New Patrick O'Brian novel or thread about playing the video game Sea of Thieves?

Excerpts from the lengthy thread:

I'm playing alone on a small sloop and scouring this shipwreck for this special chest, and another sloop starts heading toward me. I know exactly what this means. We all know what this means.

— Liz England (@lizardengland) August 17, 2019

And they keep a bit of a wider circle around the volcano and it's not really working, and embers are raining down on me and I know I am going to get hit soon.

So I do the next best thing: I drive into the radius of a second volcano. Two volcanoes for the price of one.

— Liz England (@lizardengland) August 17, 2019

A chest.

Not THE chest.

— Liz England (@lizardengland) August 17, 2019

No commentary playthrough of Inside

Link roundup

1. It's going to be Game of Thrones in space--Spike TV is now turning the sex-obsessed and militarized scientist factions of Red Mars into a series.

2. "A researcher at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business has surveyed over 47,000 Kickstarter backers and concluded that successfully-funded Kickstarters still have a roughly one in ten chance of failing to deliver."

3. The latest chapter in a thrilling playthrough of Fallout 4:

Hence, my Deathclaw Gauntlet finally gets an outing – my gamma-blasting enemies can barely get a shot off when I’m right up in their faces with this thing. All these guys are super tough, making this a long and bloody fight, as I slowly gouge seven people to death. It’s horrific, it really is. But it’s also thrilling, because

Until Dawn

Scream meets The Descent (meets pretty much every other horror classic), played with quick time events, difficult choices, and simple exploration.  The large cast is based on actors you'll recognize.

 $10 off at Amazon. There's a full no commentary playthrough at Youtube.

Playthrough of the Aliens Armageddon arcade game.  (I wish it was called Let's Go Aliens!)

Finishing Far Cry 4 in less than 15 minutes (by playing the game like a normal person and not an action hero).