The top two posts on the subreddit today are instructional videos. One teaches you to spot an unholstered weapon before a stranger gets within arm's reach. The other teaches you to hunt dupers at a zip line on Buried City.

u/Alan_marsters1478's clip, the day's top thread at 1,044 points, is a study in threat recognition. A raider approaches, gun drawn. u/Alan_marsters1478 melts into a concrete pillar and the raider walks past. The top comment, from u/Walledhouse, lands at 498 points: "I like you how slink into the concrete, he didn't see that coming."

The subreddit has been arguing about fake friendlies for weeks. Today the argument crystallized into a pair of contradictory posts. u/FoxSin-117's meme, at 491 points and a 0.77 ratio, insists the game does not have a rat problem - it has a common sense problem. u/SaltAsparagus6559 drives the point home: "They literally say on the loading screen 'trust your gut when encountering fellow raiders.'" Meanwhile, a betrayal story from u/Living_Try_8057 sits at 256 points and 110 comments. u/No-Flatworm1688 distilled it: "One betrayal can erase the memory of 100 friendly encounters. That's how trust dies in extraction games."

Both sides are right, which is why the argument never ends. The game tells you to be paranoid, then punishes paranoia with a loneliness the subreddit keeps trying to fill with clips of someone else getting what they deserved.

The duper hunting is the logical endpoint. u/dunkirk23's video shows a zip line on Buried City. Two teams of dupers use it. Both die. u/dunkirk23 reports 12 reports filed, two ban confirmations from Embark. The thread hit 1,031 points with a 0.95 ratio. A comment from sits at 300 points: "is this now the new end game?"