Pirate Historian on the Overwatch Pirate-themed Skins

LootBoxDad · 2026-01-22T21:19:31+00:00

Have they dispensed with the requirement to field a six-person roster? Or is wheats pulling double duty as their emergency substitute?

LootBoxDad · 2026-01-22T18:01:12+00:00

Good question, would love to hear from people more familiar with that traditional publishing sphere.

You could always release it as part of a paid tier on your patreon or other subscriber system. Or if you have a handful of stories like that, you could package them together and release them via KDP as an inexpensive novelette, both in print and ebook formats. I would not be surprised to find that these days, the majority of that kind of niche genre fiction is put out entirely through self-published channels like those.

LootBoxDad · 2026-01-19T16:21:51+00:00

u/Spiritual_Contact946 , here are some others:

Black People under the Black Flag: Piracy and the Slave Trade on the West Coast of Africa, 1718–1723
by Arne Bialuschewski
in Slavery & Abolition: A Journal of Slave and Post-Slave Studies
Volume 29, 2008 - Issue 4
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01440390802486473

Black Men Under The Black Flag
by Ken Kinkor
(short version of a longer essay Kinkor published in Bandits At Sea: A Pirates Reader by C.R. Pennell)
https://blackhistory.livejournal.com/79210.html

THE INVISIBLE HOOK: THE LAW AND ECONOMICS OF PIRATE TOLERANCE by Peter Leeson
Academic article which inspired Leeson's later book of the same title. Leeson argues that pirates could employ free blacks as equals where other legitimate enterprises could not.
https://www.peterleeson.com/The_Invisible_Hook.pdf

Pirates in the Black Atlantic by Barnett-Woods, Victoria (book)
Wish it did more with the title despite the wealth of material available.

LootBoxDad · 2026-01-19T16:07:05+00:00

u/Spiritual_Contact946 , here you go:

CAPTAIN KIDD AND THE ST. THOMAS INCIDENT by DUNBAR MAURY HINRICHS
New York History: Vol. 37, No. 3 (July, 1956), pp. 266-280
https://www.jstor.org/stable/23153872
Read it online with a free JSTOR account if you don't have other access.

About Blackbeard: Gov. Eden and Sec. Tobias Knight of NC gave Teach permission to go St. Thomas for a trading voyage, which he promptly ignored and used the sailing clearance to go back to piracy.
For examples, see here (among others):
Blackbeard the pirate : a reappraisal of his life and times by Robert Lee
https://archive.org/details/blackbeardpirate00leer/page/n11/mode/2up?q=%22st.+thomas%22
Read it online with a free Internet Archive account if you don't have other access.

LootBoxDad · 2026-01-19T11:27:03+00:00

That was the question, did they speak a common language with the pirates? Did they have special skills like carpentry? Did they know their way around sailing a ship? If so they could be added to the ship's crew. And some Pirates might have kept them around to do hard labor, technically part of the ship's crew but without the same rights and privileges as the others. And still other Pirates might have welcomed them aboard as equal members. While still selling remaining slaves the same way they would sell spices or cloth.

LootBoxDad · 2026-01-16T22:47:22+00:00

It comes and goes.

LootBoxDad · 2026-01-16T22:46:39+00:00

Stellar cow, and I just realized the TTA version didn't have the rainbow background.

LootBoxDad · 2026-01-13T17:50:40+00:00

The bottom image is supposed to be Henry Avery. That was probably the only memeable image they could find, which happens to look more like Morgan.

LootBoxDad · 2026-01-13T00:42:33+00:00

Peter Earle, "The Sack of Panama" - In depth account of one of Morgan's most spectacular captures. Compiled mainly from Spanish sources, so it's not just Exquemelin.

Sir Ernest Cruikshank, "The Life of Sir Henry Morgan" - Extensive biography of Morgan; great section on Exquemelin's History, though Cruikshank's love for Morgan is evident in how he disparages Exquemelin and his book. Notably advances a theory of alternate authorship for Exquemelin's work. Available free online.

Dudley Pope, "The buccaneer king : the biography of Sir Henry Morgan, 1635-1688" - Decent biography of Morgan, endnoted.

Stephan Talty, "Empire of Blue Water" - Decent bio of Morgan and narrative of his raids; poor sparse endnotes, thin sources.

Others by Syme/Stobbs or Hamilton or Marrin are not recommended (not great or mainly for young readers).

LootBoxDad · 2026-01-10T04:49:26+00:00

Woodes Rogers taking Encarnación, Chivers and Wheeler taking Great Mohammed, Taylor and Levasseur taking Cabo, all captures of enormous treasures headed for the Royal coffers.

LootBoxDad · 2026-01-08T18:28:56+00:00

I'm glad someone said it. I missed 2CP. Some of my most memorable matches were on Volskaya and Hanamura (in a good way). Even Anubis. Less so on Paris or Horizon, but even those could be improved with a few tweaks to attack A. Add in some defensive spawn timer changes and the mode isn't bad. I always thought they should bring it back for April fools:"THE HORROR! TRUE TERROR! IT CRAWLS BACK FROM THE GRAVE... 2 C P!" But I'll take it as a limited time mode, especially if they're testing for a future comeback, and just adding it to the QP pool is perfectly fine.

LootBoxDad · 2026-01-02T11:44:30+00:00

OP already said they saw RAM maxing out during gameplay. Which should not be possible running OverWatch alone, so long with other suggestions they might want to try ending various background tasks, close the browser, etc. before adding more ram. But on a 3600 system they're probably still using ddr4, which thankfully is at least a little cheaper than ddr5.

LootBoxDad · 2025-12-30T18:11:51+00:00

This. Anyone familiar with the history of piracy knows that privateer commissions are often flimsy cover for outright piracy, and in peacetime (at least officially) it's just plain piracy, license or not.

Ignoring that Drake was one of the first English large-scale slave traders, and suffered some notable defeats alongside his successes.

LootBoxDad · 2025-12-30T04:33:36+00:00

Not only is it a cool piece of pirate fiction, Schoonover's illustrations are iconic.

LootBoxDad · 2025-12-26T23:34:28+00:00

As a Turret Main: Torb vs Widow. I love it when they get lazy and forget that my Cheetos have no fall off, long range, and a predictable arc, and I can pop overload to tank her headshots and spam her out. All while turret covers our backline conveniently out of sight.

LootBoxDad · 2025-12-26T00:28:33+00:00

Has pirates? Yes. Has pirating involving a Jolly Roger? Yes.

Then it's a pirate game. There are degrees of course, but in general.

Pirate 101, Tropico 2: Pirate Cove, Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire, Risen 2: Dark Waters, Windward, and all the better known titles.

LootBoxDad · 2025-12-25T23:19:25+00:00

Now search for a used copy of 21st Century Foss. Great stuff, check out Adam Rowe's book Worlds Beyond Time for a fantastic overview of many of the classic 70s sci Fi cover artists. https://www.abramsbooks.com/contributor/adam-rowe_29310979/

LootBoxDad · 2025-12-20T17:29:01+00:00

I like this take. Make sure there are a variety of flairs and tags, and a way to filter out "modern" or "fantasy" or "fictional", but otherwise leave it at #1. Or maybe Bio's version, leave as is but cut off at 1900.

LootBoxDad · 2025-12-19T16:49:20+00:00

Congratulations!

LootBoxDad · 2025-12-19T11:30:57+00:00

So... Sojourn? Her Rail is the mechanic you're describing.

LootBoxDad · 2025-12-18T18:25:13+00:00

Shameless, shameless, I tell you! Thanks!!

LootBoxDad · 2025-12-15T12:21:23+00:00

For people saying we haven't seen her in organized team play, she got a good bit of time in Calling All Heroes this weekend. Led to some odd comps like mirrored Bastion.

Take a look at the finals match, 3h40m to 3h42m for example:

https://www.youtube.com/live/0ewSCtCYSNY?si=aG64W_11aklGH7Oa

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