Rock Band, Spider-Man and Pizza

Good morning everyone,

Yesterday was kind of a rough day on several fronts, feeling less than motivated to day anything at all. As I said, when I'm given extra time to think, I get so inside my own head that I just feel depressed. So instead of using what I had to make dinner, I ordered a Pizza from Francello's (a local Pizza joint located in Pennsauken). For those wondering it was a Philly Steak Pizza, and it was delicious.

Last night's stream of Spider-Man saw us started and complete The City That Never Sleeps Part 1, and by complete I mean unlock every single trophy for it. As a follow up story, it works with Miles wanting to learn, The Black Cat being a part of the adventure, the big reveal that her father was also in the city, plus setting up the loose ends that is Sable International's goons canonically still being in New York following the ending of the main game.

I do feel like I have an opportunity to get all of the Challenge Tokens I need to unlock the remaining three Spider-Suits, but now the concern is Base Tokens,which appears to be only possible in the main story portion of the game. I know I'm going to need 5 more tokens, so I need to figure out which challenges I can do of the remaining bases that I've cleared before.

Marvel's Spider-Man Trophies

• The Cat Came Back: Complete "The Maria" mission
• Disorganized Crime: Complete all Crimes in a district
• The Long Con: Complete the "Like a Fiddle" mission
• Here Kitty-Kitty: Complete the Black Cat chase
• Screwy: Get Spectacular or better in all Screwball Challenges
• Bye Felicia: Complete the "Follow the Money" mission
• Seduced by the City: 100% Complete CTNS: The Heist

We didn't do a raid last night, as I was not sure who would be a good person to drop in on, but I did hang out on BestiBunni's stream of Stellaris over on twitch.tv/bestibunni

Not completely sure what's on the agenda for tonight's stream as Striker said he may not be available, so we'll see

Did quite a bit of singing in Rock Band 4 Rivals, and knocked out quite a few achievements, using some very obvious exploits. Since I'm not going to bother getting any of the actual instruments, I shall treat Rock Band 4 as I did Twitch Sings, as a fun way to spend some times.

On a positive note, I earned enough points through Bing and Microsoft to earn a couple of gift cards, so that was a pleasant surprise for sure.

Was so cold yesterday between the rain and the surprisingly low temperature that I had to turn the heater back on. I was less than thrilled with having to do that.

Saw that Doctor Who: The Edge of Reality now has a non-VR version of on the Xbox side of things, so we'll be checking that out sometime soon. And with the DLC additions to Vampire Survivors we could revisit that on stream as well

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

A Weird End To A Wild Night

Good afternoon everyone,

Well last night's stream had a lot of variety, but let's talk about how it ended. For the first four hours, there were no issues at all, then there was a slight drop off for a few moments, nothing major... but then at 11:14 PM we had issue to the point that it forced the stream to split into 2 parts. Thankfully I was going to be wrapping up anyway, but that's the first instance of that in a quite a few weeks.  

Anyway, last night we lead off with NFL Game Day, and despite the disc having more scratches than a curtain in a room full of cats, it was a fun experience. Granted the first game I played as the Eagles vs the Cowboys ended in a loss, but by the end of it I had enough of any idea of how to play. The second game, where I played as the Bears vs the Jaguars ended in a dominate win... granted the Jaguars were one of the worst teams in the game, but hey a win is a win.

I broke out the Dance Pad and loaded up Dance Dance Revolution Konamix for the 2nd game of the evening... and needless to say, you probably will never see that game streamed by me ever again for two reason. One being, the added sound of me 'dancing' on the dance pad sounds terrible, and Two being I mostly did this to see if the Dance pad itself still worked... and good news is it does.

I also took a look at The Incredible Hulk: The Pantheon Saga... and for 20+ years I always thought it was a side scrolling beat-em up. I had no idea it was a 3D game with puzzle elements. I can say that the music sounded good, but I couldn't make heads or tails out of the controls.

We switched over to the PlayStation 2 to mess around with Capcom vs. SNK 2, during a couple of arcade mode runs, and even taking a crack at survivor mode (getting 9 wins as Sakura). Unlike an earlier attempt at playing it while back, we didn't have the game freezing when fighting Rugal (Since I mostly used the Capcom characters).

Lastly we spent some time playing Overwatch 2, as I continue to practice using D.va to see what can and cannot be done against live opponents. Only won one match, but had a great moment of getting a double kill by dropping my mech on a Widowmaker and Soldier 76!

Big thanks to the chat for kicking in 300 bits during the stream! Ya'll are great!

Twitch Clips

• We Worked It In There!
• Yup... I have DDR... 
• Well we're dead
• Get That Stuff Out Of Here! 
• Double Squish!
  

For the raid, we dropped in on Kalenal who was playing Final Fantasy XIV over at twitch.tv/kalenal!  

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Triple Combo #1, Straight Combo #1 and Weaving Combo #2 for 28 minutes.

I did some rearranging of things in my office space as there might be a reveal of what's behind the screen stream at some point.

Nearly finished the latest commissioned story request based around John Cena's 20th Anniversary appearance on WWE Monday Night RAW, just need to wrap up the action sequences.

It's the start of a new week, so let's look back at what happened last week over on my Twitch channel, which featured Overwatch, Doctor Who: The Lonely Assassins, Paladins, Persona 4 Arena, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Strikers, NFL Game Day, Dance Dance Revolution Konamix, The Incredible Hulk The Pantheon Saga, Capcom Vs SNK 2 Mark of the Millennium 2001 and Overwatch 2! Also three moments of Just Chatting is included as well.

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For tonight's stream, the plan is of course, Overwatch as it is every Sunday! Hopefully we'll have no weird issues like we did last night! 

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

Whole lot of things

Good afternoon everyone,

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!

Twitch Clip Links

1.  The Focus Was Real
2.  I'm on fire... first one way and then the other
3.  A Nice Wall

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.

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

 

Today's Notes 2/19/21

Good morning everybody,

Last night's stream of Star Trek Online was pretty damn solid from start to finish, as we went through every one of my characters doing one thing (either a mission, task force operation, patrol or other activity), so folks got to see the wide variety of 'captains' I've used. For some of the characters, it was their first time being used in a couple of years, and boy are some characters badly under-powered with how Star Trek Online has evolved over the year in regards to how some things stack. 

We did have a little 'scare' last night as the power did go out while I was putting together last night's highlight video for the Facebook page. Near as I can tell, because of all the ice, wind, snow we've had, it's pushed the branches of a neighbor's over-grown, poorly maintained tree down on the power lines near the transformer. The asshole in question refuses to do anything about how the tree's branches and because he has 'stroke' with the city council, no one has ever forced him to fix this issue. To give you an idea of how much of a horse's ass that guy is, he has a dog in his yard that he keeps out doors pretty much year round, even in cases of excessive heat and cold while also being one of the asshole who sets up outside of a local elementary school during election time to 'convince' people to vote for who he wants. 

Anyway, we had a solid Fitness Boxing 2 Session today as I'm getting use to setting up for the exercises being to the right of my green-screen as opposed to the left. I might have to drop side steps and front-back steps because i would need to move some furniture to have the room necessary to perform both comfortably. We reached a new milestone called Super Stamper Lv. 3 which is to log in 70 days of daily exercise, or as the game calls it 'acquire 70 stamps'. It doesn't have to be consecutive days, but it helps if you do exercise a bit daily.

For tonight's stream, we'll be trying out Hades on the Nintendo Switch, this game was highly recommend by one of my viewers a few weeks ago as something they thought I would be interested in. When it comes to rouge like dungeon crawlers, they are not my forte, and part of the reason why I haven't gone back to Diablo III was because of how overly complicated things involving gear got. 

But you know what's funny, the lead character in Hades is called Zagreus, which is a name I never associated with Greek mythology. In fact, I associate the name Zagreus with Doctor Who through the Big Finish published audio dramas! In fact, my main character in Star Trek Online is called Zagreus, and the character is a female liberated Borg drone, while in Greek mythology, Zagreus is the name of a son of Zeus and Persephone. I say 'a son', because we all know Zeus got around.

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

Today's Notes 12/29/20

Good morning everybody,

Last night's stream of ESPN Major League Baseball (aka ESPN Baseball 2K4), saw my 2004 Phillies going 5-1 in a six game road trip, taking 2 of 3 from the Expos and sweeping the Cardinals. Perhaps my favorite moment from last night was the 12th inning 2-Run home run by David Bell (https://clips.twitch.tv/TiredAdorableHabaneroArgieB8), since that particular game was the first time we went to extra frames. Next time we play ESPN MLB, we'll be on a home stand hosting the Diamondbacks and The Cardinals. 

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session felt good, even though my timing from the Southpaw stance was off on nearly everything. Which is just funny considering that my better half of every exercise has been the Southpaw stance as opposed to orthodox! We did pass the 26,000 punches thrown count, so progress is being made. Also on a weigh in this morning  I was exactly at 260 lbs, so I'm doing a good job of keeping my weight where I want, with the hope of dropping more poundage. It's a marathon not a sprint after all.

I went to DaemonsW0lf (www.darkwolfcreative.com) with an idea I had for next year's big t-shirt piece, which will feature my bunny mascot as the fourth Doctor from Doctor Who, arriving in a Tardis in the 'lounge', now who he'll see first was actually chosen by DaemonsW0lf, and she selected Samus Aran, Commander Jane Shepard and Tracer, representing Metroid, Mass Effect and Overwatch. When I saw the preliminary sketch, first thing that popped to mind was that our cosplaying time lord Bunny was arriving during ladies night, which considering the overall reputations of Samus, Shepard and Tracer is hell of thing to drop in on. I can't wait to see the finish image! 

For tonight's stream we'll be returning to The Division 2 in another night of co-op madness as the next manhunt will begin, and if you have seen the more recent streams of the Division 2 which have involved Iceman, PowerThumbs and FnDanteSavage you know there will a whole lot of silliness going on.And since I already got word about other things, I know I'll probably start a bit early just to say I was on time!

And on that bombshell we'll see ya later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

Today's Notes 12/10/20

Good afternoon everybody,

Let's first talk about last night Star Trek Online stream, which of course started with the realization (after I was told) that once again skill invalid bug appeared and forced me to once again respec the character I was using... which means I will have to do that again for every other character I've created over the years. It is odd that the developers have introduced a bug they don't seem to be able to fix, months after it first appeared. Of course the stream itself went smoothly, as we have completely caught up on existing main-stream story content for Star Trek Online as it pertains to my Cardassian in the Klingon Empire. Now if I were to guess, the next chapter in Klingon Civil War story arc should probably be coming in January or February, because it will be very unusual if it dropped in the middle of December. Hell I remember an episode of the Tibbles in Ecstasy podcast where one of the hosts (the one who didn't sound like he was on ecstasy) complained about the lack of new story content in regards to how grinding became and that was in December of 2016... I only remember this because that was went I ended up in the hospital.

Now tonight's stream is of course not going to be Star Trek Online, since we did that last night, instead the plan is to team up with Iceman7667, PowerThumbz and FnDanteSavage for more Division 2 manhunt things in what will surely be another night of lunacy. We'll probably start as son as I finish work, which means I'll be very pressed for time to get things set up. This is why time zones can be such a pain to deal with sometimes.

Anyway, we got today started nicely with Fitness Boxing, and it was a burner that is for sure, with quite a bit of ducking in the sets. It is amazing in one regard with how in-frequent I see the step combos appear in the daily routines that when I do see them, I always struggle to match the timing on back steps, feeling like I jump the gun for lack of a better terms.

 

Of course I did manage to finish listening to yet another Doctor Who audio drama, The Marian Conspiracy which sees The Doctor (Colin Baker) finding a temporal nexus point tied to the family ancestry of Evelyn Smyth (Maggie Stables). This story is notable for it's the first Big Finish Doctor Who story at introduces an original companion in Evelyn, who is quite different than most companions in that she is in her 50s which makes many of the stories she appears in having a much different approach in which her age and physical well being become major plot point. Something else that is striking is this story's ties to Queen Elizabeth I, granted the focus is on Queen Mary I, but when one actually takes stock of how Elizabeth is mentioned or encountered through all of Doctor Who (TV, books, audio dramas, comics), it is obvious that too this day she holds a special place in the hearts of the British people. 

At this exact moment there are still 3,146 songs left on Twitch Sings, so we're two days away from my plans for Saturday night's broadcast and things are looking good!

Anyway, on that bombshell we'll see you later, have a great day folks!

Today's Notes 12/9/20

Good afternoon everybody,

Last night's stream, which ended up being a triple-coop stream with FnDanteSavage (twitch.tv/fndantesavage) and PowerThumbz (twitch.tv/powerthumbz) as we along with Iceman7667 had a blast doing manhunt things in The Division 2, the highlight video below only shows a small sample of the things we did as it was a barrel of laughs. This was so much fun we'll do it again on Thursday night, which means Star Trek Online will be moved up to tonight! 

 

So with Star Trek Online on the agenda for tonight, I did notice there was a patch update, which means there are notes to share here. Tuesday patch updates rarely happen with STO, and it's normally for large expansions or a lot of new content, but this seems more in-line of the Winter Event that is taking place, which is a big strange. Anyway, here are the patch notes

Star Trek Online Patch Notes 12/8/20

Winter Event:  

• Q has returned to begin this year’s Winter Event!  
• Compete and participate in Winter Events to earn Winter Prize vouchers that can be used to redeem the all new Fek'Ihri Gok'tad Carrier [T6]! 
• This year’s festivities will be integrated into our recently released Event Interface, as part of your Mission Journal. 
• Daily Progress toward earning your new starship can be obtained by participating in any of the following activities: 
  • Fastest Game on Ice 
  • Klingon Ice Fishing 
  • Tides of Ice 
  • The Fast and the Flurrious 
  • Cones of Conduct 
  • The Kramp’Ihri 
• Go to the Winter Vendor and check out this year’s new items! 
  • Purple Nanopulse Discovery-Era Bat'leth. 
  • Brand New Rainbow Sweaters. 
  • Brand New Grethor-Themed Bridge Officer Training Manuals and Kit Modules. 
  • Q's Chair Consumable Item. 
  • Rescue St. Bernard Pet. 
• For more information, please visit our Winter Event blogs at: https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/star-trek-online/news/detail/11479533-q%27s-winter-wonderland%21 

 General:  

• The minimum FoV players can set has been decreased to 35, from 50. 
• The “Ready Ship” and “Switch Ship” button is now visible while selecting any Ship or Shuttle while in Space.  
• Fixed an issue where the Ba'ul Weapon Bounce Passive was improperly triggering certain effects as though it were not a Passive, such as with Kemocite Laced Weapons.
  

 

Did pop into Animal Crossing New Horizons before I started writing this post, and safe to say Ozzie had a weird as hell line to say to me when I dropped by his house as indicated in the screen shot. Ozzie is a bit weird... just a bit LOL.That said, Biff will be moving off my island, as his personality is way to similar to Antonio's in my opinion.

This morning's Fitness Boxing session was pretty solid, did have a few odd misses that I highly question the validity of. I mean come on, if have a series of motions where everything is perfect, then suddenly a few misses through no fault of my own? It's enough as always to make me go 'Dude really?'. Still it will be interesting to see if I can break the 200,000 punches thrown barrier before my copy of Fitness Boxing 2 arrives. 

Wrapped up listening to Doctor Who: The Fearmonger early this morning, which sees the Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) and Ace (Sophie Aldred) looking to stop a creature that is stoking the fears of the masses to feed on, which of course causes chaos and mayhem during a time when a politician is running for office on a platform based on some rather.... unique positions. In many ways, The Fearmonger story basically can be used as a parallel to the political rise of Donald Trump, with how he makes so much noise to distract from the real issue at hand, setting up counter-protests to cause violence and such that it makes you wonder if The Fearmonger creature in the story is an actual thing. The funny thing, Fearmongers do exists, we just know them as the talking heads like Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson.

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

Today's Notes 12/7/20

Good afternoon everybody,

We actually got up before 9 AM, so we ended up doing a bonus stream, leading off with Fitness Boxing and we got in a good set. Certainly went all out as always, and even though I had a few questionable misses, but everything felt good. I did go step on the scale today and my weight is around the usual 263-265 pound range (119-120 kilograms). As long as it's not going back up, I'm happy, after all, it was six months ago when I was weight 290! We followed up the Fitness Boxing session with Animal Crossing New Horizons, and I'm seriously wondering what someone was thinking with the pun for the Pond Smelt being 'Whoever Smelt It, Dealt It'... needless to say that was a silly thing to see this morning. We closed out the bonus stream Super Mario Bros 35, finishing with a top 5 finish, and I think I could've finished higher if I didn't jump and spammed using coins to get items... oh well.

Last night's stream of Overwatch certainly was fun and frustrating, because of how cowardly some people are, with how they won't push onto a capture point or move past a choke. It got to the point myself and PandaSweet who joined in for several matches decided to queue up deliberately to place as damage heroes... which lead to an incredibly cool moment of where I got the 'High Noon' achievement, which is getting four eliminations with one use of McCree's 'High Noon' ultimate... okay sure I got killed doing it, but it counts and ended up being a play of the game! 

Tonight's stream will see us going back to Kingdom Heart Re:Chain of Memories, with things picking up as we hit Hallow Bastion, which is the ninth floor of the thirteen within Castle Oblivion. I have thought about the plot of the game since last Tuesday, and the way I figure each floor is basically Sora digging through his memories to recall Namine.... which doesn't make sense, because if I remember what happened in Kingdom Hearts II from 15 years ago, Namine is just a part of Kairi and they merge back together. That is of course the trouble of trying to piece together the plot with the franchise whose plot is filled with so many plot holes.

At the time I'm writing this I finished listening to Doctor Who; The Land of the Dead, which is the fourth of the monthly main range Doctor Who audio drama done by Big Finished, listened to the 3/4ths of it last night before falling asleep. This story sees The Doctor (Peter Davison) and Nyssa (Sarah Sutton) arriving in Alaska, where the Tardis detects an unusual source of energy and the adventure leads to them encountering a strange house, monstrous creatures and simmering tensions involving mysterious circumstances. One of the strangest aspects of this story is the character Monica Lewis (Lucy Campbell) who basically acts as a 'companion by proxy' as she spends the most time working with The Doctor, giving quick witted responses to much of The Doctor's statements. 

And on that bombshell, we'll wrap this up here, we'll see ya later tonight at probably 9:30 PM EST over on twitch.tv/fredcasden! 

Today's Notes 12/6/20

Good afternoon everybody,

Ah Sunday's.... the start of the week, which of course means tonight over on twitch.tv/fredcasden Overwatch is on tap for the weekly chaos and mayhem that game brings. And considering this is the second week of December, that means we'll probably being seeing the start of the Winter Event as well in the near future. Really excited to see what new skins get added.

Of course, the day already started off with Fitness Boxing, with a 40 minute workout.... ok ok, it was 39 minutes I just rounded up. Really a nice session overall with straights, jabs, hooks and body hooks. My timing was a little bit off at times, but overall felt solid. Hell with the weather getting colder, the feeling of of the body warming up doing what is basically an aerobics set is really noticeable.

Last night's Twitch Sings stream was really awesome, being probably the most watched stream I've had of that game since prior to the announcement the game is shutting down on January 1st. As I've avoided last night, the plan to do a tribute to Frank Sinatra on Saturday really depends on his songs still being in the game come the 12th, and I've certainly done my best to have back up tunes as well in case anything gets removed from Twitch Sings. As of 3:45 PM EST today, there are still 3146 songs left on Twitch Sings, which includes everyone I listed in the previous post. So keep your fingers crossed folks.

Big thanks to DaemonsW0lf (twitch.tv/daemonsw0lf) and BluVelvet (twitch.tv/bluvelvet) for the raids last night, it is always cool when folks choose to direct their audience to my pokey little channel. DaemonsW0lf was doing a live reading of Metro 2033 while BluVelvet was also doing a Twitch Sings stream. They are both awesome, and I hope you check both of them out when they are live!

Finished listening to Doctor Who: Whispers of Terror last night, which is such a fun story that sees The Doctor (Colin Baker) and Peri (Nicola Bryant) arrive in an audio museum as mystery involving murder and a political conspiracy is taking place. One of things I love about Colin Baker's portrayal of the Doctor, particularly in the audio form is just how bombastic his voice is, yes he can be really subtle, but the loudness of The Doctor speaks volumes, even when one considers the coat he wears! 

And on that bombshell that will wrap up today's notes, we'll see you over on Twitch at about 7 PM EST! Have a great rest of your day everyone!.

Today's Notes 12/5/20

Good afternoon everybody,

As the sun sets I get around to writing today's notes, where does the day go when you wake up in the middle of afternoon LOL. Anyway, got the Fitness Boxing session done first today, it was a good workout with actually the sets included building up on one another as opposed to feeling like they were randomly selected by the game.... granted the sets in the sessions are always randomly selected by the game, but to have today's order actually felt like it each one was added to motions that were done before it if that makes sense. It probably doesn't.

 

Made sure to drop on my Island of Ocean View, and it's always nice to see what my residents are up to at different times of day. Granted there is always that odd circumstance of one not being anywhere to be found that just puzzles the hell out of me. So if you're wondering why the screenshot from Animal Crossing New Horizons is at the top, that's why. Besides what Audie said was really cool.

Re-listened to Doctor Who: Phantasmagoria, which was the second Doctor Who Main Range story rleeased by Big Finish Production way back in 1999, with Peter Davison and Mark Strickson reprising their roles as The Doctor and Turlough respectively. The story is that the Tardis lands in London in the late 1700s where patrons of a local gaming house have been going missing, It's a fun adventure to listen too, with all the subtle details and clues of what's going on gradually being revealed, with a nice subplot involving a mysterious highwayman adding to the intrigue with a forward-thinking twist that is both very obvious and yet still surprising at the same time.

Last night's stream over on twitch.tv/fredcasden was focused on two games from the PlayStation 2 era, the first being Celebrity Deathmatch, which of course was based on the show of the same name that aired on TV. For as good as it looks in terms of representing the source material, it certainly comes across as button masher. Some of the finishers are really creative and hold up nicely (such as Mr T's A-Team Van Drop) while others look like they were basically out of Mortal Kombat (such as Busta Rhymes' Kung Fury Chops). Perhaps the best finisher is Jerry Spinger's Final Thoughts which uses some of the set pieces from his talk show to give it the proper atmosphere. Best part is since my old memory cards still work, I had my save file so we were able to do matches as every character in the game.CD does have an Episodes mode, which is basically 6 blocks of 3 matches, so we might take a night to go through it in order to count this game on the Gaming Tour

The second game was ShowDown Legends of Wrestling, and I can safely say, remember how to play this was a lot more interesting and fun than dealing with the controls for WWE 2K20. We only did 5 matches, but because of how the game is laid out, the matches ended up being longer than almost anything seen in more recently standard 1 on 1 matches within the WWE 2K series. Jimmy Hart's fingerprints are all over the music with his knack of doing obvious covers that are tweaked just enough to avoid trouble. Still it was a lot of fun to revisit this game on a random Friday night. While there isn't a story or career mode, there is a Challenge mode of sorts, to replay specific matches, similar to what the WWE 2K series has done the past few years with the Four Horsewomen, Daniel Bryan and Attitude Era modes... so maybe if I go through that we can count SD:LOW on the gaming tour as well.

With it being Saturday, we'll be doing Twitch Sings tonight as we continue to march closer to the day the music dies....or when the game shuts down on January 1, 2021. The current count for songs still in the game is at 3146, so nothing has been removed following the initial purge at the start of the week. Since I've done some off stream duets this week, I won't have many to start with tonight. We'll get the ball rolling at about 7 PM EST over on twitch.tv/fredcasden! 

And that will wrap up today's note, have a great evening!

Today's Notes 11/30/20

Good afternoon everybody,

Actually was up at 9:30 AM, but last night I remembered I had a bunch of Doctor Who audio plays that I got from Big Finish and went through the effort of downloading all the ones I purchased up till the end of 2013. It's been a while since I listen to them, so it's going to be a lot of fun as the folks at Big Finish really went all out in creating plays that totally captured the spirit of the classic Doctor Who series.

We did do a bonus stream today, kicking off with Fitness Boxing, and had a solid 33 minute workout, as the focus on strength and cardio continues.Did have one missed punch that was totally due to the left handed joy con becoming de-synced from the Switch. Other than that everything was pretty damn solid from start to finish.But since this was a bonus stream we added to it with some Animal Crossing New Horizons, and visited the island of another player, and it amazes me what people have managed to do with the in-game tools. Granted I like my little tree covered island the way it is, but seeing the creativity others have put it still is awesome.The bonus stream was capped off with a top 5 finish in Super Mario 35... I probably could've finished higher, but I made a boneheaded mistake in world 1-4, but hey I did say i wanted to finish in the top 5 so I can't complain too much.

During this bonus stream we got a big raid from GGVexy (twitch.tv/ggvexy) who streams out of Australlia, meaning it was 4 AM local time when she ended her stream. So big thanks to Vexy for bringing her viewers on over. Since I'm on the East Coast of the United States, normally it would be me raiding her, so it was cool to have the tables flipped.

Last night's Overwatch stream was pretty meh, had a long losing streak of matches, so I was lucky to end on a win. Tonight we'll be resuming Kingdom Heart Re:Chain of Memories, and depending on work, we'll start the stream at 9:30 PM EST for sure, if I can start earlier, we probably will, but that's iffy at this point.

 And on that bombshell we'll see ya later! Have a great day folks!

Classic Fred Casden: January 23, 2018 - Tales From The Tardis

 I forgot I had some older content from my original YouTube Channel over on Twitch, and found an episode of my Doctor Who review series Tales From The Tardis, this covered the episode The Savages!