Today's Notes 5/21/21: Star Trek Online, WWF WrestleMania The Arcade Game & More!

Good afternoon everybody, 

Well work continues to be a bit on the slow side as we chug along here in late May, I do find it funny that one of the monitors called the other day saying to make sure you put my schedule in for next week otherwise I won't work.... but considering there has been only a limited number of people working during the day and no one has worked in the evenings at all this week, that was probably the worst phrasing they could have used. 

Last night's stream kicked off with Star Trek Online, with the usual focus on endeavors. There were no noticeable glitches, but there was a big reminder of how poorly implemented the endeavors quests are when one is focused on dealing with a certain class of ship for a particular enemy, namely Hur'q frigates. Not only are the options to chase those down are limited to one main line Task Force Operation (Swarm) and a trio of Gamma Quadrant mini-ops that no one actually plays, but there isn't a clear indication of which ships count as frigates for the Hur'q. But we have a couple of clips of things that happened during this part of the stream, which I'll list now:  

Twitch Clip: Well... that's science?

Twitch Clip: Jump out the side, down below, guns blazing!

Anyway, after Star Trek Online, I randomly pulled WWF WrestleMania The Arcade game off of the shelf for the second half of the stream, going down the path of Intercontinental Champion, and boy did that take some effort to get through. For those who don't know, in this game, the level of difficulty increases by the number of opponents you have to deal with, so it starts with a 4 one-on-one matches, then 2 two-on-one matches and finally 1 three-on-one match, while on the WWF Championship path, it's 4 two-on-one matches, 2 three-on-one matches and then a three-on-one gauntlet where each person you defeat is defeated by another until all 8 in game characters are defeated. So who did we end up clearing the IC path with? Bam Bam Bigelow.... of course I'd get through it using a fellow New Jersey native. And of course we got some clips of that.

Twitch Clip: Tombstone!

Twitch Clip: Banzai!

Twitch Clip: Bam Bam!

On a whim during the stream, I also checked out one of the old PlayStation magazine demo discs I happen to still have, and checked out a couple of trailers, which were for Resident Evil Online, which I believe became Resident Evil Outbreak, and Resident Evil: Dead Aim, a game that required the use of a light-gun. Since I have a few of these discs, I could easily do a stream just going through them and seeing what trailers were on each one.

Off-Stream, the grind continued with Mortal Kombat 11, as I picked up two achievements and got a little closer on a few others. I can however safely say there will be three achievements in this game I will not get, and they are related to going through the tutorial. I'll never understand why fighting games tie achievements to the tutorials, other than maybe wanting to make some programmer feel good about themselves for coming up with an in-game mechanic than no one will use! Anyway, here are the the achievements I accomplished last night.

1. Psychopath: Perform 100 BRUTALITIES
2. Skull Kabob: Impale a head in the warrior shrine
   

On a side note, I'm mostly using Cassie Cage to get these done, because I have one of her fatalities memorized (down-down-foward-B)

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Session was 34 minutes, pretty much a standard stamina based workout. We're up to 51 out of 100 for the Martina's Best Friend achievement, so there is no real rhyme or reason to how those points are given. My weight has been hovering around the 248-251 pound range, so slight increases and decreases day to day. Now while I didn't throw as many punches as last week, we did burn a few more calories... granted this is thanks to work being real slow as of late, which allowed for an extra extended session. 

I made up my mind, for tonight's stream we're going to do the big push on finishing up Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, since i have just a couple of side-quests and two big missions left to go through (Virmire and Illos) so that shouldn't take me too long to tackle.

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