An 8 hour stream was not intended

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream had a few issues with Xfinity, but thankfully having the Twitch hold the stream steady until things sorted out. The gaps ended up being a couple of minutes, but the thing was my internet didn't go down fully, because I did not experience any lag with Fallout 76 via my Xbox Series S since it is an online game. So the problem has to be something that effects an upstream signal. 

Anyway, the Fallout 76 portion of the stream was a lot of fun in terms of just getting some minor stuff done along the way, such as finding a few side quest location, new places to visits and realizing the placement of some enemy camps is complete nonsense. We were joined by Iceman for some daily and weekly objective grinds which helps with the scoreboard.

Of course the stream ended up being a lot longer because when we wrapped up Fallout 76 for the week, we just chatted about numerous sports stuff, including how our Fantasy Baseball teams were doing plus other thing, which was a lot of fun. Totally unplanned of course, but not the first time we've done that.

Twitch Clips

• Trapped in a trailer
• Coming back from an issues with Xfinity 
• Well that went wrong
• And he's dead 
  

Big thanks to Oldish22 for the raid following their stream of Final Fantasy XIV over on twitch.tv/oldish22!

For the raid last night we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was playing Halo 2 over on twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni!  

Because of the length of last night's stream I really don't have that many notes for today. Then again, it was close to 4 AM by the time I actually went to bed last night and I woke up at around 9 AM.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Biceps Shape Focus Combo, Difficulty Challenge Combo #1 and Intermediate Combo #1. If I stay on the pace of 30 minutes a day every day, we should have every remaining Trainer's Champion EX achievement unlocked by January 20, 2023. Of course throwing in some extra time exercising means that would go a lot faster (ha ha)

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise Stats For June 2022

• Punches Thrown: 37,349
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 15,364.61 kcal
  
• Bernardo's Champion Progress: 66% (33 out of 50 hours trained)
  
• Kign EX Fighter Progress: 94%
  

I am curious how exactly the Supreme Court of the United States will disappoint me today, because going back to last Thursday, it seems like nothing but bad things have happened. Hell just today, the Supreme Court has put limits on the EPA in favor of climate change deniers. We are completely fucked.

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For tonight's stream will featured Final Fantasy XIV, just the usual nonsense that we do with Raids, Trials and level grinding... tonight's stream will be as long as last nights.

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

Junker Queen Impressions and other stuff

Good morning everyone,

The Overwatch 2 Beta did indeed launch and we had a mostly event free run of it, with once moment of Xfinity being a pain and causing issues when I went on break. There is a major issue at the moment for wait times to get to play as a tank or damage roles in Role Queue (average 10 minute and 7 minutes), which means those who like to Flex are often being shoved into Support roles, which I don't mind... still it gets old and tedious when you have people not focusing on the objective at hand. I did find the open queue to be more fun, and I won't be surprise if it ends up seeing the most amount of players with team comps similar to that of Paladins of two tanks, two damage and one support. In terms of characters used, mostly D.va (who I managed to pick up a Play of the Game as) and Moira, but I got in some time as Mercy, Ana, Ashe, Torbjourn, Tracer and I even got to try the newest character The Junker Queen.

Junker Queen's kit certainly is for aggressive players as she has an ability that is similar to Lucio's Speed boost which provided a temporary HP boost to teammates. She also has melee ability that leaves a status effect that does some damage. Her knife throw is interesting with how it can be used to pull an enemy close so that it could combo with the ability I just mentioned. Really not sure what to make of her ultimate.

Now we did start the stream at 30 minutes earlier than normal, and much like with Overwatch on Sundays, around fours in, I switched over to Star Trek Online to run a couple of Task Force Operations... two of which involved timed mechanics that just have things drag out for the sake of dragging things out. The Risa event is returning next week, so we may take part of a stream to check that out for shits and giggles. 

Getting back to Xfinity I did not call them after the stream, but I did enable a feature on Twitch that will throw up a standby image in case something goes wrong where the internet doesn't fully go down but at least there is something to indicate to the viewers that there is a problem.

Twitch Clips

•  Trying to figure out Junker Queen
•  Quad Kill... that is four!
•  A D.va Bomb to Secure The Win!
•  I actually got myself in a bad way...
  

For the raid we dropped in on Glorifiedthief who was playing Golden Sun: The Lost Age over at twitch.tv/Glorifiedthief!   

Yesterdays assignment for work saw me interviewing folks about an upcoming congressional election in the Pacific North West... it was a fair survey since both candidates were presented fairly.

Been steadily adding songs to my 'Liked' list on Spotify... even as I try to limit to just hit songs from what I can remember, the list is already huge! At this time the list included 1,409 songs.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Difficult Challenge Combo #2, Block Combo and Difficult Challenge Combo #3 for 34 minutes.

The Phillies lost to the Braves last night and the issues of how the line up is going to sake out without Bryce Harper are going to be real apparent for the next couple of months.

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For tonight's stream we're going to feature Fallout 76, and I'm kind of curious if the stream problems are tied to me gaming on my PC as opposed to doing stuff on console. I don't think so, but we'll see if there is a pattern. 

So on that note we'll see ya'll later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Two More Story Arcs Down In Persona 4 Arena

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream was without incident from Xfinity, so maybe somethings were addressed... we'll see if that holds true.

Anyway for the stream, we focused on Persona 4: Arena and went through two full story arcs, Akihiko and Teddie's... and both of which has made me further question the continuity of events of the story, to see if the 'true villain' is simply hopping timelines or note. That said, Akihiko's story was certainly straight forward, while Teddie's was without question a bit more on the silly side at times. There were things in Teddie's story that certainly did not make sense to me without proper context. 

We also did an arcade run as Mitsuru and managed to pick up a few achievements that require playing the arcade mode. Also managed to knock out 13 of Labrys's combo challenges, and from what I could tell the online play seems like it might still work... but with Persona 4 Arena Ultramax out, the odds of even getting a couple of online achievements seems every unlikely. 

Also discovered that Persona 4 Arena Ultramax is not a remake of Persona 4 Arena, instead its it sequel... which was exclusive to the PS3. I think it got a digital re-release for the PS4... so we'll look into that at some point.

Big thank you to the anonymous cheerer who kicked in 300 bits last night. The support is always appreciated!

Persona 4: Arena Achievements

• The Boxer: Akihiko's Story chapter has been told.
• The Beast: Teddie's Story chapter has been told.
• Persona Breaker: You created 10 Persona Breaks in Arcade Mode or online.
• Meat Dimension: You defeated an opponent in Arcade Mode or online before he Awakened! Now, that's a real challenge!
• Stylish!: You performed 100 Auto Combos in Arcade Mode or online.

Twitch Clips

• She jumped right into it!
• Give the Salute! 
• Meat Dimension!
  

For the raid we dropped in on YrGamerBunni as they were playing Mass Effect Legendary Edition (in particularly Mass Effect 3) over on twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #2, Intermediate Combo #2 and Hip Shape Focus Combo for 28 minutes.

Watched another episode of Stargate SG-1 called Emancipation, (Season 1, Episode 3)... and considering how the rights of women were just restricted in the United States, this is hitting particularly hard. I wonder what Amanda Tapping's thoughts were on this episode regarding how here character of Captain Carter was basically persecuted for being a woman, forced to change her attire and was basically was to be sold. Granted, Carter plays a huge role in the resolution of the episode and getting to beat the crap out of the villain of the episode with things ending on a positive note. Still the entire first half of the episode is really cringe worthy.

The balls of white Christian Conservatives saying 'Don't Abort We'll Adopt' fucking pisses me off, because if that was true there wouldn't be over 110,000 kids waiting to be adopted!

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For tonight's stream the plan is to play Overwatch 2's Beta to get a good idea of any changes from the initial closed Beta from last month. Speaking of Overwatch, I'm not too keen on how the Brigitte Medic skin is forcing a requirement to gift-subs to specific streamers. Now if that isn't possible, we'll do something else of course.

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

Xfinity Causing Problems Yet Again

Good afternoon everyone,

Well after two full days of no problems, the issues with Infinity reared its ugly head yet again with six stream restarts, one involved a full reset of the modem. I did try to piece together the whole night into one video, but that would take too long to render, and when I make videos they typically would be at more 20 minutes long, and not 5 hours. So the YouTube channel will have the uninterrupted portion of the stream that last two out of the five hours. I did place yet another call to Xfinity last night

As for the night of Overwatch, outside of getting disconnected in the middle of some matches, we had a lot of fun. We were joined by PandaSweet and PatDes for several matches. Characters I mostly used weird D.va, Reinhardt and Moira. Picked up one Play of the Game as D.va, which keeps the weekly streak going. With Overwatch 2's beta launching this week and the fact I did do the pre-order, means we should be able to experience during one of the streams later in the week (either split with Final Fantasy XIV or on Saturday).

Big thankst to YrGamerBunni for kicking in 200 bits during the stream as well as testing out some of the new sound effect redemptions!

Twitch Clips

• Poor Service From Xfinity A Day Before I'm Paying Them...
• I dropped some bags of tea back there... 
• There's A Combo!
• That's Three! 
  

For the raid we dropped in on jonnietortilla who was playing Ark: Survival Evolved over at twitch.tv/jonnietortilla!  

I was so annoyed with the issues with Xfinity last night that instead of doing my laundry today, I did it right after the stream. Granted I don't go anywhere, so I have only one load to do, but still, I needed to take my mind off of things.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout involved Advanced Combo #1, Sway Back Combo and Beginner Combo #2 for 34 minuets. 

Back in the late 1990s, I was aware of the video game Blade Runner which was based on the film of the same name. Never played it, as the requirements for it where clearly too much for my computer at the time... but I am surprised that it basically has gotten a remake. Of all the PC games of the mid to late 90s that I'm personally aware, I would not have thought Blade Runner would be the one to get a second chance at life. That said... apparently the remake is dog shit. Who knows, maybe someday we'll give it a look since it was a game I was curious about over 20 years ago.

With Bryce Harper being placed on the injured list for at least the next 10 days, my Fantasy Baseball team is without its most contestant hitter.

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For tonight's stream, I haven't made up my mind on what we're going to do, as the issues with Xfinity certainly had me really perpexed. But we'll be up to something and hopefully this will be a smooth stream this evening.

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

We Finally Played Fall Guys

Good afternoon everyone, 

Well despite Fall Guys being out on PS4 and PC for quite some time, I waited until after it went Free to Play (and being available on Xbox console) to finally play it... and it's a lot of fun. It's bright it's colorful, it's silly and really it comes down to the skill one has and luck to be able to advance in each round. There are a nice variety of game modes , so not every session is the same. However because these game modes are randomized, there is always that possibility of seeing some things more often than not. Still this was a lot of fun, and we'll keep it as an option of things to do.

Big thanks to Redneck_23 and an Anonymous Cheerer for kicking in 310 bits during the course of the stream. The support and cheers are always appreciated!

Fall Guys Achievements

• Big Bully: Knock someone over
• One small trip: Qualify from your first round
• Flawless Victory: Qualify from a round without falling over even once
• Snowflake: Equip your first cosmetic item
• Troublemaker: Bump into 3 people while rolling on the ground before getting up
• Fall Throttle: Reach terminal velocity
• Face First: Qualify from a racing round despite falling over more than 10 times
• Style Points: Fall for at least 3 seconds before landing on your head
• Stumble Chums: Bump into other Fall Guys 1000 times in total
• One to Watch: Reach lvl 10 fame during a season

Twitch Clips 

• Fall Throttle
• I'm stuck! 
• We made it!
  

For the raid we dropped in on ChristalRaine who was also playing Fall Guys over on twitch.tv/ChristalRaine! 

Soon to be former WWE Superstar Paige has been rightfully going off the stupid arguements that Pro Lifers want to give, and it's made for some great stuff. You can see a lot of it over on her Twitter feed at https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE

Something that I did find interesting was how quick Nancy Pelosi was to send out 'fund raising' emails, when the Democratic party has had numerous opportunities to get things done to make sure Women Rights were not infringed upon. Then there was a rally in Cherry Hill, New Jersey yesterday, and from what I understand  

Finally finished the latest Commission Fic request based around Brock Lesnanr, setting it with his latest return. Unfortunately, the next request I got was another WWE story this time involving Roman Reigns and well, that's a hard pass. I don't find Roman to be a compelling character to write as he has less depth than even Brock. The pairing was to put Roman with Alexa Bliss during her Fiend phase... and that was not exactly ideal.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout featured only Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo... I... woke up super late. But the daily streak continued!

We've officially added Capcom Fight Collection to the Xbox side of things, so expect to see the games in that bundle featured in the coming weeks, probably after we're finished with Persona 4: Arena. Also added Last Stop which from what I understand is a game similar to that that made by TellTale.

Watched another episode of Stargate SG-1 last night, titled 'The Enemy Within' (Season 1, Episode 2)... and it does make me want to watch the first episode again just to see if there was a shot of Kawalsky grabbing his neck as if he wrenched it as indication he was infected with a Goa'uld larvae. This was a solid episode on a few fronts in terms of establishing that bottle episodes could easily be done and still be compelling, since everything seen was mostly at Stargate Command. The operation scene was particularly well done to keep tension high, and the big reveal that Kawalsky was taken still holds up nicely.

Let's take a look back at all the games we featured over the past week which included: Overwatch, Persona 5 Royal, Persona 4 Arena, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Star Trek Online, Persona 5 Strikers and Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout!

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For tonight's stream, well you know it's Sunday which means Overwatch is on deck to kick off the new week!

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

We Started Up Persona 5 Strikers

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5 Strikers was without incident, in fact, I had no issues at all with Xfinity yesterday, which made the shift for my day job rather smooth.

Now my first impressions of Persona 5 Strikers is that its already a solid sequel to Persona 5 Royal, and outside of just the big references to all the stuff that happened overall, there is not much reliance on the older games (or rather vanilla Persona 5). The music is pretty solid, but the game play is obviously the big departure. For the most part I have no issue with general combat in the 'Jails', but the boss fights really seem like they are going to be a problem because Skill Points management is going to be a problem.

Now the stream itself lasted eight and half hours, so we covered basically the entire first story arc, and I noticed that the first arc involving Alice is rather focused on Ann, and the start of the second arc in Sendai seems to be heavily focused on Yusuke. So I wonder if there will be strong parallels with the Persona 5's Palace Order

Persona 5 Strikers Trophies

• It's Showtime!: Activated Showtime.
• Back in Business: Witnessed the Phantom Thieves' reunion.
• Seeker of Power: Used Incense.
• Impulse Buyer: Bought something during a limited time sale.
• Ultimate Trump Card: Obtained all Master Arts for Joker.
• Cage of Lust Closed: Completed the Shibuya Jail.
• Short Order Cook: Cooked food for the first time. 

Twitch Clips

• Just A One Letter Difference
• Show's Over! 
• The Defeat Of Alice
  

For the raid we dropped in on DimakTV who was also playing Persona 5 Strikers over at twitch.tv/dimakTV! 

My fantasy baseball team is having one hell of a bad week... at this rate, I know I'm going to end up at the very least in the middle of the pack by the end of the season.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #1, Weaving Combo #2 and Uppercut Combo #1 for 31 minutes

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise Stats For The Week June 19-25, 2022

• Punches Thrown 7,669
• Estimated Calorie Burn 3298,89
• Bernardo's Champion Progress: 62% (31 out 50 hours)
• King EX Fighter Process: 94% of EX Achievement Acquired
  

If you believe having the right to own a gun is more important than women's rights, then you can go fuck yourself. Hell people will see in the archived form of last night's stream that I basically opened by quoting nearly verbatim George Carlin's monologue on these issues from the late 1990s. Needless to say, I now worry for a lot of other rights that Conservative leaning Supreme Court may attack next. 

But as I said last night, Conservatives, who are mostly Christian and White, don't give a damn about the lives of the unborn, they don't care about women... all they care about is having as many impressionable minds available to shove into a glorified cult. 

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For tonight's stream we'll be checking out Fall Guys and probably will mess around with other stuff!

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

From Final Fantasy to Star Trek Online

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream featured both Final Fantasy XIV and Star Trek Online, however the stream was broken up into two parts because Xfinity was causing some issues. I had problems with them in the afternoon when I was working, lost a couple of completions. I Called Xfinity again, got hung up on, as I was asking for specific information,. So you can imagine how pissed off I was a 1 AM in the morning

Anyway, for the Final Fantasy XIV portion we did the usual bit of the run of the Aglaia alliance raid, plus a trial (which turned out to be against The Mother Crystal), we did some Fishing and some heavy leveling on the Botanist side job. I decided not to do anything with Lancer because of how we were banged the entire back end of the Heavansward Botany quests and started the Stormblood ones as well. With luck we might knock those out all in one go next week.

So I made t he call to do some Star Trek Online, and as per usual with STO, when it came to running Task Force Operations, the fixed time component made some drag super long while at the same time others were done within three minutes or less. Spent some time adding a new uniform for my Captain and showing off some dance emotes at Club 47 as well.

Twitch Clips 

• Thanks for the 300 Bits!
• Beggin 
• Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are
• Just Some Dancing 
  

For the raid we dropped in on BaronVizkopa who was also playing Star Trek Online over at twitch.tv/BaronVizkopa!   

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double Combo #2, Triple Combo #1 and Weaving Combo #1 for 31 minutes. As a reminder, after hitting Sophie's Contender yesterday, we're back to using Bernardo as the trainer in pursuit of the Bernardo's Champion EX achievement.

While the Senate passed its first gun violence related bill since the mid-1990s, the Supreme Court of the United States made things more complicated by ruling against New York stats gun carried laws, which in turn could cause problems in New Jersey where I live. It comes as no shock to me that the Supreme Court only 25% of Americans have any real confidence in it.

Going back to talking about work, in the state of Maryland, there is a lot of debate regarding regulation of waste disposal when it comes to the numerous chicken raising facilities throughout the state that are contracted to the likes of Perdue and Tyson Foods. Some folks are really for doing what it takes to protect their communities, but these major companies are quite against anything that affects their bottom line. 

How does a penguin build its house? Igloos it together.

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For tonight's stream we'll be starting up Persona 5 Strikers, which takes places a few months after the events of Persona 5 Royal.

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

We had to rebuild the house in Fallout 76...

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Fallout 76 didn't have any issues with my internet connection near as I can tell, there was some minor frame drops but nothing major.

As far as what we did last night... well the first two hours was spent rebuilding my house because when I logged in things my camp was blocked by another. I tried finding a new location but couldn't quite find any place that would work. So we rebuilt the whole thing into a three-story dwelling. We were joined by Iceman and we gradually knocked out a few major quests but got stuck trying to figure out how to enter the sewer of the chemical plant. We'll tackle that next week.

Big thanks to Redneck_23 for kicking in a couple of bits during the stream! The support is always appreciated.

Fallout 76 Achievements

• Moneybags: Possess 10,000 Caps
• Gimme Gimme!: Pick 50 Locks
• Gold Star Crafter: Craft a 1 star legendary mod, a 2 star legendary mod, and a 3 star legendary mod

Twitch Clips

• They can open doors?!
• We Got In And Out
• And then it exploded... 
  

For the raid we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was playing Mass Effect 3 over on twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni! 

Have not quite figured out the opening for the latest commissioned fic based around WWE content that was requested of me. Might go with something generic...

Had a great assignment with work yesterday as it focused on a proposal to preserve the areas in and around the Grand Canyon.

I've decided that on Friday's stream we'll start up Persona 5 Strikers... hopefully I can figure out it's game play

People are worried about Star Wars burn out... considering how Disney has shoved the franchise down everyone's throat over the last decade, I can say.... it's long over due.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Beginner Combo #1, Body Hook Combo and Left-Right Step Combo for 25 minutes. With this session we knocked out the Sophie's Contender EX achievement. Which leaves just the Champion EX Achievements for Sophie, Laura, Martina, Bernardo and Evan. We'll be switching trainers from Sophie to Bernardo

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise EX Achievements

• Sophie's Contender: Train with Sophie For Over 30 Hours
• King EX Fighter Achievement - 94% Complete
  

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For tonight's stream, we'll be playing Final Fantasy XIV, you know the drill... an Alliance Raid, maybe a Trial, some Fishing, botany and Dragoon leveling and some other stuff.

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

More Persona 4 Arena... More Xfinity Troubles

Good morning everyone,

Well last night's stream of Persona 4 Arena wasn't all in one session, as the stream got broken into three parts... because we had two stream interruptions / resets thanks to Xfinity. Now my internet didn't go down fully, but there were some issues that certainly persisted throughout the day of the upstream just hanging... and this goes to when I was working yesterday afternoon as well. I did call Xfinity last night after a modem reset to see what's involved with swapping the 2 cable boxes I have for a wireless variant. Not it took nearly 40 minutest to questions answered over what could be done to make things as seamless as possible as well as inquiring about the unlimited data cap plan option. Sad part was I didn't get all the questions I wanted answered because I was put on hold for 15 minutes of said call.

Now for the gaming of Persona 4 Arena, we covered two story arcs fully, first Mitsuru and then Naoto, and combined they took over four hours to get through. Granted I started off doing full narration of Mitsuru's story for the first hour, but even with setting the speed of the text to fast, there is a lot ground covered. I did find Naoto's to be more engaging as every other 'chapter' had a fight that had to be played, so the story of how events played out from their perspective to be a lot of fun. Not to mention, Naoto seems to be the most progressive character in terms of basically being gender neutral to some degree.

We also did an arcade run with Labrys, and both does she have some real wonky attack patterns to learn to be effective with. I did like her post-match trash talk of everyone on the arcade ladder. Did managed to figured out her Instant-Kill move which was pretty bad ass. Also learned it can be blocked.

Big thanks to RedFoxCovUK for resubscribing to my Twitch Channel last night, as well to the anonymous cheerers who tossed in quite a few bits!

Persona 4: Arena Achievements

• The Queen: Mitsuru's Story chapter has been told.
• The Detective: Naoto's Story chapter has been told.

Twitch Clips

• And It was that moment he realized
• Naoto Instant-Kill Move 
• Labrys Instant-Kill!
  

For the raid we dropped everyone over with Joliet4 who was playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge and also doing a music stream. They stream over on twitch.tv/joliet4!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Uppercut Combo, Hook Combo #2 and Advanced Combo #2 for 31 minutes. I did do an extra 17 minutes of exercise to make up for waking up late yesterday

Played a couple of Arena matches in Smite, wining one and losing the other... but managed to get one of the achievements associated with Thanatos. I'm getting closer to having 50% of the in-game achievements for Smite... but the overall total was increased to 306 with the recent addition of Lancealot

SMITE Achievements

• Reaper of Souls: As Thanatos silence 15 enemies out of their abilities.

I will say this, when it comes to the election for US Congress in Pennsylvania, anyone that votes for Lisa Scheller is a fucking idiot. Because think about this, what was one thing Trump was all about 'China this and China that'... well Scheller is a Republican who is the CEO of Silberline Manufacturing Co. Inc and during her time in that role, the company has eliminated 60% of their American workforce, closed one manufacturing facility in Carbon County, PA... while opening another in China. The truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle Will be revisited this year... with the PS4 version, as before we'll do the story mode and play various matches and so forth. What is notably about BBCTB is that its a cross-over of Persona 4 with BlazBlue with Under Night In-Birth with RWBY. But if I remember right the original released didn't have an arcade ladder of any kind.

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For tonight's stream the plan is of course to play Fallout 76, I will of course progress my own story and more than likely we'll be joined by Iceman to knock out some daily stuff via his Fallout 1st Immortality world. So it should end up being silly.

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

After 143 Hours... We Finished Persona 5 Royal

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5 Royal certainly saw me doing what the game said to do and 'Take My Time' when it came to trying to anticipate how much content was actually left, as I certainly wasn't rushing to finish the game, because I wanted to streak to last at least four hours. Turns out there was six hours worth of content left based around how I was choosing to handle the last trip into Mementos and doing other things (messing around with the Batting cages, spending time with some of the Confidants and unlocking stuff in the Thieves Den 

Now... let's talk about that battle against Maruki which is probably the most drawn out pain in the ass boss fight in the entire game with how many phases it had. Sure we got a HP and SP reset with each phase, but it was a battle that boiled down to 'But wait there's more...' when it came to obviously points of where it should have ended. We defeated Maruki's Persona... no wait... he evolves his Persona... then he gets eaten by his Persona... then it boils down to a fist fight... like really? The Holy Grail to Yaldabaoth boss fight wasn't nearly as padded as Maruki's was.

Now of course by the time we finished that fight it was 10:12 PM... but we didn't finish the game until 12:19 AM... because of all the cut scenes and extended dialog sequences I've managed to find pepped into the last stretches of time. Sure There's the time skips, but there is a lot to see, and when you are given time to roam around there are little nuggets and references one can find that serve as nice callbacks.And since I've been playing Persona 4 Arena, and seeing the 'Men In Black' involvement with characters from Persona 3... I'm betting those were who was chasing the Phantom Thieves at the very end.

Overall, Persona 5 Royal was an awesome experience and I look forward to playing it again on the Xbox side of things in 2023. 

Persona 5 Royal (PS4) Trophies

• Take Back the Future: Completed every Palace.
• The Path Chosen: Watched the ending.
• The Phenomenal Phantom Thief: Obtained all trophies.

Twitch Clips

• It's Showtime! The Defeat Of Jose!
• Boom... Headshot 
• Roses For Makoto 
  

During the stream we got a raid from Redneck_23 who was playing American Truck Simulator 19 over at twitch.tv/redneck_23!

For last night's raid, we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was playing Halo: Infinite and Fortnite over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni! 

On a side note, Persona 5 Royal is only the 5th PlayStation title that I've gotten the Platinum Trophy for... the others being NCIS, WWE: Legends of WrestleMania, X-Men The Arcade Game and Sonic The Fighters.

There is a question of what will be featured on Friday's now... and the top two contenders are Dragon's Dogma and Persona 5 Strikers. We'll see what I end up deciding 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured a brisk workout because I woke up super late. Still kept the daily streak going which was good.

While my fantasy baseball team had a great week last week, this weeks looks like it'll be a problem with Bryce Harper having to deal with a blister issue.

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For tonight's stream... well, it's back to Persona 4 Arena to continue going through the story mode of that game, which means sitting through the visual novel parts. Good news is I believe we can basically go through everyone's story straight through because we tackled Labrys's story last week. So we should be able to knock off at least three characters stories tonight.

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

A Solid Night Of Overwatch

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch saw the usual break down as mostly matches in the flex role (which meant Tank and Support) before dedicating the final hour to playing Damage role characters. Big thanks to PandaSweet for being apart of the fun. Picked up three plays of the game last night as D.va, Reinhardt and Torbjourn. Other characters used were Junkrat, Mei. Wrecking Ball, Ashe & Moira. Think in our last 10 matches we went like 5-5... not 100% sure but I'm not about to go check. 

On a side note we did have a brief issues with Xfinity, my internet service provided during the stream... where it didn't go down fully, but it certainly interfered with the strength of signal to Twitch.

Twitch Clips

• The Focus Is Real
• Where Did She Go... COME HERE!!! 
• There goes my 12 kill streak...
  

During the stream we had a raid from YrGamerBunni who was playing Halo: Infinite over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni!

For the raid we dropped in on Flint_Locke who was playing Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Chapter 8 - Matsuribayashi over at twitch.tv/flint_locke! 

I mentioned it last night during the stream, but one has to admire the balls of Capcom to be putting out two compilations of arcade games that have some of the same games in both collections within a month of each other and charging the same amount for both. Of course I would go for the Capcom Fighting Colleciton first because that can and will be a streak of featuring the games in that collection... and then grab Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium down the road.

Disney is doing another live-action remake with Hercules... and unlike with most of their live action efforts, this one makes sense because there is little chance they will screw up the casting... oh wait... this is Disney... and they picked Will Smith to step into the role of the Genie for Aladdin...

Played a couple of matches of Assault in Smite last night, winning one of the two. Always nice to be able to split the difference.

Today's FItness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Defensive COmbo #1, Double Combo #1 and Uppercut Combo #2 for 28 minutes.

Shaved off my beard... I'm now a lot less fuzzy on the face.

Watched the first episode of Stargate SG-1 for the first time in a long time, it's amazing how much Richard Dean Anderson brings to the role of Jack O'Neil right off the bat.

Finished the WWE commissioned fan fic featuring Cody Rhodes & Brandi yesterday afternoon... and thank goodness I used the post-match promo he did at WrestleMania because it served as a great framing device. Ended up getting another commission request, again WWE related, this time to do something involving Brock Lesnar.

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For tonight's stream, well we're going to wrap up Persona 5 Royal... we started it as a Friday Night Exclusive back in mid-February, and outside of one week where we also did a Saturday night stream, we kept to that. But with not much left to the game we'll take out time in finishing the remaining days with one final trip to Mementos, then give the Calling Card to Maruki, kick his sorry butt then it's just the time skip that occurs to Valentine's Day and then White Day to close it out.

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

A Full Night Of Turtle Power,

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge was full of Turtle Power. Granted trying to find full games to join or even start with the hope of randoms joining was an adventure in and of itself, but we did do a full arcade run as Splitter, and thus I am counting it as a game finished on stream. The story mode has more of an RPG element to it, but it is basically the same as the arcade mode.

Of course the net-code issues I mentioned the other day were on full display depending on when people are joining into games, and some weird latency issues. Of course once you get six people playing on screen at the same time it because pure chaos and nearly impossible to tell where you are at any given moment depending on how quickly people are building up their super meters. 

We did get a few achievements done last night, some of which involved just some general progression and doing repeated tasks. I did go back into it after the stream to knock out as many achievements as I could, so on the list below, the first six were done on stream, the remainder were done off-stream.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge Achievements

• INEFFECTIVE!: Defeat the Rat King while using Splinter.
• Pizza Time!: Eat 20 pizzas.
• Breaking Out!: Destroy 200 breakable objects.
• Button Masher: Win the mini-game in Coney Island.
• Sharing is Caring!: Cheer up the same teammate 3 times in a single stage.
• Buffoons!: Put an end to Bebop and Rocksteady's run in Story Mode. 
• Opening an Antique Store?: Find 5 different collectibles in Story Mode.
  Empire Strikes Out: Retreat the Triceraton empire in Story Mode.
• Mode 7: Throw 16 enemies toward the camera.
• Clean Up in Aisle 4: Stop Chrome Dome before he can rebuild the old Technodrome in Story Mode.
• Biggest Fan!: Find all cameos in Story Mode.
• Complete Season: Complete the Story Mode.
• Beware Lawbreakers!: Play as Casey Jones.
• Finally Getting Along!: Cheer up Raphael while playing as Casey Jones.
• Multitasker: Complete all of the special requests in Story Mode
  

Twitch Clips

• Splitter vs The Rat King
• She got beaten by a rat 
• Everybody work together
  

For the raid we dropped in on Oldish22 who was playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/oldish22!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Triple Combo #2, Front-Back Step Combo and Defensive Combo #2 for a 28 minute workout

Why is it everyone wanted Amber Heard's head on a platter, but people are actually defending Ezra Miller? I don't get it.

Messed around a bit with Friday the 13th: The Game on the Xbox side of things. We might have it as an option for random Saturdays.

Friday the 13th: The Game Achievements

• He's Back: Get killed by Jason.

A new week is starting, so let's take a look back at moments from the previous week, which included Overwatch, Vampire Survivors, Persona 4: Arena, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Royal and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge!

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For tonight's stream, well, it's Sunday which means Overwatch is on deck!

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

Entering The Home Stretch Of Persona 5 Royal

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 5 Royal was very productive on two fronts, one we spent a ton of time in Mementos, finding every single Stamp in the areas of the original game, then the finding 40 in the added area that ties into Maruki's Palace... and then we tackled the Palace itself, finding all three Will Seeds and securing the route to Maruki's treasure. There were a few things I probably over looked in terms of treasures, but at the same time I hit the max level for Joker and the rest of the Phantom Thieves (Level 99), maxed out yen (9,999,999) and also hit 99 on several Personas. 

As of this time, we have put in 136 hours in, and the way I figure, with all the cut scenes and remaining things to do, there are probably close to four hours of game play left. So we will be finishing Person 5 Royal on next Friday's stream! Also with only two trophies left, and both are story related, we'll be able to Platinum Persona 5 Royal as well! Woo-hoo!

Oh an yes, I am rather pleased with the screenshot I took at the end of Joker & Sumeri's Showtime. That was just perfectly timed.

Persona 5 Royal (PS4) Trophies

• A Serene Experience: Visited a temple. 

Twitch Clips

• An Anonymous Cheerer Cheering Anonymously!
• Sumeri's Showtime 
• We Want The Panda!
  

For last night's raid we dropped in on x9abenonymous9x who was playing Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown over on twitch.tv/x9abenonymous9x!  

Five years ago with my original YouTube channel, a lot of dirt bags were stealing my videos and posting them on their own channels... but I found a few of them still floating around YouTube and promptly uploaded them. You can find them over at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoZDn5flULzEeJlW0Rw2X2Q

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Biceps Shape Focus Combo, Intermediate Combo #1 and Difficulty Challenge Combo #1 for a duration of 34 minutes.

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise Stats for Week Of June 12 to 18, 2022

• Punches Thrown: 8,577
  
• Estimated Calorie Burn:3611.62 kcal
  
• Sophie's Contender Progress: 90% (27 out of 30 hours trained)
  
• King EX Fighter Progress: 93%
  

My fantasy baseball team is doing rather well this week... granted I've had to make a number of moves, and staying up to date on whose starting and who isn't can be a real pain, particularly when it comes to anyone who is playing on the west coast.

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For tonight's stream we'll be playing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredders Revenge. Hopefully we won't have any issues with the game's net code for online play.

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

Just your usual productive night of FF14

Good morning everyone,

Well last night's stream had no issues with internet connectivity so everything went smoothly overall. We got a few things done, getting close to level 90 for Fishing, we knocked off several levels for Botany to get that into the mid-50s, we're passed level 35 as Dragoon... and even got a new spell as Blue Mage. Things for the most part were positive until I went for the Blue Mage spell, and I'd just assumed I would be helping out... but turned out I had to be the one to look up how to get through one dungeon boss. 

Twitch Clips

• We Don't Want The Gift Of Flames!
• Where is my team?! 
• Dramatic Finish
  

For the raid we dropped in on YrGamerBunni who was doing a Just Chatting theme and working on various projects plus playing a bit of Fortnite over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni!  

Messed around with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, and for the most part is is a great game... but it does have some noticeable bugs with the game soft locking at different points, some bad connectivity due to questionable netcode, not spawning into levels and so forth. Still manages to nab some achievements 

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge Achievement

• Teamwork: Perform 10 Team Attacks in multiplayer.
• Most Fearsome Fighting Team!: Complete a Stage in any mode in multiplayer.
• Come On!: Got hit while performing a taunt.
• Kind Brother: Revive a teammate in multiplayer.
• A + B: Finish a boss using a Super Attack.
• Classic Couch Memories: Complete the Arcade Mode in Multiplayer.
• Master of One Quarter: Complete the Arcade Mode without using a credit.
• Special Report: Stop the rogue Channel 6 broadcast in Story Mode.
• Return to Sender: Deflect 10 projectiles.
• Piped Piper!: Trespass the royal grounds of NYC sewers and defeat the Rat King in Story Mode.
  

Have I ever mentioned I'm not the biggest fan of having work assignments that involve dealing with people in New York City? Because I'm not. The only positive was that the assignment was short

Already put in the Pre-Order for Overwatch 2 and signed up for the cross-play Beta. Hopefully we'll be apart of it and start working it into streams in the coming weeks.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout involved Block Combo, Difficult Challenge Combo #2 & Difficult Challenge Combo #3 for 34 minutes. From what I can tell we're over 27 hours in towards the Sophie's Contender EX Achievement.

I was surprised the Phillies walked all over the Nationals last night... but if anything the inconsistent offense is going to be re-exposed sooner rather than later because today they have a double-header.

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For tonight's stream, we are getting back to Persona 5 Royal. We have a few main objectives, one involves dealing with unlocking the 3rd and final Personas for the remaining team members, and probably diving deep into Mementos and probably the final palace of the game.

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

Just Doing Things In Fallout 76

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Fallout 76 was mostly without incident, until the game itself started crashing repeatedly when I messing around with stuff related to the Brotherhood of Steel. Don't know why things like that happen on Consoles but who knows. We were also joined by Iceman who accessed the Fallout 1st gimmick which means we could probably knock out dailies rather quickly when he's able to join which means more of a chance to tackle the scoreboard things. Overall thing were mostly straight forward last night. I did hope to hit level 35, but that was a no go on stream. Did duck back in off-stream to knock out a bit to reach that mark... but ran out of 5.56 ammo. Also I basically have the option of joining the Brotherhood of Steel, not sure if there is another faction or not and who would technically be the good guys.

Fallout 76 Achievements

• Shwag: Collect 10 Bobbleheads

Twitch Clips

• Anyone Else Want Some?
• Get Away From My Stuff!
• Another Thing Comes Running Up On Iceman 
  

For the raid last night we dropped in on DaemonsW0lf who was playing Hunt: Showdown and celebrating their birthday over at twitch.tv/daemonsw0lf! 

Played some Smite last night knocking out a few weekly quests which involved playing as Hunters and Assassins... and of the two classes, I'm much better as a Hunter. Still played two matches as Thanatos and Charybdis, unlocking an achievement with the later.

SMITE Achievements

• Drown Your Sorrow: Unlock the Smite Award "Drown Your Sorrow"

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout Featured Intermediate Como #2, Hip Shape Focus Combo and Straight Combo #2.

We had work yesterday afternoon, and from what I learned, is that Republicans are completely delusional as it pertains to Roe vs Wade and gun violence. How can these people have their head so far up their asses at this point is beyond me.

Rather surprised the Phillies won yesterday afternoon as I was following the game via Twitter

Apparently the WWE Board of Directors is targeting Vince McMahon himself for a $3 Million payment of hush money... and no this has nothing to do with the hush money he paid to keep Jimmy Snuka out of prison back in the 80s, and it involves some major speculation regarding John Laurenitits as well. Will be very interesting to see if this forces Vince out of his own company considering Stephanie has taken a leave of absence recently. Apparently the investigations started in April and there has been enough found for it to be made public.

And speaking of WWE, looks like Sasha Banks has been let go... I know maybe two people are sadden by that.

LvStrkr said he would join us for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge fun on Saturday if he's not too busy, so we could have some co-op silliness with the new game this weekend! I have already pre-installed the game on my Xbox One S.

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For tonight's stream, the plan is of course Final Fantasy XIV, which will focus on all the usual nonsense of raids and basic level grinding on alternate jobs.

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