Bayonetta's Story Makes No Sense, But It Was Fun!

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Bayonetta certainly drove home the point that the plot of the game makes no sense what so ever. Between apparent time travel shenanigans, the resurrection of a 'god' to destroy and remake the universe, lost memories and more plot holes than an Ed Wood film, it makes my head hurt trying to have it all make sense. Also didn't help with the number of long cut scenes in Chapters 14, 15 & 16 that tried to justify everything.

Still, it was a lot of fun, the boss battles got more over the top, and the reuse of earlier bosses made for a great call back, even if that is a bit cliche. The music in the later half of the game certainly was awesome to listen to, and this certainly was a game that justified my usual 'watch through the credits' because of the 'extra fights' that take place during it, and the dance video at the very end.

Now will I play Bayonetta again? More than likely yes, as there is the Xbox One version, so if and when I play this game again, it'll be that version, just to play it with superior visuals! Real question is, do I feel like I could handle the game on normal difficulty.... I'm not sure, I got dodging down pretty good, but combos could be a pain to pull off.

Question is, what will be the next Monday-Tuesday game, at this time I'm not completely sure as of yet, as I do have plenty of options!

For the raid we dropped in on PowerThumbZ while they were playing Prey over on twitch.tv/PowerThumbz!   

Bayonetta (Xbox 360) Achievements

• Commander Of Magic: Purchase all techniques.
• Treasure Collector: Discover half of all the Umbra Witches' final resting places.
• Iustitia, Giver Of Life: Defeat Iustitia on any difficulty.
• Feels Good, Doesn't It?: Execute 50 Torture Attacks.
• Sapientia, Controller Of Seas: Defeat Sapientia on any difficulty.
• Double, Double, Toil And Trouble: Create 20 Concoctions.
• Master Of The Heavens: Defeat Father Balder on any difficulty.
• Taste Of The Witching Hour: Complete all Chapters on any difficulty.

Stream Clip Links

• Stylishly Cool!
• So sorry! 
• We just punched it in the face!
  

Mom had an okay first day at the nursing / rehab facility, she is getting along with her room mate. She had her first session of physical therapy, they had her walking a little bit, which is good. If anyone would like to donate to her gofundme dedicated to covering medical related costs, please visit: https://gofund.me/6adf8354

Had a 45-minute telephone conference that could probably help resolve a few worries I've had since mid-December, fingers crossed!

I've been really working on knocking out these series of Mass Effect short story commissions, and now gradually working to where things can reach the Mass Effect 3 era of the franchise, but there are some lingering tales the client wants based on Mass Effect 2.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Advanced Combo #1, Beginner Combo #2 and Uppercut Combo #1 for 34 minutes.

What did the drummer call his two twin daughters? Anna one, Anna two.

Song of the Day: Malibu by Miley Cyrus

For tonight's stream, we're playing Fall Guys and Fallout 76, if Iceman joins in, we'll be wrapping up his run of the Brotherhood of Steel story arc!

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

Bayonetta certainly has style

Good morning everyone,

So last night we finally started Bayonetta, and yes, we are playing it on the Easy difficulty, since the three available difficulties were Very Easy, Easy and Normal. Still I'm amazed at the pace of play, as we cleared the first seven chapters of the game. Now after playing it, I can safely see why Bayonetta as a character connected with players because of her rather raw, unapologetic personalty and..'unique' way of showing off her looks... it does make me wonder... how the hell did she end up in Super Smash Bros other than Nintendo basically owning the franchise.

But if there is one draw back to Bayonetta as a game is that I'm not a fan of the camera, as there were a few instances of me falling off ledges, not being able to see if there are side paths and not being able to see enemies from different angles. There's also not being able to fully tell where exactly I have to go, despite the linear nature of each section.

For the raid we dropped in on MerlynTemple who has decided to start streaming again, last night they were playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons over at twitch.tv/MerlynTemple! 

Bayonetta (Xbox 360) Achievements

• I'm A Bit... I Mean Witch.: Execute a Torture Attack.
• A Primer In The Magical Arts: Complete the Vestibule.
• You Want To Touch Me?: Engage Witch Time successfully 10 times.
• Just In The Nick Of Time: Dodge the runaway streetcar during Chapter 2.
• Wicked Weaver: Execute a Wicked Weave attack while using Dodge Offset.
• Seeker Of Magic: Purchase three new techniques.
• Platinum!: Earn 10 Platinum Medals. Must be earned in 10 different battles.
• Fortitudo, Bringer Of Flame: Defeat Fortitudo on any difficulty.
• Record Collector: Obtain three complete Angelic Hymn Gold LPs.
• A Mother's Love: Defend Cereza during the out of body experience, ensuring she takes no damage.
• Temperantia, Manipulator Of Wind: Defeat Temperantia on any difficulty.

Stream Clip Links

• Neat!
• So stylish man! 
• Finishing The Boss Of Chapter 7
  

Mom is out of the hospital and is at a nursing & rehab center, it'll be tougher for me to visit her, but at least now she'll be able to start working on getting some strength back.In fact she has her first physical therapy session today. If anyone would like to donate to her gofundme dedicated to covering medical related costs, please visit: https://gofund.me/6adf8354

Finished another short story Mass Effect  commission request, and picked up another one, that will be set during the Arrival DLC for Mass Effect 2, which should be a bit of a challenge.

Today's fitness Boxing 2 daily workout out featured Hook Combo #1, Waist Shape Focus COmbo and Weaving Combo #2 for 28 minutes.

Did you hear the rumor about butter? Never mind, I shouldn't spread it.

Song of the Day: Paradise by Coldplay.

For tonight's stream, we're continuing Bayonetta, and there is a possibility we might be able to finish it tonight, which would be really cool if we can pull that off!

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

Off to a good start this week,

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream got off to a slightly late start due to outside circumstances, but we ended up having a pretty solid night of Overwatch 2, particularly when we were joined by PandaSweet, which meant I could go ham a bit. We certainly hard carried quite a few goobers to victories over the course of the night, ending on a stretch of seven wins out of the final 10 matches played! Even had one matches

Had a pretty good night in terms of earning Plays of the Game, with four, three as Junker Queen and one as Orisa. Also hit level 120 on the Battle Pass, so I think I'm in good shape to get to level 200 over the next 29 days.

For the raid we dropped in on starvexia while they were playing Pokemon Violet over on twitch.tv/starvexia!  

Clip Links

• Hammer Down!
• Time for the rampage! 
• Think we won
  

Mom is doing alright when the nurses get her medication to her on time, and there is a chance she'll be discharged to a rehab facility today, but we'll see how that plays out. If anyone would like to donate to her gofundme dedicated to covering medical related costs, please visit: https://gofund.me/6adf8354

Finished up the 13th chapter of the series of Mass Effect short story commissions I've gotten as of late, I think there were only be a few more set in the Mass Effect 2 era, depending on what the client wants.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Triple COmbo #1, Straight COmbo #1 and Double Combo #2 for 31 minutes.

Why can't a nose be 12 inches long? Because then it'd be a foot.

Song of the Day: Levels by Avicii.

For tonight's stream, well, we're starting up Bayonetta for the first time ever. With all the controversy surrounding the voice actor who portrayed the titular character, I'm sure this is going to raise a few eyebrows, but it is a game I've never played.

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

We Finished Pokemon Violet! And It Was Awesome!

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Pokemon Violet saw us basically breeze through the Elite Four, the League Champion Geeta, the 6th match against Nemona and have a leisurely stroll to the bottom of Area Zero to finish the game. I'm not kidding, as I had the match up list for each major battle, so I was prepared in advance. I did make sure Meowscarda got the final hits to defeat Geeta and the Turo AI in terms of the standard battles. 

That said I loved how the story played out in regards to Arven finding out that his father died a long time ago, Miraidon having to face a bully version of itself (which ties in nicely with the Team Star story arc) and everything wrapping up nicely while setting things up for 'post credits' content (Gym battle rematches, and so forth.

Oh, my six Pokemon to close out the game were Ceruledge, Meowscarda, Vivillon, Medicham, Raichu.& Floatzel. Outside of Ceruledge who I got in a trade and Medicham which I caught mid-game, the other four were in my lineup since damn near the start of the game. 

Overall I did enjoy playing Pokemon Violet a hell of a lot more than I did Pokemon Shining Pearl. There was never a point where I felt I was under prepared outside of not knowing the Ghost-gym involved 'double battles'. 

As for what will be the game to be featured on Mondays and Tuesdays? I thinking the Xbox 360 version of Bayonetta. I have never played it before.

For the raid we dropped in on PowerThumbz who was playing Prey over at twitch.tv/powerthumbz! 

Stream Clip Links

• Defeating Geeta In A Snap!
• Do It Meowscarada! 
• Miraidon Gets The Job Done!
  

Tried to keep taps on mom yesterday, but missed her several times when I called. She did have a radiation therapy session, and they gave her shots to the stomach to try and deal with the tumors. If anyone would be kind to donate to her GoFundMe to try and cover medical expenses, it would be greatly appreciated. The link is at https://gofund.me/6adf8354

Did a fair amount of writing on the latest Mass Effect short story commission request, granted I'm including EDI a lot more than one would assume in terms of setting up the plot. I should be able to finish it before tonight's stream... or before I go to bed after the stream. Whichever comes first.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Defensive Combo #2, Intermediate COmbo #1 and Triple Combo #2 for 31 minutes.

What kind of dinosaur loves to sleep? Well, now, all of them.

Song of the Day:  I’m Not The Only One by Same Smith

For tonight's stream we're playing Fall Guys to start and then we'll switch to Fallout 76 after the 9 PM break.

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

Today's Notes 6/28/27: 500 Wins As A Damage Role Player!

Good morning everybody,

Last night's stream of Overwatch was a lot of fun, as we got in a few Mayhem matches before the daily change over, then focused on standard quick play matches. Had plenty of wins and losses, ending on a 6-4 stretch... to bad the night ended with the 10th match in that run being a lost. Big thanks to PandaSweet for joining in on the fun, and hope some folks were able to get an Deadlock spray or two tonight, as we did extend the stream to 11:30 PM Eastern. We also picked up a few plays of the game as D.vs and Torbjorn as well!

Now I also hit a personal milestone, getting my 500th win as a Damage role player. Every since I started playing Overwatch, getting the opportunity to play as a character whose main focus is dealing out a lot of damage has been something I've been denied. This goes back to before the role queue, where the damage role often has the longest wait-times.... so more often than not I end up playing tank or support, getting pretty damn good with Dva, Reinhardt and Moira. So as of late, for the last hour of each Overwatch stream I've set that aside for me and whoever is with me to queue up only for damage roles.... because if I'm doing a 4 hour stream, and three hours are as a tank or support, I will want to play damage too! 

But to put in in perspective I have 311 hours as a tank with 1098 wins, 153 hours as damage with 500 wins and 328 hours as support with 1211 wins. My most used characters are

1. Moira - 209 Hours (Support)
2. D.va - 157 Hours (Tank)
   
3. Reinhardt - 91 Hours (Tank)
   
4. Mercy - 55 hours (Support)
   
5. Brigitte - 34 Hours (Support)
   
6. Ashe - 26 Hours (Damage)
   
7. Orisa - 25 Hours (Tank)
   
8. McCree - 24 Hours (Damage)
   
9. Torbjorn - 23 Hours (Damage)
   
10. Tracer - 17 Hours (Damage)
    

Of the 792 total hours I've spent playing Overwatch, 340 hours were in Quick Play, 250 hours are in Arcade Mode, 192 hours were in competitive, 7 hours in experimental and 2 hours 'Game Brwoser'. Keep in mind, I haven't played a competitive (ranked) match in quite a long time.

Anyway here are some clips from last night's stream!

Twitch Clip: Triple Kill... I'll Take It!

Twitch Clip: I Love Mayhem

Twitch Clip: That did not work out the way I hoped it would

Twitch Clip: Whew boy did that work!

Twitch Clip:  Oh boy!

We added three games to the collection yesterday: Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training, Bayonetta 2 (which a digital copy of Bayonetta 1) and Pokemon: Let's Go Eevee! What made me go after the Eevee version of the game is the fact it's a remake of Pokemon Yellow... but Eevee has a different skill set than Pikachu!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily work out was streamed this morning a little after 5 AM... because I couldn't get to sleep at all, so I figure why not just do it early to wear myself out! The exercise duration (minus stretching) was 31 minutes with an estimated calorie burn of 512 kcal. Since I don't route the audio to head phones during these sessions, near as I can tell my mic is set up in such a way that it will barely pick up audio from my monitor's speakers. So that was a cool discover. We are up to 88 out of 100 for the Laura's Best Friend achievement, which I should accomplish by the end of the week! 

And since this was also streamed, here are some clips from the morning workout! 

Twitch Clip: You can do it!

Twitch Clip: Ready Stance

Twitch Clip: Put The Body Into It!

Considered I quipped the character of Livewire was probably on the DC Animated Universe version of OnlyFans, I started dabbling out a fic based on how I've see the version of the character seen in DCSHG:TP. Probably will be a short fic with an open end ofr a follow up.

It's Monday which means tonight we'll be back to Mass Effect 3: Legendary Edition, with the flow of content being main mission, side quests, main mission. As I said, this run of ME3 is going to take a long time because of how I like to roam around the Normandy and the Citadel!

So on that bombshell, we'll see you later tonight over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!