Today's Notes 7/8/21: We Found Things On The Piers!

Good morning everybody,

Last night's stream started with Power Rangers: Battle for the grid, as I took my (at the moment) preferred trio of Ryu, Chun-Li and Lauren into battle, for a solid hour, where we had wins and losses. What surprised me the most is that two of my wins came from people choosing to leave the match, and yeah, you don't quit against me, I'm not all that good, I just 'master' what I can do, which isn't all that much. Still we did push past Gold Tier I up into Platinum Tier V, where my overall rank was 1041 in the world (which says a lot about how small the player base is if i'm only 41 places out of being in the top 1000 that is displayed on the in-game leader boards). Also managed to put together a 40 hit combo, which is a personal best for me.

We did get any achievements during the Power Rangers portion of the stream, but we do have a handful of clips of some cool moments which I'll list next!

Twitch Clip: I thought I was dead to rights!

Twitch Clip: 40 Hit Combo! HADOKEN!

Twitch Clip: Come on... LET'S GO!

Now the majority of the stream was spent with Tom Clancy's The Division ans Iceman and I went into the West Piers took look for phone recordings, finding every single one (three required the use of a map). The Piers is a great place to roam around, but the enemy spawn-back rate is pretty damn high. Thankfully I had it turned down to World Tier I. Also I earned one achievement that was not related to the collectables.

1. Master Craftsman: Craft a High-end item.
2. Skillz: Equip 10 different Skill Mods.
   

Now there were a few instances of frame drops last night, which I believe is due to Comcast / Xfinity, which I'll have to look into and keep an eye one, but we also have a few clips from this portion of the stream!

Twitch Clip: Just stand there and fire!

Twitch Clip: Getting things done!

Twitch Clip: Great minds

Also off stream, went back to find two phone recordings I missed during the main game, so now every possible collectable has been found!

Had a set of high quality Phillips ear-buds and a wired PlayStation 4 controller arrive late last night (just before 10 PM). The reason for the ear buds is because as summer heats up, having the phones on becomes problematic with how hot it gets. Granted earbuds are not a great alternative because of the cord being short, but it's best I solution I could come across until the fall. 

Let me talk about the day gig for a moment, so let me express that I have long since come to loath, hate, despise and flat out dislike particular parts of this country based on the attitude the local residents when I'm trying to do my job .... there is a special place in hell for the state of Massachusetts folks 

You could tell I put in a lot of time with APBA Baseball for Windows yesterday as well, it's amazing at how random the results for every play is, and no lead every feels safe. I did make the 1909 season I'm playing harder than it needs to be by having 'maximum batters faced' limits for pitchers turned on, so it's gonna be interesting for me when my pitching staff starts wearing down.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout went 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 487 kcal. Struggled with doing left uppercuts from the orthodox stance today, as all 4 misses involved that particular punch. We did do a little extra so the total session was 43 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 655 kcal. We also reached 95% total game completion with the achievement we unlocked today.

1. Evan's Buddy: Perform 10 free exercises with Evan
   

Which means out attention now turns to the Evan's Buddy Achievement, and at the moment we're at 48 out of 100 for it. And if I'm right there are 10 more achievements in the game as well

For tonight's stream we'll lead off with Star Trek Online to get some endeavor quests done, then we'll switch over to test out some PlayStation 1 games. Not sure which ones exactly, but it'll be a variety night.

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