Im guessing Among Us?
NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’
Submitted 4 months ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to games@lemmy.world
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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Holy crap, I thought you were joking. Yeah, it’s Among Us.
jonne@infosec.pub 4 months ago
Next they’ll tie AOC to this because she played Among Us on Twitch once.
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I had no idea you could just kill people and lie about it until I played amogus
billwashere@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wait the “violent video game” is Among Us?!?!
WT actual F
Katana314@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It could be in this very room! It could be NBA 2024! It could be Red Dead Redemption 2! It could even be-
ElmarsonTheThird@discuss.tchncs.de 4 months ago
WWE 2024! 🎺🎺🎺🎺
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
I think they interviewed people in his circles, and I think a friend flippantly noticed it was kinda ironic that they played Among Us with someone who went on to actually assassinate sometime, and now the media is twisting that into the standard “video games cause violence” bugbear.
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 4 months ago
He had some shitty friends if they yap to the media.
helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Wait until the media hears about Garry’s Mod
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
You can’t argue that it’s violent, but it’s like Tom and Jerry Violent
News Outlets are dead to me.
Glitterbomb@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is how you radicalize actual children. It’s clear these people are completely oblivious to the fact that every 10 year old in the country knows among us and plays it. Actual children will see how completely absurd all of this is. I love this move. Go ahead, show the children how utterly out of touch the top is.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s likely more than half of adults in the US play video games. About 40% of those play some kind of shooter. There are 258 million adults in the US. That’s ~129 million gamers, and ~51 million “shooters”.
Out of 51 million, they think they can link one to a game and condemn the genre?
Whatever. Try again The only people that think so are the pearl-clutchers and the press.
jqubed@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Even better, the “violent video game” they’re blaming is Among Us!
screenshot of NBC article
(Not my screenshot, and I haven’t actually read the article)NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Of all the games they try to demonize, they demonize a game type people have played at home for decades at parties, in person, with no computers.
Brilliant.
BlindFrog@lemmy.world 4 months ago
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
This has been done over and over again to entice boomer parents to get their kids to stop playing video games. My parents didn’t let me buy any shooter games other than jet force gemini becuase they thought it was a exploration game…
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 4 months ago
It’s rock music. It’s “reefer madness”. Then it’s metal music with satanic messaging when played backwards. Now it’s video games. Same old blame game while never tackling the actual problems of lack of psych care, real societal pressures like financial difficulties, and more.
Bronzebeard@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Boomers’ children are grown ass adults with their own kids now. Those parents are the ones who grew up playing games. This dumbass narrative doesn’t play anymore
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 4 months ago
My parents didn’t let me buy any shooter games other than jet force gemini
At least you landed on solid gold! Jet Force Gemini was the single best shooter for the N64. Far superior to Golden Eye. Yes, I’ll die on this hill.
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 4 months ago
Yeah, that’s the problem. It’s our bread and circuses, not an entire industry designed to take our money and kill us.
yggstyle@lemmy.world 4 months ago
UnhingedFridge@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Don’t ya know? Bonnie and Clyde played the FUCK out of Payday. Genghis Khan was real big on Crusader Kings.
LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 4 months ago
In other news, study ties dysfunctional healthcare system to video game violence. Details at 11.
ameancow@lemmy.world 4 months ago
If someone wanted to make a fast buck right now, I bet a game where you go hunt down CEO’s and virtually… you know, accomplish your mission goals on them, it would be wildly popular.
Wiz@midwest.social 4 months ago
So, the solution to CEOs is more violent video games?
yarr@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Violent crime has decreased since the 1990s as video games (including violent ones) have continued to grow in popularity. If anything, this establishes that violent video games prevent violent crime.
PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Correlation is not causation. I agree that vidya doesn’t cause crime, but the correlation is not proof of that.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I’m pretty sure that is the point
djsoren19@yiffit.net 4 months ago
Sure, but they’ve only ever had correlational evidence to suggest video games cause violence. Their own correlational evidence does not support their conclusions, and that should be called out and ridiculed.
yarr@feddit.nl 4 months ago
Right, so then the original article would also be untrue (or at least not provable just by observing both numbers).
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Aight folks, can we move on to 2025? I didn’t know we’re back to the 2000s
Saleh@feddit.org 4 months ago
Marilyn Manson and Eminem are the real culprits here.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
FR
The fact that we’re wasting time talking about this means NBC’s strategy is working.
gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 months ago
I noticed that of the late night hosts Seth Meyers had the least material on the subject to the point of it being conspicuous.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Pretty sus.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 months ago
where
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Trying to fill a 24-hour news cycle requires a lot of bullshit, and Fox, NBC, CNN, CBS, and your favorite news outlet are happy to shovel it.
Stop watching partisan, billionaire-owned news outlets and start consuming international news and non-partisan sites. (Like the AP)
jqubed@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I started working in local TV news 17 years ago. I figured out pretty quickly there’s enough actual news happening to fill the 24-hour cable channels, but sending out reporters and photographers (maybe even producers) is expensive. It’s much cheaper to just have somebody in the studio blabbering on about a few things and trying to stoke reactions from the audience. It can even build a bigger audience than actual news.
Sports radio and TV is an even bigger (though less damaging) example of this. They have a lot of time to fill when games aren’t on, and a lot of times they just put someone on who will give the dumbest take possible just to get the audience mad and have an argument with someone else in the studio or even let the audience call in to argue.
LiveLM@lemmy.zip 4 months ago
Huh, expected more from the NBC.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Lol
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Our “news” outlets are simply pathetic.
It’s embarrassing.
1984@lemmy.today 4 months ago
It’s linked to social media. I guess they can’t criticize that.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 4 months ago
and shitty health insurance.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Wow, I can’t believe I get to dredge up this ancient photo again:
(Obviously this is satire. I furthermore still haven’t quite made peace with the fact that every single item on Daniel Rutter’s web site can now be considered “retro.”)
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Who the fuck is this asshole, Jack Thompson?
antaymonkey@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long, long time.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
He also breathed air.
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 4 months ago
Did Tipper Gore get resurrected somehow? I thought she got banished to the shadow realm.
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 4 months ago
“news”
UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 4 months ago
What year is it ?
Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 4 months ago
This is the same tired horse shit they’ve been peddling for decades.
The problem is the for profit healthcare system. It needs to be nationalized, socialized, and everything profit seeking banned.
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 4 months ago
ASMUGUS
smokebuddy@lemmy.today 4 months ago
it’s about to become a cartoon from CBS, watch it get delayed like all those terrorist movies after 9/11
wabafee@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Hmm, of course.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 4 months ago
Massive boomer energy right there.
droporain@lemmynsfw.com 4 months ago
Coming up with the same wrong answers for over 50 years.
TheBat@lemmy.world 4 months ago
News for Boomers Corporation
kratoz29@lemm.ee 4 months ago
Yeah I am like, what year is it?