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Luigi Mangione Played 'Among Us,' Breathes Air (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by otter to c/[email protected]

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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] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

I just noticed that he has a nose.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Why is he dressed so weirdly on the photo? That doesn't look like a usual uniform...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month 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] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

archive version: https://web.archive.org/web/20241210184741/https://www.404media.co/luigi-mangione-played-among-us-breathes-air/