Today's Notes 8/1/21: Ghosts, Gangsters and Pokemon

Good afternoon everybody,

Last night's stream saw us continue Pokemon: Let's Go Eevee, as we resumed the adventure in Lavender Town, entering the Pokemon Tower... and then being promptly booted from it because we needed a key item to continue that story. So it was off to Celadon City to deal directly with Team Rocket at their hidden base, which in it's own way is a bit of a gauntlet. Now there were a few things i liked about this, namely the fact Eevee gets their own little moment when they have to go through a vent to retrieve the lift key... not to mention they also get to scare off Jessie & James! The battle against Giovanni was a walk in the park for the most part.

Along the way we also tackled the Celadon City gym, which is a real maze to get through, and unlike the Pokemon Blue & Yellow form back in the 90s, navigating it was a lot easier because of the wide screen perspective. Erika was no real challenge, granted I have only one fire-type in my lineup, but still, my squad ranges in the low 40s down to the mid 30s.... with the exception of Raichu... now I had a level 36 Raichu but I traded it for its Aloha counterpart, so it's playing catch-up.  

Anyway, once things in Celadon City were done it was back to Lavender Town to tackle the Pokemon Tower, and the battles within it were pretty one sided. I did like the animation regarding the Cubone and it's mother, plus the battles against Jessie & James at re now pretty much straight forward.

We have several clips from last night's stream, which I'll now list

• Just Chatting: Eventually We'll Have To Find Out 
• Pokemon Let's Go Eevee: On The Road Again
• Pokemon Let's Go Eevee: I'll Show You My Pokemon... In Battle! 
• Pokemon Let's Go Eevee: We're All Within A Game Man! 
• Pokemon Let's Go Eevee: Earning That Rainbow Badge 
• Pokemon Let's Go Eevee: I Do Know You're Team Rocket 
• Pokemon Let's Go Eevee: Blastoise To Deal With Rhyhorn
• Pokemon Let's Go Eevee: Eevee Vs Poliwrath 
  
• Pokemon Let's Go Eevee: Playing With Eevee
• Pokemon Let's Go Eevee: The Haunter Is Gonna Regret That 
  

It's Sunday, which means a new recap video featuring everything we did last week on Twitch, which includes Overwatch, Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise, Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep, Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection, Tom Clancy's The Division, Lupin The 3rd: Treasure Of the Sorcerer King, Star Trek Online, Streets of Rage 4 & Pokemon Let's Go Eevee, plus there are couple of Just Chatting clips included as well!  

We added two games to the collection yesterday.. The first is Pitfall 3D: Beyond The Jungle for the PlayStation, and the second was Aeon Flux for the PlayStation 2. The Aeon Flux game is based more on the movie starring Charlize Theron... and the game's manual does indicate that she supplies voice acting for Aeon in the game... which makes me wonder just how bad is her voice acting, because their is a huge fucking difference between on-screen acting and voice acting, with voice acting you have to use your voice to actually convey everything the character is saying with actual emotion, it's not about doing a 'silly voice', it's about putting the mark on what's being said. I don't have that concern with Pitfall 3D... because Pitfall Harry is voiced by Bruce Campbell, someone who actually knows what the hell he's doing when he's doing voice work.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout was streamed on Twitch with the session lasting 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 534 kcal. I didn't even look to see what the updated progress was on for the Karen's Best Friend achievement... because it was more of a spur of the moment decision to stream. Didn't really feel like doing extra as I wanted to tackle a few things right after lunch. But we do have clips for the session.

• Fitness Boxing 2 8/1/21: Clip 1
• Fitness Boxing 2 8/1/21: Clip 2 
• Fitness Boxing 2 8/1/21: Clip 3
  

For tonight's stream, we're of course going to be playing Overwatch and we'll get started around 7 PM Eastern...

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