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Sunday, December 4, 2022

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

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!

Monday, February 28, 2022

Six Plays Of The Game In One Night? Madness!

Good morning everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch was of course focused around getting the matches and wins needed for the Reaper's Code of Violence awards, which we were able to pull off in the first three hours of the stream. Big thanks to PandaSweet for being apart of all the fun!

Now I'm trying really hard to think of if I ever had a stream where I had six plays of the game as I did last night. I've had four in a night a couple of times, but never six. And I was using my usual characters, D.va as a Tank and Moira as Support, but for the few Damage role matches I used Mei. So it was a crazy night in that regard. Probably my favorite moment was dropping a D.va bomb right at the spawn point of the enemy team that got a triple kill... but then there was also getting resurrected as Mei and popping her ultimate to get a few eliminations

As far as the new Reaper skin goes, it looks decent enough and I'm surprise they are calling it as a Legendary skin for him, because I doubt it will become available at any point via Loot Box. The whole event being based around him meant I could sub out the word Violence and replace with with Violins, because if you say both words they sound almost the same.

For the raid we dropped in on PradoxGamerAU over at twitch.tv/pradoxgamerAU who was doing a Dungeon and Dragons stream!

Twitch Clip Links

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout lasted 28 minutes with Uppercut Combo #2, Body Hook Combo and Body Uppercut Combo for an estimated calorie burn of 441 kcal. In terms of the extra exercises, I set a new personal best for Double Combo #2 on No Mercy difficulty. Also as of today we're up to 45 out of 50 hours trained for the Hiro's Champion achievement.

Fitness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise February 2022

Punches Thrown: 43,475 (37,359 in 2021)
Estimated Calorie Burn: 17,904.25 kcal (16,413.35 in 2021)

Messed around some more with SoulCalibur last night, going through the arcade mode with every character I haven't yet to earn the Edge Master achievement. There are four achievements left in the game, two related to Time Attack, one for beating arcade mode on its hardest difficult and the last is for defeating 25 straight opponents in Extra Survival (one hit sudden death). That last one I've hit a streak of 20 a few times as Taki, but man its frustrating to get so close but then to start over!.

SoulCalibur Achievements

Edge Master: You have mastered all characters and defeated every opponent in Arcade Mode.

A lot of folks are making a big deal about Nintendo saying that Super Smash Bros will not be featured at EVO this year. Let's keep in mind a few things, Nintendo never wanted Smash to be included at EVO in the first place, that was something they reluctantly did to get some good will from those who play it competitively. Second, Nintendo announced a while back that they are going to work with someone else when it comes to coordinating an actual competitive scene for Smash. Besides, as

Fans of Asuka are rather pissed this morning when it has come out that the WWE has no creative plans for her after it was speculated she was supposed to return to TV. Here's the reason why there are no creative plans for Asuka: Becky Lynch is being wasted in an attempt to get Bianca Belair over and Charlotte Flair is being wasted as cannon fodder for Ronda Rousey. So when the top two match ups that are possible for Asuka are off the table, any thing else is really just a waste of time.

For tonight's stream, we're going to mess around with Light Fairytale Episode 1, which is apparently a short little RPG, that should only take a few hours to finish. Knowing me it will take two or three nights! Anyway, we'll be using the Xbox Series console for it.

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

Monday, February 7, 2022

An Auspicious Night Of Overwatch

Good afternoon everyone

Last night's stream of Overwatch certainly was surprising with how reluctant some people were to actually try to win, with lots of folks leaving matches. Still we had a number of good moments, and always a big thank you to PandaSweet for being apart of the fun as the goal to unlocking the Auspicious Soldier skin for Solider 76 was accomplished! Looking forward to the chase for Wrecking Ball's Porcelain skin next week.

As far as how the Auspicious Soldier skin looks, I think it looks nice with that shade of a dark blue with the red and gold standing out a bit. Perhaps what is most notable is that since Solider 76's face is completely uncovered, it looks really expressive, which to me is a nice touch.

Should know I finally managed to get the Short Fuse achievement using Ashe, a full 38 months from when the character was released back in November of 2018. Granted I don't use Ashe much, but it was nice to accomplished a 'challenge' of sorts related to how to use the character. Picked up four Plays of the Game last night, two as D.va, one as Junkrat and one as Soldier 76, so in terms of getting the big plays, I feel like I was doing pretty damn well!

Big thanks to LvStrkr for gifting me Control: Ultimate Edition last night during the stream, yet another great game I'm looking forward to featuring!

For the raid, we sent everyone over to PradoxGamerAU who was doing a Dungeons & Dragons campagin over at twitch.tv/pradoxgamerAU!

Overwatch Achievements

Short Fuse: Kill an enemy by shooting Ashe's Dynamite from at least 30 meters away in Quick or Competitive Play

Twitch Clip Links

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hiro as the trainer to begin the grind towards his last related achievement. The session lasted 31 minutes with the following exercises: Double Combo #2, Left-Right Step Combo and Advanced Combo #2 with the estimated calorie burn being about 561 kcal.

Found an old screenshot I posted to Facebook 10 years ago of Star Trek Online... and it is of course of Zagreus, the character I created way back in 2010.

My trust in 2K to do a better job with WWE 2K22 dropped a few points when I saw the character model for Randy Savage is the exact same one used in WWE 2K20. Then I looked at the game play footage that has surfaced and... it looks to be the same convoluted mess that has been the norm going back to WWE 2K13. Seriously, they had three years to make improvements (since 2K20 was released in 2019), and it's clear as day they are rehashing the same game engine.

My off-stream Final Fantasy XIV adventures saw two Main Story Quests being accomplished, 'As the Heavens Burn', 'Outside Help' and 'Going Underground'. The first sees The Scions trying to fight off the Blasphemers, which meant having to play as Alphinaud and Alisaie, which was a bit tough considering the former's new Sage abilities, not to mention the layout of their powers are now where I would put them on the power bar. The second quest sees the Moon Bunnies show up, complete with a zombie like Puddingway, plus exposition on the Ark to evacuate people from the planet in addition to setting up access to the other half of Labyrinthos to explore. The third quests basically allowed for me to explore and get all the Aether Currets around Sharlayan Hamlet and Aporia, as well as see how the Ark's engine efficiency problem will be solved.

For tonight's stream, we'll be playing Life is Strange: Remastered episode 4 and 5 with the goal of finishing the game and getting all of the achievements with it!