Good morning everyone,
Finished the Mass Effect short story commission yesterday, and instantly got a follow request for the next installment in that series of short tales. So I now have two commission in the queue to work on (the other being WWE focused... ugh)... which means the Persona story I started on will be delayed.
We also messed around with Star Wars: Racer, which was the 2020 re-release of Star Wars Episode I Pod Racer for the PlayStation. With no tutorial and only being able to glance at the controls via the options menu, we jumped right into and managed to get about half of its achievements. It's certainly a fast pace racing game, with a fairly decently scaling A.I. difficulty curve. My biggest gripe is the 'pop in' effect of track hazards and turns.
Between both games and the one Rock Band achievement I got after last night's stream, 5/4/2023 is my second best overall day in terms of winning achievements, with a gamer score of 1330. My best overall day was March 3, 2020 when I had a one game gamer score of 1415, so came really close to breaking that record.
Now I did play a bit more of Star Wars Racer off-stream to extend my current Xbox Achievement streak through today, the last five achievements were not earned apart of last night's stream.
MY LITTLE PONY: A Maretime Bay Adventure Achievements
- An adorable thief: Reclaim your backpack
- Unicycling 101: Fix the bridge using Izzy's Unicycling powers
- Mane Street Awaits!: Help Hitch in Brighthouse
- Amateur Detective: Get 500 Magic Bits
- Pipp Pipp Parade!: Help Pipp in Main Street
- Glowing Up: Use the Magic Mirror for the first time
- Sheriff's Apprentice: Get 1000 Magic Bits
- Pro Herder: Help Hitch in Town Park
- The Neigh-gotiator: Fulfill Marcel's requests and unlock Beach Cove
- Starscout: Get 1500 Magic Bits
- Where Did The Magic Go?: Race Zipp on Beach Cove
- Friendship Is Still Magic: Catch and talk some sense into Sprout
- W.I.N.G.S. Cadet: Complete the secret obstacle course in Town Park
Star Wars Episode I Racer Achievements
- Inkabunga: Complete a Boost start
- It's a new lap record: Set a new lap record
- May the first be with you: Come in first place
- This is podracing: Finish your first race
- Don't count on it, slimeball: Taunt your opponents
- Brake check: Unlock Teemto Pagalies
- Beedo’s wild ride: Unlock Aldar Beedo
- Mind tricks don’t work on me—only money: Purchase your first upgrade
- Light speed: Reach 700 MPH
- Cell block racer: Unlock Fud Sang
- Start your engines: Complete Amateur Podracing Circuit
- Welcome to the Dark Slide: Unlock Slide Paramita
- Serv-O-Droid, Inc.: Max out your Pit Droid crew
- Bullseye: Unlock "Bullseye" Baranta
- Woohoo: Perform a boost
- Kessel Run: Reach 1000 MPH
- It's working! It's working!!: Repair your engines from "warning" back to stable as Anakin
- Eat my exhaust: Taunt during a boost
- Don't get cocky, kid: Complete Semi-Pro Podracing Circuit
For the raid we dropped in on Kalenal during their stream of Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal. Also Kalenal will be on vacation for the next week, they will be back on May 15th!
The plan for tonight's stream is of course to do part two of Marvel's Spider-Man's DLC (The City That Never Sleeps). Goal will be the same as last week in trying to get all of the achievements, with a special effort being put in on Screwball's Challenges and then also try and re-do some bases in the normal game to try and get more of the remaining Spider-Suits!
I need to make a note for myself to make sure to get some grape jelly... what can I say, I like having the occasional peanut butter & jelly sandwich!
My job search continues to flounder on so many levels, and I firmly believe there is a discrimination bias towards those who do not drive.
So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden
