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

you know steam has a messaging system don't you

you don't?

oh

jesus, people are fucking idiots

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

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.

CK will get more investigation and concern than MLK...

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?

it tells you he's a team player

wtf

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

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

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...

right-wing nutjob
Didn't he directly criticize Kirk as being hateful shortly before the shooting? Where's this coming from?
Agreed that Steam is a really stupid place to be looking for anything of substance.
Well, maybe the fact that he left a negative review for a game he has over 2000 hours in signifies derangement on some level, if not political, lol.
- Do you mean those totally legit messages that totally didn't sound like it was a mix of someone from the 60s and cop speak? Or did he criticize somewhere else?

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

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.

affect.
You affect things. Things have an effect.
- This is the one rule I get wrong every time
- also you effect an effect
  Isn't English great?
- Lifehack: just use the word impact instead.
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.

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.

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”.
- He bagged some transgender baddie and it turned a God-fearing conservative white boy into a radical sleeper cell leftist assasin. That's why they are trying to keep us transgender girlies down...
- Specifically looking at the games he played, his name will show up constantly as:
  Donald Trump was fragged by X. Donald Trump was stabbed by Y. X was splattered by Donald Trump.
  Kill feeds, it's an old joke for gamers. Obama splattered Miley Cyrus, that kind of shit. I don't think '2.)' is accurate, at all.

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.

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

I’d be worried if I thought he could read
There was never privacy.
- I mean if you murder somebody, you should probably expect your privacy to be violated somewhat.
You can't "spy" on public profiles.

People who play Powerwash Simulator are not to be trusted.

Especially if more than 100 hours
How DARE you! ... I mean, you're not wrong but...

That the dude had shit taste in games.

What's your favorite game?
- Shadowman 64

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.

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.

It was a muzzle loaded flintlock 30-06 caliber smooth bore rifle
- With a barrel shroud, you know... the shoulder thing that goes up.
- *military-grade assault flintlock

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

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.
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.
That's unexplainable textile mill fires. Steam is connected to unexplainable textile mill fires, not ~~autism~~ shit video games.

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

I'll give up modern gaming it failed for blizzard it'll fail .gov
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

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.
- 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.
- Yeah but that's not the perception uh people that think they're offline rightists have.
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.

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.
- 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.
- Brutus was way better at Halo
wouldnt those graphs look similar though, even if just by coincidence?
- 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.
- It seems they did need the /s ..

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

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."

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!

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

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

That's a shitload of time in a game that has barely any content.

It's a game with procedurally generated content, so it has infinite content. It's also a great multiplayer co-op game, where you need to work together with friends to accomplish things.
I have almost 1600 hours on Rocket League. I don't play anymore (actually haven't touched it in years) but it was the thrill of competition that kept me going, not the content.
Really depends on how you treat the game. If you're solo PvE there's like 100 hours. If you're playing with friends and treating it as a PvP game, it's essentially endless content.
Games are about having a good time. If your idea of a good time is story and completionism, then sure, what a waste of time. Some people just want to vibe, role play, or socialize.
Also some people just leave launchers open and rack up ghost hours unintentionally.
Edit: I'm amused there's so many reasons for leaving the launcher open I didn't even think of. Personally, mine was just having a bad habit of playing Elite Dangerous until I fell asleep in the chair. Computer would go to sleep, I'd rack an extra ~16 hours before ei came back. Then I'd remember to check in the morning, cutting it down to like 7 extra hours. I probably have 100-200 racked up from before I got better sleep commitment. 2020 was an interesting time in which time itself didn't matter for a bit. Rounding 1100 hours now.
- Leave satisfactory running while you go to work, and there are full containers stacked ten high when you get home.
- Also some people just leave launchers open and rack up ghost hours unintentionally.
  I've never left the home for an emergency and come home a week later to find geralt on his horse waiting for me to get back
- Also some people just leave launchers open and rack up ghost hours unintentionally.
  An uncommon case, but I like to suspend the game process so I can get back into the game without wading through loading screens etc. But with Steam at least playtime tracking increases during this time so it seems like I have 100s of hours of playtime.
- I remember when idling was the easiest way to get TF2 drops so someone made a map with fire at the spawn to slowly kill idlers.
  Anything for hats.
- Yup, I have about 2k hours on Destiny because I'd leave the launcher open while it was updating or offline.
- We played the fuck out of elite dangerous. Still do, sometimes. But during the pandemic when even the outdoors were largely shut down, and it was snowing sideways... I'm getting close to 1,100 hours too.
- This is true. Could have just left the title screen up so he could jump in and save 45 seconds. I never do this personally because I want an accurate hour count.
Now we know for certain that he is suffering from crazy
SoT is as much a chill game as it is competitive or grindy. I’ve probably spent a couple hundred hours in that game just fishing.
The real content is the friends/enemies you make along the way
Have you actually played the game lately? In my opinion there is no lack of content
I mean if you go around trolling PVP you can get a lot of time from very little.

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 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

It supposed to help them find something that will allow them to convince us to let them do what they already decided they want to do.

Probably several hundred hours of afk time

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

Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Better ban steam.

Maybe they'll force the sale to Larry Ellison

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?'
- That's just a rocket ship.
- It's some trans thing! Trust us bro, see? Throw trans people in camps now. - some MAGA bastard
Not just that, the in-game voice chat can live-transcribe spoken audio to the chat window.

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

Yeah they are legally required to. Of there is 40hrs of body cam footage, lawyers and prosecutors have to watch ALL of it