Good morning everybody,
Yesterday afternoon I went to the dentist, discovered I have some decay on one tooth, and they did some cleaning, basically gave areas around my gum a power wash because I had some major build up of something, I think they calculus. Anyway, long story short, I go back next Monday afternoon at 3 PM for another visit.
That said, there were some general observations of the dentist office I went to that bothered me, the biggest one being people who had scheduled appointments being told they had to re-schedule because the dentist they were supposed to see was not there. I know for a fact the dental office I went to has a 'confirm appointment by text message' system, so that means they should have sent a notice to those patients that their dentist was not going to be in. I mean that is just a common courtesy. Will be real interesting to see if that ends up happening to me next Monday.
Anyway for the stream last night we started up The Wolf Among Us, and it was not a blind play through as I have played the Steam version before, so this time we were playing The Xbox One version, which meant achievements. For those unaware, The Wolf Among Us is based on the Fables comic book series. Numerous refugees from the land of Fairy Tales made their way to New York City and just try to get by, and in the game, you play as Bigby Wolf... aka The Big Bad Wolf... who is the 'Sheriff ' who is tasked with the impossible task of trying to keep the peace and everyone in line. After responding to an apparent domestic disturbance, a head of a working girl is left on the doorstep of Bigby's apartment building and a mystery begins to figure out who killed the girl... but things become more complicated as the story goes along. It really is an excellent game that was developed and published by TellTale games before the company went belly up.
A very cool aspect of the game is how you can set Bigby to either be a 'gives no fucks' kind of guy, or a guy who is 'trying to do his job, but things just end up going wrong' king of guy. He has a good variety of responses and choices that can easily define him either way, and a good test of this is dealing with Snow White, where you can try to be brutally direct with her on certain plot point or try to be a bit more tactful. Hell, a major plot point is basically her over stepping her bounds where she tries to give Bigby an order to burn the tree of Aunty Greenleaf, and Bigby can choose to burn it, question the order or flat out refuse.
Now perhaps an under-stated part of the game is the reveal of Bloody Mary at the end of episode 3... because Bigby gets into a few fights, but you always get the sense he has the advantage, but when Bloody Mary is revealed, you get the feeling she is out of his league, particularly since Bigby is wounded at the start of episode 3
During the stream we had two big raids, one from LVStrikR who was playing Ghosts of Tsumshima over at twitch.tv/LVStrikR and the other raid was from Kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV Online over at twitch.tv/kalenal!
After the stream we sent the fun over to sw33ts_gaming who was playing Smite, she does quite a lot of team up gaming, so be sure to check their streams out over at twitch.tv/sw33ts_gaming!
The Wolf Among Us Achievements
- Welcome to Fabletown: Completed Chapter 1 of Episode 1.
- Wolf in Sheriff's Clothing: Completed Chapter 2 of Episode 1.
- The Long Goodbye: Completed Chapter 3 of Episode 1.
- The Frog or the Prince?: Completed Chapter 4 of Episode 1.
- Panic in the Parlours: Completed Chapter 5 of Episode 1.
- A Light Snowfall: Completed Episode 1: "Faith"
- Right to an Attorney: Completed Chapter 1 of Episode 2.
- Breaking Point: Completed Chapter 2 of Episode 2.
- Sisters: Completed Chapter 3 of Episode 2.
- Made Them Cry: Completed Chapter 4 of Episode 2.
- Can I Get a Fresh Set of Towels?: Completed Chapter 5 of Episode 2.
- No Respect for the Dead: Completed Episode 2: "Smoke and Mirrors"
- Promising Leads: Completed Chapter 1 of Episode 3.
- Belly Full of Stones: Completed Chapter 2 of Episode 3.
- What Big Eyes You Have: Completed Chapter 3 of Episode 3.
- Huff and Puff: Completed Chapter 4 of Episode 3.
- Severe Case of Lycanthropy: Completed Chapter 5 of Episode 3.
- Enchanted Land of NYC: Completed Episode 3: "A Crooked Mile"
Twitch Clip Links
- He Just Wants To Ax Me Something
- We were being civil about this
- I Didn't Do It!
- We Take It Easy On The Beast And He's Still A Jerk!
- Lots Of Bullets To The Face Going On Here
- This Tree Shall Not Be Burnt!
Did a little Star Trek Online gaming off stream yesterday morning, just a bit of Endeavor Questing. Now there was a pre-patch install this week as preparation for the new season 'Reflections', which will focus on the Mirror Universe and see Chase Masterson return as Vice Admiral Leeta of the Terran Empire. We of course will do a Star Trek Online stream dedicated to the new content on Thursday night, giving the developers a couple of days to do a few patches and bug fixes.... such as something they announced that was an issue in the new mission entitled Firewall, where if a Captain is killled by a leaking plasma conduit, they will re-spawn in a position that will prevent any further progression in the episode.
Overwatch Season 30 Competitive Match Results
- D.va - Hanamura - 12:31 - Win - 2-1
- D.va - Hollywood - 11:00 - Loss - 2-1
- D.va - Rialto - 20:05 - Win - 4-3
Something I observed during the the three ranked matches I played last night was that some people who are queuing up for the damage role are playing a lot more kamikaze than needed, such as going right to the spawn point of the opposing team on attack while we're on defense. That stupidity is annoying on Quick Play matches and there is no need for it in Ranked bouts, and those two wins could've been losses as a result of it.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout featured the following exercises: Defensive Combo #2, Defensive Combo #1 and Double Combo #1, with a time length of about 28 minutes and estimate calorie burn of 425 kcal.
For tonight's stream we will wrap up The Wolf Among Us with episode 4 and 5 which should be a lot of fun in terms of seeing what poor choices I make poorly. The plan is for a 6:30 PM Eastern start, but we may be delayed, I'll keep everyone posted on Twitter.
So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden
