Im guessing Among Us?
NBC News Does Entire Piece Trying To Link CEO Shooting To ‘Violent Video Game’
Submitted 1 year ago by schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to games@lemmy.world
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RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Holy crap, I thought you were joking. Yeah, it’s Among Us.
jonne@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Next they’ll tie AOC to this because she played Among Us on Twitch once.
anarchrist@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
I had no idea you could just kill people and lie about it until I played amogus
billwashere@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Wait the “violent video game” is Among Us?!?!
WT actual F
Katana314@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
WWE 2024! 🎺🎺🎺🎺
agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 1 year 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 1 year ago
He had some shitty friends if they yap to the media.
helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Wait until the media hears about Garry’s Mod
rumba@lemmy.zip 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
1985MustangCobra@lemmy.ca 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
UnhingedFridge@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
In other news, study ties dysfunctional healthcare system to video game violence. Details at 11.
ameancow@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
So, the solution to CEOs is more violent video games?
yarr@feddit.nl 1 year 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 1 year ago
Correlation is not causation. I agree that vidya doesn’t cause crime, but the correlation is not proof of that.
Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m pretty sure that is the point
djsoren19@yiffit.net 1 year 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 1 year ago
Right, so then the original article would also be untrue (or at least not provable just by observing both numbers).
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Aight folks, can we move on to 2025? I didn’t know we’re back to the 2000s
Saleh@feddit.org 1 year ago
Marilyn Manson and Eminem are the real culprits here.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
FR
The fact that we’re wasting time talking about this means NBC’s strategy is working.
gazby@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year 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 1 year ago
Pretty sus.
RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 1 year ago
where
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year ago
Huh, expected more from the NBC.
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lol
DarkFuture@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Our “news” outlets are simply pathetic.
It’s embarrassing.
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
It’s linked to social media. I guess they can’t criticize that.
acosmichippo@lemmy.world 1 year ago
and shitty health insurance.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
Who the fuck is this asshole, Jack Thompson?
antaymonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Now there’s a name I’ve not heard in a long, long time.
KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 1 year ago
He also breathed air.
mctoasterson@reddthat.com 1 year ago
Did Tipper Gore get resurrected somehow? I thought she got banished to the shadow realm.
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“news”
UnsavoryMollusk@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What year is it ?
Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.world 1 year 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 1 year ago
ASMUGUS
smokebuddy@lemmy.today 1 year 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 1 year ago
Hmm, of course.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Massive boomer energy right there.
droporain@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
Coming up with the same wrong answers for over 50 years.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
News for Boomers Corporation
kratoz29@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah I am like, what year is it?