Author: Medic

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On Trying To Get Back Into Drawing Again

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I’ve been trying to get back into drawing again. Now I’m more settled down in my life, I have the ability to find my pens and pencils and actually sit down and draw stuff. But doing so has been more… frustrating than I’d like. I’m supposed to be actually good at art and things like that, but lately, I’m really just not feeling it. A small problem is, well, I’ve had to get new pens and pencils and sketch books. Most of my sketch books and pens seemingly disappeared during the move, and I never got around to getting new… [Continue Reading]

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Little Quality of Life Things I want in Sea of Thieves

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Sea of Thieves actually has a lot of decent accessibility features. You can use text to speech, have subtitles and turn on a lot of useful little things, like holding or tapping to interact with objects. However, there’s always a few little things that I feel like Sea of Thieves needs, that are more gameplay-orientated. Markers for skeleton ship loot Skeleton and ghost fleets are both world events, and when you kill a ghost ship, you get a couple of wraiths circling where the loot drops. When you defeat a skeleton ship though, that loot just bobs up and down… [Continue Reading]

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On Giving Up Chocolate

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Four weeks ago (three at the time of writing), I gave up chocolate entirely. Being diabetic, I didn’t eat much chocolate anyway, but I always kept some around the house in case of low blood sugar, and I would definitely treat myself to chocolate on the weekends. I also ate probably a bit too much sugar-free chocolate. However, I’ve given it up, and, honestly, things aren’t that bad. The reasons why I gave up chocolate are two-fold. Firstly, it’s bad for me. I shouldn’t be having any chocolate in the first place, and I do very much need to lose… [Continue Reading]

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Vision – The One Thing I Never Got About League of Legends

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There are two things I’ve never really understood in League of Legends. The first is how to jungle efficiently. Jungling in League of Legends has changed a lot over the years, with different monsters and buffs and items, but I never learned how to farm properly and when the best time to gank, help a lane or whatever. The other thing I never understood was vision. Now, when I used to play League of Legends, I mostly played support. And support was generally in charge of applying vision to the map, as well as protecting the ADC and stopping them… [Continue Reading]

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Party Play Is Pretty Good Now

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With the end of the Season of Adventures Abound, we got an event revolving around Adventures Abound’s biggest feature, Party Play. Party Play allows you to team up with up to three other trainers, see each other on the overworld, do research tasks together and take on bosses more easily than ever. The event, Party Up!, celebrated the feature and also brought back the new generation 9 Pokemon and the new shinies from the season. When Party Play originally came out, it was a bit underwhelming. Not only did it come with a bug which could delete all your saved… [Continue Reading]

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On Just Driving Around the City

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In real life, I’m not really a fan of driving. I find it tedious and only drive because I have to. While it is nice to drive and listen to music, the cost of petrol is a large deterrent, and I don’t really like driving around for no reason. Now, in a video game? That’s not a problem. There’s no petrol to worry about, and I can listen to whatever I like. The game I normally do this in is Saints Row the Third. After I completed the main game, I spent a lot of time just driving around the… [Continue Reading]

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On Phone Call Scams

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The other day, I got my first scam phone call in a loooong time. Living in the EU, I an generally protected from scam phone calls, mostly because the EU does actually try to protect people’s data, and it’s easier to get off call lists. However, this phone call came via WhatsApp, with a region code clearly not from anywhere in Europe. Curious, I answered it and was met with someone with a heavy Indian accent. They claimed that they were calling from my bank because my card had been declined. I asked them what bank and what card, and… [Continue Reading]

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The Thieves Guild Lacks Real Thieves

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After a discussion with a friend about the politics of Skyrim, I decided to load up the game and give it a go. Well, I didn’t just load up Skyrim, I opened up Mod Organizer, used it to load SKSE, which then loaded Skyrim. It took a couple of attempts, but after I disabled a bunch of mods, I got Skyrim working and realized I’d installed a mod that had simplified every texture. I also discovered that I only had one save and it was pretty new, left at Diplomatic Immunity. I decided I was just going to roll with… [Continue Reading]

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The Skull of Siren Song

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For the second part of Season 10 in Sea of Thieves, we’ve got a new voyage. Or world event. I’m not really sure. The Skull of Siren Song is a new thing which can give you lots of money, while also inviting other crews to battle with you. While it is basically a voyage with two treasure maps, the voyage pops up in the middle of nowhere, attached to your mast for you to accept. When you accept the quest for the Skull of Siren Song, Captain Briggsy, of Tall Tale fame, appears, asking you to find the Skull of… [Continue Reading]

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On Taskmaster Series 16

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Series 16 of Taskmaster has been rambling on and is close to conclusion, but I’ve found myself not really enjoying it as much as previous series. There’s something about it that I just can’t place. Is it the cast? Is it the location? The theme? I don’t really know. I think it’s the tasks. The tasks are more tedious than normal. A lot of them are “do X thing but also follow Y rules”. There’s also a couple of kinda repeat tasks. One is to make a gift for Greg, and the cast (except for Sam Campbell for some reason)… [Continue Reading]

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