can't stop laughing at "Mangione played a game about assassins called Among Us". hope if i ever snap there are headlines like "she played a game about killing the pope called Final Fantasy XIV Online: Heavensward"
can't stop laughing at "Mangione played a game about assassins called Among Us". hope if i ever snap there are headlines like "she played a game about killing the pope called Final Fantasy XIV Online: Heavensward"
He played a game about involuntary euthanasia called [SPOILER ALERT].
I have over a hundred hours in a game that is literally called Hitman that is frequently actually about murdering CEOs, so yeah
There's literally a CEO you kill in New York in one of the two DLC locations of Hitman 2. It's inside a bank rather than on the street, but still...
also there are a few explicit and hundreds of implied CEOs on the Isle of Sgàil, so that's where i like to go when i'm annoyed with such as Musk or Zuckerberg or Bezos
Wait till they hear about that airport level in that one COD campaign. 🤣
"Sicko played game about mutilating corpses called resident evil!"
I'm a Sims player...I can only imagine...
Sheesh.
I mean, I’ve seen news reports calling a kid “tortured” and “drawn awful, satanic drawings” and it was… FFX fan art of the Aeons, like Anima and Behomet
Seriously, help me find that report. We need a laugh.
"DRAWINGS REVEAL MIND OF PSYCHO" All I see is some sick as fuck fanart. For fucks sake I'm sure there are album covers with depictions of gore on them, but a gnarly monster that isn't doing anything is too much for some?
i feel like if i had no idea where those designs are from i'd see.. a spooky mummy guy and two dragons i guess anima is a bit creepier from the neck down at least
Yep. Reminds me back in the eighties when guitar shops went nuts on finishes.Warren Di Martini has a Charvel design that was white with "blood" splattered over it.Shops wouldn't display it .I'm not even into gore stuff but that's just fucking stupid.Bordering on rap/games/etc.are causing violence.
"We have millions and millions of amogus sussy baka assassins faking tasks and venting in med Bay in the making. In a few short years this country will be an absolute bloodbath"
When i snap i can only hope they talk about my 800+ hours i put into the elder scrolls oblvion so that people will be reminded it exsists
My fave game will always be Goty Skyrim. Just for future reference... 😎🤭🤣
"He took an arrow to the knee."
"Down with the evil empire!" 🤭
Omg Drew is "Woke" 🤣 *High-Five* Dragonborn 😁
he played a game about building a survival shelter in a world where everything wanted to kill him and he had to murder to survive; called minecraft.
“The suspect had over a hundred hours in a video game about beating people up in public called ‘Yakuza 0’”
Mine would be "He wrote, dark, interactive games centered on the act of killing."
So is everyone who played Among Us now on a FBI watchlist?
I play Master of Orion 2
Mine might say, "she watched every episode of Murder, She Wrote"
"She played Wordle every day and her first guess was always "death".
That is a really good starting word. I might have to try replacing my usual word “thief” since the F is underperforming.
I’ve been using LABOR as my starting word ever since the technical workers suspended their strike…
I use “about” and then “pride” to knock out all of the vowels while supporting the gay agenda. 👏
If I ever break and decide to kill people I'm gonna stop an watch movies with the dumbest titles and play all the worst games I can find first. Hopefully these idiots will psychoanalyze me over it and that would probably be funny at least.
She kept sending her sims to swim in a pool without a ladder and then made friends with the grim reaper... he gifts her a ghoulish bike.
"He used to play several games in which you destroy everything on screen, even the bad guys can be dismembered" ... that's a funny way to describe Lego Star Wars but ok
Best expansion!
Played a game about wanton destruction called "Tetris".
I can't wait for all the worst kind of Facebook parenting groups to start freaking out about its dangers
My time spent playing highfleet getting me sent to a secret prison in Antarctica
Mine would be "He played a communist simulator called Victoria 3". Clearly unhinged.
I’m over here in Stardew valley like ‘imma make everyone a FARMER!’
I DID THAT! Over and over and over and over Unsynced
I like Chess. Better go kill the king.
Did you know she played the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, with an expanded free trial with which you can play the entirety of a Realm Reborn, and the award winning Heavensward expansion, up to level 60 for free with no restrictions on playtime?
You going after the pope? Nice
"Sources who knew the perpetrator were surprised at his turn to eco-terrorism saying that he would not stop showing them his fossil fuel exploitation spreadsheets for the industrial simulator Satisfactory"
He was enamored with a video game celebrating nationalism. This game, Helldivers 2,
Everyone played that game
"She played a game about toppling an Empire" Just FFXIV in general
Having it be Among Us was not where I thought it was going. I thinking Assassin's Creed or Hitman or even Dave Cabela's Big Game Hunter, but no Might as well have been Mario Kart, a game where you follow your target before becoming a giant bullet and hitting them
For real though. 🤣🤣🤣
And now they’re going to blame it on this like they did with doom after columbine
If it leads to a remake on par with DooM 2016, I'm all for it.
Among Us 2029: venting amogii is set to heavily distorted 240bpm metal
I haven't read any of the articles on him, but I know the media spin on any shooter is "pin it on video games". This might be my favorite stretch to get there I've ever seen.
okay to be fair they said he "played assassins" which is like what you called an among us type game before among us
I hope when I die by choking on gummy bears, the news just says that I was killed by bears.
It's like saying they learned their plumbing skills from Super Mario Bros. Seriously, we know you guys have access to YouTube, 30 seconds of watching gameplay video and we wouldn't think you are idiots.
He played a game about scavenging resources in a horrific post-apocalyptic setting called Animal Crossing.
oh fuck she's just like me fr
Mine will read “she played several hundred hours of a game where she was in a vigilante eco-terrorist cell bent on the destruction of an energy conglomerate” and it will be Final Fantasy VII
We're probably only a few months away from "ex Marine with PTSD that had his benefits cut had been playing been playing Minecraft a game about punching trees"
*Panics as I look at the list of my Rimworld war crimes*
I write fic novels now, confessing the sins I have made in the name of Randy Random. It's my way to atone....
Ooo. Fic novels set in the rim? 👀
They're all on Ao3. I have two currently, one epic and a sequential series.
“His troublesome deep emersion into Candy Crush Soda should have raised a red flag to those close to him, especially once he reached Level 12000.”
If I ever snap: "He obsessively played a game called Disco Elysium about an alcohol-addled cop attempting to piece together his shattered psyche and the ruins of his society. Friends and students say he always chose to play as a Communist."
He played a computer game where he created lots of guns, took lots of recreational drugs and killed his own son, called Fallout.
Reminds me of the time the news was reporting on hacking and played scenes from fallout 4 mini game
Do you think I need to worry about my son? He seems to be really obsessed with Among Us. He and his fellow second graders are always calling me sus.
Just wait until the media finds out about First Class Trouble.
He played a game that glorified cutting down local flora for money called "The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening"
Now if he was playing Hitman, that might hold water 😅
Grand Theft Auto Vice City
Ok but FFXIV is about killing your gods 🤣
Also, I wouldn't even say it was about assassins. They are definitely reaching with that one.
Among Us is a lame game. Never really saw why it went viral.
it's a pretty decent social deduction game that can lead to some very funny moments when played with friends, also it runs on a potato. not surprising it went hugely viral when everyone was isolated in their homes from covid.
Must be a kid thing. I disagree that it should have been successful but not everyone has good taste or friends. Guess I'm odd one out having no one to play with. Seems like people enjoyed their friends more than they enjoyed the mediocre gameplay.
I don't think anyone was playing for the riveting minigame of swiping a key card, no.
Because it's John Carpenter's The Thing.
I don't get the reference. Wasn't that movie about an alien taking over people in Antarctica? Oh you're talking about the pretending aspect?
The Thing could take over a person's body and replicate them exactly, leading to the characters experiencing paranoia because they couldn't be sure who was friend or foe. Some of the animations in the game make it seem like the imposter is not human, so it's not hard to imagine a similar backstory
Watch The Thing. It's a classic
It wasn’t viral, it was fungal.
Good forbid he played Assassin's Creed, then they can blame video games more, instead of the deeply corrupt healthcare for profit system.
For real. “What could cause a man to kill a healthcare CEO who denied coverage to hundreds of thousands? It must be Roblox.”
The news is so biased to serve the rich. It's very clear.
Except, he didn’t care about the hundreds of thousands. ☹️ He was after all a reTHUGliCONservative. It only mattered when it was him. He took personal revenge. He was not the hero we hoped he was. 😞
By the gruesome crime scene of how he arranged the bodies, you can tell that he clearly spent too much time playing “A little to the left”.
“He played a game online about assassins in space called Warframe”
I can't ever fuck up cause all I play are milsim games
Did Dick Cheney play Duck Hunt? We'll never know!
"They enjoyed playing as a Dark Knight in Final Fantasy XIV. This class does what others cannot bring themselves to, even going so far as to confront corrupt officials, and end them if needed."
He played a game about world domination called Trópico
“As a child he was obsessed with a computer game called Meinkampf…this just in, I’m being told that”
If I cracked, mine would basically be: “Suspect played a game where he’s a vigilante with a cape who beats Convicts and Mentally Ill Patients to a bloody pulp inside a mental hospital called Batman: Arkham Asylum.”
"He violently fantasized about killing Gods and turning them into powerful weapons with his over 4400 hours (yes I checked this on my Playstation) in Destiny 2."
Imagine if he'd played the titular Creed games. 😱
I loved killing the pope in the third game. I was annoyed that he could be fought but not killed in the second because of pesky historical accuracy
Same. I hope there's one about me that says, "She played a game about killing god called Final Fantasy X."
They're gonna have a field day if we ever get a shooter that played Hearts of Iron IV
"he was apparently a satan worshipper who played Phasmophobia, likely where he thought he could talk to the dead and picked up the ideas for his deplorable crimes to come" Fr though, miss me with this. The mass murderer CEO was a football fan.
Mine would say "she played Wordle with a vengeance..."
"He watched a TV show about committing war crimes called Star Trek: Deep Space Nine"
Dishonored - systematically hunt down people who staged a coup and took over the government.
I spent a not insignificant amount of time as a woman from the future who single handedly destroyed billions of dollars worth of anthropomorphic technology.
"He probably planned to take over as the new CEO, given how many hours he burned on Theme Hospital"
There was some sort of Assassin game being played while I was at university. It might have been called Killer.
Mine will be "he played a game about assaulting the mentally ill called Batman: Arkham City"
"Jim played 'Dawn of Man' on Xbox which scientists believe led to his lactose intolerance and serial murder."
it's a different FF but mine would be: "She played a game about serial killing leaders of countries and committing economic sabotage in order to hasten the collapse of civilisation: Final Fantasy XVI"
I just hope they don't publish how many hours I've played Ages of Empires....
*popes
Suspect played a game where you wage war on your opponent with the goal of killing their leader. They call it Chess ♟️
The hell of it is that in chess, you kill everyone except for their leader, whom you capture. Just like in real life, the leader escapes what the rest of us suffer!
gaming has been a mainstream hobby for over 40 years now why is this still happening lmao
because it hasn't been one for over 60 years. That's why criminals who are football fans are never called out for liking football, despite it being physically rough. The boomers get theirs, and only them and only theirs. No wonder us non-boomers are willing to rattle the cage so firmly these days.
*deletes Leisure Suit Larry from game library*
I played a game about being an absolute tyrant of a nation called “civilization”.
I have the potential for even greater hell,... After playing "Diablo" for years.
Imagine the headlines if he had been playing Hitman 3.
My headline: “He played as the Adepta Sororitas, a fanatical religious cult of female orphans, in Warhammer 40,000.”
Chess players gonna end up on a potential regicide watch list.
Only in nations where the queen rules. Kings are safe, unless they get under too much pressure. Then they fall over on their own Gerald Ford style.
We'll have a king in the US soon enough.
i've played a LOT of civ i guess i should start nuking everyone
Ha!
"Suspect was known to play the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, with an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award-winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 for free with no restrictions on playtime, in wich you kill the Pope."
Community Notes: It's up to level 70 now
I'm a fraud of a journalist. 😔
We defeated nihilism in Endwalker too.
hm... i might be in trouble for how many hours i've logged playing Cult of the Lamb 😂
I'm now looking for a game called "All Healthcare Insurance CEOs Are Parasites and Must Die" just so there will never be any confusion.
She killed many bugs and fish on a dangerous murder spree "she played a game about this called Animal Crossing"
*looks through RPG collection* Suspect appears to have nurtured a long-standing obsession with murdering God…
For me it will be “he spent 400 hours planning ecocide through systematic unbridled ressource extraction paired with local fauna annihilation using nuclear weapons, on multiple planets in Factorio”
Give it another couple expansions and i'm sure you will get to kill god, too. Already got most of his disciples and pets.
Wait until they find out about Assassin's Creed Brotherhood. Assassins. A dead pope. Brotherhood. And the hero descended from an Islamic family! He wasn't even an American.
unethical pro tip: if you're going to snap and be too funny in public, make sure to spend a month prior to that just binging all the shit you hate so it catches flak for your actions
Make a second google account a year ahead and have it save all your data, then search up every dumbshit thing and "watch*" all the worst youtubers on it for months. *muted in the background
The media is working really hard to frame Mangione as a villain. Hmm.
CEO’s orders. They’re all on the list and they know it.
It’s a good thing he didn’t go “pew pew pew” when he was popping that chucklefuck, or we’d never hear the end of how Star Wars is warping the minds of the kids today…
A game where you KILL GOD--it's dragon age
Also Elden Ring. I've played both those year so clearly I should lay low
This one right here, officer!! /j
Not me raising my cult as a loving lamb >>
she played a game where she seduced her brother, assassinated her father, and ate the pope, and another game where she just stared at a map for hours
"she played a game about killing the pope. The hit MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV, which has a free trial that includes all of the award winning DLC Heavensward and Stormblood. Start your free trial today!"
mine would read: she played each zelda game and never attempted the final battle, but mastered all the sidequests.
"That freak played a text based crime game." (Lol)
"He played a game where you destroy public transit with rocks, commit numerous instances of assault with a deadly weapon, steal from numerous small businesses, and break up a wedding only to violently decapitate the groom." [Secret of Monkey Island theme plays]
He played an apocalypse simulation game called "Fallout 4."
ikr MSM always does this smh. EVERYONE played Among Us during the pandemic 🙄
In fairness, it is a REALLY good game about killing the pope. And that pope deserved it.
I mean, Raubahn literally bisected a "monetarist"
"He played a game called God of War where he killed God."
I beat wolfenstien multiple times including the secret levels when I was growing up I’m sure if I ever (redacted) .. this will be the reason😂
The number of times I killed Arthas, the Lich King will be analyzed endlessly.
Joke's on them, I grew up playing Sonic and I've never bodyslammed a CRT monitor, or chased a fat guy across half a continent. Hell, I became something of a fat guy myself, 'cause those games didn't even make me like running. But imagine if the fuckers got hold of FF7!
As a fan of Watch Dogs they won't even have to spin for me, lol.
I do find this type of accusation to be quite sus. I think the news media, governments, and extreme rich should all get voted out.
“He played a game about destroying homes and killing innocent animals it’s called Minecraft”
He was a fool that thought he was a pro. He has a hero complex and thinks he will be celebrated. He wanted to be caught.
The game is literally cartoon blobs repairing a spaceship, and one is a sneaky traitor. It is less grounded in reality than Super Mario cart.
Coool.
As a Crusader Kings player I feel threatened.
BREAKING NEWS: LEE HARVEY OSWALD PLAYED JFK RELOADED
They will nod sagely about me when they learn that I once played a half-Elven ranger who helped kill a three-headed dragon.
hope i snap so they can say something about “she played a game called Hatsune Miku Project DIVA Megamix+”
"She played the critically acclaimed MMORPG Final Fantasy XIV with an expanded free trial which you can play through the entirety of A Realm Reborn and the award-winning Heavensward expansion up to level 60 for free with no restrictions on playtime."
I think they will blame Hitman next.
Can I play too? Can I, can I?
He played all of the Grand Theft Auto games and Mafia games for 22 years and would often go on rampages in those games. Some teachers have said, ' I always knew that boy wasn't wrapped too tight'! Lol
Am I going on a watchlist for having played Among Us now? Not for a game actually called Assassin's Creed though
Maybe called Heavensword. ?
“He played a game about animal abuse called Pokémon GO.”
Any of the Pokémon games 😭😭😭
I totally saw him scanning in Med Bay so he's clear
My 10 and 12 y/o play among us. Just wow
I was just playing Tactical Breach Wizards so see you in Gitmo
I SAW PERP VENT
For me, “They played a game where they slew monsters & was a randy, dark elf.”🧝♂️ LOL.
So next time I commit an assassination will say “yeah , I did that because I played assassin creed and will blame Ubisoft !”
"The suspect frequently played a game where he assumed the role of a terrorist attempting to bomb a public place. The game is called Counter-Strike"
It's almost 2025 and people are still blaming video games for violence. What a world we live in...
Glad I play sports games more.
Anything folks can blame besides the actual root cause of the issues is fair game for the media. Sadly. I have to add sadly in so I don't seem nearly as jaded as I sound. 🥲
I played Clue. That provides backstory for becoming a murderer or a detective, so bases covered.
I dread the 2030s. When the first Minecraft players will be coming of age. All of those poor animals that will be indiscriminately killed for their skins, just to make a picture frame.
Maybe. But they can build badass houses, though.
Do you think people start playing Minecraft right out of the womb or what?
The game came out in what, 2009? A 10-year-old who played it back then is 25 now.
It came out 2011. I would be quite surprised if children played Minecraft before their first birthday, as you suggest.
1.0 was 2011 but the public beta was already popular by autumn 2009. i'm 32 now and remember playing it in highschool
correction.. as others suggest.
That's what I'm saying. You do not need to wait until 2030
Raise a glass for Haurchefant!
I play a game about unregulated poaching and resource plundering called Minecraft.
Hopefully they never check my Detroit: Become Human flowcharts.
“She was radicalized against the government when she discovered Mr Lewis’ golden statue”
"She played a game about inventory management called Baldur's Gate.." I'm gonna be the most boring snap ever
“The hacker known as 4chan” energy
Cant believe he got caught Shouldve vented
About me they'd write "He had 230 hours in Golf It!, here's how virtual golf creates world class assassins who only operate on golf courses"
It is odd how they always bring up video games but no one ever reports, "he watched a TV show about assassinating the uber wealthy called... Game of Thrones!"
in my case: she played a medieval serial killer simulator called "the elder scrolls iv: oblivion"
Then imagine « Mangione played a game about a ninja cyborg killing a US Senator » ?
Lmaoooo
Fight the real evil
Like the game was so popular it got featured in Knives Out 2. Who do they think they're fooling?
lol is this real?! If so that is amazing imagine being a reporter in 2024 and doing your job… wild world we live in they are all so disconnected.
His name is Luigi, maybe they are unto something!
“Played a game called Indiana Jones where you punch Nazis with your hands.”
She watch every wood how to get away with murder 😂😂😂
I heard he murdered some turtles by jumping on them.
Sometimes you just gotta crush turts.
Keep it up, baby!
Perchance.
As an SMT fan, my goose is cooked if media outlets get whiff of that.
People that played "Clue" are sus af.
She played a game about human experimentation. Minecraft.
He was very religious. Always playing a game called Halo.
That headline is going to make player numbers triple overnight, I guarantee it. :p
My kids play this game. They also enjoy Pokémon.. and I made a joke about the media reporting on the guy’s card deck. An hour later, I’m seeing all kinds of nonsense about the Pokémon called Breloom. 😳 SMDH (I can only hope those people are trolling). *FYI.. that’s my 2nd least fav Pokémon. 🤔😂
He played a game about enslaving natives and conquering endless lands it was called “Mine Craft”
I played a game about murdering countless innocent people, called Hotline Miami
Amogus
I’ve committed animal rights abuses all across St Denis Valentine and Blackwater
I need a team like FF8
It’s so pathetic. They just refuse to report the truth. It’s amusing because it’s not going to work. Dudes a hero and we all know it!
"he liked Fallout a lot, and is believed to have drawn inspiration from its characters and setting"