New Tales From The Borderlands Is Charming

 Good morning everyone,

Yesterday was productive on several levels, as I got a bunch of boxes broken down and ready to go out to the trash this week... so it'll be another Wednesday when I'm taking two bag of garbage around to the back of my house.

Last night's stream featured episodes one, two and three of New Tales From The Borderlands, and there is a lot of charm to it, which is the case with many games in the Borderlands franchise. The three main characters of Fran, Anu and Octavio have a nice mix of personalities, even if Octavio can be a bit grating. Visually, it does make me interested in wanting to play Borderlands 3 at some point to really understanding a lot of the back story. 

The plot is a little paper thin, in that the trio are three nobodies who find themselves in a position to make things better for the world, and by episode three, they get funding for their healing ray. There are some similarities to plot of the original Tales from the Borderlands developed by Tell Tale Games.

I will say, much like Saints Row '22, New Tales From The Borderlands certainly is inclusive, and I bet that pissed off a lot of MAGA, Right-Wing, Conservatives... in fact I should look up the reviews and comments from when NTFTB to see what the reaction was.

Of course we'll be looking to finish New Tales From The Borderlands tonight with episodes 4 and 5. Depending on how that 

New Tales from the Borderlands Achievements

• Who Needs Keys?: Perform a Super Science Slap.
• Each Sold Separately: Obtain a Vaultlander figure.
• You're Not Naked: Obtain a cosmetic item.
• We're In: Complete a hack.
• From Zeroes...: Complete Episode 1.
• Don't Get Cocky: Win a Vaultlanders battle.
• Shard Snatchers: Complete Episode 2.
• You Rich Now!: Get the money from Sink or Swim.
• Our Lucky Winner: Complete Episode 3.

Oh and for the raid we dropped in on PowerThumbz during their stream of Daymare 1998 over at twitch.tv/powerthumbz

Apparently the company that owns UFC has purchased WWE... and well, safe to say the WWE is now dead as company. 

Will be interesting to see what's on the agenda for work today, I didn't look to see what everyone was on yesterday.

Looking into a more efficient way of connecting the PS1 and PS2 to the capture card and to eliminate the need of composite cables. Not sure when I'll be able to test that

I continue to unwisely chip away at the achievements and in-game goes at Hades before going to bed... what can I say? I have a very good idea of what combination of boons work in that game.

Hades Achievements

• Haste of Hermes: Get 20% dodge chance with the Lambent Plume

Added World's End to the Nintendo Switch collection of games that I have. Really thinking about making Thursdays the Nintendo Switch night of the week.

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