Medic

Medic, also known as Arkay, a former death god of a small pocket universe, is the chief editor and main writer of the Daily SPUF, producing most of this site's articles and also just randomly writing stuff.

A Right Proper Gigakegging

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A ship sunk with a black powder barrel

Season 17 of Sea of Thieves has admittedly been disappointing so far. The whole gimmick of the season is picking up loot from one person and delivering it to some other guy halfway across the sea. It’s basically Merchant stuff except more annoying, and there’s some glaring flaws, mostly that the stuff you are smuggling has zero value to anyone apart from the smuggler NPCs. So there’s not much point stealing someone else’s smuggler loot and trying to sell it to anyone – not even the Reapers, who accept literally anything apart from meat, will accept smuggler loot. There’s also… [Continue Reading]

On Finally Getting A Damn Yellow Ship Set

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Deathbringer's Agony, with a yellow sail.

I love Sea of Thieves. It’s the only video game that I play lately, outside of Pokemon GO. Admittedly, I’ve kinda gone off gaming in general (hence why this site is no longer updated daily) but pirates are fun and the new content for Reapers is somewhat interesting. I’m also a sucker for buying more and more ships. Most folks just buy a sloop, a brig and maybe a galleon, to have the full set. Me? I buy a new ship as soon as my previous ship has earned a legendary title. One of my more recent ships is Fluffyblade’s… [Continue Reading]

How to Not Join an Alliance in the Sea of Thieves – Part 3

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A ship being blown up. Screenshot courtesy of Bacxaber

I’ll be honest, I never thought I’d need to make a Part 3 of this type of article. Somehow, I do. You’d think that alliances would be good fun and even, occasionally, capable of getting you rich. When a ship in an alliance sells loot, everyone else in the alliance gets 50% of the gold earned. But that does require having one thing: an alliance of ships that don’t want to kill each other. Today, we are looking at even more ways to NOT join an alliance, because some people are stupid. Lie that you are a newbie The first… [Continue Reading]

A Really, Really Weird Sea of Thieves Collab

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SoT D2 crossover

Sea of Thieves has done a few crossovers over the years. Both Pirates of the Caribbean and Monkey Island make sense for crossovers, as they are pirate-themed. There’s a few smaller collabs, like the Halo crossover (which I think was a Microsoft promotional thing) and, as far as I was concerned, Borderlands was probably the weirdest collaboration, even though I’ve never, ever seen anyone use the ship set. I suppose, at least, the Vault Hunters in Borderlands are kinda pirate-like, looking for a vault full of treasure and stuff. It kinda makes some sense. Most of the time though, these… [Continue Reading]

Welcome Party Is The WORST Special Research

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party play completed

Today, I completed step 4/4 of Welcome Party, a Special Research. The research was introduced in October 2023. I finished it at 6:25pm on the 26th of February 2025. And all I got for it was, literally, a t-shirt. Welcome Party was special research which was supposed to introduce us to the Party Play mechanic. And it kinda does do that. Kinda. Actually, no, it doesn’t. Welcome Party just makes you do a billion Party Challenges. And these have to be done with another player our three. It’s literally 1 step of “catch 10 normal types and do 10 party… [Continue Reading]

Mega Gallade Raid Day

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Mega Gallade Solo Raid

“Oh hey! Mega Gallade! Mega Gardevoir’s counterpart is finally here! I could maybe use Mega Gardevoir against… Oh… Never mind… Mega Rayquaza is here…” Honestly, this is probably the first raid day where I didn’t care about the shiny at all, I just wanted that juicy, juicy mega energy. A new Mega Pokemon has just come out, Mega Gallade, meaning the pool of remaining unreleased Megas has shrunk to just… 5, I think. Mega Mewtwo X and Y, Sharpedo, Camerupt and Metagross. And since this was a raid day (really, raid three hours), everyone got a bunch of free raid… [Continue Reading]

IT HAPPENED! THE 7TH ISSUE CAME OUT!

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The first page of the 7th issue of the TF2 comic

IT’S A SMISSMAS MIRACLE! We’ve been waiting for issue 7 of the TF2 comic for 7 damn years. But it’s finally here and you should all go and read it right now. Yeah, seriously, stop reading this article and go and read the comic right now. It’s quite long. Then come back here when you’re done. If you want. No rush. We’ve waited 7 years already for this issue, make the most of it. I’ve already read it like 3 times now. You back? Have you read it? No? Go read it. In the mean time, I’m going to tell… [Continue Reading]

Necrozma Raid Day

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Yes, I intentionally named them backwards. Dusk Mane and Dawn Wings Fused Necrozmas

Oof my luck. I think Necrozma hates me. Okay, I do love me my raid days. And since this season’s bonuses includes 2 orange raid passes a day, you could squeeze out 8 free raids. Normally though, I get a shiny, and with raid days, the chances are apparently 1/10. So I made the mistake of buying raid passes. After 21 raids, the best I got was one 14/15/14 Necrozma, and a 2-star XXL Necrozma. No shinies, none with decent IVs. Also managed to get a 10/10/19 one. And it sucked knowing everyone else was getting shinies – I can… [Continue Reading]

To Be Honest, This Go Wild Event Is Kinda Boring

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Dynamax Toxtricity with background

I kinda understand why we have the Go Wild event. It feels like a stop-gap between the massive Go Fest event in the summer, and the regional tours in spring. But this Go Wild event kinda doesn’t really have much going for it, apart from Toxel and Toxtricity. And even then? It’s… it’s just eh. I suppose it’s better if you buy the ticket for the event. You get extra stuff. Some raid passes, some Max Particles. Things like that. Nothing mind-blowing though. You do get a Toxtricity and extra candy and half hatch distance, but Toxtricity is all over… [Continue Reading]

Uve Uve Mara – The Lotus Eaters OST

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The Lotus Eaters end diorama. Of fucking course my Lotus is yellow...

A lot of stuff has happened in Warframe lately, and it’s all coming to a head in Warframe 1999, which comes in December. And no, I still haven’t worked out how to tastefully discuss what happened in Jade Shadows. But one thing has stuck out to me lately, and it’s the soundtrack from the Lotus Eaters update. While yes, the Lotus Eaters ‘quest’ was more akin to the three mini quests before the New War (and only takes like 2 minutes to complete, excluding loading times), there’s something about the login screen music that tells far, far more than the… [Continue Reading]