Saturday, December 26, 2020

Today's Notes 12/26/20

Good afternoon everybody,

Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas, as now we prepare to end 2020, a year most of us will want to forget! 

Last night's stream was a little different, as we played The 39 Steps. Yes there is a sort of a video game adaptation of the classic book, which is basically a visual novel with some light game play stuff here and there, in terms of finding objects and interacting with a few sequences, but it really is just the story. It made for a nice Christmas night stream, as it prepared me for tonight's stream. 

You see tonight we are starting up a huge visual novel series, Zero Escape: The Nonary Games, which as DaemonsW0lf puts is just anime saw, as it sees a bunch of people put together in a deadly game. While a lot of it is voice acted, a lot of it is not. And it does have puzzles and different sequences that provide a variety of game play elements, so it will as if we are returning to the Phoenix Wright games from a year ago. Except this time I'm not going to try and blitz my way through them, because unlike the Phoenix Wright games, the Zero Escape games have multiple endings that needs to reached before the true ending is revealed.  

Which of course means, no Twitch Sings tonight as out final Twitch Sings stream ever will be on Thursday Night, December 31st... we'll be singing out the new year, which means Star Trek Online is either moving up to Wednesday or back to Friday for this week. Not completely sure which as of yet.

I have decided to stop loading up the original Fitness Boxing, and to focus mainly on Fitness Boxing 2, mostly the workouts in Fitness Boxing 2 are actually exceeding what I was doing in the first game on a daily basis. Today's session did feature the No Mercy set, which never stops being amusing with how mean Lin can get. Anyway, from the Orthodox stance I had some mistimed Jabs, Left Uppercuts and Right hooks, while from the Southpaw stance only right ducks were a little off. I do wish the developers used a different shade of yellow for uppercuts because on combo sequences it's hard to see the indicator because the rhythm bar is also yellow... or maybe they should've used a different color for the rhythm bar, like purple or something.

Did do some Overwatch things as well, and man it was amusing to see how people don't know how to counter Moira on Nintendo Switch side of the coin. The fact that I can I hide behind the payload and just move from left to right, peaking out to attack with no one from the other team coming to counter me just blew my mind. I wasn't using her fade ability, I was literally moving from side to side. I do wish the Switch version of Overwatch had some replay recording dynamics for plays of the game like the PC and Xbox One versions do. Oh well.

And on that bombshell we'll wrap things up here, see ya later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!


Video Commentary: My Annoyance Regarding Star Trek Online's Level Gated Content

If you've played Star Trek Online prior to the start of the addition of Star Trek Discovery content, you remember when Spectres, Lost Dominion and Cold War were apart of the journey your character goes on, which lays ground work for things you later experience.... but you can't plat those missions unless your character is level 65... and so I go on a rant about that for this week's commentary.



Overwatch 2 and other notes

We were joined by PandaSweet for many matches in Overwatch this evening, and I branched out a little playing as a wider variety of character...