Saturday, April 10, 2021

Today's Notes 4/10/21

 Good afternoon everybody,

I've been up since 7 AM this morning because my local utility (PSE&G) was taking care of the next step of upgrading gas lines in the the area. Thankfully I live on a corner, and a good chunk of it was done yesterday morning, so all they had to do was replace the interior gas meter with an exterior version and other related matters pertaining to the gas lines (check the water heater, stove, etc.)

Last night's stream was all over the place as it was a PlayStation 3 stream, which began with The Simpsons Arcade game, which got interrupted because of the PlayStation Network servers for the PS3 is not exactly maintained as well as it use to, and it was a bugger experience 5+ years ago. Still did the entire game as Homer which was a lot of fun.

We then went to WWE SmackDown vs RAW 2009, which had some limited Downloadable Content, but also used passwords to unlock many characters and alternate attires. It took a while to remember how to play it as the controls have changed a lot over the years. Matches played were Hardcore Holly vs The Boogeyman, Tommy Dreamer vs Tazz, Cryme Tyme vs The Brothers of Destruction, Victoria vs Beth Phoenix and a Royal Rumble match. This part of the stream did lead to people asking me if I was going to watch WrestleMania, which I found funny

Next we played Soulcalibur IV, doing an arcade run as Siegfried first to try and remember how to play it, leaving everything on default settings. Surprisingly we managed to get through the arcade mode with a fair amount of difficulty. Also went through the story mode for Hildegard von Krone, and because of the practice using Siefgried we had no problems clearing that. Now if only I could figure out how to do the super moves and so forth.

Finally we ended last night's stream with Star Trek D.A.C. (which stands for Deathmatch, Assault, Conquest), which was a pointless little tie in with the 2009 Star Trek film, but outside of the Constitution Class ship, there is very little involving Star Trek with this game. We did try a few different mods, but the game much like the movie it was inspired by, is a soulless and is good only as filler.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was a solid long effort, and not even counting bonus sets I did. This wasn't done till after I had lunch. Something I did discover in the Free Training section, the thorough stretching selection has a ton of stretches normally not done as apart of a daily workout (if you have that daily routine. Also stepped on a scale and we dropped the little bit of weight we gained recently so that a positive.

This week's Real Ghostbuster episode was Take-Two, perhaps best known for indicating that the Ghostbusters films are based on events that took place off screen in regards to the adventures taking place in the animated series. In fact, there's another episode that I think is called Citizen Ghost which further expands on that. Also Take Two is the one episode where I really dislike Ray as a character to the point I would want to smack him upside his head.

Tonight's stream will focus on finishing up Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma, there are 12 achievements left in the game so we should be able to knock out everything since there are no puzzle rooms left (near as I can tell) 

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


Overwatch 2 and other notes

We were joined by PandaSweet for many matches in Overwatch this evening, and I branched out a little playing as a wider variety of character...