Remembering How To Play Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream opened up with DKO Divine Knockout, and while I unlocked Zeus, my main go was to continue leveling up Athena as I intend get all of her unlocks first before I focus on other characters. Did have a rough night of playing overall, while we won a fair amount of matches, it seems I was being double teamed quite often! We did unlock one achievement in it, and came close on another.

Next we switched over to Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed, and somehow we had a match that lasted exactly 60 seconds. Not sure exactly what happened, but it was totally weird. Had a few great captures, knocked off some in game quests.

Lastly, we loaded up the Xbox 360 version of Sonic & All-Star Racing Transformed, which is a game that has been featured on my Twitch channel in prior years, but it was the Steam version. By playing the 360 version, it means I can unlock the achievements, and my progress playing the game and unlocking characters, courses and other stuff can be featured every now and then.

Now remembering how to play took a bit of remembering, as I went right to my old favorite racers Ulala (from Space Channel 5) and I totally forgot how her cart handled. Something different from how I used to play the Steam version was that I had little trouble dealing with inverted flight controls, guess I've gotten better with those aspects of gaming over the years. Even did fairly well in playing against other players in match making, granted I never placed higher than 4th, but I felt like I could more often than not finish a race in a multiplayer setting.

For the raid we dropped in on Kalenal while they were playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal!  

Divine Knockout Achievements

• Destructive: Achieved 'Destructive'

Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed Achievements

• Scud Racer: Finished 1st in a Race without getting hit by weapons
• Magic Second: Finished 0.5 seconds ahead of an opponent in a Race
• You Got The Horn: Levelled-up a character
• Parts Shop: Won an event with a Mod equipped
• Crack Down:  Got a total of 20 hits with weapons in a Race
• Meteor Strike: Collected 10 Stars in World Tour
• Catcher Pitcher: Absorbed a weapon with the Glove and fired it back at your attacker
• Welcome To The Fantasy Zone: Finished 1st in a Grand Prix tournament
• Racing Transformed: Turned All-Star

Stream Clip Links

• Taking the Double Knockout!
• My Box! 
• The Catch and The Pitch!
  

Mom was eating a little more solid food, in fact my day started yesterday with her saying she wanted corn flakes for breakfast. It does seem like she is getting some of her appetite back. We are raising money to help cover her medical expenses which does now include a two week hospital stay, donations can be made at https://gofund.me/6adf8354

Finished writing the 12th Mass Effect commissioned story yesterday, and was given options for the 13th episode, but I let the client make the choice of what they would prefer. I've been having a lot of fun writing these little tales.

It's the start of a new week, and here's a recap over what we featured over the past seven days which included Overwatch 2, Pokemon Violet, Fall Guys, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, DKO Divine Knockout, Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed & Sonic & Sega All-Stars Racing Transformed!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Beginner Combo #1, Weaving Combo #1 and Body Hook Combo for 28 minutes.

What's red and bad for your teeth? A brick.

Song of the Day: Sweet Caroline by Neil Diamond

For tonight's stream, it's Sunday night which means Overwatch 2 is on deck! So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Continuity Does Not Exisit In P4AU's Story!

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax saw us cover the first 48% of the story as told from the Persona 3 perspective of things... and I'm surprised they couldn't or wouldn't bother trying to sync things up with the Persona 4 side of the story. You see on the P4 Side, the characters of Ken, Yukari and Labrys arrive at Junes when Naoto has her encounter with Sho... but on the P3 side of the story, they arrive much earlier. It does raise a question over whose side of the story is canon... obviously it's the Persona 4 cast's side, but still, would've been nice if the P3 side was filling in gaps instead of telling an alternate series of events.

Also did an arcade run was Junpei and did try to go for his Grand Slam achievement... but then realized the requirements are impossible to set up against the A.I.. Oh well, at least I didn't need two tries in any fight, as Junpei is a character that is has a natural play-style to complete his arcade run.

For the raid we dropped in on the fine folks of Mystery Science Theater 3000 over at twitch.tv/mst3k!  

Stream Clip Links

• Makes You Want To Watch Power Rangers!
• Mess Him Up! 
• It's Outta Here!
  

Update on mom is that she's waiting to see what rehab facility she'll go to, as that's an entire process in and of itself from what I understand. We are raising funds to help cover her medical expenses, for more information visit: https://gofund.me/6adf8354

Finished the Quarian heavy Mass Effect shorty story commission yesterday, and got the go ahead request to do the next episode involving Kasumi. Basically all the latest chapters are based on Mass Effect 2. With luck I might finish this story before tonight's stream but I doubt it.

Yes I did order a new set of lightbulbs considering I'm half in the dark on stream the last few nights. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily work out featured Left-Right Step Combo, Hook Combo #2 and Advanced Combo #2 for 31 minutes.

If you're American when you go in the bathroom and American when you come out, what are you in the bathroom? European!

Song of the Day: Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton

For tonight's stream, well it's Saturday, which means a variety night, most likely DKO Divine Knockout, which just added Zeus to the list of playable characters, along with Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed.

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

Happy New Year

Happy New Year everyone,

First an update on my mom, we we featured twice last night via phone to my mic. Found out she now has some stomach lesions, and that the doctors are now saying she's going to have to get chemotherapy. So at least she she's already at the hospital and they can keep an eye on her right? Of course we are raising money for my mom in fight against cancer, if you would be kind enough to donate, you can do so at https://gofund.me/6adf8354

As for the stream, we opened up with DKO Divine Knockout, continuing my journey to get Athena to Level 20, we're at Level 11. We won a few, lost a few and I got my butt handed to me in some really suspect ways. Couldn't quite line things up to get a Triple Knockout... not for lack of trying.

We then switched over to Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed for the remainder of the stream, and color me surprise that the glitched collectable achievement popped! Guess they finally fixed it. I had some really good matches, and completed some long term in-game objectives to unlock a version of the Ghost Trap that uses a remote to open and close, similar to the one seen in Ghostbusters The Video Game.  

Between both games, we picked up a few achievements, which was a nice final boost to my Xbox Gamer score for 2022!

Big thank you to Kalenal for the raid following their stream of Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal!

For the raid we dropped in on AnnieTalksShow who was doing a Karaoke Party over at twitch.tv/annietalksshow! Really makes me miss Twitch Sings

Divine Knockout Achievements

• Victorious Silver: Achieved 'Victorious Silver'

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Achievements

• Master Collector: Find all secret clippings for every location
• Catostrophic Destroyer: Do 5,000,000 Dollars of Career Property Damage

Stream Clip Links

• Double Knockout!
• Every thing is Slimey! 
• Get In The BOX!
  

Finished the commission request for a WWE short story with a bit of focused writing, wasn't quite able to hit the word count that was asked for, but I made up for it with a lot of variety in action. Now on to the next request for a Mass Effect story!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hip Shape Focus Combo, Intermediate Combo #2 and Sway Back Combo for 31 minutes.

It's the start of a new week, so let's recap what we featured over the last seven days which was Overwatch 2, Pokemon Violet, Fall Guys, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, DKO Divine Knockout and Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed 

Why did the man get fired from his job at the calendar factory? He took a couple days off!

Song of the Day: New Year’s Day by U2.

For the first stream of 2023, we shall be playing Overwatch 2, hopefully we can begin the new year with a lot of wins!

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

Last day of the Year, Mom update and other notes

Good afternoon everyone

Yesterday was a bit rough for me as a lot things just hit me at the wrong moment. Mom's still in the hospital at the time I'm writing this, but I do know they took her to get her radiation therapy, and they have changed the food she's eating to be softer since she's having trouble swallowing. If anyone would be kind to donate to her gofundme to help cover these medical expenses, you can do so at: https://gofund.me/6adf8354

Did reach out to talk to the FN Dante Savage and had a nice short conversation, was nice to hear a different voice in the mix of all the chaos and insanity I'm experiencing.

As for last night's stream, we featured the back half of the Persona 4 cast story in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax and came to a realization that the entire plot for P4AU uses elements that ended up being used for Persona 5, witch a 'god' being embodiment of desires, a crossover of the 'TV World' and the 'Real World', and with Sho basically having the same back story as Akechi! Still, P4AU does in some regard give closure to the cast of Persona 4 in its epilogue.

We also did an arcade run as Teddie, and I thought I didn't like using him in vanilla Persona 4 Arena, but the changes and refinements in P4AU meant the A.I. on Normal meant using Teddie was a lot harder than it needed to be. We ended up clearing out a few achievements 

For the raid, we dropped in on MissJackieLin who was playing Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight over at twitch.tv/missjackielin. Always nice to drop in on other streamers who are playing games within the same franchise.

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Trophies

• The P-1 CLIMAX is over!: You completed Story Mode from the P4 perspective.
• Ultimate Suplex Hold: You used the S Hold System 10 times in Arcade Mode.
• Arcade Master: You completed Arcade Mode with three characters.

Stream Clip Links

• No Two Ways About It...
• There we go! 
• When You Hit Teddy's Super... Remember to Salute!
  

Finished the Mass Effect short story commission and started on the next commission request for a WWE not-so-short story, but I also got in a request for another Mass Effect short story. So I'll probably go back and forth writing both, since one will take me less than than the other.

Went through some stuff to throw out and found a couple of things worth keeping, including the framed inserts that celebrated the 1995 Hall of Fame inductions of Richie Ashburn and Mike Schmidt that were in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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

Stepped on the scale and I weighed in at 240 pounds! Okay maybe a two pound margin of error, so possible 242 lbs.

What do you call a can opener that doesn't work? A can't opener.

Song of the Day: I Can’t Wait by Nu Shoaz.

For tonight's New Year Eve stream, we'll do the usual bouncing from game to game, opening with DKO Divine Knockout and then going from there.

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

 

 

 

Well My Birthday started good.. then the winds screwed everything up

 Good afternoon everyone,

Well my 40th Birthday yesterday was a real mixed bag in so many ways. For one my mom's first radiation treatment was cancelled due to the inclement weather. So that's been pushed back to Tuesday. If you would like to donate to help with some of the medical expenses, you can do so at https://gofund.me/6adf8354. In fact we had one donation during yesterday's stream that pushed the total raised so far past the $1,000 mark. Thank you very much!

As for the stream, we started at 1:30 PM, and it's a good thing we did, We started with DKO Divine Knockout, getting several wins as Athena over the course of the first two hours, then after a break to check up on my mom, we played Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed, and was getting into a good groove until 4:55 PM when the weather started causing havoc, as I experienced a noticeable inability to keep a steady upstream connection. .

We switch the stream over to Just Chatting, doing a couple of games of APBA Baseball, made a Mass Effect squad member tier list, but at 7 PM I ran out of things to do under a Just Chatting format, and with the constant stream resets. Bandwidth tests using TwitchTest showed no 0 quality, which only occurs when there was an major issue. I called Xfinity, and was was told that numerous people were starting to call in reporting the same issue.

So needless to say my Birthday ended up being a real downer. At the very least, the Twitch VOD version of the first 3+ hours is in the archives.

I do want to thank those who kicked in 600 bits during the stream and to scotchboxvr for the raid, following their stream of Evil West over at twitch.tv/scotchboxvr

Getting back what we managed to do in terms of games, we did get a couple of achievements.

Divine Knockout Achievements

• Traveler’s Tall Tale: Achieved 'Traveler’s Tall Tale'
• KO Collection Gold: Achieved 'KO Collection Gold'

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Achievements

• Right back at ya: Break a tether and down the buster who tethered you within 10 seconds

Stream Clip Links

• Triple Knockout... 3 for 1!
• Just being a Teddy Bear 
• The Eagle Has Landed?
  

For the raid, we dropped in over on the official twitch channel for Mystery Science Theater 3000 over at https://www.twitch.tv/mst3k

Because my birthday stream was cut short i went and did some writing on the sixth chapter of the Mass Effect series of short story commission requests.

Also made some more progress on the Overwatch season 2 battle pass, though my latency was all over the pace until things settled down around 12:30 AM. 

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

How can you make seven an even number? Just take away the "s"!

Song of the Day: Jingle Bell Rock by Bobby Helms 

For tonight's stream, the plan is to start the story mode of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. Here's hoping Xfinity gets things sorted so we can have a full stream.

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

A Random Saturday

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream started with DKO Divine Knockout and I'm determined to get Athena to 'level 20' mostly because one of the things that is popular to do over in its sister game Smite, is to put in the play time with each character to rank X even if you're not good as them. I'm fairly good with Athena in certain match ups, so this gives me a long term goal with the game. Big thanks to Reaper for joining in on a few matches as well.

Next we played MultiVersus, and I do like the look of the Game of Thrones inspired arena, just wish I wasn't playing Velma at the time so I could have a better idea of how to recover when knocked off the sides. Also MultiVersus had some weird rendering issues with textures on the characters. Did nab the ugly sweater skin for Arya Stark, because that helped with some challenges.

Lastly we closed out the night with Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, and we had a good stint on it, winning 4 out of 6 matches played. I have to remember next time to hunt for Rifts to fulfill one of the side hustles.

So all in all a good night!

Divine Knockout Achievements

• Air-Time: Achieved 'Air-Time'
• Damage Dealer Gold: Achieved 'Damage Dealer Gold'
• Double KOs Silver: Achieved 'Double KOs Silver'

Twitch Clips

• Get Off My Point!
• Back to Back! 
• Trapped at the same instant the rift was destroyed!
  

For the raid we dropped in on Tracy Doll who was playing The Dark Pictures Anthology: The Devil In Me over at twitch.tv/tracydoll.

We have nearly raised $1000 for my mom to help cover her medical expenses, ya'll are awesome for helping her out! For information on what's going on in her fight against cancer visit: https://gofund.me/6adf8354.

Finished the first in a new series of short story commission based on Mass Effect, and the client wants a second right straight away. Now to figure out how to write the second episode.

Start of a new week, let's recap what we played over the last seven days: Overwatch 2, Pokemon Violet, Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series, Smite, Fall Guys, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 4 Arena Ultimax, DKO Divine Knockout, MultiVersus & Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed

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

There are three types of people in the world. Those of us who are good at math and those of us who aren't.

Song of the Day: Believer by Imagine Dragons

For tonight's stream Overwatch is on deck, as we'll work on knocking out things required for the weekly challenges and so forth. 

SO we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Is A Bit Different Than The Original

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Persona 4 Arena Ultimax saw us getting use the mechanics that were introduced in the original Persona 4 Arena which we played earlier this year... however there are a number of differences. I feel Aigis plays a lot different, some of the combo challenges feel awkward in execution, but overall it didn't take me too long to get back into the flow of things. That said, I did notice that characters who had sprites in the original Persona 4 Arena don't look as good when compared to the characters added to Ultimax, and that extends over to how some of the Instant Kills look as well.

In terms of other things done, we did one arcade run, attempted a Score Attach run... and dived in deep into the Golden Arena mode as Naoto, getting down to level 45... once I figured out the RPG element of it. It was great to hear some music I've heard a lot in the Dancing game trilogy over the past several week.

There is going to be a question of how I'm going to handed Person 4 Arena Ultimax next week with my Birthday on the 23rd. I'm certainly leaning towards doing a variety stream next Friday and putting P4AU on Saturday. We'll see what I end up doing.

Persona 4 Arena Ultimax Trophies

• Baby Steps: You started on the road to knowledge.
• Cram Session: You studied 20 different Lessons.
• 30-Minute Workout: You Trained for 30 minutes straight!  
• Combination Fighter: You completed 150 challenges!
• The Punk's Way: You defeated an opponent without letting them Awaken in Arcade or Network Mode.
• Advanced Fishing Manual: You performed 10 Fatal Counters in Arcade or Network Mode.
• Awakened SP Skill Boosts Made Easy: You used an Awakened SP Skill Boost in Arcade or Network Mode.
• Arcade Novice: You completed Arcade Mode with one character.
• Not Unlike a Boss: You defeated a boss character in Golden Arena Mode!
• Brave Gladiator: You raised a character to level 10 in Golden Arena Mode!

Steam Clips

• Achievement: The Punk's Way
• Galactic Punt! 
• I actually... lost...
  

For the raid we dropped in on x_lumineee  when they were playing Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII - Reunion over at twitch.tv/x_lumineee!   

Mom was visited by several family members yesterday which was pretty cool, and I got in touch with a cousin I haven't spoken too in a long time. Also, huge thank you to everyone who donated to my mom's GoFundMe yesterday, your kindness and generosity is incredible! For more info on what is going on visit: https://gofund.me/6adf8354

Played a little Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 yesterday and nabbed an achievement in it... granted I was playing it because Windows and Logitech had updates that broke the audio set up I have for OBS

Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 Achievements

• ADVENTURE 2: Clear area 3-11 in ADVENTURE!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Body Hook Combo, Beginner Combo #1 and WEaving COmbo #1 for 28 minutes.

What do you call the security guards outside of Samsung? The guardians of the Galaxy.

Song of the Day: Intentions by Justin Bieber ft Quavo

For tonight's stream, well it's a variety night, so DKO: Divine Knockout, Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed and MultiVersus are things I have planned

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

Fun night of Overwatch 2

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream was certainly filled with wins and losses, in fact there was a long stretch with a lot of losses in a row early on. Still we ended up getting on a stretch of wins too. We also had a variety of folks joining is, big thanks to PatD, PandaSweet and LvStrkr for being apart of the games. I personally picked up two Plays of the Game, one as Mei and one as Junker Queen. Other characters sued were Moira, D.va, Reinhardt, Lucio, Junkrat and several others. 

Also the 3rd and 4th clips listed below are both from the same match, one ended up being Play of the Game, while the other was just a perfect combination of events leading to that match being won.

Twitch Clips

• Was that my kill or yours?
• Fire in the Hole! 
• This ended up being Play of the Game
• Rezzed and Reckoning 
   

For the raid we dropped in on PradoxGamerAU who was playing World of Warcraft over on twitch.tv/PradoxGamerAU!   

Talked to my dad yesterday, had a nice conversation with him that just brought forward how rough things are going to get for my mom. If anyone wants to help, you can donate to her gofundme at https://gofund.me/6adf8354.

Finished up one WWE Short Story Commission and started on a fourth, this one will feature Tegan Nox and will be based on her surprise return two weeks ago.

So that Maximillian_DOOD and the Yo Videogames crew was playing DKO Divine Knockout last night, unfortunately they were just doing 2 v 2, becuase it would be interesting to see how they would handle a 3 v 3 situation. He also did a Boss Rage for Tekken 5: Dark Resurrection that I wish I could've stayed up to watch, but thankfully the twitch VODs pick up from where you last watched a live stream for a channel.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Biceps Shape Focus Combo, Difficult Challenge Combo #3 and Difficult Challenge Combo #1 for 34 minutes. Also, yesterday we hit the two year mark... and at my current pace, I should hit the 50 hour mark with Martina around December 27th, original estimate had it being reached January 1st

What did the finger say to the thumb? I'm in glove with you.

Song of the Day: Die A Happy Man by Thomas Rhett.

For tonight's stream, we're back to Pokemon Violet with the goal being to find the 2nd Titan to conquer it. Last week we got lost trying to find it, so hopefully we'll have better luck this time.

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

 

https://gofund.me/6adf8354

Random Saturday Was Random

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream had a weird moment where the stream restarted, there was a very brief period of frame drops and the upstream was unstable, which was just weird. Nothing like that happened since last Saturday night.

Anyway, we featured three games last night, the first being DKO: Divine Knockout and we dedicate mostly the entire first half of the stream to it, playing as Athena, who has a pretty cool kit, and we ended up winning quite a few matches, which considering they are best three out of five, is saying a lot. Of all the game modes, I despise the 'Gather Coins To Put In The Chest' one.... but the others like Knockout, King of the Hill and Oddball are all incredibly fun. Also picked up quite a few achievements.

Divine Knockout Achievements

• PvE'd: Achieved 'PvE'd'
• Divine Knock Out!: Achieved 'Divine Knock Out!'
• Damage Dealer Silver: Achieved 'Damage Dealer Silver'
• KO Collection Silver: Achieved 'KO Collection Silver'
• The Penta-Ultimate: Achieved 'The Penta-Ultimate'

Next we played MultiVersus, and I mostly stuck to using Harley Quinn and Wonder Woman, winning a fair amount of matches. Played one match as Tom & Jerry, winning that one. Luckily was able to get into an auto-formed team to make some headway towards the play 500 matches in a party achievement.

Lastly we played Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed, got in one match as a ghost... and nearly won but ended up taking a wrong turn and got trapped at the literal last second. Had several successful matches as a Ghostbuster, and managed to pick up one achievement in it.

Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed Achievements

• Icing on the Cake: Pass Through a Buster to fully slime them down

Twitch Clips

• That Worked!
• Incoming! 
• Victory Is Ours!
• Double Elimination! Yes! Yes! 
• Perfectly Laid Trap
• A Win With Tom & Jerry 
• I'm here to provide cold beverages
• It was my trap! 
• You know they are mad
  

For the raid we dropped in on apolloxvoicex who was playing DKO Divine Knockout over at twitch.tv/apolloxvoicex!  

Learned that one of my uncles was a professional boxer back in the early 1980s, which was pretty cool. He fought in 19 bouts, won 17 of them... and the other 2 matches were a draw.

Managed to score a couple of King Crazy ranked performances in Persona 5 Dancing the last couple of nights off-stream. Granted it and its Persona 3 counterpart both have the auto-scratch option.

Nearly finished the short story commission for a WWE story featuring Sarah Logan, I'll have it done before dinner for sure, and I better put the notes together for the obvious follow up based on Teagon Nox's return two weeks ago.

Happy Birthday to my father who turns 67 years old today. Talked to him earlier, and he's doing all right, he's pleased about the a college football team where he lives being in a playoff situation... means free drinks every time they score a touchdown at the local bar.

It's the start of a new week, so let's recap what we played last week which was Overwatch 2, Pokemon Violet, Game of Thrones; A Telltale Series, Commander Keen in Keen Dreams Definitive Edition, Fall Guys, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 4: Dancing All Night, DKO: Divine Knock Out, MultiVersus & Ghostbusters: Spirits Unleashed

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Straight Combo #2, Difficult Challenge Combo #2 and Block Combo for 31 minutes.

What's the award for being best dentist? A little plaque.

Song of the Day:Just Dance by Lady Gaga and Colby O’Donis

For tonight's stream we'll be playing Overwatch 2, obviously the goal is to try and knock out a level or two on the Season 2 battle pass!

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

We completed Person 4 Dancing All Night

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night we wrapped up Persona 4: Dancing All Night, unlocking all remaining trophies, watching all the visual novel segments, clearing every default song of the game at least once and having a good time. I have the 'prologue' that is unlocked at the very end does a great job providing context to the actual story and the ending when Rise still saying she needed her friends. 

I made numerous attempts at getting a King Crazy with the speed up challenge modifier enabled, and came incredibly close numerous times. Also found that somehow a Fever Time between Yukiko and Chie wasn't seen before...same also applied to one of Fever Time's involving Nanako as a partner dancer. Also, Margaret's dance has some really funky note placements that will take some time to master... if I was going to continue grinding away at this game.

So what's next on Friday nights... well, it's going to be Persona 4 Arena Ultramax, the sequel / refinement of the original Persona 4 Arena. It continues the story, adds more characters from Persona 3 and Persona 4. We'll see how many achievements for it we can unlock without having to play online matches.

Persona 4: Dancing All Night Trophies

• The Junes Special: Seen all Bond Fevers between Yosuke and Teddie
• Senpai, You're So Cool!: Seen all Bond Fevers between Yu and Rise
• The Empress Dethroned: Rescued Kyoka Ochimizu
• Bond Dancers, Go!: Got through to Mikuratana-no-Kami
• Time to Party Harder: Margaret joins the dance
• The Party Never Ends: Cleared all tracks in Free Dance
• Hooked on Shopping: Bought all items in Shopping
• Closet Full of Dreams: Bought all costumes
• Lapidary: Obtained all accessories
• To Greater Heights: Unlocked highest difficulty (ALL NIGHT)
• I Am Thou, Thou Art I: Completed the Database
• Red and Green: Seen all Bond Fevers between Yukiko and Chie
• Nanako Forever!: Triggered all dances/Bond Fevers with Nanako
• Costume Coordinator: Cleared a track with each character in changed costumes
• Historian: Watched all events, including pre-story
• Dancing All Night: Obtained all trophies

Twitch Clips

• Setting A New High Score
• Is There An Echo In Here 
• Finish of a 400+ Combo
  

For the raid we dropped in on orpheong who was playing Persona 5 Royal over at twitch.tv/orpheong, but it appeared they weren't paying attention to their chat 

Thank everyone for your kind words and best wishes for my mom, and to those who have already donated to her GoFundMe over at https://gofund.me/6adf8354, all donations will go to cover her medical expenses.

Work was terrible yesterday... I would say I was distracted, but things just didn't fall into place

Got a little writing done for the third straight WWE related short story commission, but it is a continuation of tales involving those Superstars who recently returned to the company

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Sway Back Combo, Hip Shape Focus Combo and Intermediate Combo #2 for 31 minutes.

What did Mario say when he broke up with Princess Peach? "It's not you, it's a-me!"   

Song of the Day: m.A.A.d City by Kendrick Lamar and MC Eiht

For tonight's stream we';; open up with DKO Divine Knockout and then bounce around between a few games, MultiVersus and Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed for sure. 

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

Xfinity came out, swapped the modem, internet goes down in the middle of stream

 Good afternoon everyone,

So in the follow up to last Saturday's fiasco, Xfinity came out, checked everything... replaced the external splitter and some fittings on the coaxial cable and swapped the X8 modem I had with a new one... then at 1027 PM the modem did a full on reset out of the blue similar to what I saw happened back during the troublesome issues of July through September. Now I'll just hope that was just an instance of the modem getting an update.

The stream itself was a bounce around kind of night, we opened up with MultiVersus and managed to snag the achievement for playing 100 matches in a party, which was nice. I did happened to get stuck with people who clearly weren't in the mood to be playing with them doing less than 100 damage dealt. Why play a fighting game if you're not going to play?

We also checked out Divine Knockout, which is a 3 vs 3 platform brawler from the people who made Smite. I certainly got a good feel for it early, playing as Sol in a couple of matches. It's in its Alpha stage of development, but from what I saw, it seems like it'll be a fun game to play every now and then.

We also played Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed, and the macro key using PC players certainly was on full display when it came to cool downs and just keeping four people cornered for extended periods of time. Did get a few solid captures.

Space Invaders: Infinity Gene was next on the hit parade, and it was during this portion of the stream when things went down as detailed at the beginning of today's blog. We made a couple attempts of getting 10 Million Points, getting to 8.5 Million. Would've been cool to accomplish that.

And lastly we played two matches in Smite, losing both, but it was in the second match where I had to report another player for AKFing. One they complained about the team selection and then left the match when we were winning, proving him. We only lost at the final moment because my team got greedy trying to push 4 vs 5 when all we had to do was defend. 

MultiVersus Achievements

• Life of the Party: Play 100 matches in a party

Divine Knockout Achievements

• Practice Makes Perfect: Achieved 'Practice Makes Perfect'

Twitch Clips

• Get That Stuff Out Of Here
• Cross Over Scares Taz 
• Get that Nonsense Out Of Here!
• Close To Victory! 
• Controlling The Point
• Darn it! 
• Saw him coming
• It's the music that makes it 
• My highest score ever...
• Get the Kill and then got killed 
• Shut Down!
  

For the raid we dropped in on Flint_Locke as they were in the middle of a Dungeons & Dragons campaign over at twitch.tv/flint_locke! 

Made some headway on the writing of the first of two back to back WWE commission short story requests, I'll probably finish it this afternoon... or at the latest by tomorrow.

Start of a new week, so let's recap last weeks games which featured Overwatch 2, Pokemon Violet, Game of Thrones: A Telltale Series, Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium, Fall Guys, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 4: Dancing All Night, MultiVersus, Divine Knockout, Ghostbusters Spirits Unleashed, Space Invaders: Infinity Gene and Smite!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Double Combo #1, Body Uppercut Combo and Body Straight Combo for 28 minutes. On a side note, will probably hit 1 million punches thrown by the end of the week

How do you feel when there's no coffee?  Depresso.

Song of the Day: Way Down We Go by KALEO

For tonight's stream the plan is to play Overwatch 2 with the goal being to help PandaSweet get to Battle Pass level 200! We hope we can accomplish that!

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