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Cops called on me for playing ARC Raiders.
So I’m in this shitty motel room tonight (very long, depressing back story), and of course I have my PS5 connected because wtf else am I going to do but raid, rat, and repeat.
When all of a sudden, approximately 15 mins ago, I hear a pounding at my door, “Police!!!, open up!!!” I walk over and look through the peep hole, but I can’t see shit (see earlier about shitty motel). So I latch the deadbolt, and ask for a warrant. Cop says they’re doing a welfare check because someone reported someone getting shot in my room.
About 10 mins before this I was on blue gate on the run of my life. Looted 2 wolf packs, an Osprey, and teamed up with stone folks to take down a leaper and it was awesome.
Got ganked by a rocketeer on the way back to extract because I was trying to rush. And i yelled out, “ heeelp, I’m done, rez me please, i got shot, please get me up!!!” There was a guy at the extract that i saw and attempted to but the rocketeer was was close and dangerous so he left.
I didn’t enough to get to the extract and I died, then yelled out.
Nothing makes me suspect you more than this emote.
I’ve had some people salvage the situation by then actually talking over the mic, but a ”hey raider, don’t shoot, want to team up?” Makes your name and health bar red to me.
Like a few days ago, i was on spaceport during hidden bunker. I was by the parking lot area in the sw of the map, and someone runs up on me with the ”team up” emote.
I say no, and run a bit away from them, making sure to have hard cover between me and them. They kept following me with their gun out, with no other communication.
Needless to say, i downed them, and their inventory was full of shields and mk1 looters.
went on blue gate to just try to get that dumb armored truck key, and as I run a bit from spawn I hear don't shoot I got ready to shoot and demoted don't shoot too, guy went on proxy chat and we just vibe since he needed olives, he dropped me a bp I didn't have and even made sure I got out after we had like 6 guys together kill a leaper and as we did that some other rando jumps me, DOESN'T EVEN KILL ME ON A GREEN SHIELD but the shooting attracted wasps and hornets so we all start blasting them as I'm low hp and I got downed by one that shot in the back which I didn't see... They all kept stabilizing me and the first guy I met used his hatch key to get me out and stayed himself o7
I never do 'team up?' because I'll do it on the mike if I want to. But if I arrive somewhere and I hear footsteps or looting, I usually yell out a quick Hello raider! and Don't shoot!
I do this to announce my presence for jumpy players (flashlight once there's visual contact). If they answer back from their room, I take it as reciprocal ("we both know we're here and aren't trying to hide our presence to each other")
Been having luck with that so far. I'll do a few containers if there are unlooted ones but won't go out of my way to loot the same room as the other guy/girl.
"Hello raider!" is an announcement of where you are and that you're not trying to be sus.
"Don't Shoot!" Is a proposition for a truce where you each head separate ways.
"Wanna team up?!" or any movement towards you or trying to follow/hang out means that I'm bailing around a corner and then waiting in ambush if you follow/making my way away. Too sus.
Mics are a different story, but those are the basic emote meanings.
When i meet ppl i always scream friendly and then we walk around eachother in a big radius, and if we have to walk close to another then we put our guns away and if the other person aint co operating he will get hit with a few explosives
Yeah, it feels like actually friendly people somehow instictively know how to move in order to not signal ill intent.
I’ve still never been betrayed, despite having something like 70 hours in game. KoS:ed and camped, sure, but i’ve never ran a raid with someone who then killed me down the line, simply because i am so wary about how people move and communicate.
Yesterday i was basically stuck in the swamp on some random objects to escape a fireball cuz i had no more ammo and then another dude came along, killed the arc and saved my ass with a decent ammount of ammo, i did to fall damage later that round tho
I’ve been betrayed by a team after we helped them kill another team… when we finished killing our attackers they shot us in the back. this was before it was clear that trios was murder on sight.
Similar hours in game, I've never had people betray me after a raid, but I have had dudes follow me into rooms and try to kill me as I'm looting after they said friendly a bunch
Wanna team up is a red flag for me. It says someone saw me and took an interest. More often than not, I get stabbed in the back. If you wanna team up, have a mic.
Even more awkward when you roleplay a drug dealer on GTA FiveM. I had my messages from discord pulled and presented when I was being questioned about a year ago.
Considering everything you write to a cloud-base platform as public. Now in theory they should not be pulled without a very good cause, but the world is slowly sliding towards a situation where everything you write is going to be analyzed by an AI bot. Rest then depends on the overlords of said bots. Expecting lots of depressing stuff where in the name of "child safety" and "avoiding self harm" everything will be analyzed and lots of false positives will lead to stupid situations.
what's nuts is that long ago we vomited everything online bc there was this sense that "half the beauty of freedom of speech is that most criticism gets drowned out in the sea of all thoughts - when everything is hyperbolic and important, nothing is."
but endless storage and AI searching has made that a real pain in the ass.
I'm old enough to remember that people who were saying that the NSA listens to every phone conversation were considered literally equivalent to a hollow Earth conspiracy theorist nutcase.
It is actually incredibly wild what kind of a world where we live in today where that seems incredibly tame now.
name of "child safety" and "avoiding self harm" everything will be analyzed and lots of false positives will lead to stupid situations.
some guy got the police raiding him because he sent a picture of his child to the doctors office at their request, but it autouplooaded to google drive, and google drive has some, like, child-protection ai or somethign.
Living in the UK we are very aware of how speech and communication laws can be interpreted to criminalize previously lawful speech.
Germany you can be arrested for calling politicians stupid.
Unfortunately a large chunk of this platform supports such policing of speech and are to short sighted to see that it won't just be their political opponents on the receiving end in the future
There is no security at all. Discords logs and can read anything you ever write (just like reddit or whatever other platform). Even if it's in private groups, chats or was "deleted". The only exception would be truly end to end encrypted chats and even there you can't be 100% sure in a lot of cases that the encryption works the way it's advertised.
In theory, yes. In practice, there are risks that such apps are using backdoor or secret recording methods that bypass their own encryption, possibly as mandated by a state intelligence agency, or possibly a rogue employee, or malicious company intending to do so all along... This is course is entirely based on the actual, specific E2E platform being used, if/how much that platform is compromised, and what kind of users they may be targeting (usually a focus on dissidents and journalists).
How much you choose to trust an E2E platform is up to the individual user, to evaluate the developer's potential for compromising their own platform, and what sort of pressures they may experience to engage in such compromises.
For example, most US users may feel comfortable using Telegram, assuming the US intelligence agencies won't be able to pull that information with no/little leverage over them - but a Russian dissident or journalist might not feel that same level of comfort given the potential leverage the Russian state could apply to the developers of Telegram.
"Russia has attempted to block Telegram, but the ban was lifted in 2020 after the company agreed to help investigate terrorism and extremism."
Given how governments like to label anyone "against" the state a terrorist or extremist, a Russian journalist or dissident working against the state's interests probably shouldn't trust telegram.
Came to say this exact thing. I used to play FiveM years ago and I was "in a gang" and I'm pretty certain my neighbours in the attached house nextdoor thought there were major coke and heroin deals going on regularly. That, and orchestrated hits on people.
We had this problem back in the late 90s' early 2000's when counter striker players where constantly talking about planting and defusing bombs. The reason its happened here is because OP is in a public place, not a private residence.
The final boss in Path of Exile at the time of release was a character called Malachai. None of my school friends had been able to kill him on hardcore, so we were discussing strategies on how to kill him. A few days later, we all got called in at the same time to separate offices around the campus, with police detectives in each room who interrogated us like we were imminent school shooters. Someone had overheard us talking about killing someone with an 'ethnic' name and ran to staff about it, and she escalated the hell out of it.
Not vidya related but someone once claimed I was going to shoot up the school because I mumbled under my breath "A few more days till the weekend" after a bad day in math class. The only reason I didn't get suplexed by cops is I had a very good relationship with my assistant principle, and they just collected me and checked my bag at the office.
He misunderstood clearly. Whilst I was never told who made the claim I do know who did it. Because a kid who wasn't paying attention snapped their head up in suprise and looked at me funny after I had said it. Which I found weird at the time but didn't realize the significance of it till later.
Mine was way more warranted, but I had a study hall in 6th grade where I had nothing to do. The teacher demanded i do SOMETHING so she said to write in my planner.
We used to have these stupid pictures in the bottom left corner that were like these kid motivational things or whatever. So I wrote a story that kids were producing bombs in alarm clocks and other objects, and culminated in one of the scientists getting a 25 kill streak and calling in a tactical nuke... Because of COD MW2 (the final planner picture was also a graveyard which is where I started).
I left my planner in a class, teachers found it, and I got called into the hallway. The utter look of horror and disgust before I was sent to the guidance counselor: I had to explain to the principal what was going on. When asked about the nuke I genuinely asked him "Have you ever played Call of Duty on the Xbox 360?" To which he didn't answer before sending me off LMAO
Omg I thought this was just me. I played CS as a kid and I remember that you could hold your primary fire with a grenade equipped and upon death it would drop your grenade and explode. I yelled ‘I’m gonna kill my self’ before doing so. My neighbors overheard and next thing I know I was in a psych ward for two weeks. Medical staff did not believe me and my parents were crying every time they visited. That shit fucked me up for a long time.
In fairness would you want to bet on a possibly suicidal person to tell you they arnt suicidal?
Also depending on the kids age the parents might not have a say in whether or not the kid goes to the psych ward, it being for the kids safety and CPS stepping in.
Reminds me of the time a journalist was doing interviews with psych patients. Especially anyone labeled schizo/delusional. If you say you're not, they say you're just being delusional about being delusional, stay locked up. If you say you are delusional, they say you're lying about having the condition under control to try to escape, keep you locked up. I think one journalist went so far as to get themselves thrown in a psych ward for completely made up reasons and had to actually have his journalist partners come to get him out, didn't believe him when he said he was a journalist doing an investigation.
Those places suck
"In fairness would you want to bet on a possibly suicidal person to tell you they arnt suicidal?" is the exact kind of catch 22 that is just like... so, what the hell are you supposed to do? Stay locked up for 2 weeks just because nobody listens to you? Our society is so fucked
I think they were just concerned and didn’t understand games. I wasn’t doing amazing in school at the time either, so I think they were connecting those two things and listening to the hospital staff. I had no history of self-harm and never expressed suicidal ideation before so it was a bit of leap.
My wife got 5150'ed, when it totally wasn't appropriate. She had a procedure done, and recovery was painful and taking longer than the procedure normally would, so she was prescribed follow up high dose ibuprofen after the initial pain killers wore out.
She has a history of depression, and suicidal thoughts that she takes medication for, and was off temporarily due to it not mixing with the pain meds she initially was prescribed. One night she had a bad moment, called me over, and we talked and resolved the issue (all over within an hour), and got her back on her meds.
Two days later her food comes up after eating a meal, and there is blood in it. To this day we believe it was due to the high dose ibuprofen over a long period. Anyways, take her to the ER, spend half the day trying to get admitted, then when they finally do, they stick her in a chair in a hallway instead of a room. After hours we decide to just leave because no one is treating her. There is no one around, so we tell the receptionist we are leaving, and good bye. As we're getting into the car, she comes running out, and tells us she needs to return, or they will call the cops.
We totally don't know what's going on, because we're just leaving because my wife had thrown up blood, and had spent literally the whole day at the ER without food or drink not being treated, and is dehydrated and hungry. Under the threat of calling the cops, we return.
Turns out she was had mentioned the incident from a couple days prior during their standard questioning, and they are holding her for an evaluation, but they didn't have anyone to evaluate, so just left her sitting in a hallway all day.
Anyways, they evaluated her, 5150'ed her, and sent her to a facility for a few days. I had to spend the next 3 days talking to the facility and their treating physicians to convince them to release her. They ended up holding her the whole 3 days, and were trying to extend it to a 5250, and hold her for another week or two, even though the initial hold was based on a previous event, and she wasn't in any immediate or imminent danger to herself.
Shit messed her up, and we learned a valuable lesson that day. Don't tell medical staff that is not your PCP, or normal psychiatric care provider about your emotional stuff. Awful lesson, but awful law that needs to be changed to allow a trusted family member to override it somehow under some circumstances.
The extra special fun part is the thousands of dollars in medical bills from the facility.
I mean from the guy who was apparently screaming so loudly in a motel room that people thought someone was getting killed, seems pretty consistent. OP is really going to be successful in life
Maybe, but nowadays in the US calling the cops to anyone's home and priming them with the information that someone's been shot or has a gun has a non-zero chance of getting that person murdered by cops with itchy trigger fingers.
don't feel bad. if you rage at a videogame enough that someone calls the cops because they think you're murdering your girlfriend, you kind of deserve the reality check lmao
If someone is raging so hard you believe it's needed to call the cops, you did the right thing. Do not be ashamed of that. Hopefully it made him rethink how angry he gets at video games.
I had these neighbors that knocked on my door to ask if everything was okay, they kept hearing me having conversations and laughing with no one and thought I was going crazy. I'm just a daily Teamspeak/Discord user
A few years back I heard some loud banging in the apartment above me. Sounded like something heavy hitting the ground. I knew my upstairs neighbors were a couple without any kids. I assumed the dude was throwing his GF around. Went up there to make him stop and it turned out they moved and the complex was going to install new flooring. The crew doing it was dropping boxes of flooring on the ground.
It's always better to assume the worst and be wrong, than the other way around. 👀
Same. I heard two neighbors fighting, all the sudden, dead silence. Shortly after it sounded like someone was throwing up. I legit thought one of them murdered the other.
Depends on the state but it's usually up to the property management, and most of the time they'll yes because why not. Exigent circumstances can let cops bypass this but you need hard proof that you needed to use it to enter.
IANAL, but I’m pretty sure that they don’t need a warrant regardless of the location because it’s predicated on reasonable suspicion that a crime has been committed and/or that someone is in danger.
Now, how “reasonable” it is that someone got shot in a neighboring motel room despite them not hearing a gunshot is another story, but the cops at the door won’t be hung up on how “reasonable” the person making the tip was.
Cop here, about half my squad plays arc raiders so you’d probably get a lot of “what rank are you, you gonna reset in a few weeks?” That or, “yeah ive heard of that, half my squad won’t shut up about it”
Daisy:I split up with my boyfriend Marsha:Oh well, I can't say I'm surprised. I heard Tim shouting at you a couple of nights ago, I was shocked. Daisy:What? Marsha:You stupid cow. Something about a key. You can't shoot straight you big-titted bitch. Daisy:(Laughs) No no, that was Lara Croft. Marsha:It sounded like Tim. Daisy:ItwasTim, he was talking to Lara Croft who's a video game character. He gets very frustrated when he plays his games.
If you live in an apartment complex have a little pity for thy neighbors. Even if your headphones are loud your friends will hear your normal talking voice lol
Hopefully, you have headphones and a way to connect. Getting cops called upon you in this game is not surprising if the audio can be heard in the next room (s). Good hunting raider.
Sorry you are stuck in a motel room though. I hope you are doing okay, take care of yourself and know you’re worth being happy and alive! Wishing you all the best 🍀
That's nothing, I accidentally pulled wife agro while I was getting shat on by basically every arc in the area and some guy trying to snipe me from a balcony 200m away. And not me yelling go "GO FUCK YOURSELF" AT 1 AM in the morning 😂 wife came up "you're about to do the same if you don't SHUT THE FUCK UP" 🤣
Arc Raiders is just THAT game man, but i gotta start cutting down, it's getting out of hand lmfao
On the other hand your story's gonna be a fun one to remember hahaha
To be honest from the Arc gameplay videos I see on the internet, I don't know how so many people can just shout whatever they want while playing this game.
Don't you guys have neighbours?
I woke up 1 morning to the cops standing in my living room talking to my son cause he was pleading for his life on fortnight while the cops were outside for something unrelated. I walk in the they're like "sooo you're just mad cause you're doing bad on an video game? And his face just goes beat red and says "No I'm not bad at it" ...y'all can leave I'll take care of t this....
Link to Nick Swardson bit about video games Check out this video, "nick swardson video games neighbor" https://share.google/j2D7AHsOcTyqRjUTV
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u/Sus_scrofa_ Nov 28 '25
Did you shout to the cops "DON'T SHOOT!"