Thursday, August 10, 2023

Borderlands, Overwatch, Xfinity and other notes

 Hi everyone,

Another day and another day where work got cancelled, but I was told we should get two assignments in next week. Doesn't help me this week however. Job hunt may have lead to something as I came across something on Indeed that could be promising. I'll give more details if things move forward. Did have a bit of a job interview and an application filled out today as well

Had major issues with Xfinity this morning where somehow 'Bridge' mode on my modem was activated causing major havoc and too took an hour long call to get through to someone who could tell me that it wasn't just me but that most people are not smart enough to access the gateway to see what events occurred. 

Tonight's stream was supposed to feature The Exanpse A Telltale Series Episode Two, but TellTale Games outdated approach to release a game in episodic releases lead to it not being avaliable on either Xbox on PlayStation consoles. Many people were pissed and rightfully so. If it's resolved by Saturdays, we'll feature it then.

So instead, we played Borderlands once again as we knocked out various quests in T-Bone Junction and started on the Claptrap DLC content. Nothing major, just covered a lot of ground and worked toward leveling up Lilith. It might be possible to hit level 50, but getting to level  69 is certainly a grind. We picked up no achievements, but hey, this was more for the content than anything else

For tonight's raid we went over to twitch.tv/kalenal to watch Kalenal play Final Fantasy XIV

Started work on a new short story commission today based on Mass Effect which ties in with the Citadel DLC content of Mass Effect 3.

I did play the new PVE content in Overwatch 2 before the stream, and the story and lore that was put in certainly made things real interesting and put more weight behind the various character interactions. We're certainly will feature the story content on Sunday's stream to lead things off!

Garbage was not picked up today, and is the second time in a month this has happened. Needless to say I logged my complaint with the Public Works department.

Out next stream is scheduled for 9:30 PM Eastern over on twitch.tv/fredcasden and will feature The Last of Us Part II. If there is no work, we'll started at 6:30 PM Eastern, but obviously we are hoping for work.

So on that note, have a good night and we'll see you tomorrow over on twitch.tv/fredcasden

Resident Evil 6, Broforce and other notes

Hi everyone,

Work was cancelled again today, but on the other hand I made a little bit of cash via commissions for story writing, and I knocked out another commission request today, for another in a long line of Mass Effect stories.

Went through more of mom's stuff to throw out... and... well I was total wreck, even if I just grab and throw stuff in a garbage bag, it's pretty much heart wrenching every single time I do it.

Tonight's stream didn't start until 9:30 PM Eastern, because I wanted to lead off with Iceman as we finished the Jake & Sherry campaign in  Resident Evil 6. We basically had the back half of Chapter 4 and all of Chapter 5 to do, which we knocked out in about 90 minutes. Overall I liked this campaign a lot more than the first two campaigns, as the story and game play was a lot more smooth. Next week we'll start on Ada's campaign to begin the final leg of Resident Evil 6.

In the second half of the stream, I messed around with Broforce which was just added to Game Pass, and I knocked out a few levels while unlocking a number of Bros. One of the charms of Broforce is all the references to 80s action heroes. We'll feature Broforce again next week following the Resident Evil 6 part of the Wednesday stream

Resident Evil 6 Achievements

  • Still on the Run: Complete Chapter 4 in Jake's campaign.
  • See You Around: Complete Chapter 5 in Jake's campaign.

Broforce Achievements

  • You're Fired: Kill an enemy by launching them on a propane tank.

 For the raid we dropped in on x9abenonymous9x who was playing Resident Evil 7: Biohazard over at twitch.tv/x9abenonymous9x

Found out I got rejected from a few places I applied for... the job search goes on with the usual 1 step forward 20 steps back which is driving me nuts.

Our next stream over on twitch.tv/fredcasden is scheduled for 9:30 PM Eastern if we have work, and will feature The Expanse to lead things off. If we work is cancelled, we'll start at 6:30 PM. 

So on that note, have a good night!

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