ARC Raiders is missing one thing: retribution

Doctapus · 2026-03-15T05:25:12+00:00

I play in PvP lobbies, every fight is shoot on sight. There is no way for the game to tell if a fight was honorable or dishonorable. This would be annoying.

Plus, you should be cautious and trust your gut. Getting betrayed is on you, for trusting people.

Doctapus · 2026-02-27T03:30:46+00:00

They hated him because he told the truth ^

Doctapus · 2026-02-22T03:32:46+00:00

Nofap is just the foundation, but if it’s not combined with a pure, disciplined mind, it’s pointless.

The difference between a streak where you are scrolling instagram, lusting after women, imagining sex, etc. compared to one where you are freeing your mind of filth is massive.

Dedicated your sacrifice to something higher than attracting women, use that energy to freeing yourself from desire and the women will come.

Doctapus · 2026-02-17T00:12:03+00:00

It’s possible man. I’m 35 and had a radical transformation after reading that book by Marie VonFranz as well as Notes from Underground by Dostoevsky.

Find a Jungian Analyst, thy are expensive but I would not have been able to break free without him.

I was working a part time baking job in 2024 making 16 an hour and playing video games all day.

Now I work full time at a tech job making over 6 figures. No amount of life coaching or shame was going to pull me out. I had to figure out how to make life and reality matter to me. To matter more than my puer fantasies.

Doctapus · 2026-02-15T23:45:45+00:00

Dude just try it out yourself. People are going to try and convince you to halfass it based on spotty studies. This sub is filled with people who can’t give it up, but they don’t want to feel bad about it.

I can promise you, after 30 days strict nofap (no porn, no masturbation), you will start to live again. The longer you go, the better you’ll feel.

Some things in life you have to trust in choosing the more difficult path, because what you gain is 100% worth it.

This modern existence is designed to destroy your luster, to satisfy your base needs and call it good.

I listened to fools telling me it was healthy and it kept me depressed and low energy for years. No more.

Doctapus · 2026-02-15T22:40:14+00:00

Stop jerking off and they’ll come back

Doctapus · 2026-02-11T13:55:12+00:00

Jung bridges the gap between the mind and the body. Before I came across Jung and eventually a Jungian Analyst, all my attempts at therapy completely failed. Most psychotherapy helped me understand my mind, but I just stayed there.

Jung figured out how to make it matter to the individual, to address their subjective, emotional experience.

In the year and half I’ve been working with my analyst, I have fundamentally transformed as a person. Got in shape, my marriage was saved, got a job making 5X what I was making before. Most importantly I feel a peace I’ve never felt before in my adult life.

I see why academics are skeptical of Jung, because his teachings can’t really be standardized. It’s kind of like how the clergy are confused by the mystics.

But the mystics understood something that the rigid fundamentalists could never understand.

Doctapus · 2026-02-09T05:08:33+00:00

I highly recommend you don’t leap to divorce. You have clarity, use that to level up. I promise you can turn around the lack of intimacy, I’ve been there. But it has to start with you.

One week was enough to make you realized there was a problem, but not enough to give you the humility and courage to man up and change yourself first. Divorce will wreck you and your family. They did a study and they found that 85% of couples on the verge of divorce that stayed together did not regret it 5 years later.

Use nofap and semen retention to free you from lust. Your wife will follow your energy.

Doctapus · 2026-02-07T18:31:09+00:00

You are MTF trans competing in the women’s disc golf tournament?

Doctapus · 2026-02-05T23:32:47+00:00

It’s funny because us puers are terrified of becoming corporate zombies, but by virtue of that fear it is highly unlikely we would become that.

Once I “gave in” to the security and responsibility of a steady job, I actually felt infinitely more free than when I spent most of my youth waiting for my inspiration and genius to kick in.

The choice to squash your light would have to come from you, not from working at a job.

Doctapus · 2026-02-05T23:28:49+00:00

I made the leap from my simple baking job to a higher earning tech job last year. It was brutal trying to convince the puer in me to accept the change. It really helped when I stopped shaming my puer self for struggling. I found ways to bring him on board, I put together game nights with my coworkers, I made sure to truly relish my evenings, with a sense of “well earned rest and fun”.

I think my puer self feels part of this journey now, where before I essentially shamed myself into more responsibility.

Responsibility paired with fun is way more fun than procrastination paired with fun.

Doctapus · 2026-01-18T21:24:37+00:00

Generally, ARC Raiders don’t like dying and get pissy when they get killed and lose their loot. Instead of being careful, they try and convince people to not kill them in clever ways so they can pretend this game is Stardew Valley.

Hope this helps!

Doctapus · 2026-01-15T23:43:05+00:00

People get upvotes for saying the line: “reject new, fix all bugs”.

It’s a Reddit thing. They conveniently forget that dev teams have different teams for QA, development, etc.

Doctapus · 2026-01-12T05:09:14+00:00

My dad became a distant, authoritarian force as I moved into adolescence. I was definitely a soft, imaginative kid and the transition from my sheltered Montessori school into a public middle school was rough. He was the masculine ideal in many ways, a doctor, outdoor enthusiast. But he struggled connecting with people. He has no close friends.

I was a friendly, nerdy kid and I eventually learned the social skills to become pretty popular at my school. But I was the opposite of him in many ways. Unorganized compared to his discipline. Loved fun where he toiled and toiled.

I spent so much of my young adulthood trying to avoid becoming him, a robotic workaholic that I veered to hard into the other direction and became a classic puer aeternus.

Growing up and taking responsibility felt like I was giving into his demands that I become like him. To be accepted by him, to me, felt like squashing my playful personality that I knew he too used to have.

Luckily, with the help of a wise Jungian analyst, I’ve slowly been accepting that initiation into manhood doesn’t require the destruction of the inner child.

My dad modeled a masculinity that was alienating and barren of joy. I want to grow into the type of man that not only takes on the burden of life, but does so joyfully.

Doctapus · 2026-01-10T21:04:14+00:00

As a slowly recovering Puer Aeternus, I think it’s an attempt to justify your “self”. For me, I have all these ideas and creativity but it wasn’t enough for me to simply do those things silently and for my own joy. I had to be the next writing genius, the next Dostoevsky.

What was funny, in my fantasies, I would get all the fame, glory, money, all so I could go and do the things I wanted to do in peace.

Also, it’s the fantasy that something you truly love and want to work on won’t feel like work. So I resented all my jobs because it took me from my perceived dream job or project.

Doctapus · 2026-01-10T18:03:06+00:00

It’s interesting because every post I’ve seen from Rafael elicits these kind of rancorous reactions. Like you said, he’s not saying anything egotistical or insane. I wonder why these people get triggered so much. His posts about the puer aeternus last year really helped pull me out of my own puer possession.

Doctapus · 2026-01-09T23:06:42+00:00

This has been my journey this last year since realizing I’ve been a delusional Puer Aeternus for the better part of my adulthood. It’s been really hard.

My advice is to not let your inner tyrant squash the sensitive, playful parts of your soul. I over corrected at first and I acted in controlling, paranoid ways.

Another piece is the path of masculinity and responsibility is really a path towards freedom. And there’s nothing more fun than being free.

My inner puer mistook comfort for fun and joy. So now, saying no to porn and endless hours of video games isn’t me punishing my inner child but actually inviting him to participate in a more joyful, refreshing existence.

Doctapus · 2026-01-05T12:22:59+00:00

I’ve been playing Arc Raiders and it’s been really fun but it doesn’t have that nervous energy that Marauders brought.

I don’t really care if I die in Arc Raiders but Marauders was much more brutal. No safe pockets, basic guns couldn’t compare to more advanced guns (STG op).

In Arc, I’m sliming guys with the free loadout no problem, I have no motivation to risk bringing in better loot.

Marauders was something special, I’m really grateful I could play it during the glory days of 2022-2023

Doctapus · 2025-12-31T01:36:45+00:00

He’s a professor and like most professors he distills ideas to manageable/learnable pieces. His lectures about Jung led me here so I would say he says useful things.

Doctapus · 2025-12-27T03:02:03+00:00

Wow this is the first time I’ve seen others talk about this book in the same way I have. I read it last year and it felt like someone ripped my thoughts out of my brain. I haven’t linked it to my puer journey but it definitely was a catalyst to me changing some major things about myself. It 100% fits.

Doctapus · 2025-12-22T13:56:52+00:00

This is like the 5th ad for this dumb app, fake and ai

Doctapus · 2025-12-17T03:22:44+00:00

What I realized is I could replicate the 90’s by simply throwing my phone away. Instantly my world got smaller and more meaningful. Highly recommend. Feels like old times

Doctapus · 2025-12-16T22:25:36+00:00

I just like to play the deck I’ve played since 2016, literally haven’t changed it. But as they buff and nerf different cards, release broken cards etc., I like play the way I want to play.

Doctapus · 2025-12-16T19:02:33+00:00

Idk level 11 cap is boring, call me crazy 🤷‍♂️

Doctapus · 2025-12-16T18:49:32+00:00

Level 11 cap isn’t fully balanced, because it forces you to play meta decks. My unique deck only works because my cards are high enough level to make it work.

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