US agents are investigating the Charlie Kirk murder suspect's Steam account, but I'm not sure what 2,000 hours in Sea of Thieves is supposed to tell us

and a gobsmacking negative review of Sea of Thieves despite that 2,000 hours of playtime.

Oh damn, he's one of those people... Sounds like the worst charge so far

I am more concerned that he logged like 3 work weeks worth of time playing "power washing simulator"
- People under capitalism are so alienated from their work that they escape to something as mundane as Power Washing Simulator. Having a stable job with a modicum of satisfaction and control is a power fantasy nowadays.
- I play space truck sim. Sometimes you just wanna chill and press clunky buttons. Do some really low stakes slow shit. I'm old though.
- It's such a nice game to just chill and talk to friends

it's supposed to connect 'steam' with 'extremism' instead of something like Twitter, Truth, or Fox to coincide with their recent 'fact finding mission'

Absolutely, here is RFK on Sept 10 saying they cause mass shootings. (Completely ignoring the ENTIRE WORLD OUTSIDE THE US)
https://www.newsweek.com/rfk-video-games-mass-shootings-gun-violence-2127808
Also Congress has called for the leaders of discord, steam, Reddit and twitch to come and testify about extremism.
https://www.engadget.com/social-media/house-committee-asks-discord-valve-twitch-and-reddit-to-testify-on-online-radicalization-184100470.html
I don't see any of the social media heads who donated to Trump's inaugural on that list.
Steam is very much connected to extremism. Far right extremisn to be precise.
Take a look at any Steam forum and you'll see. The reason is because Valve hardly ever hires moderators and delegates responsibility to the developer who created the game the forum is about.
I think German speaking Steam has a total of two global (i.e. paid by Valve) moderators? Not sure where I've heard this though.
- This actually true, even though I swear it didn’t used to be like that. There are sooo many far right people on the forums and in the discussions. I was looking up a game where one of the female characters has the option to date her female friend. I went to the discussion tab to see if anyone knew what choices you had to pick to unlock it. A whole bunch of trolls calling the game “woke” and disgusting for hating an OPTIONAL story arc. Even on games like Life is Strange, which isn’t a new game and is pretty well known for having lgbtq elements, tons of far right people gay-bashing in the discussions tab.
That's unexplainable textile mill fires. Steam is connected to unexplainable textile mill fires, not ~~autism~~ shit video games.

I am telling you that there is proof video games effect people. Ever notice how most people born in the 80s grew up and all became plumbers? I mean sure all the competition has driven costs down for all of us and with just a little work you can find a plumber that will do the work for free, but a lot of these plumbers can no longer support their families and are forced to live in sewers and fight turtles for food.

all the trees are square now and I'm scared to go out at night.
affect.
You affect things. Things have an effect.
- Lifehack: just use the word impact instead.
- This is the one rule I get wrong every time
- also you effect an effect
  Isn't English great?
there is proof video games effect people
Holy shit they can give birth now?
- The trick to using effect/affect is to use them interchangeably and at random, then you're bound to be right sometime. Or panic and use "impact" instead, like a coward.
And the turtle with the stick is super OP compared to the rest.
But all of them have trouble swimming around dams.

The fuckheads in office are searching for stuff they can blame. It's couldn't possibly because he was a right wing nutjob. Oh no it must be video games! Time to start cracking down on that now!

Dumb fucks...

I wish we lived in a time before videogames when there were no political assassinations or mass shootings.

/s <-- do I even need this?

Famous gamer John Wilkes Booth.
- Brutus was way better at Halo
- Lincoln ruined his killstreak and swatting wouldn't be invented for three more years, by famous inventor Thomas "I made up the N word" Edison.
wouldnt those graphs look similar though, even if just by coincidence?
- It seems they did need the /s ..
- If you're suggesting that political assassinations are more common in modern times, let me introduce you to the Life Details column of the List of Roman Emperors wiki page.

Jesus Christ, if true, what the holy incompetence.

Nothing incompetent about it. Just evil this time.

They want a profile of the guy. They want to sell him as a left-wing extremist. They'll outright lie about it if they have to--they mostly have already--but lies work better when they're based on some level of truth.

I bet he played violent video games, like Among Us

"It is a cruel, evil game that teaches decit and murder. That is why I don't let you play Clue, son."

Because it's saying "leftists play video games, rightists play and watch sports" without saying it. Same with the "serially online" thing.

Lol, just check out WoWs general chat to find as many right wingers as you want.
- Yeah but that's not the perception uh people that think they're offline rightists have.
- Or literally any fps. You dont even have to play things like CS or R6 to know, that shouting racial slurs into the voice Chat is relatively common in this games.
- And lots of fps.
Would love some MAGA to say this to me. Then I whip their ass in any game or sport they want to play. Gravy Seals can get balled on.

Motivated by radical pirate ideology confirmed.

I blame Microsoft
- Same.

I see. Video games cause violence. Guns had nothing to do with it. Mandatory id, facial scanning, and government reporting on all video game platforms is totally cool and justified. /s

You see, guns in video games, where nobody is hurt, are bad. Guns in reality are good.
It's a bad example, the gun in this case was good. Would have been great if just aimed 15 cm higher.
- just needed more good guys with guns, obviously. Of course, the same doesn't work in vibeo games, because good guys don't play them. Checkmate, antifas

you know steam has a messaging system don't you

you don't?

oh

jesus, people are fucking idiots

people use that?
- The most I've used it was too annoy my friend to join my game or let me join theirs, and I only used steam messaging because he was on "do not disturb" on discord but I assumed (correctly) that he forgot to change steam
I'm sure he was messaging in there with Trotsky, AOC, a few drag queens and Vladimir Lenin.

It's supposed to paint the "Games turn people violent" narrative, nothing else.
This dude could have 2000 hours on Animal Crossing and they'd still find a way

People who play Powerwash Simulator are not to be trusted.

How DARE you! ... I mean, you're not wrong but...

His Steam profile has over 100 "Mind Blown!" Awards lmao

You can look up the tweet from the article to get the link to the Steam profile

Mind sharing it here please?
- I'd rather not since there was the whole fiasco with the guy buying the shirt the killer wore having the FBI come after him. I found it by searching for the guy's twitter handle and one of the usernames posted in the screenshot

How did he have time to practice his rifle skills? That's my question.

Obviously video games train you to be master marksmen, and inject leftist ideology straight into your bloodstream to turn kids into political assassins.
- I mean, I met enough shit shots who can't figure out "if the hole in the paper is lower than where you're aiming, aim more up" and video games kind of teach that kind of problem solving.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFK_Reloaded
- No wonder RFK jr says videogames lead to violence!

The evangelicals supporting trump are responsible for the recent mastercard debacle to remove steam games. I wouldn't be surprised if they start into a new wave "video games cause violence" bullshit.

Also I thought the kid seemed fairly normal but him being a SoT sicko makes me wonder.

but I'm not sure what 2,000 hours in Sea of Thieves is supposed to tell us

Criminally insane.

Well the dude was definitely mentally ill if youre looking at that.

That’s because 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, who was charged earlier this week with murdering Kirk at a speaking event last week, reportedly used Donald Trump’s name as an alias on the Valve-owned gaming storefront at one point. Sources told Bloomberg the reference to the president is what led to the Secret Service’s involvement despite the Homeland Security agency having no role in protecting Kirk at the time of the assassination.

https://kotaku.com/charlie-kirk-shooter-steam-library-valve-discord-radicalization-2000626897

1.) If you didn’t vote in '22 or '24 and legally had the ability to do so, you’re not a Liberal or Progress, full stop.
2.) No Liberal or Progressive would want to be associated with Trump, even ironically for the “lols”.

To me what's stupid is that they found nothing, as most of us would have expected going through a steam account, and yet they are "leaking" this information and what kind of bullshit narrative are they trying to push this time.

Trying to back up RFK's bullshit, disproven games caused mass shootings BS?

I think it's probably his chat history they're after

I'm still not convinced that this was the guy. The FBI's narrative doesn't make any sense. Does anyone know a conspiracy theory community where I can go full tin foil hat?

So much for privacy, Trump is spying on all of our online accounts.

There was never privacy.
I’d be worried if I thought he could read

Steam said I have 173.9 hours in Hollow Knight. Then I clicked play, clicked abort launch, and now it says 16.1 hours. The in-game display, which is actually accurate, shows 30.7 hours.

It doesn't count offline playtime (or at least it didn't in the past). So most of my playtime for Half Life, Half Life 2, Celeste, Slime Rancher, and some others I played mostly while traveling is in invisible. Except people online say it's still tracked for the refund policy lol. I suspect there might be a weird interaction with the case where the steam deck dies when a game is paused in sleep mode.

Anyways not really related to the post I just wanted to rant about this because the time tracker is weird and kind of annoying

That the dude had shit taste in games.

it tells you he's a team player

wtf

I have about the same in Elite Dangerous. What does that mean?

o7
trying to paint them as a "leftist basement ghoul, that plays video games" it such a boomer assumption on thier part.

They’re trying to obtain chat logs and communications across any channels. Each game’s developer is probably going to get a subpoena to hand them over.

This isn’t surprising or stupid.

Soon in some article:
” Investigations found that Tyler often wrote ’gg’. We don’t know what it means, but it could have connections to the alt-right Groyper movement”
- They wouldn't say alt_right gropyer but "antifa"
- That would be pretty hilarious

I don't know that 2000 hours in sea of thieves means he's incompetent; sure the game can be finished faster but maybe he just really likes it

Are there even guns in sea of theives? At best I would think flintlocks. But its not like the guy became a pirate, yo ho.

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Actually heavy investment into SoT could be a sign. This game can nurture some very antisocial behaviour.

Thats probably the most polite way to put it. That game is plagued with awful human beings. Lol

Probably several hundred hours of afk time

Jesus Christ this is a more wholesome list of games played than I've seen in most children's accounts. Deep Rock Galactic? I'm kinda believing that he actually wasn't a lunatic right.

I look like a deranged violent psychopath with play time comparisons.

Better ban steam.

Maybe they'll force the sale to Larry Ellison

DRG? Wanna bet he's a scout main? That rifle with extra weak shot damage buff, ya know?

They are investigating every trail. That’s not incompetence…

Isn’t there a chat feature? Makes sense to look into anything he wrote in case a motive or something relevant is there.

'What does "3=================D~~" mean, is this antifa code speak?'
- It's some trans thing! Trust us bro, see? Throw trans people in camps now. - some MAGA bastard
- That's just a rocket ship.
Not just that, the in-game voice chat can live-transcribe spoken audio to the chat window.