Sunday, May 1, 2022

A Random Saturday Night And The Real Reason Batwoman Has Been Cancelled

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream sure had a rough start as we did have some sort of connection issue from Xfinity that resulted in the stream restarting. So we lost about maybe 20-30 minutes of footage. Still we did lead off with Overwatch 2 as I was going through every character in the training mode first to show off a few things. We did play a few matches, but the long queue times for Tank and Damage roles were rather silly. But something that I was repeatedly saying, when it comes to people not working on the objectives and damage role player not doing their job of taking out things like turrents will easily cost a team a victory. Characters Iused were Moira, D.va, Symmetra and Reinhardt.


Now yesterday I said I was considering maybe featuring Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle on stream, and we did, covering the 26 puzzles, with only the use of looking at the solution being needed once. The death animations are so over the top that one has to laugh at how some of the make Jason's weapons look like they are being used the wrong way. Picked up four achievements, which was nice. Also went back in off-stream to get the Daily Death puzzle done to start progress to achievements associated with that and picked up three more achievements.

We closed out the stream with SMITE playing three arena matches and picking up one win, and I actually played two matches as Yu Huang, who is the newest god added to the game. Funny enough I only played him because one of the rewards involved playing as a Chinese god, and I found his skills fairly easy to learn. Won't say I would main him, but I certainly would consider using him whenever I play and I want to play as a mage. Since I got one of his achievements on stream, but went back to get the other off-stream.

Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle Achievements

  • Massacre: Reached a body count of 100.
  • Swap Meat: Traded weapons for the first time.
  • I < Mask> NY: Completed every puzzle level of I < Mask> NY.
  • Last Resort: Completed every puzzle level of Last Resort.
  • Heavy Breathing: Used each color of telephone.
  • Untouchable: Killed a swat cop.
  • Doom Boom: Killed a victim with a mine.

SMITE Achievements

  • Phoenix Fire: Unlock the Smite Award "Phoenix Fire" 
  • Dragon's Call: Unlock the Smite Award "Dragon's Call"

Twitch Clips

We didn't do a raid last night, instead we hosted PrincessPashley as they were out doing some live karaoke for their stream over at twitch.tv/princesspashley!

It was announced that Batwoman series will be cancelled. Now as someone who was one heavily invested in watching the various super hero shows on the CW, I have to say that the decision does not shock me at all for a few reason. One, Batwoma has a history of problems starting with it first being on Sunday nights, the second being Ruby Rose's injury and departure, and the third being unable to grow its audience. Unlike DC's Legends of Tomorrow, which never had a large audience, Batwoman lost viewers consistently, a problem that existed in its first season, The decision to move Supergirl to Sunday nights to prop up Batwoman ended up hurting the Girl of Steel who lost HALF of its audience in the move to boost a show that was struggling from jump street. Granted no one at the CW was going to let Batwoman fail for many reasons even thought there was just cause for it to be cancelled two years ago.

So what is the real reason you ask? Simple its is because of the recent merger between Warner Media and Discovery, who no longer wants to be apart of the ownership of The CW, and with them wanting out, Paramount (the reemerged Viacom and CBS) don't want it either, so to sell the network easier, that means a lot of show are going to be ending because whatever media conglomerate purchases the remains of the CW are going to want to put their own shows on it that fit their idea of what the network should be. The purge is already happening, as DC's Legends of Tomorrow as cancelled yesterday, don't be surprised to see shows like Riverdale, The Flash, and Superman & Lois being cancelled within the next 12 months.


Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Difficulty Challenge Combo #1, Biceps Shape Focus Combo, Intermediate Combo #1 and Triple Combo #2.

I am no fan of Stephen A. Smith, because he's the worst sports journalist to ever work in the Philadelphia area, but I do have to applaud him for how he buried Kyrie Irving of the Brooklyn Nets for his career of selfish acts. 

The New York Times reported that Tucker Carlson is the most racist prime time host in history and that he along with his producers at Fox News go out of their way to make his show appeal to the immoral white nationalists that should be rounded up and put in prison... or shipped off to Russia.  

The career of Trevor Bauer is basically over as he's been suspended for two years by Major League baseball as more of his past actions have come to light.

It's the start of a new week, so lets recap what we played last week: Overwatch, Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Royal, Friday the 13th: Killer Puzzle, Overwatch 2 and Smite!

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So what is this week's line up looking like, with Overwatch being on tap for tonight's stream?  Well it's going to look like this.Which is basically the same line up as last week

  • Sunday: Overwatch
  • Monday: Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition
  • Tuesday: Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition
  • Wednesday: Fallout 76
  • Thursday: Final Fantasy XIV
  • Friday: Persona 5 Royal
  • Saturday: Something Random

Now what will that something random be? Maybe something from the PlayStation 3 era of gaming, I got a few ideas, but nothing I want to say just yet.

So 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...