Alan Wake and other notes

Tonight we wrapped up Alan Wake, finishing on the lowest possible difficulty setting, and I was right about the sixth chapter taking about 90-ish minutes to finish, which was spot on given the number of times I died, either by getting cornered or falling off of high places. I'm not really inclined to the DLC content as I did mess around around with those before on the Steam version and didn't care for them.

We also tossed in some Persona 5 Dancing in Starlight, managing to beat my previous scores on a few songs on hard difficulty (and with the note speed turned up).

Tomorrow night we're going to dive into Antstream Arcade and check out what old school games are there. So it's going to be a retro night of gaming with no real plan, as we'll save starting up the New Game Plus run of  Persona 5 Tactica for Monday

Replacing Alan Wake in the Friday night slot will be Catherine Fullbody, which is only available on the PS4 and Nintendo Switch

For the raid we dropped in on zonesama where Cecilia Littlewing was hosting a retro telelvision stream

 Alan Wake Remastered (PS4) Trophies

• Right of Way: You have peeled 15 Taken off your bumper.
• Taken Season: You have dropped 50 Taken with the hunting rifle.
• Tornado Wrangler: You calmed the fury of the storm.
• Departure: You completed the game on Easy difficulty. 

 Added two Funko Pops to the collection today, Sorsha and Madmartigan from Willow!

With the a four day weekend I got some writing done, knocking off the Spider-Man commission early in the morning and then jumping into a three-screne NFL related commission that will take me a couple of days to write. It's about 30% finished already but tomorrow I'm having family visit, so I'm losing the day of writing.

And on that note, good night!

Today's Notes 2/9/21

Good morning everybody,

Last night's stream of Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix certainly covered a lot of ground, as we went through the first visits to Port Royal, Agrabah, Halloween Town and the Pride Lands while also touching on the first couple of side-quests for Atlantica and 100 Acre Wood. I said it before, but KH2 has such a superior game play experience to the original game it's not even funny, when one considers that the core mechanics of combat are the same. That said I am wishing I had the availability to dodge roll instead of hoping to parry attacks to turn some situations around, because part of how I got through the first game and even Re:Chain of Memories was rolling out of the way. On a side note: the placement of some of the puzzle pieces leaves a lot to be desired as there doesn't seem to be multiple ways to reach certain locations.

Tonight we'll be returning to The Division 2 and 9 PM EST for the next manhunt adventure with Iceman, PowerThumbz and I think also FnDanteSavage, but since I work in the afternoon from 12 PM to 5 PM EST, more than likely I'm going to lead off with something else before hand. Not sure exactly what yet, but we'll have a lot of fun that's for sure..

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was a little rough, although shorter than yesterday, I had some issues getting loose from the orthodox stance and missed quite a few things I was perfect with yesterday, namely with forward-backward steps. Still it's always a good way to start the day, and today was the 60th day of Fitness Boxing 2, so we got that going for us.

Turns out this years Super Bowl lost a lot of viewers in comparison to previous years, but lets face it, people have found other things to do, and the appeal of football was more than overdue to start seeing a decline in viewership... and some one is going to be of the theory that it's because of what the coaches look like, as if that really matters. The reason why sports lose viewers is because the quality of what is being presented is steadily declining. Gone are the days of big hits, big plays, grind it out grit that made football exciting... now it's so water down that it actually looks like a war re-enactment ceremony, where guys get mad for not following the script.

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

Today's Notes 2/8/21

Good afternoon everybody,

Last night's stream of Overwatch was quite productive in terms of getting the nine wins needed to unlock the Terracotta Medic skin for Baptiste. While it is clearly based on the Terracotta Army, it's not exactly something I'd throw on Baptiste, not that I use him much to begin with. Also had two plays of the game, one as Reinhardt and the other as D.va, and since both were in Total Mayhem matches, safe to say they hard to achieve. Big thanks to PandaSweet for joining in on the fun last night, as we made sure she got the Terracotta Medic unlocked as well. 

So the big take away from last night's Super Bowl is probably the streaker... and the usual 'woe is us' style of broadcasting that takes place in response to it. They ask 'why is something like this happening during a Super Bowl', well let's look at the facts, it's the Super Bowl, stupid people are going to do stupid things... the NFL has catered heavily to stupid people by going out of their way to have as many people in attendance as possible under current COVID guidelines, the NFL was basically asking for something to happen... and considering how the Chiefs of Kansas City got their asses kicked by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, leading to Tom Brady getting his 7th Super Bowl Ring... the NFL got what they deserved when it comes to the streaker.

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was solid, as I moved a couple of things around to give me some extra room behind myself, so front back steams are easier to do. Surprisingly it also helped a bit with lateral movements when I move from side to side. Now of course we were streaming it, as we normally do once a week on Mondays, and that leads me to what the next topic.

I was going to play Animal Crossing New Horizons as well, as the normal thing we do on the extra streams, but the Nintendo Switch froze and locked up. So of course that ended the stream because I had to fix that, and to do that you press and hold the power on button from 15 seconds, you should hear an audible sound from the Switch, almost like a pop, and then it should reset itself. At least that's what I did after looking up how to fix it! 

Tonight we'll be back to Kingdom hearts II Final Mix, we'll be picking up right after the Disney Castle / Timeless River segment, which means we're either heading to the world of Pirates of the Caribbean or the Little Mermaid next, I'm not sure which is the right order to do things in. But if I remember right, The Little Mermaid bit is basically a rhythm game... so you know that's gonna be a pain in the ass

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

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