Sunday, August 15, 2021

Today's Notes 8/15/21: Weirdness After The Stream

Good morning everybody,

Last night got real interesting after the stream when a car went speeding around the corner in front of my house, hit the curb that leads to the area behind my home, hit my fence then ricocheted off to hit another fence of another person's home on the opposite side, then a tree resulting in their car flipping over. Thankfully, the driver survived and since it happened super late there was no one out on the sidewalks. Got the case number from the police officer that arrived on the scene... but fuck me, this was not something anyone should have to deal with.

Anyway last night's stream of Pokemon: Let's Go Eevee certainly saw a lot of roaming around as we battle away along route 15 to get to Fuchsia City, but we didn't tackle the join straight away, instead we knocked out one side quest that lead to Eevee learning another special move so it can move heavy objects and then went to tackle 'Pokemon Road', which if memory serves me right was a bike only path in Pokemon Blue, Red & Yellow back in the 90s. We caught a variety of Pokemon, Rapidash being the biggest find before finally taking of the Fuchsia City gym, which were all poison type Pokemon, which meant the use antidotes was certainly required, but none of my Pokemon were knocked out.


Afterward, found the special technique that allows Eevee to basically surf on the water to finally start capturing some water Pokemon, but then I remembered the Power Plant, and after looking it up because I couldn't remember how to get there, went to capture Zapados. The Power Plant is filled with electric type Pokemon and does have the potential to battle wild Electrodes since they look like Pokeballs. But since we were going after Zapados, that was certainly a battle against wild Pokemon, and a legendary one at that. Eevee weakened it before I swapped them out for Charizard who barely hanged on to deliver the final blows.

Capturing Zapados proved to be quite difficulty, because aiming with the joycons is virtually impossible, even using Ultra Balls, Zapados had a red ring meaning capturing it would be a challenge... so we went through about maybe 70 Ultra Balls and probably 50 regular Pokeballs + a bunch of berries before finally capturing it. I'm guessing the level of difficulty was justified because Zapados apparently does not flee, it's just a matter of sticking with it to capture it


So with all this done, I now have a better understanding of what it's going to take to capture Moltres and Articuno, and my attention will turn to the Seafoam Islands next week with capturing as many water type Pokemon I can find and battling my way to the next 

Of course we got clips for you to enjoy from the stream!

 And since it's Sunday that means we have a highlight reel of all the stuff we did on Twitch this week, which includes Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise, Overwatch, Chrono Cross, Metal Slug 3, Smite, Tom Clancy's The Division, Star Trek Online, Triple Play 98, WWE Crush Hour, Street Fighter V and Pokemon Let's Go Eevee, plus some of the Just Chatting segments!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 569 kcal. The exercises for today were Double Combo #2, the Left Right Step Combo and Advance Combo #2. Kind of odd that all the missed movements I had occurred out of the South Paw stance. We're up to 88 out of 100 for the Karen's Best Friend Achievement, which I should accomplish I think by Thursday.

Also, Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was streamed, so we got some clips of it too!

I joked about it, but I was successful in tracking down a copy of South Park's Chef's Luv Shack for the PlayStation, meaning I now have the trilogy of PSone South Park Games (South Park & South Park Rally). With all three games in my collection, I figure this Friday night (August 20th) we'll have a South Park night featuring all three games. If anything I can joke about about how these are the games that Matt Stone and Trey Parker want people to forget existed.

With the start of a new week means we're playing Overwatch tonight, I don't think we'll have Mayhem as an option tonight since I know it was in the arcade mode list on Saturday, so this will most likely be a quick play only stream tonight.

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


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