• Miles O'Brien@startrek.website
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    12 days ago

    … And?

    Why do we give a shit?

    Why is this newsworthy?

    Are we going to hear about his time working in retail soon? I’m sure it will provide deep insight to find out which store he worked at for 3 months, 8 years ago. clearly that’s relevant information.

    • YungOnions
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      12 days ago

      Because it’s a opportunity to trot out the low hanging fruit of ‘Videos games promote violence’, providing a convenient target to point the finger at.

    • makyo@lemmy.world
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      12 days ago

      I don’t want to be conspiratorial but this helps stop the class awakening all of this was helping bring about. The more we know about him, the more people will identify or not identify with him and then we’re back to culture war being the conversation instead of class war.

  • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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    12 days ago

    Seems like an irrelevant detail.

    Wait, you are telling me he drank water too???

    • L0rdMathias
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      12 days ago

      Grams Theft Auto singlehandedly causes all crime in America. We should’ve known it was the games all along.

  • TriflingToad
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    11 days ago

    I submitted a bug report that got a typo fixed on a Minecraft mod with 20 million downloads, where’s my headline? :(