The SoT Dev Update and On Stealing All Our Doubloons

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A Brig in the fog

Alright so I’m gonna start this article off by saying that you should watch the SoT Developer update video so you know what I’m talking about first. You can do so here: Anyway, yeah, they’re just going to reset people’s currencies. Doubloons are the third currency in the Sea of Thieves. They aren’t easy to come by, they’re mostly rewarded by doing Reaper-y things, season pass things or commendations, and there’s not really much you can buy with them. New players struggle to get them, but old players probably have a bunch lying around. Alternatively, the stuff you can buy… [Continue Reading]

How to Hit More Shots in Call of Cthulhu

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One of the reasons combat builds aren’t recommended in Call of Cthulhu is that the odds are pretty much always stacked against you, even in the areas you’ve specced yourself out to excel. A starting character cannot have more than 75% in any given stat, meaning even if you max yourself out in something (which, let’s be real, is a gigantic stake of skillpoints to expend on a single skill), you’re still gonna fail a quarter of the time! And nowhere is this more visible then when your “WWI veteran sniper” constantly misses more shots than a member of The A-Team.… [Continue Reading]

A Guide to *Sometimes* Running Away

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The Shores of Gold

I’ll be honest, I don’t think running all the time will get you anywhere in Sea of Thieves. If you always run, then you never learn to fight. And that means, the second you get caught, you’re basically screwed. But there are definitely times where you NEED to run away. After all, I occasionally play solo, and I am definitely not skilled enough to take on a rank 5 reaper galleon on my own. The thing is, you need to be SMART when you run away. And today, I want to share a few tips to help you survive out… [Continue Reading]

Why does Peak not work?

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This was going to be a genuine review of Peak, the latest friend-slop twitch bait game designed for streamers to laugh at each other at. Honestly, I went into the game knowing I’d dislike it, because I hate awkward platforming with low stamina, floppy physics and survival mechanics. And I came out of it hating it and getting a refund. Honestly, my biggest turn offs were the awkward stamina, the wasting of your time when you’re dead (spectating someone else isn’t fun at all) and I had massive problems determining what was a walkable surface you could stand on. I… [Continue Reading]

My Cat’s Gaming Killcount

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Five years ago, Sydney and I adopted a ragdoll named Bean who has quickly eclipsed both of us as the owner of the house. What few cats my family had in my childhood were aloof outdoor loners, so Bean was my first real experience with just how affectionate and loving a cat can be. It’s incredible how many different emotions and personality quirks she has, and she’s become far and away one of the best parts of my life since she entered it. Even when she sits on my keyboard in the middle of a high-stakes gaming moment, I can’t… [Continue Reading]

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]

What’s the BEST Commoner You Can Make in D&D 5e?

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This is the sort of dumbass question I love to wrap my head around instead of interacting with my hobbies in an even remotely normal way. Meet the Commoner. Has to be probably the saddest statblock you ever did see. Zeroes in every ability, no skills or proficiencies, a single weapon and its the worst one in the game… D&D 5e has a pretty sorry opinion on the most basic building block of any medieval setting. While there are plenty of things to say about the developers’ rather reductive attitude towards a group of historically quite hardy individuals (I bet… [Continue Reading]

The Sentimentality of Pokémon X/Y

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The other day I was scrolling through my Pokémon Home account looking at all my old Elite Four teams. I’ve played every generation of Pokémon (though Red was a bit of an oddball run), and almost every member of my final teams survived the various transitions into modern day. My original goal, in my nostalgic boredom, was to choose the most sentimental “companion” mon of each team, the one I bonded most with and remember the quickest and most fondly. And indeed, I was able to identify one pretty much every time. Until I got to Pokémon Y,  a game that… [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]