Saturday, August 6, 2022

Stray was awesome... Yes I cried a little

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night we played Stray... and unfortunately, the stream got split into two parts, but we did play the entire game in one night. And I'll admit right at the start, I cried at the end because I was reading every line of dialog out loud, so the last few lines broke me. I do have a clip where you can hear my voice wavering.

In terms of the actual game, I loved it... our nameless cat certainly had one hell of a bad day... and not because of the 9+ times I got killed. I did enjoy a lot of the early puzzles and exploration that was involved. I know for sure I missed a lot of stuff, and made some choices that made some achievements unobtainable. I did find some of the later enemies (The Sentinels ) tough to deal in terms of getting past them, because I was kind of powering through when I should've been looking for patterns

The funny thing is about the plot with it basically being trapped in a walled city or vault is that one could consider this is what Fallout would be if there were no humans and mostly robots who evolved into having human qualities to some degree. I'm probably reaching with that statement, but oh well. Does give me a reason to go back and play it again as part of next year's line up.

Would I recommend Stray for folks to play, yes, wholeheartedly yes!

Big thanks to the viewers for kicking in 300 Bits during the stream, ya'll are awesome! And also thanks to the new followers as well in the form of EvacArts_Guila and Pipermarch99!

Stray (PS4) Trophies

  • Missed Jump: Fall inside the city.
  • A Little Chatty: Meow 100 times.
  • Not Alone: Meet B-12.
  • Cat Got Your Tongue?: Have B-12 translate a robot.
  • Curiosity Killed the Cat: Wear the paper bag.
  • Cat-a-Pult: Jump 500 times.
  • Meowlody: Bring all the music sheets to Morusque.
  • Boom Chat Kalaka: Dunk the basketball.
  • Cat-a-strophe: Try to play mahjong with the robots.
  • Cat's best friend: Nuzzle up against 5 robots.
  • Catwalk: Reach Midtown.
  • Scratch: Scratch the vinyl in the club.
  • Al-Cat-Raz: Go to jail.
  • No More Lives: Die 9 times.
  • Eye Opener: Complete the game and open the city.

Twitch Clips

For the raid we dropped in on MommyBee who was playing Persona 5 over at twitch.tv/mommybee!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Beginner Combo #1, Hook Combo #2 and Left-Right Step Combo for 28 minutes.

Fitness Boxing 2 Stats For 7/31-8/6/22

  • Punches Thrown: 8539
  • Estimate Calories Burned:3491.37 kcal
  • Laura's Champion Progress: 66% (33 out of 50 Hours)
  • King EX Fight Progress: 95%

So an update Xfinity, I was called yesterday saying they did quite a bit of work in the area on Thursday, so they want to come out tomorrow to check the lines to see if things are where they are supposed to be. Now there was someone out this morning checking on upstream signals, and they saw the history that the power levels were at 50 or above going back to July 17. I was also told RF lines (?) were being replaced in the area to help resolve a lot of issues.

What's even better than Ted Danson? Ted singing and Danson.

Why did the invisible man turn down a job offer? He couldn't see himself doing it.

In regards to Mass Effect 3, I have been putting in time over on the N7 HQ site to build up the Galactic Readiness. With luck I'll be able to get the in-game achievement for that by mid-week. We'll see. if I'm right with that prediction.

Song of the Day: Sympathy for the Devil by The Rolling Stones

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For tonight's stream, we're hooking up the PlayStation 2 to check out Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, and more than likely we'll mess around with other thing. I did consider numerous other things, but I figure this would be a game most people wouldn't even consider checking out in 2022.

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


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