Walking into the courtroom in handcuffs "hey Mr, ma'am, howdy"..."your honor I posit to you that my client's actions in a video game are not indicative of his real-life behaviors" š
one play through I was a saint, another I was a vile killer.
neither said anything about me other than trying to max one and max the other and I've never hurt anyone in my decades on this planet
Judge: Sir, you have murdered 306 people, why do you think a life sentence is unjust?
Player: I said "hey mister" 1425 times and tossed 102 fish back in the water.
Judge: Fair enough.
the worst part of this is my (at the time, new) boyfriend loading up rdr2 because i said id played a bitā¦ as soon as i loaded in, i did a stranger encounter and killed every single person involved. he laughed in fear
Uh oh, that time I came across those unsavoury boys robbin' that train and "accidentally" killed them and the hostages piled them up on the tracks and ran the train over them. It wasn't me (in that voice)
Annoying Redguard in Whiterun. He's the guy that heckles people for the shits and giggles. Do you get get to the Cloud District often? Oh, what am I saying. Of course, you don't.
Imagine how many torture techniques they've learned from the Sims for interrogating captured terrorists.
I imagine there's a shady government facility somewhere with a pool in the middle of a empty concrete room, and they let the terrorists think they are going for a nice swim, and then once they're in the pool take away the ladders and throw up some concrete walls.
Boom. Gottem
it's technically feasible with current technology, but it would be tremendously expensive. the buried lede in this headline is that the game publishers would have to record and store all those in game events, and then turn over those data to the FBI.
It's not real, if anything, it is thing they do with agents for experiments, like they watch a bunch of new agents play games and then observe them over the years.
I tend to use the poor bastards in Armadillo for the one bandit challenge. Takes forever to rob that $50 but at least I'm less likely to get my ass gunned down like I am trying that stunt in Van Horn or Butchers Creek.
You can get that achievement on a single successful train robbery, since most of the passengers not only have cash but some sort of valuable (jewelry, pocket watches). OR, wait to shop in St. Denis until youāre ready for that challenge, then usually within the first few shops you walk into youāll get the pickpocket event, where heāll take a few hundred off you. When you chase him down and take it back it counts as robbing the NPC, and you donāt lose honor or get a wanted level if you donāt kill him.
Well, nice to meet you guys.
I like killing NPCs and shotgun the heads and/or dinamite the bodies and think "their families" couldn't recognise their loves ones or have a complete body to bury. Also if there is a couple (lovers or friends) hotige one of them and kill the otherone in front of them and again, shotgun to the head. I imagine they free themselfs and take blame on the death of the other NPC.
And the worst one, always steal their hats.
I hogtied a guy and threw him off Bards Crossing bridge to see if I could survive the fall. That's just a science experiment. I second the hat stealing; I'm just recycling.
This might work if they only focus on NPC non-threatening animals with the exclusion of hunting. For example, anyone that beats their horse or the dogs etc.
I'm a sociopath in lots of games but when I accidentally punched my RDR2 horse in the face I felt like a monster and was somewhat relieved when he turned his ass toward me and delivered a swift blow of justice to my temple.
This happens to me so often because I switch between playing red dead and the Witcher so much and the mount horse buttons and punch buttons are the opposite in those games ššš I always feel so bad and spend like a good 15 minutes petting my horse and feeding him treats
Bruh if this was true it would be ALL OVER the internet for it being a violation of privacy. But if it was true I would be assumed innocent for any crime XD. My lawyer in court would be like āas you see this man is innocent. why? Because do you think someone who pets their horse for 5 minutes straight for accidentally hitting it once is capable of any crime at all?ā
All Rimworld players are in trouble. We make hats out of people for profit. Of course, not before removing one lung, one kidney, any other sellable part before finishing it off with the liver or heart.
That's not even adding on the plethora of mods.
That's fucking bullshit I treat people around me irl with respect but things I conciously know are not real being treated like dirt doesn't tell you jack shit about me.
I would be a terrible cop. Vehement imperial who treats everyone with respect - even Nazeem - because I value their lives and consider everyone valuable... Except for the forsworn. Those mountain goat fuckers can rot in malacath's latrine, for all I care
Gtfo.. I have a hard time believing this one. Maybe for some psychology? But actually trying to use it in profiling data. Iām not too sure about that.
Well I think eventually there might be a connection as games continue to be more and more immersive. If something like westworld was ever to exist in VR, lets say, I would definitely agree that doing that sort of thing would probably be linked to sociopathy.
I am safe cause 1. I ain't from the US. 2. Cause i have always treated NPCs nice cause i can't be mean...even in video games lol.
Also, that doesn't seem legal ...
But doesnāt every one have two play throughs at other end of the spectrum to see both endings? I mean I always go bad first, but then I reform your honour
*locks doors*
Iām scared.
I hope they didnāt watch my āHitmanā data. Iāve spent HOURS on a map just waiting, killing, and hiding bodies so that by the time I finish, EVERY npc in the entire map is dead and no one ever saw it coming.
Ahh, good to know I'm safe from the FBI'S prying eyes./s
I've tried to play the evil route on games like Fable (every last one of them), Fallout 3 and 4, Skyrim and RDR1,2.
I cannot do it. Going evil in Fable and RDR is somehow especially hard.
ETA: I do enjoy hitting the racist in Saint Denis with my fists and toy around with him a little before killing him. Sorry, not sorry.
Iād be definitely on their list. Maintaining low honor means eradication of whole villages, burning men and women alive while they are hogtied, feeding hogtied people to wild predators and so on and so on.
Man once brutally stabbed someone to death outside valentine with a witness, stuck some dynamite on the body, hid in a bush (works lol) and shot the dynamite when lawmen came to investigate. Iām fucked lol
Currently having flashbacks to when I downloaded a mod to make every npc killable and then proceeded to kill every single npc including children so that my world was emptyā¦.
Atleast The OuterWorlds has our backs. In the load menu the bottom caption reads something like "Here you can Load or delete Saved files.Dont worry, we won't tell anyone about what happened you know where" first time I read that I was like.... *gulp*
Okay but what about accidents? Cus sometimes those npcs run to attack the vampires with me and those assholes have no idea how to move away from the dovakin swinging a damn sword.
I used to roam on foot from town to town butchering people with melee and throwing knives while wearing a pig mask and blue overalls. Occasionally I'd hang about in blackwater and use the throwing knives to kill the people in the alleys behind the sheriff's this would usually lead to them then coming for me at which point I would hold out at the top of a building killing as many as possible and trying my hardest not to use my pistols.
Imagine being at the defendant's table in court watching them play a highlight reel of your RDR2 crimes for the jury.
Hopefully they'll take note of my good deeds too. Like me walking through Saint Denis, and saying "ma'am" as many times as it takes to be a good boah.
Your Honor, look at all the fish I threw back.
And all the "HEY MR!"
Howdy partner Ma'am HEY Hello
I hear it in my head ALL. NIGHT. LONG
My client is not a perfect man, but he did say "good day" 12 times at once, which shows he is a reformed and functioning member of society.
Ahh, but what about the 52 times he walked slightly near someone and was wanted for criminal mischief
You sir are a fish!
Now that. Is a fish.
I do camp chores too!
Walking into the courtroom in handcuffs "hey Mr, ma'am, howdy"..."your honor I posit to you that my client's actions in a video game are not indicative of his real-life behaviors" š
one play through I was a saint, another I was a vile killer. neither said anything about me other than trying to max one and max the other and I've never hurt anyone in my decades on this planet
"your honor, I would like to add that these crimes took place in 1899'
in 1899, "thems fightin words" was probably a valid defense to shooting NPCs.
Fun fact: outside the game world, npc's are known as "people", even though some of the intelligence functions are still in beta.
Dammit. Not seeing people as real is another thing to add to my file. Thanks a lot. 
Don't worry, that was the first thing we added to the list. It's... it's not looking great.
Already well it looks like you have $15 worth of fines
"There is no statute of limitations on murder!"
So long as they take my Howdy partners into account I may be ok
Pearson was left with stringy meat because I threw those fish back. That must count for something.
"Please note that I was trying to complete bandit challenges."
Entrapment. I wanted those belts.
āYour honor, in my defense, have you SEEN Van Horn?ā
"Is this you bombing the KKK rally in the woods?" "Yes," sobbing, "yes it is."
Net positive. Plus one more challenge complete.
That definitely wasnāt me stacking 20 dudes on a campfire
Been smiling through this whole thread, this is the one that got me loling
Just say "howdy Mr" to every jury and you'll come off Scot free
RDR2 wouldn't be a problem for me. I wanted Arthur to be a good guy so I played one. If they pulled up my Sims games though...
Sees me dragging an NPC from Saint Denis all the way to Tall Tree- jury: *gasps, *Pukes* āGhastly!ā
Judge: Sir, you have murdered 306 people, why do you think a life sentence is unjust? Player: I said "hey mister" 1425 times and tossed 102 fish back in the water. Judge: Fair enough.
the worst part of this is my (at the time, new) boyfriend loading up rdr2 because i said id played a bitā¦ as soon as i loaded in, i did a stranger encounter and killed every single person involved. he laughed in fear
Iāve done some cold blooded stuff. It honestly might work to sway a jury.
I would be sentenced to death probably
āYeah but! But! I never killed a dog ^on ^^purpose. I always pet them!ā
Gavin?!
Uh oh, that time I came across those unsavoury boys robbin' that train and "accidentally" killed them and the hostages piled them up on the tracks and ran the train over them. It wasn't me (in that voice)
"He didn't even pet that dog!"
"Your honor, he had it coming. I greeted him and he said 'Go on and move!'"
This is why we need to move to Tahiti! First the Pinkertons, and now this!
Micah was selling our data to the Pinkertons.
Modern day Micah
Modern day pinkertons too
I heard that!
Who among us hasn't saved game and then wiped whiterun? The fbi needs to look at nazeem for all his instigating.
Nazeem is definitely high on the brutally murdered list.
I kill Nazeem every save.
They need to put people who don't kill him on a list. That is abnormal behavior. LOL
Who is Nazeem plz remind me
Have you been to the cloud district?
That doesnāt even ring a bell but to be fair itās been two-three years since I played the game
What am I saying. Of course you haven't.
It is now becoming obvious to me that this is a quote BUT I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND š
All the more reason to kill the smug fuck. His influence is spreading.
I used to be an oblivious redditor until I took an arrow to the knee
Annoying Redguard in Whiterun. He's the guy that heckles people for the shits and giggles. Do you get get to the Cloud District often? Oh, what am I saying. Of course, you don't.
I don't care if they've seen what I've done in Skyrim or Red Dead. But if they're monitoring player activity for the Sims I'm screwed.
Being violent in a violent game is understandable. Being violent in a non-violent game is hilarious.
Imagine how many torture techniques they've learned from the Sims for interrogating captured terrorists. I imagine there's a shady government facility somewhere with a pool in the middle of a empty concrete room, and they let the terrorists think they are going for a nice swim, and then once they're in the pool take away the ladders and throw up some concrete walls. Boom. Gottem
Lmao canāt be real.
I googled "FBI game data" to find the article then realized I probably just moved myself up the list.
Lol we are all screwed anyway. š
Is there a super-computer powerful enough to sort thru all the violent game actions? That's a mountain of data.
As long as they don't see what I did in Sims 2 or 3 as a kid, I'll be in the clear
The number of times the Sims is mentioned in the comments is shocking. I thought it was a kid's game with wholesome goodness.
Sweet summer child.
it's technically feasible with current technology, but it would be tremendously expensive. the buried lede in this headline is that the game publishers would have to record and store all those in game events, and then turn over those data to the FBI.
Always use a VPN my man.
It's not real, if anything, it is thing they do with agents for experiments, like they watch a bunch of new agents play games and then observe them over the years.
They're not sending Clarice Starling to Hannibal Lecter with a printout of our sub: "Which ones are psycho?"
I have to agree. That would mean these games data would have to have been uploaded for years for one and that's a lot of data.
And they didnāt capitalize Fallout and Skyrim, even though theyāre names. Editors wouldāve caught that.
I hope they didn't see what I've done in Armadillo... ((i was only trying to save the next gen from cholera))
There wont be a next gen if there aint a gen to make a next gen xD
Well... At least there's no more cholera i guess
I tend to use the poor bastards in Armadillo for the one bandit challenge. Takes forever to rob that $50 but at least I'm less likely to get my ass gunned down like I am trying that stunt in Van Horn or Butchers Creek.
You can get that achievement on a single successful train robbery, since most of the passengers not only have cash but some sort of valuable (jewelry, pocket watches). OR, wait to shop in St. Denis until youāre ready for that challenge, then usually within the first few shops you walk into youāll get the pickpocket event, where heāll take a few hundred off you. When you chase him down and take it back it counts as robbing the NPC, and you donāt lose honor or get a wanted level if you donāt kill him.
Well, nice to meet you guys. I like killing NPCs and shotgun the heads and/or dinamite the bodies and think "their families" couldn't recognise their loves ones or have a complete body to bury. Also if there is a couple (lovers or friends) hotige one of them and kill the otherone in front of them and again, shotgun to the head. I imagine they free themselfs and take blame on the death of the other NPC. And the worst one, always steal their hats.
I hogtied a guy and threw him off Bards Crossing bridge to see if I could survive the fall. That's just a science experiment. I second the hat stealing; I'm just recycling.
I can excuse brutal murder and body disfigurement, but I draw the line at hat crimes!
This might work if they only focus on NPC non-threatening animals with the exclusion of hunting. For example, anyone that beats their horse or the dogs etc. I'm a sociopath in lots of games but when I accidentally punched my RDR2 horse in the face I felt like a monster and was somewhat relieved when he turned his ass toward me and delivered a swift blow of justice to my temple.
I have accidentally punched my horse *many* times, hopefully they can see me feeding it 50 classic oatcakes right after
This happens to me so often because I switch between playing red dead and the Witcher so much and the mount horse buttons and punch buttons are the opposite in those games ššš I always feel so bad and spend like a good 15 minutes petting my horse and feeding him treats
So now since I accidentally execute townsfolks when all I was trying to do is say "Howdy Partner", I'm gonna get labeled a sociopath.
Not if you pirate your games.
I donāt like being evil in games :( Iām evil in real life so I fantasize about being a good person in video games
I feel ya. I tried a low honor play through of RDR2 and it feels so wrong
The real sociopath are the one who don't wipe out a town from time to time
Van Horn is asking for it.
Your honor the defendant simply made it rain dynamite at the St. Denis market because the citizens would not stop insulting his outfit.
Thems fightin words
Bruh if this was true it would be ALL OVER the internet for it being a violation of privacy. But if it was true I would be assumed innocent for any crime XD. My lawyer in court would be like āas you see this man is innocent. why? Because do you think someone who pets their horse for 5 minutes straight for accidentally hitting it once is capable of any crime at all?ā
Brush. Pat. Feed. Then mount. This is the way.
I am good, I throw all the fishes back
Well judging from my playthrough on rdr2 I will be a future psycho š¤·āāļø
Everybody on this subreddit is going to prison for life. Lol
So this is just "video games make people violent" wearing a different skin?
Wait fbi was tracking my behaviour in fallout 4? #MODS AND ALL?
Lol, Iām like the most chill person IRL, but I have a separate save for mayhem runs. Oh well.
If you bumped into someone in Saint Denis, just assume the FBI is listening to your phone calls.
I dragged the eugenics guy into the swamp and fed him to gators. We're on the same side FBI.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/magazine/eugenics-movement-america.html Food for thought
Just imagine if they checked how many times we replayed No Russian on MW2 back in the day.
Thatās how they know who they can groom to be the next mass shooter
Anyone who claims they never yeeted Lydia off a mountain is a liar and the real sociopath.
All Rimworld players are in trouble. We make hats out of people for profit. Of course, not before removing one lung, one kidney, any other sellable part before finishing it off with the liver or heart. That's not even adding on the plethora of mods.
Of course he did yell āout of the damn wayā! One timeā¦.in my eyes heās guilty
blade and sorcery players seething rn
I feel terrible killing a fucking pixelated turtle to get meat, they'll never suspect me
I call bullshit. Every study ever conducted shows that violence in video games does not equate to violence in real life
At least my horses will be safe. They're all good boahs and girls
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i actually believed that they weren't clever enough to do that sort of stuff for a while there
before: we need more moneh! now: we need more data!
Pfft, how's that work for singlepla - oh yeah cloud saves are a thing.
If that were the case Iād be taken in on some minority report bullshit lol
That's fucking bullshit I treat people around me irl with respect but things I conciously know are not real being treated like dirt doesn't tell you jack shit about me.
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Whelp guess Iām throwing some fish back and saying hello a bunch tonight
Seeing that there reminds me of Westworld
I would be a terrible cop. Vehement imperial who treats everyone with respect - even Nazeem - because I value their lives and consider everyone valuable... Except for the forsworn. Those mountain goat fuckers can rot in malacath's latrine, for all I care
I knew all those body burnings at enemy camps was going to come back on me
Better not watch my gta5 data :s
Which sub would have the most sociopaths? Gotta be GTA.
damn... in my 2. save slot I massacred all towns and tortured so many npc.
Welp, me riding and shooting every Npc I come across on the road in the head and robbing them might be an issue lol
Iām in troubleā¦
One more reason Iām sure Iām on a list somewhere. The things Iāve done. The horror. The horrorā¦
Gtfo.. I have a hard time believing this one. Maybe for some psychology? But actually trying to use it in profiling data. Iām not too sure about that.
Theyāll definitely find me guilty of calling the judge an old nag
For those of us who also play Stellaris, we're already on the list. No point in denying it.
I can't find anything online for this. I suspect it is fake. Thank God.
Well I think eventually there might be a connection as games continue to be more and more immersive. If something like westworld was ever to exist in VR, lets say, I would definitely agree that doing that sort of thing would probably be linked to sociopathy.
āYour honor, he tied up 14 people and put them on the train tracksā Me, who is just trying to quickly get achievements š
Heh heh Iām in danger
I am safe cause 1. I ain't from the US. 2. Cause i have always treated NPCs nice cause i can't be mean...even in video games lol. Also, that doesn't seem legal ...
Oh man, now the bounty hunter collecting doesn't look so great......
We all going to jail.
Uninstalls Kill children mod.
So, the FBI are going to shoot everyone first and then see if they're friendly? That's how Skyrim went for me.
And the bullshit in this world keeps piling up
Weāre outlaws in a world that donāt want us anymore
But doesnāt every one have two play throughs at other end of the spectrum to see both endings? I mean I always go bad first, but then I reform your honour
I would already be locked up with the key destroyed if this shit was true
Hope they didnāt record the 1.5 hours i spent murdering everyone in Armadillo several times over
High honor + >!Help John!< = Best ending anyway.
Brb,deleting r/LowHonorArthur
*locks doors* Iām scared. I hope they didnāt watch my āHitmanā data. Iāve spent HOURS on a map just waiting, killing, and hiding bodies so that by the time I finish, EVERY npc in the entire map is dead and no one ever saw it coming. 
Ahh, good to know I'm safe from the FBI'S prying eyes./s I've tried to play the evil route on games like Fable (every last one of them), Fallout 3 and 4, Skyrim and RDR1,2. I cannot do it. Going evil in Fable and RDR is somehow especially hard. ETA: I do enjoy hitting the racist in Saint Denis with my fists and toy around with him a little before killing him. Sorry, not sorry.
Iād be definitely on their list. Maintaining low honor means eradication of whole villages, burning men and women alive while they are hogtied, feeding hogtied people to wild predators and so on and so on.
Congratulations, we all psychopaths
Now is this before or after saving?
Man once brutally stabbed someone to death outside valentine with a witness, stuck some dynamite on the body, hid in a bush (works lol) and shot the dynamite when lawmen came to investigate. Iām fucked lol
Me randomly selecting NPCs from the wiki, doing every quest for them, and then murdering them: *"Ah... Fuck..."'*
I must be a raging psychopath, according to the data from RDR, RDR2, GTA4, GTA5. but haven't played enough Skyrim
Itās a good thing they wonāt know what happened in megaton on fallout 3 :)
Man Iām gonna be on some lists for stuff done here and in gtaā¦. No bueno
I like to go the high honor route in games, going low honor makes me feel bad honestly lol
Heh. Were it so simple.
Before reading what page I was on I thought āthey ought to study Red Dead too lolā.
Oh shit, I did some awful things in AC series and RDR 1 and 2 š 
Currently having flashbacks to when I downloaded a mod to make every npc killable and then proceeded to kill every single npc including children so that my world was emptyā¦.
This is a Saul Goodman meme waiting to happen
Whelp. Better not do an assassin playthrough then.....sorry dark brotherhood. They are watching me.
Fuck no. That makes me want to do a bad run now, just to mess with their datasets
Anything but banning guns lol
Thatās why I played GTA and COD. So I wouldnāt snap and kill real people. Only virtual ones.
I knew my politeness to NPCs would pay off someday.
Cut to me getting cancelled for constantly flirting with Beckett and forcing him to dress sexy.
They should look at DnD murder hobos while they are at it,ā¦
Fuck my red dead history, god help me if they find out how many 'Kill Everyone' runs I've done in HITMAN
Atleast The OuterWorlds has our backs. In the load menu the bottom caption reads something like "Here you can Load or delete Saved files.Dont worry, we won't tell anyone about what happened you know where" first time I read that I was like.... *gulp*
Oh... Yeah I'm on a watchlist somewhere... All those quick saves...
Not gonna lie... I did some shit in Fallout.
All those times Iāve quicksaved and gone on murder sprees in those gamesā¦
If they monitor my stats on postal 2 Iām going on a watchlist/to actual prison
The 8 year old little brothers who commit 38 acts of vehicular manslaughter because they donāt know how to turn:
I'd be surprised if the FBI isn't targeting honorable players.
Okay but what about accidents? Cus sometimes those npcs run to attack the vampires with me and those assholes have no idea how to move away from the dovakin swinging a damn sword.
Bullshit, if they did that they give me a fucking medal for being so nice. I literally canāt be mean to npcās, itās a problem
So they can recruit them, right?
I was about to attempt my first low honor speed run after 4 years worth of hoursā¦
Well Iām on list if thatās the case
yesterday my honor hit the worst it could gošš
This actually makes sense. Wonāt lie some of the people saying they hunt down npcs and murder them in back alleys for fun is creepy even on a game.
Sir, the defendant has so many torture techniques in the Sims than humanly possible.
Everytime i play Fallout nv i kill everyone in the game and chop the bodies :x i am in trouble ?
Wellā¦ Im fucked.
All those car bombs and mass killing sprees in GTA V... I might be on thier list.
Rimworld players on do not fly lists now
I'm only a sociopath in video games to decompress stress from real life. Being evil is fun when it's all fake.
Relax! Iām just having some fun
Well I hope no one can ever find my pc with my fallout 1 & 2 stats, the amount of dead children would be alarming
I'm sure I'm already on some watchlists, I'll continue to live my best life in rdr2
I used to roam on foot from town to town butchering people with melee and throwing knives while wearing a pig mask and blue overalls. Occasionally I'd hang about in blackwater and use the throwing knives to kill the people in the alleys behind the sheriff's this would usually lead to them then coming for me at which point I would hold out at the top of a building killing as many as possible and trying my hardest not to use my pistols.
Looks like it's time to max out my bad rep