Meet the Sea of Thieves crew running the Daily Show of the high seas

gamesradar.com:

If you're playing Sea of Thieves and you come across a ship named the "Sea News Network," don't be surprised if its crew approaches you, banana in hand, for an on-the-spot interview about something very silly.

Meet "Sea-N-N" - pronounced CNN, of course - host and anchor Scooter Mcgavun, field reporter Peggy Buckets, and security officer Pete Buckets, three life-long friends running what's by far the most amusing - and friendly, to boot - ship you're likely to come across in Sea of Thieves.

The idea for an in-game Sea of Thieves news show with skits and random player interviews was borne out of Scooter's desire for friendlier encounters with other crews. As he tells GamesRadar in an email exchange, Pete once appealed to Scooter's dark side and convinced him to betray a friendly crew, and it was the overwhelming guilt that led to the crew's first field interview (opens in new tab).

"I felt awful about this!" Scooter says. "It made me wonder, 'are there other pirates like me?' Pirates that have found themselves in a situation where it was more profitable to betray someone and were convinced to do so, bringing them some form of guilt. So, for that video I went out and interviewed real players asking them if they had ever done such a thing, and gave those players an opportunity to apologize."

According to Scooter, everyone involved in this initial seed of a video had a fun time, and so the idea sprouted to start up a ragtag news show with a spotlight on community reactions to Sea of Thieves' latest updates and changes. The creator's YouTube channel is still very young and only has a handful of videos, but the ones that are there are genuine gut-busters. Even if you're not a big Sea of Thieves player, you'd be doing yourself a