The man who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group tells NBC News.
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I'm fairly sure that actually happened while the stream event was still going on. I recall another person running somewhere got hit with a 'played as an assassin' smear because she played Rogue in World of Warcraft
"TAG The Assassination Game" with Bob Carradine and Linda Hamilton was OK, but Gotcha! with Anthony "Goose/Dr. Green" Edwards and Linda Fiorentino was better..
The man was known to have played a barbaric game involving trapping wild creatures in tiny prisons, only briefly releasing them to participate in bloodsport tournaments
Could he have killed the CEO because the CEO's actions unfairly enriched him, killed thousands of people, and screwed over millions?
No, it must be because Among Us.
Nice distraction piece @nbcnews.com
Absolutely out of touch grasping at straws reporting trying to find any and all angles to demonize a man that the masses wholeheartedly agree with unanimously. This is on the same vein as the likes ben shapiro or matt walsh.
Can't you find anything important to write about him? My kids played Grand Theft Auto as teens, but none has stolen a car... Are you just practicing up on not reporting accurately on Trump?
I have killed, I dunno, like hundreds of thousands of humans, zombies and skeletons, vampires, demons, Daedra, Reapers, Grineer, Sith, dragons, aliens and more. Oddly, I've never once considered shooting an actual human.
I feel like the choice to use the word "slaying" is intentionally inflammatory to drive sympathy for a man who made a fortune on the backs of the suffering of countless americans. For shame.
Your writer is silly and your article is shoddily researched. Among Us is a social deduction game, so half the time people are playing detective. By that reasoning, he should have become Sherlock Holmes - not that games work that way. 😂
Yeah I’m thinking that this is just a hack writer in their bubble writing another in a seemingly infinite chain of articles about “these card games and dime novels will ruin the youth”
This is such garbage reporting. Among Us is as common as Clue was back in the 80’s. Imagine tying Yolanda Saldivar (murdered Selena) to her having been Professor Plum during a high school sleepover. NBC, hold off on reporting until you have something of real merit.
You all ought to be embarrassed. Just stupid. I would be ashamed to say I worked at NBC news. Keep destroying your legacy for corps and billionaires. They'll buy you for pennies on the dollar after you torch any remaining credibility you have left.
In context, it’s the dudes friend who said it. The anecdote in the story is whatever—a guy saying “woah weird to have played this with him.” It’s whoever wrote the headline and is pushing the social media stuff that is framing it as if the game influenced him.
The writer for this article on college drank a drink called a "suicide" indicative of their self loathing and desire to no longer be stuck on the bowels of a beast.
They also celebrated "Easter" with their family, a holiday about murdering good people so they come back to life as a god.
Everyone's laughing because it's a silly, cartoonish game for children, but I grew up watching Tom and Jerry and now I can't stop dropping anvils on cats!
10 dudes played Goldeneye daily in our college apartment in 1999. I need to send a few texts to make sure none of those guys became a murderer. Be right back…
They're either terminally out of touch with regular people, or ragebaiting because engagement of any sort is more profitable than factual reporting. Either way, the best response is the same.
they're trying to smear the killing as not motivated by CEO cruelty but the killer was just naturally crazy and thus nobody should want to harm executives
He was rich, young, physically fit. But couldn’t date anyone because he was physically unable to have sex with all the young women throwing themselves at him because of metal pins in his spine.
No, not that assassination game. That would've encouraged him to be social and get to know the people (even if it is to make them easier to find). No, they're talking about Among Us, the game virtually every 10 year old has played at this point.
Further reporting indicates that Mangione roamed the streets capturing and imprisoning exotic creatures for three weeks straight in the summer of 2016.
This is the most out of touch boomer thing related to videogames i have legitimately seen since the gta scapegoating of the 2000's. What facebook grandad wrote this?
"Following his caputre after a multi-day manhunt, it was extremely ironic that as a child he played a nefarious game called 'duck, duck, goose.' Now it appears that he is, in fact, the goose."
This is obscenely stupid framing. He killed the CEO because he was mad about for profit healthcare. Simple as that. NBC running cover for the wealthy as always.
LOL Yeah, it's the video games that did it, not the evil healthcare system, and the broader capitalist system that incentivises greed and values profit over human lives.
Oh no, I hope my kid doesn't start murdering people now. I hope their classmates don't, either. Oh, or their third-grade teacher, who played a version of it with the kids in school. 🙄
Hey, @aliciavlozano.bsky.social, maybe try a less dishonest framing of a completely innocent video game next time? Or are the awards you mention winning in your bio for “dogshit reporting”? In which case *chef’s kiss*
Oh, how embarrassing for NBC News to write and post this story without realizing Among Us was played by tens of millions of children just a few years ago and thus is irrelevant to the case.
“Played assassins” to hide that in the article you reveal the game played was Among Us, one of the most popular games of the COVID-19 pandemic? I will no longer be consuming NBC news because this is a massive stain on the source’s journalistic integrity.
Instead of talking about anything of substance when it comes to the assassination of a healthcare CEO. Whose decisions probably cost hundreds or thousands of people their lives and or livelihoods.
Let's blame a videogame with cute cartoon art that sold millions of copies during the pandemic.
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Among Us is not even close too an assassin game 🤣🤣 It's a team based online game to find out who among the crew is an alien. It's more like the show Survivor then anything else 😂😂 yall are reaching while also making fools of yourself as usual 😂😂😂
"The suspect is believed to have played a violent simulation of warfare, involving deliberate targeting of horses and reigious figures, with the ultimate goal of regicide."
Elon Musk, billionaire owner of Tesla, once belonged to a group of businessmen who played ruthless capitalists.
In the game, called "Monopoly," players aggressively pursue a plan of real estate domination, buying land and building homes and even hotels, while trying to avoid being sent to jail.
Imagine being payed to make up dribble like this.
He played a game, that’s the fucking idiotic motive the corporate whore media is selling.
It’s because our healthcare system is literally violence against the poor.
I only hope this brings about copy cat heroes until we have single payer.
NBC News has truly become trash in the last few years. Their entire nightly news and MTP story lineup is all sensationalist nonsense.
Even a thunderstorm over New York State is headlined as “20 million people under severe weather alert!!!”
Imagine being such a clownshoe news corporation that you drop the fucking ball on a literal fascist takeover of the country, but still want to blame Doom every time there’s a shooting.
The Onion nearly left the game years ago because everything in the news was too absurd for satire to stand out. I think we might be back to that point again
Y’all are scraping the bottom of the barrel for any reason not to blame this on corporate greed. We literally all played Among Us with groups of people you think that’s going make ALL of us go around pew pewing CEOs or could it be that people have lost loved ones because of these CEOs actions?
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Really?
You should really re-write this article.
Or at least, go play Among Us.
No, it must be because Among Us.
Nice distraction piece @nbcnews.com
Absolutely out of touch grasping at straws reporting trying to find any and all angles to demonize a man that the masses wholeheartedly agree with unanimously. This is on the same vein as the likes ben shapiro or matt walsh.
History will not remember you well.
These are random facts, not journalism.
You set me on the path of gaming sobriety. Thank you NBC.
damn they fast, that script has to be AI generated
Let’s shoot for 60 I guess
Lads, during Lockdown most of the Western WORLD played “Among Us”.
This is like earnestly announcing that he played Wink Murder when he was 10.
You all need fired.
They "played assassins" in the game of colorful cartoon spacesuit guys.
C'mon, NBC.
She's probably never played a video game in her life.
Seriously, one of you should get a hobby that isn't cleaning Trump's diapers with your tongue.
because she was out there among us
Here I thought he was playing Assassin's Creed but nooooo it was simply Among Us. SMH.
L take
They also celebrated "Easter" with their family, a holiday about murdering good people so they come back to life as a god.
You are talkign about Among Us.
What the Fuck is wrong with you people?
He was rich, young, physically fit. But couldn’t date anyone because he was physically unable to have sex with all the young women throwing themselves at him because of metal pins in his spine.
But it was Among Us that made him a killer.
Got it. 👍🏻
Author is apparently from some other planet.
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Come on, you can do better than this.
Quick, blame something else, and not the intrinsic anger americans have with a system that kills them!!
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The man he *allegedly* killed profited from letting children die, you ghouls.
Let's blame a videogame with cute cartoon art that sold millions of copies during the pandemic.
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When did y'all hire on Jack Thompson as a staff writer?
Fun fact, that CEO won't be the last.
Be afraid clowns.
Jesus, @nbcnews.com really?
Meaning bishops.
they have way more blood 🩸 on their hands 🙌 & blood money 💰 in their bank accounts.
hypocrites trying to deflect.
In the game, called "Monopoly," players aggressively pursue a plan of real estate domination, buying land and building homes and even hotels, while trying to avoid being sent to jail.
He played a game, that’s the fucking idiotic motive the corporate whore media is selling.
It’s because our healthcare system is literally violence against the poor.
I only hope this brings about copy cat heroes until we have single payer.
Even a thunderstorm over New York State is headlined as “20 million people under severe weather alert!!!”
The Onion wishes they wrote this article.
If somebody played GTA and then was arrested for grand theft auto, that's the opposite of ironic.
Just to be clear though, it's a stupid connection to make, of course. "OMG, Among Us made him assassinate!" Nah, it was the health care industry.
My guess is you didn't know because I find it odd that for once in your lives, you're criticizing a billionaire