/TimeStorm113]

the article actually doesn't support that oddly enough, and makes a point of saying that among us is actually very non-graphic and became popular during the pandemic because it provides a way for people to engage socially over a fun activity focused on their relationships

[u/Papaofmonsters → u/patronum213]

It's the big story, so they will print anything tangentially related to it.

[u/LtTurtleshot → u/Papaofmonsters]

Can't wait for the parents interview.

[u/ThreeActTragedy → u/patronum213]

But how many people will actually read all the way to the 6th paragraph and not get stuck at “video game killer” from the headline? You even get his friend calling him “a real killer” before that

[u/Trappedbirdcage → u/TimeStorm113]

Others are claiming he was addicted to opioids when there's no evidence to that, and most people even with debilitating chronic conditions can't access opioids because doctors are afraid to prescribe it and get sued if they do get addicted, plus tight DEA regulations that are only getting tighter.

[u/DrewbearSCP → u/Trappedbirdcage]

Recently I had an accident that resulted in my husband making a frantic drive to the ER because I was in so much pain I was screaming with tears streaming down my face and almost passing out. The ER gave me ONE oxycodone pill, after I’d been there about an hour, and gave me a prescription of only 10 to keep me until I healed. By the point I was discharged, I had dark bruising across my entire leg from ankle to hip and the weight of my pants leg on it was agony. But sure, 10 pills of oxy will be enough, doc.

Yes, docs used to prescribe oxy like water & there were a lot of addicts. Nowadays, you’re lucky if you can even get the 10 that I did. And every state has a controlled substances database that pharmacies have to use, so it’s not like you can hop from one to another to keep getting fills.

[u/Human-Experience-405 → u/TimeStorm113]

It's kinda a shitty article too. 4 entire paragraph are talking about among us.

It's a complete nothing burger

[u/runetrantor → u/TimeStorm113]

Like, at least say he played GTA or Assassin's Creed, if you are going to decry the HORRORS of gaming in allowing us to kill anyone we want.

But fucking Amogus? XD

[u/quicksilver_foxheart]

Luigi Mangione killed the imposter

[u/runetrantor → u/quicksilver_foxheart]

It was an evil monster hellbent on killing everyone while feigning to be one of the group.

[u/Soloact_]

The second paragraph hit like an emergency meeting button.

[u/Averander → u/Soloact_]

They had us in the first half, not going to lie.

[u/runetrantor → u/Soloact_]

Honestly? Yeah, that is an apt comparison to the feeling of being blindsided I felt when I read the game name in question.

[u/Ego73]

If you call this journalism, I swear by Allah I will shoot myself right here

[u/NotAnotherRedditAcc2 → u/Ego73]

The author of this article got a master's degree in journalism from USC, only to write this.

[u/gymnastgrrl → u/NotAnotherRedditAcc2]

I rather suspect that they know it's not the pinnacle of the art, and just acquiesed to the corporate pressure to put out stuff - anything - trying to make him look bad. It probably wasn't important enough for him to quit the job, but rather just hold their nose and write this trash. At least, that's my assumption and hope.

[u/Lunar_sims → u/gymnastgrrl]

Journalism is one of the most depressing fields. You do and say nothing because everything is the word of corporate

[u/gymnastgrrl → u/Lunar_sims]

Or you're local and tiny and therefore broke.

My partner's father worked for the Miami Herald for many years. It's definitely a much more depressing world nowadays.

[u/Miami_Mice2087]

I was waiting for assassins creed which is still a stupid thing to report on

[u/runetrantor → u/Miami_Mice2087]

100% same.

That or like, GTA or some such game.

[u/gymnastgrrl → u/runetrantor]

People think, like, The Sims wouldn't be a concern, but I swear... people who play that game are psychopaths.

(I admit that I have killed many sims in creative ways, don't get me wrong. hehe)

[u/ccyosafbridge → u/[deleted]]

If I killed someone; she played Stardew Valley and spent a suspicious amount of time killing slimes in the mine.

[u/hanamakki → u/ccyosafbridge]

also several of krobus' family members but that was self defense

[u/Roskal → u/ccyosafbridge]

He played animal crossing, so he was used to never ending debt no matter how much he paid off.

[u/vjmdhzgr → u/ccyosafbridge]

Found the Stardew Valley player. You're going straight to jail for that one.

[u/kaprifool → u/ccyosafbridge]

She turned her children into doves...

[u/gHHqdm5a4UySnUFM]

The suspect is also named after a character from Super Mario Bros. a notorious video game about taking mushrooms, stealing gold coins, stomping on heads, and breaking into castles.

[u/runetrantor]

I read the first paragraph and rolled my eyes, bracing for 'he played a horrid game called Assassin's Creed, where you kill whoever you want!'

But AMONG US? Yeah, now thats a whiplash.

[u/ThatGuyYouMightNo]

Further proof that if a person who did a bad thing played a video game - any video game - at least once in their life, the media will blame all video games for the bad thing they did instead of looking at any other factors that could have led that person to do the bad thing.

[u/runetrantor → u/ThatGuyYouMightNo]

"Could this have been fueled by the collective anger that the healthcare corruption causes? Nah, its that Meincraft he played."

[u/Dry_Try_8365 → u/runetrantor]

It’s easier to blame it on the corruption of the youth than corruption of the system.

[u/spacebatangeldragon8]

Reminds me of that time during the Gabby Petito case where the TikTok sleuths were all obsessing over her murderer reading Annihilation in one video - which is of course, as they characterised it, "a book about women who go missing".

[u/slim-shady-on-main → u/spacebatangeldragon8]

I’m not sure it’s possible to miss the point of a book harder.

[u/CodaTrashHusky]

This feels like one of those tiktoks that baits Jschlatt into a 911 joke

[u/pailko]

NYPost also did a story on this for some reason lol

[u/FkinShtManEySuck → u/pailko]

describing Among Us as an "assassin game" is kinda wild ngl.
The whole article is "This just in, guy in his 20s played Among Us during the pandemic". Yeah, no shit bro.

[u/runetrantor → u/FkinShtManEySuck]

Like, I could see one stretch it and describe it as a game simulating a 'The Thing' scenario or something of the sort, and that would already be overselling it, but an assassin game? Yeah.

When I read that description I was SURE they were about to mention Assassin's Creed, or GTA, or whatever else.

[u/DrunkRobot97 → u/FkinShtManEySuck]

I think their audience is people who stopped adapting the way they think about the world in 1982.

[u/magikarp19]

is this article what he was referencing when he said "completely out of touch, and an insult to the intelligence of the American people and to lived experience"?

[u/b3nsn0w]

lmfao is this the way they're gonna try to paint him as evil?

[u/Hojaismyhomeboy]

Nobody blames video games or movies or music when a state actor commits violence. Noone suggests that Russia invaded Ukraine because Vladimir Putin was into metal.

[u/LastHopeOfTheLeft]

This has to be AI written slop, no human with a brain would write that article.

[u/NotAnotherRedditAcc2 → u/LastHopeOfTheLeft]

I'm so glad you said this, because the author is very much human. With a master's degree in journalism.

[u/RepentantSororitas → u/NotAnotherRedditAcc2]

Trust me you can be an absolute dumbass with a masters degree.

Ask me how I know

[u/Professional_March54]

We really grasping at straws huh? You've got the wrong guy. The wildly circulated picture with the cutie is not the shooter. The jackets don't match, first of all.

Second of all, this Luigi guy has a unibrow, The shooter doesn't.

Thirdly, I'm suspect of the whole shenanigans that led to his arrest. He was still carrying the fake id, the gun and his manifesto? And this McDonalds worker happened to see them?

I'm no armchair detective, but come the fuck on.

[u/SpreadEquivalent255]

I'm going to cry this is too funny please be real please be real

edit: ITS AN NBC ARTICLE OH MY GOD AND IT"S JUST ABOUT AMONG US

double edit:

"I just found it extremely ironic that, you know, we were in this game and there could actually be a true killer among us," he said."

Oh my god. Is this serious

[u/Funkin_Spy]

Man this is boring, call me when they find he had a low chaos Dishonored save file

[u/EtherealPheonix]

In true amogus fashion he was caught on cams and a meeting was called in the cafeteria to vote him out.

[u/Aykhot]

This is what happens when you get locked out of medbay

[u/Swell_Inkwell]

At least in the last satanic panic the video games they said caused violence were actually objectively violent, imagine thinking a social deduction game is violent rather than strategy and discussion.

[u/DomzSageon]

read the article and its basically:

This is the guy convicted, he was found with incriminating things and was arrested.

A friend of his said it's ironic that he used to play among us back in 2020, because now he is an actual killer.

among us was game during the pandemic 2020 that everyone played.

[u/ArchmageRumple]

Sounds like people are once again trying to say that video games cause real life violent behavior.

If that were the case, then he would have waited for the target to be isolated and out of sight from others, then retreated into an air vent after accomplishing his task.

[u/PlatinumAltaria]

Jerma985?

[u/NameLips]

I swear the doddering idiots in charge are the same doddering idiots who were in charge 30 years ago.

[u/cuteintern]

Oh my god, I've played Among Us!

I wonder who I'm about to kill?

[u/ConstantGeographer]

Wait til MSM learns he also played a game which fixated on capturing a queen.

The red flags were there, I tell ya. /s

[u/SuperDuperBooger]

Oh my god. I can already hear my parents parroting this garbage.

[u/Gaynundwarf]

I was in Upper Engine the whole time, I saw nothing. I'm skipping

[u/cman_yall]

Attempt at dividing us. Boomers will be shocked and appalled "see we told you video games cause violence!!shift+eleven". People who know what Among Us is will find it ridiculous.

Either that or an editor told a writer to write this article, and this was the least ridiculous way they could follow orders.

[u/PresidenteMozzarella]

Media is so fucking stupid

[u/Interesting_Heron215]

Guys I’m actually the CEO Slayer, I also play Among Us…

[u/fabulousfizban]

ThE pRoBlEm Is ViDeO gAmEs

[u/NotAnotherRedditAcc2]

Masters degree in Print Journalism from USC in 2008.

[u/Striper_Cape]

I hate the corpo media

[u/Sophiro]

"Osama bin Laden, who was shot by US Navy Seals after planning and financing the heinous terror attack on the Twin Towers in NYC and on the Pentagon, once belonged to a close-knit network of different ages who worked together to build and destroy models of buildings.

In the game, called "Lego's", some players..."