Time-Lapsed And Vaccinated

Good afternoon everybody 

Last night's stream featured Life is Strange Episode 4, and we 100% completed it, finding all the optional photos along the way with the help of the list of achievements. Considering how many were diamond achievements, I doubt I would have come across them... but then again I have played Life is Strange before, and maybe I should have checked my Steam achievements list before writing this. Ah well.

Anyway, Episode 4 certainly goes out of it's way to label Nathan Prescott as the big bad of the game, with how everything revolves around him, from the conversation with Frank Bowers, to how the Prescott family e just something everyone wants to go away going back 100 years, to the 'dark room' pretty much being in a barn in the middle of nowhere. But the twist of Mr. Jefferson being the true villain both works and at the same time doesn't work.

And here's why it never worked for me: it's because Jefferson as a character always comes across as a creep, and this goes back to episode 1 when he is always pestering Max about submitting a photo for the everyday heroes contest to just happening to be talking to Kate before she attempts to jump off the dorm building in episode 2 to being all to chilled with what was happening at the Vortex Party at the end of episode 4. It just comes across as being way out of place to me.

I will admit I do like the fact that if you save Kate in episode 2 you get to visit her in the hospital in episode 4, which also having the benefit of her helping out when Max and Chloe sneak into the boys dorm. Actually if you play things 'right', you can end up giving Max one hell of a large social circle. 

After the stream we sent everyone over to Kalenal (twitch.tv/kalenal) who was doing a bonus stream this week featuring Final Fantasy XIV! Kal also announced that she won't be streaming tonight or this upcoming Monday, but will be back on Wendesday (September 8th)

Twitch Clip Links

• I believe It Max....
• Bacon Pancakes
• It's What You Get At Starbucks... 
• Bird Don't Make Me Flip You
• Nathan Is The Devil... CONFIRMED! 
• Totally Trespassing 
• Good Evening Doctor Hoo
• We found Rachel Amber
• Save Alyssa... Again!
• Double Achievement In Episode 4!
• Max's Name Is On The List!
• Warning Victoria About The Dark Room
  

 Life is Strange Achievements

1. Ambient: Take optional photo #1 in Episode 4: Dark Room
2. Time-Lapsed: Take optional photo #2 in Episode 4: Dark Room
3. Balance: Take optional photo #3 in Episode 4: Dark Room
4. Rangefinder: Take optional photo #4 in Episode 4: Dark Room
5. Gamma Value: Take optional photo #5 in Episode 4: Dark Room
6. Dioptric Power: Take optional photo #6 in Episode 4: Dark Room
7. Fisheye: Take optional photo #7 in Episode 4: Dark Room
8. Manually Exposed: Take optional photo #8 in Episode 4: Dark Room
9. Tripod: Take optional photo #10 in Episode 4: Dark Room
10. Shutterbug: Take all optional photos in Episode 4: Dark Room
11. Slideshow: Take optional photo #9 in Episode 4: Dark Room
12. Dark Room: Finish Episode 4: Dark Room
    

Went and got COVID-19 vaccination shot number two at the closest CVS Pharmacy yesterday, granted, making sure they had vaccination shots on hand was frustrating, considering on Thursday I walked over there and they said they had none. Once I had confirmation they had shots, I rushed over to get mine done. Now opposed to the first shot, they gave me a little 'stop watch' like item to track the 15 minutes they wanted folks to wait for observation after getting the shot... but if they were observing those they have vaccinated, shouldn't a member of the staff actually been... observing? Because they weren't.

Was able to add ,hack//Outbreak to the collection yesterday, which means the quest to find and add .hack//Quarantine begins. That is easily one of the rarest games to find for the PlayStation 2 because the the original .hack series of games didn't really do to well because of the episodic nature of them. In short they were ahead of their time in a big way.

Also added an alternate PlayStation 2 (Slim version) that has a MODBO Chip within it to make it region free. While obviously most of my PS2 library consists of North American released games, there are still some things that were exclusive to Japan and Europe that I would like to track down, and having the hardware on hand to play them is a step in the right direction. However a test run of this PS2 didn't exactly present promising results as I think the laser to read the discs may have gotten misaligned by how the United States Postal Service treated the package. So that would be possibly 2 PS2s broken in transit by the USPS...

Overwatch Competitive Season 30 (Tank)

1. D.va - Busan - Downtown - 14:02 - Loss - 2-1
2. D.va - Oasis - 18:04 - Win - 2-1
3. D.va - Blizzard World - 19:03 - Win - 3-2

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 28 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 423 kcal. The exercises for this sessions was Hook Combo #2, Front Back Step Combo and Beginner Combo #1. Progress for Hiro's Contender is that we're at 15 hours out of 30. Weighted in yesterday at about 248 lb from what I could tell, it was clearly below the 250 lb mark

We've added Extreme Ghostbustes: The Ultimate Invasion to the collection, this was released on the original PlayStation but it was a PAL/Europe Exlcusive, and is a game that can make use of the PSOne's light-gun... which is something I don't have.

For tonight's stream we'll be will wrap up Life is Strange, with Episode 5: Polarized, and I'm really debating wanting to go for all the photo opportunities on stream or note because of how episode 5 relies a lot on a half-ass stealth game play. Since I know I can just go after the collectables after the fact, it's no pressure to 100% complete it.

Anyway, that's what we're doing and if it doesn't take me 4 hours to get through the final episode, we may do something else!

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