We finished The Quarry... Everyone Lived

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of The Quarry we had one instance of an apparent drop in Upload speed, which split the stream in two, but I'll take only one minor incident over the nonsense that happened on Thursday night.

Now we managed to finish The Quarry with everyone surviving, which was an impressive feat considering how easily some things can lead to characters being killed off. One of the key things I was trying to do was follow ups on earlier actions, such as using the Stuffed toy found in the cabins earlier in the game to make sure Kaitlyn survived in the 10th chapter.

I did like how the Fortune Teller acted as both as a hidden antagonist and guide, it was a great misdirection similar to the menu android seen in Detroit Become Human... which funny enough is another game with branching paths I should do a second play through of.

Speaking of replays, since I didn't find all the evidence (missing one), it meant I didn't get the 'most positive ending', but there are incentives to replay The Quarry because of different endings and achievements. So for sure we'll have this on the agenda for the fall of 2023! 

Now which game will replace The Quarry on Friday nights? Well I'm not 100% sure yet, I'm considering a few things, I know Until Dawn is something I'm saving for October. So Maybe Alan Wake on the PS4? We'll see what I figure out.

The Quarry (PS4) Trophies

• Chapter 5: Completed Chapter 5
• Chapter 6: Completed Chapter 6
• Bizarre Yet Bonafide: Listened to the podcast
• Chapter 7: Completed Chapter 7
• Chapter 8: Completed Chapter 8
• Phlebotomy: Accepted the bite of a werewolf
• Above the Law: Travis and Laura agreed to work together
• Chapter 9: Completed Chapter 9
• The White Wolf: Killed Silas
• Chapter 10: Completed Chapter 10
• Rough Night: Keep everyone alive
• Epilogue: Witness the Epilogue
• Creature Feature: Started a movie mode playthrough

Twitch Clips

• Needle to the neck
• That was some serious (blank) 
• Good luck reporting that to AAA
• Slam It Home! 
  

For the raid we dropped in on DaemonsW0lf who was playing Destiny 2 over at twitch.tv/daemonsW0lf. Howe we caught them as they were about to end so the raid train was sent over to Glorifiedthief over at twitch.tv/Glorifiedthief who was wrapping up AI: The Somnium Files - Nirvana Initiative!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double Combo #1, Uppercut Combo #2 and Defensive Combo #1 for 28 minutes

Fitness Boxing 2: Rhythm & Exercise States For Week of 9/11 to 9/17/22

• Punches Thrown: 8614
  
• Estimated Calories Burned: 3583.49 kcal
  
• Evan's Champion Progress: 68% (34 out of 50 Hours)
  
• King EX Fight Progress:96%
• Fitness Boxing 2 Consecutive Days: 645
• Fitness Boxing 1 & 2 Consecutive Days: 803
  

Comcast will be out in my neighborhood to replace the service drop line, but of course after Thursday's incident I 100% bet there are grater issues with their infrastructure that serves my area.

Why shouldn't you write with a dull pencil? Because it's pointless.

How much does an influencer weigh? An Instagram.

Song of the Day:  Never Seen The Rain by Tones And I

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For tonight's stream we'll be messing around with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Cowabunga Collection, we'll try to feature every single game.   so tonight's stream will be full of Turtle Power!

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

Arcade Games and Being Undefeated

Good afternoon everyone

Last night's stream was supposed to lead off with MVP Baseball on the PlayStation 2... but the one I tested last night refused to read the disc... even though it worked with Marvel vs Capcom 2 like 15 hours earlier. Oh well.

So we called the audible, and loaded up Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium and knocked out a couple of achievements. For the 'Clear a Game on the highest difficulty, I played Knights of the Round, which is a game I'm very familiar with because it was apart of the Capcom Beat 'Em Up Collection. To get the remaining achievements means putting in 97 hours of game time, plus earning enough CAPSO to reach rank 20, and it's going to be a similar approach that I used with the first version of the game at the start of the year.

Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium Achievements

• Technician: Clear a game on the highest difficulty setting.
• Remedial Student: Reach Class 5: Experimenter.

Now we didn't stay with Capcom Arcade Stadium the entire stream, after a break, we switched over to Smite and I won five straight matches in arena, three as Terra, one as Cupid and one as Nike. Also cleared the board for the Nickelodeon event which was rather nice. Other than that, nothing much to talk about there.

For the raid we dropped in on DaemonsW0lf who was playing Destiny 2 over at twitch.tv/daemonsw0lf!  

Internet went down a few times yesterday, but I was told that those reports have been forwarded to the maintenance team. Also at the time of this post we had another period of the internet going down,

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Intermediate Combo #1, Biceps Shape Focus Combo and Difficult Challenge Combo #1 for 34 minutes.

Was hanging out over on Rainbownarwhal9's stream as they were playing Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, and the hit 50 followers as part of the requirements to become a Twitch Affiliate. Congrats to them!  

A new week has started, which means it's time to recap what we did last week, which featured Overwatch, Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht, Fall Guys, Lego Indiana Jones: The Original Adventures, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r], Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium and Smite!

Does anyone need an ark? I Noah guy.

Why did the picture go to jail? Because it was framed!

Song of the Day: Rockstar by Nickelback

Finished work on the Metal Gear Solid commission request... and trying to avoid having Quiet speak was a challenge considering the context of the short story. And of course I would get a request to base something around Attack on Titan... which I admit I've only seen the first season of... so some research needs to be done.

UPS finally delivered my package that I was expecting on Friday... little over 24 hours from when I called to report their driver lied about attempting delivery. The things I got to do to get things done.

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For tonight's stream, well you know what day it is, with it being Sunday that means Overwatch! So on that note we'll see you later tonight over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Wrapping Up MK Vs DC & The Pain Of Paladins

Good morning everyone,

Well, Sony answered Microsoft's purchase of Activision-Blizzard by buying out Bungie... who made the original Halo and Destiny games. Now with me, this is not much of a counter punch, but hey maybe the Destiny franchise can get back on track... I doubt it considering the nonsense associated with story content in Destiny 2.

Anyway, last night's stream started with Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe with the focus on doing arcade runs of the remaining characters to see their endings... so this included Liu Kang, Raiden, Captain Marvel, Shang Tsung, Catwoman, Sub Zero, Darkseid and Shao Kang. I was surprise that Darksaid and Shao Khan do not have any fatalities. On a side note, outside of Liu Kang and Sub-Zero, probably the easiest character to figure out moves for was Catwoman.

In terms of the endings... the one that I kind of feel would make the most idiotic reason for a big movie cross over since Warner Brothers owns Mortal Kombat and DC Comics, is the use of (The Real) Captain Marvel getting access to the Elder Gods to boost his powers to combat a major threat... and then have Raidan show up for some reason at the end. Not likely to happen but hell it's not like there has been a good Mortal Kombat film since the first one.

We also played Paladins last night for a bit, and as usual I was reminded as to why I stopped playing it so often. The usual nonsense associated with folks not picking on what the team needs and fighting off the objective came to the forefront. I honestly can't believe taking 'two flanks' is still a thing people do in this game, which drives me nuts. Either Two Tanks, Two Damage or Two Supports... never... EVER take two flanks. Anyway, in the matches played I used Ash, Tyra and Ying.

Big thank you to the_tjcalhoun for subscribing to my Twitch channel for the first time with Twitch Prime, Redfoxukcov for resubscribing using Twitch Prime for the 9th straight month and to Sw33ts_Gaming for the Tier 1 sub, continuing their stream at 34 months!

For the raid, there was no raid, we hosted maximilian_dood  who was doing things related to The King of Fighters XV over on twitch.tv/maximilian_dood!  

Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe Achievements

• DC Arcade Champion: Complete Arcade Mode with all DC characters
• MK Arcade Champion: Complete Arcade Mode with all MK characters

Twitch Clip Links

1. Dropping The Arcade Machine
2. This is for Man of Steel! 
3. The Free Fall Turn Around Into The Finish
4. Double Kill! 
5. Avoding Drogoz's Ult
   

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured a 31 minute workout around Hip Shape Focus Combo, Sway Back Combo and Straight Combo #2 with a calorie burn of 473 kcal. I will admit, with the real cold mornings, it's not always easy to load up the Switch to do the daily workout when one wants to stay nice and snug under the blanket.

My Final Fantasy XIV adventures saw major progress in the Main Story Quest, going from Skies Aflame up through At World's End. The dungeon, Vanaspati was mostly without incident... until myself, the other DPS and the Mage all got K.O.ed... thankfully the Tank, who was playing the role of Warrior which has some insane self-healing capabilities was able to solo the final boss. Needless to say they earned commendation without question.

In terms of how The Final Days is being implemented into Final Fantasy XIV, I really get some strong  Grandia II vibes, particular since the final act of that game sees the world being over run with monsters. That said, there were some surprising moments in the cut scenes and the Aether Currents were easy to find except for one which I missed from the far west side of the map. 

Before returning to the World of the First, I will be doing the Ranged DPS Role Quests, which seems to take place back in Doma. Should be interesting to see how the event of the MSQ are effecting other parts of the Realm.

For tonight's stream we'll be focused on Capcom Arcade Stadium, as we're at 98 Hours, so 2 hours of in-game time will unlock the final achievement. Though I easily could've done that last night.

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

A Night of Metroids, Plumbers, Apes and Boxers

 Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream heavily featured the original Metroid, along with three other games from the Nintendo's NES era of the 1980s.

We'll talk about Metroid first, since it was the one game I certainly wanted to feature, and I can safely say this: anyone who finished it without using any of the password / cheat codes, kudos to you, because it was a reminder as to why I normally don't stick with Metroidvania games for more than a night or two. The controls are real easy to learn, and they are responsive to the inputs of the controller (at least the emulated version of Metroid is that is available through the Nintendo Switch's Online NES collection.

My biggest issues with Metroid is there really is no clear cut indication of where to go, the seemingly  randomness of the enemy movement patterns and some of the leaps of logic one must take to figure out how to reacher new areas. Let's address the first issue first, I totally get it that Samus has to find the gear and search all over the place first for the best gear to get the job done, the issue is actually figuring out where to go as the game is set up to make one feel like they are running in circles... and certainly this had me looking for an online guide to cover that. The second issue is randomness of enemy movement patterns, there are numerous instances where the pattern of the enemies changes, making quite a few things impossible to predict, which certainly cost me some time. The final issue relates to some of the games 'puzzles', such as having to go up through a ceiling or down through a floor, there is no way to tell difference as all the textures look the same.

Thankfully I found the guides over on GameFAQs to be rather helpful, but more importantly a map which actually gave me a idea of how to get to the mini-bosses and then to Morther Brain. And I'll straight up admit, we used the NARPASSWORD password / cheat code to push through. Even with these tool it did take me over three over to get though the game. We are counting it for this years tour, which means 54 games have been finished on stream.

Now we didn't end there, we messed around with three other classic Nintendo games: Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong and Punch Out. Of the three... only Super Mario Bros I had some experience with, but that didn't show as I made numerous careless mistakes. Donkey Kong took some time to figure out but we managed to clear all three of it's stages to get a feel for it, Punch-Out I have played only a handful of times back in the early 90s... and well I'm so bad at that game Glass Joe can knock me down!

Big thanks to Foxy_Melly for re-subscribing to the channel for 22 months in a row! Foxy is also a streamer, broadcasting from the UK and was most recently featuring Destiny 2! You can check out their streamers over a twitch.tv/foxy_melly! 

Following the stream we sent the fun over to DaWorstGamerEver25 (twitch.tv/daworstgamerever25) who was playing American Truck Simulator! I've known him since high school and he's a really good dude! Hope you check him out when you get a chance!

Twitch Clip Links

• The First Of Many Deaths 
• Hey We Found A Thing! 
• Oh Wonderful... What Is This?!
• I want the thing!
• Hey we found another thing!
• We are so screwed...
• Damn it all!
• Ay Dios mio!
• Hey we made it!
• Down Goes Donkey Kong!
• I'm so bad Glass Joe can knock me down! 
• We're dead 

Twitch continues to have issues porting things over to YouTube, in the mean time I am highlighting key things from each stream to be archived at a later date. Hopefully Twitch can fix their issues as soon as possible. I will try to do full downloads and uploads of things featured on stream, but that's a long ass process.

While I was doing my laundry after last night's stream, I sat down to bang out (HA!) the commissioned fic featuring the RWBY characters of Pyrrha, Jaune and Cardin. It's up now over on HF under my DiceCasden pen name.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily work out lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises: advanced Combo #2, Double Combo #2 and Left-Right Step Combo. Total estimated calorie burn was 563 kcal.  We also did an additional 11 minutes with Uppercut Combo #2 and Beginner Combo #1 as well for an added estimated calorie burn of 174 kcal. So the compete totals for today were 43 minutes with an estimate calorie burn of 738

At this exact moment I'm not completely sure what's on the agenda for tonight's stream, we could dedicate it to Final Fantasy XIV or maybe start The Walking Dead Season 2? I'll make up my mind by this evening that's for sure!

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