A Super Long Night Of Overwatch 2

Happy Halloween everyone,

Well last night's stream of Overwatch 2 started early, and lasted a lot longer than normal... ended up being a seven hour long stream, with us using a variety of characters, D.va, Junker Queen, Reinhardt, Oirssa, Roadhog, Moira, Brigitte, Mei, Junkrat and others. We picked up four plays of the game as Brigitte, Junkrat, Mei and Junker Queen.  We were also joined by PandaSweet for several matches as well, which is always a treat. Also picked up an in-game achievement as Sigma in a rather frantic moment.

Overwatch 2 Achievements

• Conservation of Energy: Gain 350 shields with a single use of Sigma's Kinetic Grasp in Quick or Competitive Play.

That said, there were several moments of major stupidity as I've seen in regards to people not knowing how to deal with Zarya, which is simple... DO NOT SHOOT HER BUBBLES. If you should her bubble barriers, it powers up her weapon, which can melt virtually everyone. Then there was the last match of the night, where as I Mei, Panda as Symmetra and a random player as Brig all had more mitigated damage than a random D.va who refused to use their defensive matrix. 

Twitch Clips

• Get Ready For A Shock!
• What a finish! 
• Achievement: Conservation of Energy
  

Big thank you to Lunar_Princess for the raid following their stream of Little Nightmares over at twitch.tv/lunar_princess!

For our raid, we dropped in on MissCammi316 who was also playing Overwatch 2 over at twitch.tv/misscammi316!

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

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise Stats For October 2022

• Punches Thrown: 37802
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 15988.11 kcal
  
• Sophie's Champion Progress: 74% (37 out of 50)
  
• King EX Fight Progress:97%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 689
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 847

I like to spend every day as if it's my last. Staying in bed and calling for a nurse to bring me more pudding.

I got fired from my job at the bank today. An old lady came in and asked me to check her balance, so I pushed her over.

Song of the Day: Freaks by Surf Curse

Game 3 of the World Series is tonight, and I am hoping the Phillies can take full advantage of their home field advantage.

Nearly finished writing the short story commission request based on Until Dawn, It's going to be cutting it close to getting it to the requested word count the client wants. In case you can't tell, I'm a very formulaic approach when it comes to writing anything and getting my point across.

For tonight's stream we're playing Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, I think we're in good shape to maybe pick up one achievement.

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

Logitech Firmware Update Breaks Audio And Dragon Ball The Breaks Has No One Playing It

Good afternoon everyone,

Let's start with one of the annual pains in the ass that always rolls around whenever Logitech releases a firmware update for its G-Hub... it always... ALWAYS breaks how audio is captured in OBS and it's always a pain to fix, but this time I couldn't fix it with all my usual methods of unplugging and plugging the Elgato HD 60 S back in, it completely screwed with it. Not to mention, this latest Logitech firmware update also broke audio connection in Discord, Overwatch and the Xbox Desktop App on PC. As of this time, I still haven't gotten it fixed. In fact I spent a half hour on stream trying to fix it

Then there is Dragon Ball: The Breakers...which was something we've been playing over the past few weeks, but the long queue times was just getting ridiculous, most I ever saw was 6 at anyone time and I just said to hell with it an uninstalled it, live on stream. Turns out that the lack of cross-play is really hurting Dragon Ball: The Breakers because just a few weeks since launch there are barely 4000 players on the Steam version at any given time. That may seem like a lot, but it's not when you factor in that Dead by Daylight has 10 to 20 times that amount at any given time. Maybe we'll bring it back down the line if there is a major update, but I doubt it.

So we ended up bouncing around from game to game starting with Nickelodeon All-Stars Brawl doing two arcade mode runs, and one of which as the newest character in the game, Rocco from 'Rocco's Modern Life'. He's very floating, in fact much like Stripe over in MultiVersus, Rocco has an attack that can result in him plummeting to his death. The other arcade run was as Oblina from 'Ahhh! Real Monsters', and I actually increased the difficult for that, and if it wasn't for Powder Toast Man, I probably would've had a perfect run through it. Also picked up one achievement in this game

Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl Achievements

• Astonishing!: Clear Arcade with 5 brawlers

Next, we jumped over to Gears 5, and I totally forgot how to play it. We did a horde mode run and a quick Co-Op versus AI, noting major involved, just mindless fun.

Because I do have to put in serious time and grinding effort into Capcom Arcade 2nd Stardium, we spent some time playing that and getting myself on the scoreboard for a few different games. Was rather cool to see my scores for some stuff.

Lastly, we played some Smite, just doing a couple of challenges, lost both matches, but hey, people saw me play as Thor and as Ares, the later of which resulted in me getting an achievements.

SMITE Achievements

• Two Chains? Nah, Five: Unlock the SMITE Award Twos Chains? Nah, Five.

Twitch Clips

• Launching Garfield
• Oblina versus Zim 
• Clearing Arcade With Oblina
• Back in the ground! 
• Light 'Em Up!
• Co-Op vs AI 
• Chip Damage For The Win!
• Super Combo Finish! 
• Cutting it close!
• Slaying an enemy! 
• Achievement: Two Chains? Nah, Five
• Making it Interesting 
  

For the raid we dropped in on aggie_og who was playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II over at twitch.tv/aggie_og! 

Zach Wheeler got lit up for 5 runs in the Phillies 5-2 loss to the Astros, and like Aaron Nola I think Wheeler is basically cooked. Remember, both pitched in one more series than the Astros starters have and it is starting to show. But, the series is tied 1-1, and the Phillies have home field advantage... so maybe things will work out in their favor for the next three games at Citizens Bank Park.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout will featured Intermediate Combo #1, Triple Combo #2 and Defensive COmbo #2 for 31 minutes.

What's green and has wheels? Grass. I lied about the wheels.

Sometimes I tuck my knees into my chest and lean forward. That's just how I roll.

Song of the Day: Infinity by Jaymes Young

It's the start of a new week, so let's recap what we played over the past seven days which was Overwatch 2, Dragon Ball FighterZ, Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Until Dawn, Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl, Gears 5, Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium and Smite!

Started work on the Until Dawn commissioned short story, getting the intro done, and I have a good idea for the ending, just the meat of the story will take a bit of figuring out.

For tonight's stream, we're playing Overwatch 2, and we will featured the new Junkenstein's Revenge PVE content that rolled out on Tuesday plus we'll get up to all our usual nonsense.

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

So who survived my second playthrough of Until Dawn?

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night we finished our second play-through of Until Dawn and we had nearly everyone survive except for two characters. First Emily was sent to the great beyond because of The Exorcism of Emily achievement, and the other was Josh because I didn't find one collectable in chapter 10 to trigger him surviving. Still everyone else survived, which was actually better than my first play through last where where we lost Ashley, Mike, Jessica and Matt.

Of course I know some friends of mind were very disappointed in that result, but I did make it as hard as possible for myself when it came to taking some of the harder choices in terms of quick time events. Still this is a game that has a lot of replay value to try and get different results.

I do want to touch on the collectables for a moment, in that I was being incredibly thorough for this play through of Until Dawn, and outside of the final one associated with the Twins, I have no clue of exactly where some are when it relates the Mystery Man, 1952 and the Totems. I'll probably need a guide to find them.

Until Dawn Trophies

• The Exorcism of Emily: Mike shot Emily
• Don't Scare Jessica To Death: Jessica survived her night of terror

Twitch Clips

• This is the safe room Emily!
• Like a coconut! 
• Boom!!!
  

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni as they were playing Crusader Kings III over at twitch.tv/bestibunni! 

Work was kind of interesting yesterday in seeing just how stupid something people are in relation to those who are reasonable. Having been in Market Research for as long as I have, I do miss the days prior to 2016 when everyone on both sides were semi-intelligent. 

It wasn't pretty put the Phillies won game one of the World Series beating the Astros 6-5 in 10 innings. Aaron Nola got rocked, but Justin Verlander wasn't much better as they each gave up 5 runs, resulting in it being a battle of the bullpens. I have a sinking feeling that Nola is at the end of his rope for the year. Still I was hoping for the Phillies to get at least one win in Houston to start the series.

Now it's on to game two tonight with Zack Wheeler on the hill... if the Phillies can win tonight, and that is a huge if, it will mean Citizens Bank Park will be rocking on Monday night.

The legendary Jerry Lee Lewis passed away, and sure he made some questionable choices that hampered his career, but you cannot deny his impact on Rock N Roll.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Difficult Challenge Combo #3, Biceps Shape Focus Combo and Difficult Challenge Combo #1 for 34 minutes. I'm guessing when I woke up late a few weeks ago, that 20 minute workout really change the rotation of exercises.

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 10/13 to 10/29/22

• Punches Thrown: 9108
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 3804.05 kcal
  
• Sophie's Champion Progress: 72% (36 out of 50 hours) 
• King EX Fight Progress: 97%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days:687
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 845
  

I went on a once-in-a-lifetime vacation. Never again.

My grandfather has the heart of a lion and a lifetime ban from the National Zoo.

Song of the Day: Baby One More Time by Britney Spears

Finished writing the TNA short story commission and now work will begin on the Until Dawn short story commission... just need to find a transcript of all possible dialog from before Jessica gets ripped through the door by a Wendigo

For tonight's stream we're leading off with Dragon Ball: The Breakers, and we'll see where we go from there.

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

So I have to level a crafting skill in FFXIV... UGH!

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream was very productive as it related to clearing out side quests in Final Fantasy XIV in areas related to Shadowbringers, as I knocked out everything possible in two major areas. One can forget that all the maps for Shadowbringers were huge and there was a lot of ground to cover, since it was basically supposed to be a mirrored version in some regard to what players experience prior to that point in the game.

Of course there is one quest that requires a Crafting Skill to even access, which meant I finally had an 'excuse' to resume leveling both Carpentry and Botany, because I know there are similar quests at level 90 in the Endwalker related areas that were added to the game. 

At least going forward I can split the stream into side questing for a large portion and added crafting leveling on the back end. It won't be thrilling, but hey, we'll get it done. If I focus on crafting bulk items, I should be able to level up carpentry pretty quick, as I did get up to level 34 (with a bit done off stream)

Twitch Clips

• We survey the area... and defeat gremlins
• This is Philly! 
• It's a big one!
  

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

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #2, Block Combo and Difficulty Challenge Combo #2 for 31 minutes.

Work was meh yesterday, but at least one assignment that involved interviewing some of the biggest collection of jerks possible is done with. Hopefully we can end the work week on a high note.

Not to brag, but I defeated our local chess champion in less than five moves. Finally my high school karate lessons came to some use.

I hate Russian dolls. They're so full of themselves.

Song of the Day: Am I wrong by Nico & Vinz  

The World Series begins tonight, and the way I figure, the Phillies have to win in six games or less, because the Astros have much more depth if it were to go seven. 

Got the intro part written for the TNA short story that was commissioned earlier this week, took a while to figure out the best way to write it, and I have another commission request in the queue for a short story based on Until Dawn and one of the more hilarious moments of that game.

Speaking of which for tonight's stream we're playing the back half of Until Dawn, chapters 6 through 10 to finish the game for this year.

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

So Close To Dropping A Nuke in Fallout 76... and yet so far!

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Fallout 76 was really productive as I was nearly completely focused on the main story quests from the game's original release... and we picked up a few achievements along the way as a result. Unfortunately... the final quest, called 'I Am Become Death' which involves launching a nuke is a place filled with enemy robots and turrets, and I can't imagine soloing it based on what gear I had on hand. The guides gave no indication of how many enemies there are... because they respawn. It's no wonder less than 6% of players have accomplished it.

Really liked the Halloween event, with hunting down Spooky Scorched and 'Trick or Treating' at other people's camps. It made for a nice chill night at times.

Big thanks to Iceman for being apart of the fun as he helped get one of the big quests I completed finished. By the way folks on November 7th over at twitch.tv/iceman7667!, Iceman is planning to do his annual stream of Dead Space in honor of one of his favorite family members. Not sure what time, but I'll try to remind everyone of it the day before!

Fallout 76 Achievements

• Bunker Buster: Complete "Bunker Buster"
• One of Us: Complete "One of Us"
• Officer on Deck: Complete "Officer on Deck"

Twitch Clips

• Big Explosions!
• There is no wall....
• Can they open doors? 
  

For the raid we dropped in on BestiBunni as they were playing Overwatch 2 over at twitch.tv/bestibunni!

Work was rough yesterday, the people I was trying to interview were a bunch of spoiled assholes, and I have no problem saying it. Hopefully today will be a better day. Thing is, I see the assignment I'm starting on and... it doesn't look good.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Swap Back COmbo, Intermediate Combo #2 and Hip oShape Focus Comco for 31 minutes.

The Phillies announced Aaron Nola will start game one of the World Series against he Astros with Zack Wheeler getting the extra day of rest to pitch game two.

I'm no fan of WIP (94.1 FM), one of the two Sports Talk radio stations here in the Philadelphia area... but the stupidity of having Joe DeCamara being the replacement of Angelo Cataldi is just iditoic. One of the reasons why DeCamara was dumped by The Fantatic (97.5 FM) was because he was incredibly smug and a whiner. But to be honest, The Fantatic has made some incredibly stupid decisions when it came to its own Morning and Afternoon shows over the past two years.

I put my root beer into a square glass. Now it's just beer.

They told me a mask was enough to get into the supermarket. They lied, everybody else was also wearing pants.

Song of the Day: Reality by Lost Frequencies (radio edit)

For tonight's stream, we're playing Final Fantasy XIV and will be focused on clearing out the Side Quests in areas related to the Shadowbingers Expansion. I hope to clear out two full areas tonight.

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

More Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed!

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed was pretty awesome, as we got in on some really good teams which meant a bunch of Ghosts were caught. We did have one weird instance where an entire match happen with no ghost at all popping up, which lead to the game crashing... and meant I got screwed out of the Mycophile achievement, which I did earn out do by collecting all of the spores molds and fungus in a match.

What's funny is that when we loaded back in I had a bunch of achievements popped in rapid succession which was really cool. Now there was one match where I ran into a level 100 player who just was going to town on everyone. Guess a max level ghost player is damn near impossible to deal with, but it was hilarious.

Because of Halloween, we'll feature Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed on Monday of next week! Which means the next Dragon Ball FighterZ stream will be on Tuesday of next week.

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Achievements

• Reckless: Do 100,000 Dollars of Property damage in one Job
• Pesky Jerks: Destroy 100 Minions
• I collect Spores, Molds, and Fungi: Collect 500 Spores, Molds, and Fungi
• Fragile Panes: Destroy 150 Panes of Glass
• Liability: Do 1,000,000 Dollars of Career Property Damage
• Stunner: Stun a Ghost with your PKE Blast 25 Times
• Cultured: Complete a Job at each location
  

Twitch Clips

• Trapping the ghost
• Watching people getting knocked backed by the rift 
• Achievement: Cultured: Complete a Job at each location
  

 Huge thanks to BestiBunni for choosing to subscribe to my Twitch channel! It is greatly appreciated!

Big thanks to Redneck_23 for the raid following their stream of American Truck Simulator over at twitch.tv/redneck_23! 

For the raid we dropped in on PowerThumbz who was playing Dead by Daylight over at twitch.tv/powerthumbz!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Uppercut Combo #1, Advanced Combo #1 and Beginner Combo #2 for 34 minutes. I think this was the first time I've seen this combination of exercises for a session.

I will never understand why manslaughter is illegal. Men should be able to laugh at whatever they want.

What did the green grape say to the purple grape? "Breathe, damn it! Breathe!"

Song of the Day: Who Can It Be Now by Men At Work

Picked up another commission request this time for a short story based around Total Nonstop Action Wrestling. Should be interesting trying to track something down to get an idea of story line references for a time period where the Beautiful People and AJ Styles were both in the promotion.

The new Junkerstein: Revenge of the Bride event in Overwatch is a real blast on it's standard difficulty, once you know what's coming it's easy to prep for it. Also love how it makes use of the Halloween skins that were featured in previous years' events. Cleared it as all four characters (Ashe, Kiriko, Soujourn and Junker Queen), including on Hard and Expert.

Work was... meh yesterday, started off on a good note but things fell flat when I had the assignment switch. Still it kind of looks like today may be a real positive today with what I'm starting on.

For tonight's stream we're resuming my quest to do the main story quests in Fallout 76! Not sure if it'll be original story or Wasterlander related, but we'll get somethings done!

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

The First Story Arc of Dragon Ball FighterZ Is Done!

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Dragon Ball FighterZ certainly felt long as hell because of how long it takes for things to load, I mean seriously, Arc System Works really did a bad job overall in making it seamless of getting from one thing to another. After all souldn't the match up screen actually be loading in the actual fight like, I don't know... EVERY OTHER FIGHTING GAME RELEASED SINCE 1996!

Anyway, we focused on the Super Warrior Arc and I'm surprised that it wasn't until I started seeing enemies at level 20 that the A.I. would start giving me a challenge, so it was actually cool to have a challenge. The mystery of Android 21 certainly does involve playing the other two arcs to get the whole picture because there are a lot of questions, not to mention seeing how something fall into place.

That said, I did managed to unlock a couple of achievements not associated with the story mode, and I'm rather surprised at how few people have bother with the Tournament mode and Arena modes. Guess everyone is obsessed with 'tanked' matches, so I'll happily pad my bragging list with things that are obvious for folks to do. Managed to get to 10 arena matches with six being done off stream, and I need to somehow to 10 more to get another achievement. 

Dragon Ball FighterZ Achievements

• Link Level 20: Story - Raise Link Level to 20.
• I am Goku, the Legendary Super Saiyan!: Story - Complete the Super Warrior Arc.
• Ladies and Gents, We Have a Winner!: Tournament - Emerge as champion.
• Arena Enthusiast: Arena Match - Play a match.
• Arena Expert: Arena Match - Play 10 matches.
  

Twitch Clips

• Piccolo can see why Bulma picked Vegeta
• Defeating Android 21 
• It's In the Mail
  

Big thank you to Kalenal for the raid during the stream last night, as they were playing Trials of Mana over at twitch.tv/Kalenal! 

For our raid we dropped in on BestiBunni who was playing Magic: The Gathering over at twitch.tv/bestibunni! 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Weavomg Combo #2, Waist Shape Focus Combo and Hook Combo #1 for 28 minutes.

Where do mansplainers get their water? From a well, actually.

Why are social media influencers afraid when they go to the woods alone at night? They're constantly being followed.

Song of the Day: Revenge by XXXTENTACION

Finished the recent commission request for a WWE short story featuring what became two members of the Damage Control stable at SummerSlam back in August.

Already dreading work today because I saw the assignment I'm on is one where I don't thrive at. Ugh.

For tonight's stream we're playing Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed just for fun, as I already knocked out the story stuff off-stream because it does progress depending in regards to how many matches you play and your overall level.

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