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Good morning everyone,

Well last night's stream of Fallout 76 was interesting as I progressed a big part of the Foundation side of the build towards the big Vault break in to kind of have it even with where the Crater side is. I enjoy some of the back and forth in finding what I needed to access various areas, as it really seems like things were well thought out.

Also, since I'm tackling the Brotherhood of Steel stuff as well, I knocked out the back end of the dealing with the Crater and getting Foundation into a 'trade agreement' of sorts. Since this is supposed to be done long after the prior mentioned quest line, it just makes things more jumbled. On the plus side, I am curious who sold the weapons to Foundation.. and if one of the Knights turned traitor. Looking forward to seeing how that shakes out.

Big shout out to Iceman for not only the resub, but also for being apart of the action to help with the Scoreboard challenges. Always glad to have co-op action on a game like this. We also discovered the Monster Mash event is really... REALLY... awful and a waste of time.

On a side note regarding the screenshot... you'll see why I picked that one for this blog by clicking on it and seeing that on top of the entrance it says 'Bite my rusty metal ass', which is a reference to Bender from Futurama who would say 'Bite my shiny metal ass.' 

Also I became aware that there was no game audio during the stream after the fact... I do not know why other than the fact there was a Windows Update that probably screwed up a whole bunch of stuff, as I had to reassign by mic and headphones in OBS. I hope to have this addressed by tonight's stream.

Twitch Clips

• It did a flip!
• Well... Sh!t 
• Dude...
  

For the raid we dropped in on Cammi_316 while they were playing Fortnite over at twitch.tv/cammi_316!

Yesterday work just fucking dragged man... hopefully today will feel quicker, but I see the assignment I'm on means I'm going to get a big fat goose egg for the day. Damn it...

Today's Fitness Boxing 2 daily workout featured Hip Shape Focus Combo, Intermediate Combo #2 and Straight Combo #2 for 28 minutes.

In regards to last night's stream issues that were traced back to Xfinity, there were 5 in total. Was able to successful document once instance where the Upstream Power Level was well over 51. 

The Phillies are surging as of late, but they can't keep up this momentum for long as they have a series with the Mets this weekend.

Jumped into Mass Effect 3's multiplayer and managed to knock out the Overload related achievement, and also got my Engineer character up to Level 20 as well. The next one to shoot for is to get a weapon to Rank 10, but that is pretty grindy because of how the Recruit packs are randomized.

Mass Effect 3 Achievements

• Overload Specialist: Overload the shields of 100 enemies.

What do you call Samsung's security team? The Guardians of the Galaxy!

Song of the Day: Wonderful Tonight by Eric Clapton

I sold my vacuum yesterday. It was just collecting dust.

Overwatch is getting rid of the Loot box system, and I have mixed feeling about it because I always knew whenever new seasonal rewards came out I could grab a bundle of them, get the rewards and stock up on gold to unlock other things down the road.

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For tonight's stream, Final Fantasy XIV is on deck, as the goal is mostly just casual playing, finding loose side quests and other stuff.

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

The Nerissa Is Faith Theory Makes Sense

Good morning everybody,

Last night's stream started with The Wolf Among Us, as we knocked out episode 4 and 5 to finish the game, then we switched over to Smite for the rest of the stream.

Now there is a theory regarding The Wolf Among Us in regards to the fate of Faith, the working girl Bigby meets at the start of the the first episode and if she actually died. You see the story of Faith is that she is based on the fable 'Donkeyskin', in which she is able to disguise her true beauty, which means she might be able to do just that when it came to maybe hiding her true appearance after she was killed. There is a line early in the game about if the doctor had any information regarding Faith's body, but there were more tests being run because Nerissa was 'The Little Mermaid' so we can assume that maybe there are some biological differences. The other thing is, Nerissa ends up saying a lot of the same lines as Faith, and Bigby does recognize the voice being the same... but he doesn't put two and two together until the very end. So based on all this, I'm better Nerissa is indeed Faith, because it's the only way everything makes sense.

That said, the final two chapters of The Wolf Among Us are shorter in comparison to the first three chapters, but they are more action packed. Hell Bigby gets into brawls with The Jersey Devil, every one of the Crooked Man's gang (Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Georgie Porgie & The Jersey Devil), plus the epic fight against Bloody Mary, that sees her using bunch of dopplegangers to gang up on Bigby who turns into a huge fucking wolf. Hey, when a bunch of murderous clones of a hot babe what does the Big Bad Wolf do? He Huffs... and Puffs... and BLOWS THE BITCHES DOWN!. Yeah that was a rare great line from me during the stream. 

The Wolf Among Us Achievements

1. Once Upon a Time: Completed Chapter 1 of Episode 4.
2. There Was a Wolf: Completed Chapter 2 of Episode 4.
3. Who Ruled The Land: Completed Chapter 3 of Episode 4.
4. He Was Much Feared: Completed Chapter 4 of Episode 4.
5. But Soon He Mended His Evil Ways: Completed Chapter 5 of Episode 4.
6. And All Were Happy: Completed Episode 4: "In Sheep's Clothing"
7. Beginning of the End: Completed Chapter 1 of Episode 5.
8. This House of Straw: Completed Chapter 2 of Episode 5.
9. A Silver Bullet: Completed Chapter 3 of Episode 5.
10. My Last Cigarette: Completed Chapter 4 of Episode 5.
11. The North Wind Blows: Completed Chapter 5 of Episode 5.
12. Happily Ever After: Completed Episode 5: Cry Wolf.

Now there are a couple of achievements left in the game related to checking out some different places in each episode, I'll probably try to knock them out off stream. Hopefully the game has a jump to a specific point in each episode feature, other wise it's replaying each episode to get to each decision point. 

The Smite matches... well they went as expected, as whenever I play Smite I'm either focusing on one character, in this case 'Chang'e' or trying to knock out some quests to get some in-game rewards. Really nothing of note.

SMITE Arena Matches Results 

• Chang'e - Loss - 2/16/13
• Chang'e - Loss - 1/7/15
• Artemis - Win - 6/2/20
• Da Ji - Loss - 6/17/8
• Da Ji - Loss - 7/13/15
• Chang'e - Loss - 2/4/10 
• Chang'e - Win - 4/8/18
  

Following the stream we sent everyone over to Oldish22 who was playing Path of Exile! He's also done a lot of Final Fantasy XIV as well! Check him out over on twitch.tv/oldish22! 

Twitch Stream Clips

• Even I Can't Watch...
• Hi!
• Snap It Off... Stab Him Here 
• Bigby On The Streets! 
• She Will Not Be The Head Of A Major Corporation
• He Huffs... He Puffs... He Blows Them Down!
• Mary Has Been Shattered
• Totally! 
• How Did I Pull That Off?! 
• End The Match With Revenge! 

We added two games to the collection yesterday, both are PAL Region games for the PlayStation 2, meaning I'll need to get the modded PS2 working or go the emulator route to feature them on stream. 

The first game is He-Man: Defender of Grayskull,released in 2005, it is an action-adventure game that I believe is based on the 2002 series 'He-Man & The Master of the Universe' which had some reasonable success for a show limited to Cartoon Network's Toonami block, but it is odd that a game based on it was only released in Europe. Another fun fact, is that there was supposed to be an X-Box version, that was confirmed to have been finished but never released. From what I understand, the reviews for this was pretty mixed.

The second game added is perhaps a game that is Futurama, released in 2003 both in the North America and Europe, however, the North American version is virtually impossible to find, so for collectors purposes, added the European version. It is a 3D plat former where you will play as Fry, Leela or Bender. The cut-scenes of this game were stitched together to form a 30-minute DVD extra for 'The Beast with a Billion Back's. I do recall the reviews for the game play being very mixed, with most of the praise going into the cut scenes while the game play was considered to be lackluster

Sad to have read that SNL Alumni Norm Macdonald passed away, though I never really found him funny outside of his Burt Reynolds impersonation and his stint as the host of Weekend Update. As an actor he always came across as a bit odd to me, like never really comfortable within his own skin, but maybe that was just all an act, hard to said. That said he did have some great guest appearances on the late night talk show circuit particularly whenever he would appear on any of Conan O'Brien's shows

Surprised that the WWE actually pulled the trigger and had Big E cash in the Money in the Bank contract to defeat Bobby Lashley. Yes they protected Lashley by having him have a match with Randy Orton first where he 'suffered a knee injury', so there is the potential for a re-match... and that is where the question lies, does the WWE cut the lets out from under Big E to give the title back to Lashley? That would not surprise me. 

Overwatch Season 30 Competitive Match Results

1. Reinhardt / Orissa / D.va - Junkertown - 22:36 - Win - 5-4
2. D.va - Havana  - 8:29 -Win - 1-0
3. D.va - Eichenwald - 7:29 - Win 1-0 

As you can see, I was actually forced to use other tanks in one match last night, and thank goodness I was able to grab D.va to secure that win because the other person playing her had no idea how to dive. 

For Today's Fitness Boxing 2 workout lasted about 28 minutes with the following exercises: Beginner Combo #1, Front-Bakc Step Combo and Hook Combo #2. The estimated calorie burn was 413 kcal. This nearly was a perfect session, but the phone rang, which startled me and threw off my timing on two punches.

For tonight's stream, I'm not completely sure but there is a chance we'll start up Gears of War 3 with Iceman around 9:30 PM / 10 PM Eastern, and which means we'll fill up the first half of the stream with some random stuff. Regardless we'll have a lot of fun!

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