Last night's stream did not have one instances of a complete break in the action, which was good considering all three games we played involved online play!
First up was Star Trek Online, which we featured mostly for the Risa Summer event, so that meant we got to put on the swimsuit attire and do things like hover boarding, sand castle building, dance-off, and other activities. Since it is a limited-time event, it seemed like a good excuse to show-case it on a night where I didn't want to start up anything or continue things that are already in progress.
Second up, we did in deed play ranked matches using the Capcom Fighting Collection. I was pleasantly pleased with how there was little latency, as the roll-back netcode certainly worked. Now I did lose a lot more than I won, but I did manage to stay fairly competitive with only a few instances of being blown out. Some of the came played against other players were Super Puzzle Fighter II, Gem Fighter, Hyper Street Fighter II and Darkstalkers.
Lastly, we loaded up Smite to close out the night, playing five arena matches using Athena, Ganesha, Nu Wa, Cupid to knock out a lot of the weekly quests. I played as Nu Wa twice as I finally got her second character related achievement called Clay Explosion, which involved some good timing and luck to execute. We were joined by LvStkr for several matches, which was awesome.
SMITE Achievements
Clay Explosion: As Nu Wa deliver the killing blow by exploding Clay soldiers with Shining Metal.
Big thanks to Kalenal for the huge raid as they were playing Tunic over at twitch.tv/kalenal! Kalenal mentioned they reached the final boss, but it has multiple forms that they were not expecting, so keep an eye out for when they next play Tunic, because they might be finishing it!
Following my stream, we dropped in on Lunar_Princess who was playing Grandia HD Remaster over at twitch.tv/lunar_princess! It's been a while since I've seen them streaming, so it was real awesome to see them being all bananas about things.
Watched the Stargate SG-1 Episode 'The Broaca Divide' (Season 1, Episode 4) last night after the stream, where the team brings back a virus that starts to de-evolve everyone because of low levels of histamine. I could draw some parallels between this episode and the Star Trek Episode 'The Deadly Years', which kind of has a similar set up with the whole a virus causes a drastic transformation, but it's a pretty common trope to see through out a lot of Science-Fiction shows. Couple of things that stand out about the episode is how hot as hell Amanda Tapping is when an infected Carter goes after O'Neil, plus this was also an episode that introduced Janet Frasier as the lead medical doctor on the show in a reoccurring role for the remainder of the series.Also enjoyed how Teal'c got some stuff to do on his own, and his 'I am not Lucy' exchange with O'Neil is cute bite of comedy.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Hook Combo, Double Combo #2 and Weaving Combo #1 for 31 minutes
According a notice on my job's announcement feet, my holiday weekend is extended through today, well I knew about this on Friday. Still I want to at least make sure my schedule for next week is locked in.
Yes, I am disgusted that there was yet another Mass Shooting yesterday, this time during a parade. I really want to punch Ted Cruz in the mouth because it's because of people like him that allow these things to happen by not restricting the sale of weapons that should not be sold to the general public. To add to this point, at exactly 12:30 AM last night I heard gun fire... and I know it was gun fire because fire crackers and similar type items sound different
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For tonight's stream, we're getting back to Persona 4 Arena, as the plan is to knock out two more story mode arcs, and clear another arcade run.
That said, last night's stream of Overwatch was rather solid, while we did have a couple of hiccups on the stream, there were no major issues. Big thanks to PandaSweet for being apart of the fun. I picked up three Plays of the Game, all as D.va, and Panda also nabbed one as Zenyatta. Characters I ended up using over the course of the night included Reinhardt, Reaper, Ana, Junkrat, Moira, Brigitte,Tracer and of course, the before mentioned D.va.We discovered that in skirmish mode we can stand on the heads of enemy players, which was a bit silly. On a side note, I seem to be in a trend of getting big triple and quadruple kills on the Gibraltar map.
For last night's raid we dropped in on GlorifiedThief who was play AI: The Somnium Files - Nirvana Imitative over at twitch.tv/glorifiedthief.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout involved Hook Combo #2, Beginner Combo #1 and Left-Right Step Combo for 28 minutes.
Went after several achievements in the Capcom Fighting Collection after the stream, including the ones focused around Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition... and yes I fully cheesed it, using a second controller to force my way to getting the fight with Akuma, then somehow barely managed to beat him. So at this point we have 31 of the games 45 achievements unlocked, and from what I see the rest involving grinding or hitting some damn near impossible to do moves.
Capcom Fighting Collection Achievements
Master of the Fist: In "Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition", fight the secret boss Akuma in a CPU match.
Collateral Damage: In "Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition", destroy a background object.
The Path of the Warrior: Complete "Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition" in offline mode.
Collection Champion: Complete each game in the collection.
Practice Makes Perfect: In any game, deal 1,000 damage or higher to an opponent in training mode.
Record Breaker: In any game, get 1,000,000 points or higher in offline mode.
The Lessons of Saikyo Style: In "Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo", successfully perform a Super KO.
Puppet Master: In "Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers' Revenge", use the secret character Marionette.
Come On, Baby: In "Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers' Revenge", hit any character with Demitri's Midnight Bliss.
We have passed 3,500 Xbox achievements with a gamer score of 82,767. Not bad for only having Xbox Consoles for 2 and a half years.
Played some Overwatch 2 last night as well, continuing to practice playing as D.va to get an idea of how much she can take in situations where trying to manage her defense matrix.
I would say Happy Independence Day, but how can we celebrate the Fourth
of July when in the past two weeks rights and freedoms for many in the
United States have been taken away because of a handful of individuals
in the pocket of Mitch McConnell and the Republican party? And those
corrupt individuals have the balls to say 'no one should be protesting
their actions' and they 'deserve a good nights rest' goes to show what
types of fucking idiots they are. But let's face it, America is no
longer the land... and it's the Republican party who are to blame, for
they are the party who embraced Corporate involvement back in the 1980s
and who ties everything to a bogus 'faith'.
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For today's stream we are going to play some Star Trek Online, namely we're going to drop in on Risa, and more than likely we might also mess around with some other stuff too.
Well last night's stream was a hell of a showcase for the Capcom Fighting Collection, and I'll give my impressions of the games shortly. We did have two instance of a full network bandwidth issues... which is amazing considering we had no issues on Friday night! Also there was a couple of power outages following the stream, and one this morning. Hopefully that is not something I'm going to have to start worrying about.
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors - I have played this before, because I have the PlayStation port, so playing the arcade perfect port wasn't that much different. For all the Darkstalkers games I played as Morrigan because she is the one character from the franchise that I was familiar with because her basic set of special moves are all performed similar to the traditional Capcom shotos (Ryu/Ken/Sakura).
Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge - First time playing it, this was clearly an upgraded version of the first Darkstalkers game, just with additional characters. Not much of a game play difference. This introduces Donovan and as well as a headache for me trying to understand the Darkstalker timeline when it comes to the remaining 3 games in the series. Also this Nigh Warriors also had the same 'special meter' from X-Men: Children of the Atom.
Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire - First time playing the 3rd game in the Darkstalkers series, and this does away with the usual two of three round format with a near continuous fight approach, where remaining health carries over between when someone is knocked out. It's very similiar to the the home releases of the X-Men vs Street Fighter, Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter and Marvel vs Capcom on the PlayStation.
Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers' Revenge - First time playing, and the game play is the same as Vampire Savior, but the game itself seems to me more of a sequel to Night Warriors: Darkstalkers Revenge based on the attract screen... and also the fact that Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge was called Vampire Hunter in Japan. Also of note this game was never released outside of Japan... and based on its game play, outside of the roster, nothing seems improved from Vampire Savior.
Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire - First time playing, and well, and like VH2:DR, this game was also never released outside of Japan... and the titles just makes things more confusing. Also of note, the attract screen features B.B. Hood holding Lilith by her skull, while in VH2:DR, it's Donovan holding Morrigan by her skull. So are their parallel timelines in the Darkstalkers canon over? Also, game play is the same as VS:TLOV
Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness - I have played this before as part of the Capcom Arcade Cabinet, and I learned that it was a spin off of Armored Warriors, a Capcom Beat 'Em Up, that I have played before... and was wondering if there was a connection since some of the mech-sprites appeared in the Beat 'Em Up. Went through the arcade mode of Jin, which comes across as just the major points of an mid-90s anime. Gameplay does have some major difficulty scaling towards the end of the arcade ladder.
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo - Obviously I'm very familiar with this, since I did featured the HD Remix version a lot on stream. The arcade version does have a charm to it, and we nearly had a perfect run, but as usual, but I made some mistakes at the end when facing Akuma when reaching the final opponent... so it was no different than when I was playing the HD Remix version.
Super Gem Fighter Minimix - I have played this before, as apart of the Street Fighter Alpha Anthology collection, in fact we streamed that earlier this year, and there seems to be some subtle differences between how both versions play, at least in terms of how responsive the controls felt.
Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition - I have played this version before years ago as apart of the Street Fighter 15th Anniversary Collection released on the PlayStation 2 which included Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike and Street Fighter: The Animated Movie. This is my least favorite version of Street Fighter II... and of all the games in the Capcom Fighting Collection, this was the only one we did not beat on stream last night.
Red Earth - First time playing it, before last night the only experience I've had with Red Earth is via Capcom Fighting Evolution, and boy does Red Earth come across as ambitious but rubbish. It's a beautiful game, but the hit detection is all over the place in that you have to be standing in exactly the right spot to get anything done. We went through the arcade mode as Tessa because why the hell not, and learned quickly that heath does not fully regenerate between fights for anyone, and if you are continuing, the enemy doesn't get it's health back.
Now there are a lot of achievements associated with the Capcom Fighting Collection, and I certainly am not going to go for all of them, there are are few I feel like would be solid to have as accomplishments, but things like beating each game with every characters, get every ending and other nonsense like that has me going 'no'. At least there are no online PVP achievements.
Also we did included some Fall Guys last night, big thanks to PandaSweet and LvStrkr for being apart of the squad as I got my first win and first win with a group! That was a lot of fun.
Capcom Fighting Collection Achievements
Welcome to the Dark World: Play "Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors".
We Are Darkstalkers: Complete "Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors" in offline mode.
Those Who Hunt the Dark: Play "Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge".
Never Give Up!: In any game, use a continue for the first time.
The Chains of Battle: Complete "Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge" in offline mode.
The Demon Realm Beckons: Play "Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire".
Rulers of the Dark Dimension: Complete "Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire" in offline mode.
Unbeatable Warrior: Complete any game on any difficulty other than ★0 without using a single continue.
Hunt or Be Hunted: Play "Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers' Revenge".
Seal Your Fate: Complete "Vampire Hunter 2: Darkstalkers' Revenge" in offline mode.
The Dark Lord's Ambition: Play "Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire".
When Souls Return: Complete "Vampire Savior 2: The Lord of Vampire" in offline mode.
For the Future of the Earth: Play "Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness".
Ace Pilot: Complete "Cyberbots: Fullmetal Madness" in offline mode.
Gems! Gems! Gems!: Play "Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo".
Brains over Brawn: Complete "Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo" in offline mode.
Cute but Deadly: Play "Super Gem Fighter Minimix".
Chibi Champion: Complete "Super Gem Fighter Minimix" in offline mode.
Festival of Champions: Play "Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition".
The Adventure Begins: Play "Red Earth".
Collection Sampler: Play each game in the collection.
Those Worth Protecting: Complete "Red Earth" in offline mode.
Fall Guys Achievements
Victory!: Win your first Episode
Squad Goals: Win an Episode as part of a party of 3 or more players
For the raid we dropped in on TracyDoll who was playing Friday the 13th: The Game over at twitch.tv/tracydoll!
During the stream we got 300 bits from the viewers, and a resub from LvStkr for the 39th month in a row! Always grateful for the continued support! You guys and gals are awesome!
As announced during the stream, my copy of My Little Pony: A Maretime Bay Adventure will be the next game on the PS4 following Persona 5 Strikers.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Straight Combo, Body Uppercut Combo and Advanced Combo #2 for 31 minutes.
It's the start of a new week which means looking back at all the things we played last week which included Overwatch, Persona 4: Arena, Overwatch 2, Star Trek Online, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Strikers, Capcom Fighting Collection & Fall Guys!
Finished the commissioned Halo fic based around Halo 3: ODST, and it came across pretty solid I think. Granted only 1700 words, but with my unfamiliarity with the franchise beyond what clips I can find on YouTube and what I understand from the FanWikis, it's a win-win.
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I kind of screwed things up a bit to getting the Brigitte Medic skin for Overwatch by accidentally gifting a tier 3 sub... but oh well, got the skin anyway. And speaking of Overwatch things, its Sunday so we'll be playing that this evening!
Well despite Fall Guys being out on PS4 and PC for quite some time, I waited until after it went Free to Play (and being available on Xbox console) to finally play it... and it's a lot of fun. It's bright it's colorful, it's silly and really it comes down to the skill one has and luck to be able to advance in each round. There are a nice variety of game modes , so not every session is the same. However because these game modes are randomized, there is always that possibility of seeing some things more often than not. Still this was a lot of fun, and we'll keep it as an option of things to do.
Big thanks to Redneck_23 and an Anonymous Cheerer for kicking in 310 bits during the course of the stream. The support and cheers are always appreciated!
Fall Guys Achievements
Big Bully: Knock someone over
One small trip: Qualify from your first round
Flawless Victory: Qualify from a round without falling over even once
Snowflake: Equip your first cosmetic item
Troublemaker: Bump into 3 people while rolling on the ground before getting up
Fall Throttle: Reach terminal velocity
Face First: Qualify from a racing round despite falling over more than 10 times
Style Points: Fall for at least 3 seconds before landing on your head
Stumble Chums: Bump into other Fall Guys 1000 times in total
For the raid we dropped in on ChristalRaine who was also playing Fall Guys over on twitch.tv/ChristalRaine!
Soon to be former WWE Superstar Paige has been rightfully going off the stupid arguements that Pro Lifers want to give, and it's made for some great stuff. You can see a lot of it over on her Twitter feed at https://twitter.com/RealPaigeWWE
Something that I did find interesting was how quick Nancy Pelosi was to send out 'fund raising' emails, when the Democratic party has had numerous opportunities to get things done to make sure Women Rights were not infringed upon. Then there was a rally in Cherry Hill, New Jersey yesterday, and from what I understand
Finally finished the latest Commission Fic request based around Brock Lesnanr, setting it with his latest return. Unfortunately, the next request I got was another WWE story this time involving Roman Reigns and well, that's a hard pass. I don't find Roman to be a compelling character to write as he has less depth than even Brock. The pairing was to put Roman with Alexa Bliss during her Fiend phase... and that was not exactly ideal.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 Daily Workout featured only Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo... I... woke up super late. But the daily streak continued!
We've officially added Capcom Fight Collection to the Xbox side of things, so expect to see the games in that bundle featured in the coming weeks, probably after we're finished with Persona 4: Arena. Also added Last Stop which from what I understand is a game similar to that that made by TellTale.
Watched another episode of Stargate SG-1 last night, titled 'The Enemy Within' (Season 1, Episode 2)... and it does make me want to watch the first episode again just to see if there was a shot of Kawalsky grabbing his neck as if he wrenched it as indication he was infected with a Goa'uld larvae. This was a solid episode on a few fronts in terms of establishing that bottle episodes could easily be done and still be compelling, since everything seen was mostly at Stargate Command. The operation scene was particularly well done to keep tension high, and the big reveal that Kawalsky was taken still holds up nicely.
Let's take a look back at all the games we featured over the past week which included: Overwatch, Persona 5 Royal, Persona 4 Arena, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Star Trek Online, Persona 5 Strikers and Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout!
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For tonight's stream, well you know it's Sunday which means Overwatch is on deck to kick off the new week!
Last night's stream of Overwatch saw the usual break down as mostly matches in the flex role (which meant Tank and Support) before dedicating the final hour to playing Damage role characters. Big thanks to PandaSweet for being apart of the fun. Picked up three plays of the game last night as D.va, Reinhardt and Torbjourn. Other characters used were Junkrat, Mei. Wrecking Ball, Ashe & Moira. Think in our last 10 matches we went like 5-5... not 100% sure but I'm not about to go check.
On a side note we did have a brief issues with Xfinity, my internet service provided during the stream... where it didn't go down fully, but it certainly interfered with the strength of signal to Twitch.
During the stream we had a raid from YrGamerBunni who was playing Halo: Infinite over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni!
For the raid we dropped in on Flint_Locke who was playing Higurashi no Naku Koro ni: Chapter 8 - Matsuribayashi over at twitch.tv/flint_locke!
I mentioned it last night during the stream, but one has to admire the balls of Capcom to be putting out two compilations of arcade games that have some of the same games in both collections within a month of each other and charging the same amount for both. Of course I would go for the Capcom Fighting Colleciton first because that can and will be a streak of featuring the games in that collection... and then grab Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium down the road.
Disney is doing another live-action remake with Hercules... and unlike with most of their live action efforts, this one makes sense because there is little chance they will screw up the casting... oh wait... this is Disney... and they picked Will Smith to step into the role of the Genie for Aladdin...
Played a couple of matches of Assault in Smite last night, winning one of the two. Always nice to be able to split the difference.
Today's FItness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Defensive COmbo #1, Double Combo #1 and Uppercut Combo #2 for 28 minutes.
Shaved off my beard... I'm now a lot less fuzzy on the face.
Watched the first episode of Stargate SG-1 for the first time in a long time, it's amazing how much Richard Dean Anderson brings to the role of Jack O'Neil right off the bat.
Finished the WWE commissioned fan fic featuring Cody Rhodes & Brandi yesterday afternoon... and thank goodness I used the post-match promo he did at WrestleMania because it served as a great framing device. Ended up getting another commission request, again WWE related, this time to do something involving Brock Lesnar.
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For tonight's stream, well we're going to wrap up Persona 5 Royal... we started it as a Friday Night Exclusive back in mid-February, and outside of one week where we also did a Saturday night stream, we kept to that. But with not much left to the game we'll take out time in finishing the remaining days with one final trip to Mementos, then give the Calling Card to Maruki, kick his sorry butt then it's just the time skip that occurs to Valentine's Day and then White Day to close it out.
Last night's stream of Vampire Survivors was a lot more fun than even I was anticipating as I figured out what combination of items worked out best for me, and having some runs that lasted over 20 minutes! One thing I did realize is that the Pentagon power up is a great screen clear, but it not only takes out enemies, but also all the XP gems and pick-ups that are on screen. In terms of levels, I did make it to the 3rd level of the game overall, and found the mandatory item... but to progress further would require a lot grinding to build up the powers up one can have heading into a level. The music in the second stage, the library is pretty kick ass. Of course there was a hilarious moment that when I took a break I forgot to un-mute my mic.
Also the stream featured the unboxing of the latest Funko POP I've added too my collection of WWE's Becky Lynch, in particular the 'Becky Two Belts' variant, so now I have all three Funko figures of the last Superstar in wrestling that really had my full attention.
Vampire Survivors Achievements
Lightning Ring: Defeat a total of 5000 enemies.
Magnet: Find a Vacuum.
Arca: Get Fire Wand to Level 4.
Porta: Get Lightning Ring To Level 4.
Mortaccio: Defeat a total of 3000 skeletons.
Cross: Find a Rosary.
Duplicator: Get Magic Wand To Level 7.
Clover: Find a Little Clover.
Poe Ratcho: Get Garlic to level 7.
Spellbinder: Get Runetracer To Level 7.
Pentagram: Survive 20 minutes with any character.
Inlaid Library: Reach Level 20 in Mad Forest.
Stone Mask: Find a Stone Mask.
Suor Clerici: Recover a lifetime total of 1000 HP.
During the stream we had a big raid from Kalenal who was playing Tunic over at twitch.tv/kalenal!
For our raid, we dropped everyone off over at YrGamerBunni's stream who was playing Mass Effect 3 (Legendary Edition) over at twitch.tv/yrgamerbunni!
Now that I think about it, yesterday was the most achievements I've earned on a game through Steam in quite a while since I've mostly focused on console gaming over the past 18 months.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Uppercut Combo #1, Hook Combo #1 and Waist Shape Focus Combo for 30 minutes.
Capcom had some interesting thing in their showcase, with Monster Hunter Rise getting a big update, Exo-Primal getting a new trailer, hype for the Capcom Fighting Collection and Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium. I know a lot of folks are excited for things being added to Resdient Evil VILLage with it getting a story expansion and a third-person mode.
Speaking of Capcom, Dragon's Dogma has celebrated its 10th anniversary and I totally forgot LvStrkr gifted me that game early last year. Really going to have to give that a look probably once Persona 5 Royal is finished.
Put in the pre-order for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, so I we'll be featuring that on Stream for Saturday this week. I now have to think of when was the last time I did anything associated with the Ninja Turtles on my channel and I think it was with Out of the Shadows back during my 2nd or 3rd year of streaming. Oh wait, I know I played the Arcade ROMs of the Arcade Game and Turtles in Time.
Started work on the latest commission fan fic request, and I'll admit I'm lifting Cody's post match interview whole-sale to serve as the introduction and awkward transition to the action.
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For tonight's stream, we'll be getting back to Persona 4: Arena and working on the story mode... and I realize that there is probably an efficient way to go through it.
Last night's stream certainly had a lot of problems thanks to Xfinity. We started at a bit after 6:30 PM Eastern because I went out of my way to reset my modem to try and prevent any issues, and there was a patch update for Final Fantasy XIV. At 7:17 PM Eastern we had a break in the stream due to the network service provided by Xfinity becoming unstable. This happened again at 7:23 PM, then at 7:38 PM, at which point I started trying to get a live person on the phone. It took having to schedule a call back to reach someone, at which point when I'm talking to them live the network becomes unstable at 7:57 PM and again at 8:04 PM. This basically resulted in the first hour and half of the stream being basically worthless in terms of the archives. And they have the balls to say I would be charged for any changes of equipment that may end up having to take place. Needless I fucking went ballistic, because I have NEVER been charged when anything needed replacing in the past.
Now after that call and making it real clear what I'm expecting with Saturday's Technician visit, we managed to have a stable stream the rest of the way to about 11:30 PM. We did the usual stuff Botanty level grinding, Fishing, some Alliance Raids, Trials and Dungeons plus some PVP. I really hate having incomplete streams in the archives. Thing is one could really tell by my body language that I was completely taken out of the mood for last night's stream with all the issues that plagued a large chunk of it.
For last night's raid, we dropped in on Oldish22 who was also playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/oldish22!
I did take a glance at the that January 6th hearings after last night's stream, and if anything the Republican party is being exposed for just wanting to stay in power by any and all means. That said, I wonder how badly Donald Trump is going to bitch out Ivanka for her saying under oath she believed the election wasn't stolen.
I did add a few additions to my Camp Site in Fallout 76, the water slide and collection to make things a little more odd. I'm considering possibly relocating my camp to another location, but not 100% sure what would be a good spot.
The Phillies swept the Brewers and I'm surprised they are keeping this momentum, but it's clearly not to sustainable with the current roster and obvious limitations of the pitching staff.
Got into some Smite matches after the stream and thankfully there were no issues and we picked up an achievement as well, getting the 50th kill streak with Esst.
SMITE Achievements
Can't Stop This: Get 50 killing sprees in qualifying matches.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hook Combo #2, Body Straight Combo and Body Uppercut Combo. Duration was 31 minutes.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge comes out on June 16, and is developed / published by the same folks who made Streets of Rage 4, so I'm expecting the same level of quality there. Looks like for those getting the game on the Nintendo Switch there will be a 10% discount through June 22.
The Capcom Fighting Collection has a release date of June 24, and there will be a bundle option that includes exclusive illustrations and remixed music, plus Three Wonders for Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium.
Speaking of Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium that has a release date of July 22
For tonight's stream Persona 5 Royal is on deck, and here's hoping we won't have any issues. The plan will be to tackle the final leg of the December 24th gauntlet and then head into the story that carries things into January. I know we have one more palace to tackle
Last night's stream suffered two major interruptions, and it's real funny when Xfinity called me yesterday to say the issue was fixed only for things to go wonky yet again. Good thing I did not cancel the technician visit on Saturday.
Anyway we were of course playing Fallout 76 last night, and the first two hours was mostly spent on me building a house in game, and it turned out rather nice I think in terms of having two floors and plenty of tools for visitors to use. Iceman joined in and we finally wrapped up the Mistress of Mysteries story arc, getting a very rare achievement in the process. We also did some random exploring to open up some other areas of the Wasteland to make traveling a little easier depending on what quests pop up. All in all, it was very productive.
Fallout 76 Achievements
Mistress of Mystery: Complete "Mistress of Mystery"
For last night's raid we dropped in on Redneck_23 who was playing Wolfenstein over on twitch.tv/redneck_23!
Finished the commissioned Halo fan fic based around the end of Halo 4 (which I have never played), and all things considered, I'm not completely sure what more I could have done with it giving the circumstances of when Cortana becomes 'physical'.
Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Uppercut Combo #2 and Double Combo #1. I woke up incredibly early by my standards and just wasn't feeling it today.
Capcom has announced the full list of games for Capcom Arcade Stadium 2, and it includes a number of titles that will be appearing in the Capcom Fighting Collection Games listed in bold will be in both collection of games. Also, titles that are underline are the games that appeared in the Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection. Now my big question regarding the 2nd Capcom Arcade Stadium is what will
the achievements look light, because I'm not really seeing anything
that could be put on an endless loop to grind out hours.
1943 Kai
Black Tiger
Block Block
Capcom Sports Club
Darkstalkers: The Night Warriors
Eco Fighters
Gan Sumoku (GunSmoke)
Hissatsu Buraiken (Avengers)
Hyper Dyne Side Arms
Hyper Street Fighter II: The Anniversary Edition
Knights of the Round
Last Duel
Magic Sword
Mega Man: The Power Battle
Mega Man 2: The Power Fighters
Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge
Pnickies
Rally 2011 LED Storm
Saturday Night Slam Masters
Savage Bees (Exed Exes)
SonSon
Street Fighter
Street Fighter Alpha: Warriors' Dreams
Street Fighter Alpha 2
Street Fighter Alpha 3
Super Gem Fighter Mini Mix
Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo
The King of Dragons
The Speed Rumbler (Rush & Crash)
Three Wonders
Tiger Road
Vampire Savior: The Lord of Vampire
The Phillies have gotten themselves on a hot streak, but I doubt it's going to last long, as injuries have certainly taken a toll on the starting line up as of late.
The plan for tonight's stream is Final Fantasy XIV, as you know raids, trials, fishing botany and other stuff is on my agenda for it. Hopefully tonight will be a night where there are no issues.
But we'll see what ends up happening when we see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!
Last night's stream of Overwatch certainly was interesting with a lot of overly aggressive matches, some suspect new comers and other craziness. There was one Lucio who seemingly got their 'Soundwave' back faster than usual, keeping in mind, all matches were just Quick Play bouts, and it didn't help they appeared to be a smurf. So his bony ass got reported as so as something was noticed.
Big thanks to BangBangBang713 for joining in on several matches, always awesome to play with members of the community! Picked up one play of the game as D.va, and got in a few matches as her, Moira and Mei this evening, and I did use Reinhardt for part of one match and Tracer as a back fill in another.
For the raid we dropped in on Redneck_23 who was just doing a Just Chatting stream over on twitch.tv/redneck_23!
For today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 31 minutes with Weaving Combo #2, Straight Combo #1 and Beginner Combo #2 for an estimated calorie burn of 482 kcal.
Messed around more with Moral Kombat IX to earn some basic achievements, we'll most likely dedicate time to the Story Mode this week, maybe for Saturday's stream perhaps.
Mortal Kombat Achievements
Complet-ality: Perform 1 of each type of "-ality"
Finish Him?: Perform any fighter's hidden finishing move
Tag, You're It!: Perform and land a Tag Combo
Robots Rule!: Win Arcade Tag Ladder with robot Sektor and Cyrax
Capcom officially announced Street Fighter VI, and here's hoping it's not just limited to the PlayStation side of the console market. That was easily the biggest drawback about Street Fighter V. That said, I'm more excited for the Capcom Fighting Collection that will be coming out this summer, which will include every Darkstalkers game, plus other stuff like Red Earth, Cyberbots, Super Puzzle Fighter II, Pocket Fighter and the Anniversary edition of Hyper Street Fighter II.
We added a few things to X-Box side of heavy considerations for streaming in the future
Light Fairytale Episode 1 & 2
The Adventures of Elena Temple: Definitive Edition
Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins
Binary Domain
Dead of Alive 1 Ultimate
Dead or Alive 2 Ultimate
Dead or Alive 3 Ultimate
Elena Temple is a retro styled platformer, Heard Binary Domain was a lot like Gears of War, so that could be interesting, of course the Dead or Alive Ultimate versions of the first three games that were on the original X-Box is more for easy completion. Light Fairytale is an episodic turn-based JRPG that apparently didn't do well enough to warrant the series continuing... and the Doctor Who game is another odd-ball licensed by the BBC instead of giving the franchise a proper video game experience.
That is something that always bugged me, outside of the 11th Doctor era, there has not been much of note for the Doctor Who franchise in the realm of video games. To be honest, the show does lend itself more towards the point and click adventure style of video game, which we got with the Doctor Who: Adventure Games, but there was a fairly decent action platformer as well with Doctor Who: The Eternity Clock, and I believe the last major release was your basic Candy Crush styled game in the form of Doctor Who: Infinity.
For tonight's stream we're going to start up Tell Me Why, which is a narrative driven game developed by DONTNOD. I've heard good things about it, and I figure this might take two, at the most three streams to finish.
