Arc Raider's Dilemma (Premium E312) Sample

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Julian Feeld, Travis View & Jake Rockatansky

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4.5 • 4.4K Ratings

🗓️ 16 November 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Jake emerges from the underground city of Speranza to see whether gamers are cooperating online again. Rumors of friendly behavior and positive community vibes have brought the new videogame “Arc Raiders” under close scrutiny. Are we capable of putting aside our differences and taking on the robots together once and for all? Subscribe for $5 a month to get all the premium episodes: www.patreon.com/qaa Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedrocorrea.com) qaapodcast.com QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.

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0:00.0	I'm
0:02.0	Oh,
0:03.0	Oh,
0:04.0	Oh,
0:05.0	Oh,
0:07.0	Oh,
0:08.0	Oh, If you're hearing this, well done, you found a way to connect to the internet.
0:36.1	Welcome to the QAA podcast Premium Episode 312, Arc Raiders Dilemma.
0:42.6	As always, we are your host, Jake Rakitansky.
0:45.1	Live Ankar.
0:46.1	And Travis View.
0:47.9	Folks, every now and then, I'll see something on X, formerly known as Twitter,
0:52.7	that spurs me to want to try and take on a very ambitious episode with ideally less than 48 hours turnaround time.
1:00.0	This week, that inspiration came from a tweet from one of my mutual friends on X who identified that the popular video game Arc Raiders is essentially just a post-apocalyptic online version of the Prisoner's Dilemma,
1:12.6	and that the once happy community of Raiders has almost overnight melted down into
1:17.6	various factions of complainers and rule makers, each trying to shape the landscape of the game
1:23.0	moving forward to their liking. Now, it's worth noting that my interest didn't exist in a vacuum.
1:29.3	By the time I had seen the tweet, I had already purchased the game, played two prior technical tests,
1:33.3	and been keen to play in full since the game was first announced at the Game Awards in December of 2021.
1:40.3	And I gotta say, that's fucking shameful that they make us wait four years to play these games nowadays.
1:45.8	Why can't they just announce it like, and it's coming out tomorrow?
1:49.5	Was this one that had like a long alpha, like pre-release and then it's finally released?
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