Friday, February 5, 2021

Today's Notes 2/5/21

Good morning everybody,

Well last night's stream was not what was expected now wasn't it? Nope it started off at about 6 PM with the the expected Star Trek Online plans, going through the two newest missions on my main characters. Rather surprising there wasn't more unique dialog with regard to a Federation officer being on the trip to Gre'thor, but overall, since I went through the missions last week, I had a much easier time doing some parts this week... outside of getting one-shotted by the Fek'ihri dreadnaught. Not many things in Star Trek Online can take you with one hit, but apparent that beast of a ship can!

Now since there was no focus with Star Trek Online, when Iceman asked if I was going to join in on more Division 2 stuff, I had no problems switching over. We were expecting PowerThumbz to join in, but he had issues so it was me and Iceman knocking out watch levels and Resident Evil related challenges while just wandering around DC doing stuff. It was the usual madness that is associated with that game combined with the insanity of enemies getting back up!

We also snuck in some Paladins last night, doing two matches for Siege, Onslaught and Team Deathmatch, using my usual favorites of Ash, Inara, Tyra and Ying, and we won a few matches. The biggest issue that Paladins has continues to be people leaving early in a match, particular from the PC side (since Paladins is a cross-platform game). Unlike Overwatch, which in everything by ranked matches, has a backfill option to keep things fairly event, Paladins does not feature this, instead having the AI take over. That said the new character of Yagorath can fuck right off, it can't be moved with Ashe's charge or bounce back attacks, and it's ultimate is can't be escaped unless everyone is firing on it. Pair it with two healers and the fucking thing is damn near unkillable! 

Speaking of Overwatch, I just had enough in-game gold to get all the new items for the Lunar New Year event which started yesterday. I really dig the skins for Ashe and Echo, while PanadaSweet loves the skins for Bastion and Orisa. On a side note I really think Moira's new Lion Roars Victory poses should have been an emote instead.

Kind of big news that went under the radar, as it was announced this week that starting this Saturday, episodes of The Real Ghostbusters will be added weekly to the offical Ghostbusters YouTube channel, and starting on Wednesday of this upcoming week, they'll be doing the same with Extreme Ghostbusters! That is awesome!

Since I woke up a bit late today, today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was a bit more intense in terms of wondering will I have a enough time to shower, have lunch and write this blog afterward. Now I could've shorten the duration of the time I spent exercising, but I do like it being set about 30 minutes for the exercising with 5 to 8 minutes for stretching so I don't have to mess with the settings too much.

Tonight's stream will see us going back to Kingdom Hearts 2, as we're picking up right after out first visit to Hallow Bastion, I'll need to look up which area I should go to first because there is a logical order things take place in. Stream will start at about 6 PM EST, because as soon as I'm done writing this and having lunch, I'm starting work !

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


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