My first reaction was "an army of middle school boys?"

I'm 47. I don't play Minecraft often but I find it a relaxing game. I never really build anything I just like digging and exploring caves

This is one of the funniest images I can think of

I mean.....nobody was actually hurt. They caught him BEFORE this led to the next 9/11.

It would be distasteful if people died. But they didn't. So we can make fun of this goofball.

The lession here is, if you're going to plot a terrorist attack, and you openly talk about it in Roblox, you damn well better carry out the attack. Otherwise you'll be a laughing stock! Like this goofball...

If they made Elliott Roger a meme (for being a pathetic ineffectual piece of shit) this can be a meme.

Most normal response once you find out your family member is on Roblox.

Honestly that caught me too.

I’d have to guess his family suspected/knew he was a piece of shit and wanted proof. Maybe he was also abusive? I don’t imagine someone like that would be like.. super kind otherwise, you know?

Yeah it really stands out.

Either it's a lie and feds installed a keylogger remotely after the tip off from the Roblox user mentioned, Or the "matyr" had behavior problematic enough that even their family were concerned.

• Be Burger
• Live in Texas
• Got health issues
• Need to get out of US or bust
• Self-incriminate on roblox and doing banally stupid searches
• Also install keylogger for added "evidence"
• Admit to everything when caught, like a comic-villain

How to get federal health care 101

I think it's notable what they didn't find. No guns, weapons. No plane tickets. No bombs or bomb making equipment. No actual real plans, just aimless searches. This guy is young. You can find a picture of this guy online (I'm not going to link it. I think these sorts of sites should be illegal tbh).

My guess:

• Mentally ill, possibly mentally disabled
• Lives with mom/dad etc, probably unemployed or unable to find a "good" job (Not a moral failing. American society is not giving many options for young adults to live "complete" lives).
• Mom/dad/whoever notices how angry he is and installs a keylogger, because they don't want him to become a mass shooter, and he's a grown man still on Roblox.
• Immediately confesses everything to FBI

This guy needs a mental health intervention, not jail time. I have a hard time believing he is much of a public threat since they listed all the cool stuff they found in his house in the FBI charging documents but no guns/etc. This guy didn't have a plan.

Highly recommend this podcast episode from Reveal: Lessons From a Mass Shooter’s Mother

Or did they just place a keylogger without a warrant and get a family member to agree to say they did it

So glad "red flag laws" aren't a thing in Texas and we've recently made it even harder to do such a thing. /s-but-not-s

Every type of groomer you can think of uses that game.

Funny story, I pretended to get groomed by this dude on Roblox for like 2 weeks because my nephew really wanted their pets in some ninja clicker game. This was the course of action that I chose because I thought it would be funni.

This was entirely out in the open, no dms, global chat. The only thing that prevented them from getting really weird was the filter, and my belligerent cursing after a long message wouldn’t go through because I wrote “butter” or something equally innocuous. Neither the game admins nor the Roblox admins cared about my report of a child predator, but hopefully the fbi kept something vile from happening.

Anyway, my nephew quit Roblox like 3 days after I gave them those pet things because they couldn’t figure out how to jump over some obstacle. My brother didn’t seem to care about my anecdote or warning. All of that to say, that filter was really frustrating when I tried to erp with a child molester. I can’t imagine how much this dude suffered.

I spent most my life in Texas. Most of the people I met were Christian. I have met one person I can say actually followed the most basic tenants of christianity. For everyone else it was just an aesthetic.

There's no hate like "good Christian love"

There's a few places full of Muslims in Texas. It makes sense to me.