Today's Notes 7/29/21: Fighting In The Streets

Good morning everybody,

Last night's stream featured Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, which oddly enough is not listed on Twitch as a select able category.... which is really weird! Anyway we started by doing an arcade run of Street Fighter Alpha 2, my favorite of all the Capcom fighting games, and of course we've done it with Sakura, because she is my favorite character to use. If she's in a Capcom fighting game you cane bet your ass we're going to use her. There were a few interesting moments, such as my historic problems with dealing with Ken and always needing a handful of tries when facing Ryu.

Beyond that, we messed around with Street Fighter Alpha 3, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, Street Fighter III 2nd Impact, Super Street Fighter II: The New Challengers, Super Street Fighter II Turbo & the original Street Fighter. We even got in four online matches, winning 3 of them. All and all it was a good night with variety of the Capcom fighting games. 

Since were playing the 30th Anniversary Collection on the Xbox One, we earned a couple of achievements.

1. Find Your Match: Completed an Online Match.
2. Everything's Custom: Beat Street Fighter Alpha 2.

And of course we have some clips from last night as well.

• Street Fighter Alpha 2: Sakura vs Charlie (Custom Combo Finish) 
• Street Fighter Alpha 2: Sakua vs Ryu (Chased By Ryu's Hadoken) 
• Street Fighter Alpha 2 : Sakura vs Ryu 
• Street Fighter Alpha 3: Sakura vs Dhalsim (Online Match) 
• Street Fighter Alpha 3: Ken vs Cammy (Super Finish)
• Street Fighter Alpha 3: Sakura vs Zangief (Online Match) 
• Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Ryu vs Dudley (Online Match)
• Street Fighter III 3rd Strike: Chun Li vs Ken (Online Match) 
• Street Fighter III 2nd Impact: Elena vs Necro (Super Finish)
• Street Fighter III 2nd Impact: Ken vs Urien (Super Finish) 
• Street Fighter III 2nd Impact: Dudley vs Ibuki (Super Finish)
  

About half way into the stream we did switch over to Tom Clancy's The Division with Iceman, as we continued on doing post-game stuff, replaying missions on the Hard difficulty setting and messing around the piers. This is mostly to chase a couple of achievements and for sure, we're going to wrap up doing the missions on hard next week. Also here are some clips from that portion of the stream!

• The Division: That's not the only thing on my left 
• The Division: How Beefy Is The Turret?
  
• The Division: Did You Call For Back Up
  

Started work on a Space Jam related fan fic, this is a non-commission piece that will be on HF when it's done, the physical logistics of some things will be a bit questionable to say the least.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout lasted 31 minutes with the estimated calorie burn being 458 kcal, and we did do some extra free training, so the complete session was 43 minutes with the estimated calorie burn being 667 kcal. We did earn one achievement which lead to another one of Karen's attire options being unlocked.

1. Karen's Trainee: Perform 10 daily workouts with Karen

Other progress update is that we're up to 8 out of 10 for the Karen's Buddy achievement, which we should knock out tomorrow depending on how I'm feeling following the daily workout. We are also up to 98 out of 100 for the King Fit Fighter achievement. So we're two achievements away from 100% completing the game.

During the stream, I had a delivery, and we added physical editions of Mass Effect 3 (Xbox 360), Mass Effect Legendary Edition (Xbox One/Series) and Mass Effect Andromeda (Xbox One). Why would I add the physical copies of games I own digitally to my collection? Well mostly for collectors purposes.

There's a lot being said about things that happened behind the scenes as Activision Blizzard, and the question of if I should no longer feature Overwatch on stream has crossed my mind. But Overwatch is one of the few games I am willing to play online with others on stream... and I'll have to really think hard about what I would want to replace it with. Paladins and Smite are both strong nos as I'm concerned, and I really ave zero interest in other similar MOBA games.

Tonight's stream will of course lead off with Star Trek Online and we'll pair it up with something else, maybe we'll pick a single game to focus the second half of the stream on.

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