Today's Notes 7/25/21: The Grind Is Real

Good afternoon everybody,

Last night's stream featured Pokemon Let's Go Eevee as we traveled from Cerulean City all the way to Lavender Town over the course of about 5 hours and 45 minutes. Now one would assume because of that amount of time I would've cleared two gyms, Vermilion City plus Lavender Town but nope... a good chunk of tonight was spent trying to catch Pokemon and dealing with the timing, aiming and the annoyance that I can't quite get the Pokeball to go to the right. Occasionally I can get it to go to the left when I want to, but for the most part I'm hoping for the Pokemon to remain dead-center.

But the biggest issue I had (besides my team's Pikachu leveling up slower than everyone else on my team) is how random it seems when it comes to Pokemon breaking out of the balls. I get it, that's the struggle and gimmick of Pokemon Go that was implemented into this remake of the Pokemon Yellow, but it gets really annoying when you get Excellent throws that feel penalized then get one toss captures on terrible throws.

That said there were a few cute moments, mostly focused around Eevee having some special cut scenes and learning key abilities and a run in with Team Rocket that sees a member of the Elite Four coming to our aid. The game's story is different 'enough' from the original to make it stand out... even if there are some continuity issues. 

Anyway, here are some clips from last night.

Pokemon Let's Go Eevee 7/24/21 Clip 1: Don't You Vomit Me On Me!

Pokemon Let's Go Eevee 7/24/21 Clip 2: Weepinbell''s Vine Whip For The Win!

Pokemon Let's Go Eevee 7/24/21 Clip 3: Eevee Being So Damn Cute

Pokemon Let's Go Eevee 7/24/21 Clip 4: Catch The Graveler in Mid-Ar

Pokemon Let's Go Eevee 7/24/21 Clip 5: An Ominous Arrival

Since we are starting a new week that means we have a highlight reel of everything from last week, which featured Overwatch, Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, God of War, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, Space Jam: A New Legacy - The Game, Super Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition, Tom Clancy's The Division, Star Trek Online, Star Wars: Masters of the Teras Kasi, Tekken 2, Wild 9 & Pokemon Let's Go Eevee! 

There is a question on if I'll start a second large campaign game for Friday Nights since we wrapped up God of War last week... but since there is still stuff to do in God of War, I'm really debating on if I should try and get close to 50% completion of the trophies and such. Not really sure people would want to see me get my but handed to me repeatedly by Valkyries!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout lasted 28 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 436 kcal, we did do some extra things, so the total session was 40 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 594 kcal.This was the last daily session using Evan as a trainer as we switched over to Karen and we went ahead unlock most of her outfits to knock out some her appearance related achievements. Because of how tickets were rewarded, six of her attires remain lock, but we should be able to a couple unlocked tomorrow. Here's the list of achievements unlocked today

1. Karen's Stylst: Change Karen's Outfit
2. Karen's Fashion Designer: Put a matching outfit together for Karen
3. Karen's Fashion Saboteur: Mismatch an outfit for Karen
4. Evan's Best Friend: Reach A Trusting Parternship With Evan
   

With those achievement done, we're at 97 out of 100 for the King Fit Fighter achievement, but since that is an actual percent, there are 5 achievements for Karen: Karen's New Student, Karen's Best STudent, Karen's Trainee, Karen's Buddy and Karen's Best Friend. So to get her remaining attires all six of the remaining achievements must be reached.

It's Sunday which means Overwatch is on the agenda! The Summer Games Event is in full effect and so I've updated the skins and voice lines for every character. Granted I only use the same handful every week, but still... I like to keep things uniformed!

And on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!