Today's Notes 12/7/20

Good afternoon everybody,

We actually got up before 9 AM, so we ended up doing a bonus stream, leading off with Fitness Boxing and we got in a good set. Certainly went all out as always, and even though I had a few questionable misses, but everything felt good. I did go step on the scale today and my weight is around the usual 263-265 pound range (119-120 kilograms). As long as it's not going back up, I'm happy, after all, it was six months ago when I was weight 290! We followed up the Fitness Boxing session with Animal Crossing New Horizons, and I'm seriously wondering what someone was thinking with the pun for the Pond Smelt being 'Whoever Smelt It, Dealt It'... needless to say that was a silly thing to see this morning. We closed out the bonus stream Super Mario Bros 35, finishing with a top 5 finish, and I think I could've finished higher if I didn't jump and spammed using coins to get items... oh well.

Last night's stream of Overwatch certainly was fun and frustrating, because of how cowardly some people are, with how they won't push onto a capture point or move past a choke. It got to the point myself and PandaSweet who joined in for several matches decided to queue up deliberately to place as damage heroes... which lead to an incredibly cool moment of where I got the 'High Noon' achievement, which is getting four eliminations with one use of McCree's 'High Noon' ultimate... okay sure I got killed doing it, but it counts and ended up being a play of the game! 

Tonight's stream will see us going back to Kingdom Heart Re:Chain of Memories, with things picking up as we hit Hallow Bastion, which is the ninth floor of the thirteen within Castle Oblivion. I have thought about the plot of the game since last Tuesday, and the way I figure each floor is basically Sora digging through his memories to recall Namine.... which doesn't make sense, because if I remember what happened in Kingdom Hearts II from 15 years ago, Namine is just a part of Kairi and they merge back together. That is of course the trouble of trying to piece together the plot with the franchise whose plot is filled with so many plot holes.

At the time I'm writing this I finished listening to Doctor Who; The Land of the Dead, which is the fourth of the monthly main range Doctor Who audio drama done by Big Finished, listened to the 3/4ths of it last night before falling asleep. This story sees The Doctor (Peter Davison) and Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) arriving in Alaska, where the Tardis detects an unusual source of energy and the adventure leads to them encountering a strange house, monstrous creatures and simmering tensions involving mysterious circumstances. One of the strangest aspects of this story is the character Monica Lewis (Lucy Campbell) who basically acts as a 'companion by proxy' as she spends the most time working with The Doctor, giving quick witted responses to much of The Doctor's statements. 

And on that bombshell, we'll wrap this up here, we'll see ya later tonight at probably 9:30 PM EST over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!