A Strong Start To The Week

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream of Overwatch was the usual mix of fun with friends in matches that end up either being really good or really wonky. Big shoutouts to PandaSweet, BangBangBang and BloodyClown for being apart of the team-ups. Now while we mostly stuck with Quick Play matches, we did get in a few trips to Junkenstein's Revenge, as it appears that will be on Sundays for Volume Two of the Remix event. Characters I used were Mercy, Moira, D.va, Reinhard, Tracer, Torbjourn, Ashe and Widowmaker. Plays of the Game were picked up when I was Tracer, Torb, Moira, D.va and Reinhardt. One of the more hilarious moments of the night was me sneaking behind the defending team to push the payload.

Twitch Clips

•  Well someone has to deal with the Widowmaker and the Mercy
•  Run Zenyatta!
•  The back push
  

For the raid last night we dropped in on Dr_JB_Jovi who was playing Evil Dead: The Game over at twitch.tv/dr_jb_jovi!

Played some more Smite last night, and I've focused on playing as Isis, who I remember using a lot back when I was playing the Steam version of the game. Finally got her 2nd character achievement which was pretty cool.

SMITE Achievements

• Stay In the Circle: "Unlock the Smite Award "Stay In the Circle"!

In a bit of cool news, Kalenal (twitch.tv/kalenal) was live over on twitch.tv/thecharitybraves channel, raising money for the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital while playing Final Fantasy XIV, and they raised well over $5,500! Also of note, it was rather funny to watch Kal flail about when they had to play the Role of a Black Mage. 

Finished the Commission Request for a Star Wars fic yesterday afternoon, and I think it turned out alright considering my lack of familiarity with the Clone Wars and Rebels TV series.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Weaving Combo #2, Weaving Combo #1 and Advanced Combo #2

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For tonight's stream we're going to start up the Xbox 360 version of Lego Batman: The Video Game, mostly because I want to be have some chill streams, and things don't get more chill than the Lego video games. Plus we get achievements to unlock too. Also, the music will be off because of DMCA issues.

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

Mavel vs Capcom, Black and the Rage of Paladins

Good afternoon everyone,

Last night's stream lead off with Marvel vs Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes EX Edition on the original PlayStation. Part of the reason why because of Maxamillion_Dood (twitch.tv/maximilian_dood) posting a video claiming how it was a version of MvC that no one played... which is not true because I intetionally went out of my way to track it down to put together a collection of Japanese exclusive Capcom fighting games on the PlayStation. We went through the Arcade mode twice as Morrigan and Gambit, messed around with the Cross Over mode which actually saw Shadow Lady being used because the A.I. selected them. We also figure out a few things involving use of the 'Special Characters', who can act as counters and compensating for some of the main roster's limits. This game will be counted on this years tour as well.

We also played Black on the PlayStation 2, and it is still a good looking game from 2006, thankfully it has multiple difficulty settings... but I found it a bit odd with some of the control layouts, no sprinting (that I could figure out), and no reason sense of direction. Action sequences can be pretty epic from what I saw. Maybe we'll give it a dedicated attempt of finishing it at some point. Black does have one of the dumber starts up to a game I have ever seen with a start screen followed by a near 5 minute movie style intro of a black screen with text displaying who was involved with the music and live action sequences before the main menu is displayed.

Then we jumped to the Xbox One to play some Paladins, and we were joined by PandaSweet.... we did not exactly run into the smartest group of randoms, who were either disconnecting from matches, intentionally making selections of characters that did fit the need of the team. You don't see me get angry often, but Paladins was a bad way to end things last night.

Twitch Clips

• That was cool!
• Good use of a Grenade 
• Viva La This!
  

For last night's raid we dropped in on TracyDoll who was playing Friday the 13th: The Game and Evil Dead: The Game over on twitch.tv/tracydoll!

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Left-Right-Step Combo, Triple Combo #1, Double Combo #2 and Body Straight Combo.

With how badly Paladins went during the stream, I felt motivated to play some Smite. mostly Arena matches. More losses than wins, but at least it nothing was sabotaged by stupidity.

SMITE Achievements

• Combo Breaker: Shut down 10 killing sprees in qualifying matches.

It's the start of a new week, which means we shall recap what we did last week which included Overwatch, Chrono Cross; The Radical Dreamers Edition, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, Persona 5 Royal, Black, Marvel vs Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes EX Edition and Paladins!

For some reason the Mariners are taking a chance on Justin Upton in a desperate attempt to add some life to their line up. What is it with teams trying to squeeze anything out of guys who are clearly at the end of their careers these days in Baseball? 

Finished another commission story request yesterday afternoon and I get another one this morning, this time to be set in the Star Wars universe. This is going to involve some very loose interpretations of the lore.

Happy Birthday to the late Doreen Mulman, who ran the Ghostbusters Fan Forum 20 years ago. They were the first site to ever host artwork and fiction that I wrote, obviously related to Ghostbusters.

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For tonight's stream we shall be playing Overwatch! So on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!