Today's Notes 2/25/21

Good morning everybody,

Last night's stream of ESPN Major League Baseball opened with a lot of audio adjustments as we dealt with not being able to monitor the audio from my PS2 through OBS, the audio doubling creating an echo effect and other silliness that made the first 30 minutes of the stream pretty damn awkward. We did win 4 out of 5 games, finishing up the series against he Braves by splitting the last 2 games of the 4 game series we started last week and then sweeping the Mets in a 3-game set. 

The big positive as that I realized I could use OBS to project what the Elgato was capturing on my main monitor so I could see things in the correct aspect ratio. This will go a long way in making sure games from the PS1 and PS2 era are presented and played in the way they were originally intended. Of course this lead to me having to adjust to playing ESPN Major League Baseball with a 4:3 ratio as oppsed to the stretched out 16:9.

Did have some unintentional comedy when I went looking at the in-game scouting reports, and man was the game rather cruel to one Chase Utley in what was said as you can see in the screen shot. Now yes Utley made his Major League Debut in 2003 and there were a lot of questions about how well he'd do as an every-day second-baseman, but the scouting report basically saying he had no usefulness is just mean. 

Yesterday on the official Ghostbusters YouTube channel they premiered the Extreme Ghostbusters episode True Face of The Monster, which actually touched on racism and general discrimination. Keep in mind for a syndicated animated series in the late 1990s, having an episode even mentioning such topics wasn't exactly common. Combine that with the legend of the golem from Jewish forklore, and you got a very underrated episode. That said, it was pretty clear which actors from the regular cast were pulling double-duty in doing multiple roles which exposed how limited Alfonso Ribeiro was as a voice actor.

Had a solid Fitness Boxing 2 session today, even though Janice's voice is annoying as hell. Lasting 35 minutes (43 if I count the stretching), we threw 1,292 punches. We unlocked new milestone achievements today as well. The first being Light Heavyweight Puncher Lv. 1 which was to have a total punch count of 100,000, and the other was 'Janice's Trainee' which was to perform 10 daily works outs using Janice as the trainer (this also counts stretching)... which means to move on from using her as the trainer I'll have to do Free Exercises (no dailys) 10 times... and with my approach to my routines , that could end up taking a few weeks. 

Tonight's stream will focus on Star Trek Online, we'll bounce from character to character, doing random stuff and so forth, so no real direction this week, just having fun with what's there.

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