Today's Notes 6/2/21: Bugs found in Mass Effect 2 Legendary Edition & More

Good morning everybody,

Hey it's a work day and I actually will have work again today!

Last night's stream of Mass Effect 2: Legendary Edition was close to six-hours in length, but we got quite a bit done in terms of content, knocking out Arrival off the bat, and I'm still amazed that there is not an achievement related to what was the DLC that bridged Mass Effect 2 to Mass Effect 3 to explain why Shepard was in prison. We also recruited Tali, did several side missions picked up just by exploring before the game kicked me forward to board the Collector's ship. Now jumping back to the side missions, there was a unique bug where a mech you have to use power packs on to get to a certain point would not turn, instead it would literally side step its way to the destination, and a similar instance happened with Shepard not turning instead the camera moving around them. Also, when Shepard is community with The Illusive Man, Shepard's dialog is delivered as if they are in the same room and not as if they are heard through an intercom. It's funny because as buggy as people claim Mass Effect Andromeda is, I've never ran into any bugs like that which I'm finding in the Legendary Edition.

Anyway we picked up several achievements last night which I'll list next.

1. The Quarian: ME2: Successfully recruit the quarian
2. Ghost Ship: ME2: Complete the investigation of a derelict alien vessel
3. Bruiser: Kill 100 enemies with melee attacks in Mass Effect 1, 2 or 3
   

And of course here are some clips from last night's stream as well!

Twitch Clip: No Hesitation... Oh (Bleep)

Twitch Clip: Critical Mission Failure: Arrival

Twitch Clip: Achievement: Bruiser

FedEx FINALLY delivered my package yesterday after calling them and getting things pushed to their Customer Advocate department. It's funny how forcing them to do their jobs results in deliveries being made.

Also arriving in the mail was an order I placed through www.retrogamecases.com. You see I have a bunch of games that don't have their original cases and since I'm in the process of getting rid of stuff, or storing some stuff in a more condensed way, it's giving me the room to actually properly display my video game collection. I was very pleased with the quality of the box art reproduction and the fact that the cases  for games that had multiple discs were the correct style. Best part is, retrogamecases had standard PS1 styled cases (the ones like standard CD jewel cases) as well as PS2 styled variants, which was pretty neat.

Following last night's stream I put more grind in on the chase for the Master of Time achievement for Mortal Kombat 11, and by my math I'm at 225 out of 250 towers completed. With luck we may be able to knock that out after tonight's stream. 

Turns out the official Ghostbusters Youtube channel will stop adding episodes of the Real Ghostbuster and Extreme Ghostbusters at the end of the month. A shame really, since Extreme Ghostbusters had a lot of great episodes left, but ah well, it was fun while it lasted

Since I do have work today, that meant my daily Fitness Boxing 2 sessions ended up being only 31 minutes, with an estimated calorie burn of 524 kcal. Today's exercises were the Biceps Shape Focus Combo (set a new personal best at the High difficulty), the Hip Shape Focus Combo & Triple Combo #2. Did not have a single miss, but out of 1492 actions performed, 3 actions with a bit mistimed registering as just being 'okay'.  We are now up to 88 out of 100 for the Martina's Best Friend achievement.

Tonight we'll be back over to The Division, and hopefully we will not have another power outage that knocks out a stream. We should be able to get a lot done as we are certainly closing in on the final areas of the game. More than likely we'll be joined by Iceman as well, and who knows how silly things will get.

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

Today's Notes 6/1/21: Progress Made With Mass Effect 2 Legendary Edition

Good morning everybody,

Hey it's a work day where I'm scheduled for work and I actually will have work, so that's good... depending on the assignment I'm on.

Last night's stream of Mass Effect 2: Legendary Edition saw a big focus on getting members of the team together, namely Jack, Grunt and Mordin, while also going after any loose side missions. This also resulted in quite a few achievements being unlocked along the way which I'll list shortly. We also reached the first major story point of the game, which was Horizon, and since Kaiden was the love interest from the first game, it also makes it real easy to have FemShep put him behind her, particularly since in the next chunk of the game, we'll be tracking down Thane Krios who is the best love interest for FemShep.

1. The Convict: ME2: Successfully recruit the biotic Convict
2. Tactician: ME2: Hit 20 different targets with multiple biotic powers to combine the effects
3. The Krogan: ME2: Successfully recruit the krogan
4. The Professor: ME2: Successfully recruit the Professor
5. Scientist: ME2: Complete any research project in the Normandy's laboratory
6. Colony Defense:  ME2: Defend a human colony from attack

And of course we have some clips from last night

Twitch Clip: Glad Grunt Saw Reason

Twitch Clip: Vorcha Territory

Twitch Clip: Dealing With The Collectors On Horizon

Also on a funny note, because I use different aspect ratios for PlayStation 2 games, I forgot to make the switch from 4:3 for footage captured through the Elgato HD60 to 16:9, resulting in the first half of my stream looking like I was playing on an box monitor. 

FedEx continues to be a pain in my ass, as during my workout I saw a delivery truck go past my basement window and when I checked my porch, no delivery was made. Contacting them resulting in me being hung up which forced me to go through their Customer Advocate team to get any information.

Speaking of which Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was only 28 minutes because I actually do have work today, so I needed to adjust my work out length. Didn't have any misses, but did have a few 'only okay' punches that still counted as hits. Today's exercises were the Sway Back Combo, Straight Combo #2 and Hook Combo #1. We are now up to 85 out of 100 for the Martina's Best Friend achievement.  

Tonight's stream will start at 6:30 PM EST as we'll be continuing Mass Effect 2: Legendary Edition, I'm not too sure if I'm going to go ahead and do Arrival or not, because there is not an achievement associated with it and it's a pain in the ass mission to complete since Shepard won't have any back up. We'll see how I feel about that later on.

And on that note we'll see you over at twitch.tv/fredcasden this evening!

Today's Notes 5/31/21: It's a Monday!

Good afternoon everybody,

It's Memorial Day, and I hope everyone is enjoying the long weekend, and I call it a long weekend because lets face it, any Trump supporters who had a problem with Kamala Harris calling it that while not having a problem with Trump calling people who died in service to the United States losers needs check themselves before they get wrecked.

 Last night's stream of Overwatch was pretty loose, with plenty of wins and losses. Big thanks to PandaSweet for joining in on the fun. The big goal of last night was to get in the matches needed to unlock the Echo skin related to this year's anniversary event. On a side note, I realized what Wrecking Ball's skin is supposed to be, it's misleading design indicates he's in a basketball, but it's actually and 8 Ball one would find on a pool or billiards table. But the thing is, the 8 Ball is black... and Wrecking Ball's new anniversary skin is orange and black. Anyway we have some twitch clips from last night

Twitch Clip: Back Door Quad-Kill

Twitch Clip: I'm On Fire and got in Tracer's New Dance Emote

Twitch Clip: I Blew Myself Up WIth Tracer's Own Ultimate

FedEx continues to piss me right the hell off, a package (of a couple of Overwatch league shirts) was supposed to be delivered on May 27th, and they claim because of the amount of volume, it got delayed until the next day May 28th. Okay, fine. Then I see there were no delivery updates for Saturday and Sunday, and I know they fucking deliver on the weekends. So I call them up today, and made it real clear that if my package is damage and / or is not on my doorstep tomorrow I will file a complaint with the Better Business Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission. Hell if I got the FCC on Comcast's ass, you don't think I will do the same with FedEx?

I'm (finally) going to get myself an Elgato Stream Deck, which should help in regards to getting some clips through Twitch when I'm playing PC games. Basically I want to get rid of having to alt-tab when I want to clip something while playing Overwatch or Star Trek Online.

Got more music CDs condensed to a 400 CD binder. Doing this project over the last week meant I have unintentionally created four 5 pound weights.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was streamed over on twitch, with the exercises length being 45 minutes, with 1 miss out of 1996 actions. Today's exercises were Waist Shape Focus Combo, Weaving Combo #2 (new personal best set on No Mercy difficulty), Straight Combo #1 and the Block Combo (where the 1 miss occurred) . Estimated Calorie Burn was 742 kcal. The one specific miss was a right block out of the Southpaw stance. We're up to 83 out of 100 for the Martina's Best Friend achievement.  And since the session was stream we have some clips.

Twitch Clip: Waist Focus Combo

Twitch Clip: Weaving Combo

Tonight we'll be back to playing Mass Effect 2: Legendary Edition with the focus more than likely being spent on recruiting part of the team needed to advance the plot. Not sure if I'll go after Mordin first, or delay and go after the other members of the squad and do more side mission things. Either way we'll probably get started around 6:30 PM EST for sure, but I'm tempted to start earlier.

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

Today's Notes 3/24/21

Good morning everybody,

You ever order something, and then for an unknown reason, the delivery organization (UPS / FedEx) either delivers to a drop-off point you didn't tell them to (such as what UPS has done to NidoranDuran) or suddenly asks for direct signature (such as what FedEx did with me) yesterday. Normally this is the result of the company one is ordering from being too cautious. Anyway, gonna try leaving the door tag that was left for me signed so they can just leave my delivery.

Anyway last night's stream of Dragon Age Inquisition was focused on what side quests I could finish along before going to the next major area, the Western Approach. We tackled a dragon and covered maybe 3/4s of everything that was reachable before having to go to the War Table to open up the remaining areas. Will probably put in some off stream time with it to tackle war table stuff.

The Official Ghostbusters channel added the Extreme Ghostbusters episode Te Infernal Machine, and if there was an episode that exposed Alfonso Ribeiro's lack of voice acting range, it's this one, as he has some very bad deliveries of Roland's dialog throughout the episode.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was kept under 30 minutes as it was more of a get up out of bed and get loose kind of set today. It's Wednesday so basically today's session reflected that. Still I was mostly on point, and had one questionable miss off of a left jab that made me go 'huh' with extreme annoyance.

Loaded up Animal Crossing New Horizons this morning as well, because it's Skye's birthday, and I do enjoy seeing the little party sets up that take place for each resident. 

Tonight's stream will be focused on ESPN Major League Baseball, as we'll be resuming the series against the Montreal Expos and I think we'll also be taking on the Boston Red Sox tonight.

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